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UMKC's Center for Advancing Faculty Excellence

The Diane Filion Center for Advancing Faculty Excellence (CAFE) leads a range of professional development efforts as a key initiative of UMKC's Provost. These efforts focus on supporting innovative teaching, research, and service, while fostering an inclusive and collaborative academic community...

We put the Fun in Faculty Functions!

We held our first faculty mixer in October with the fantabulous Conservatory and had so much fun we built a playbook so we could host more! Alexis shared a great report of our November faculty mixer with the splendid School of Humanities and Social Sciences and we have our next one scheduled for...

2026 CAFE Annual Conference

From the Page to the People, from the Classroom to the Community: How UMKC Scholarship Generates Real-world Results This year's theme focuses on how UMKC faculty apply their expertise to create change across communities, disciplines, and professions. Some call this practice translational knowledge...

Uzoaku Okafor

Name of hometown: Lee's Summit, MO Name of undergrad/grad institution: University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine What I love to do most outside of work is…reading, watching movies, and listening to music. My pet peeve is when people talk with food in their mouth. The most interesting...

Dr. Risa Brooks - Bernardin Haskell Lecture

We were delighted to host Dr. Risa Brooks of Marquette University in February 2025 for a guest lecture on issues in civil-military relations as part of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences Bernardin Haskell Lecture Series. Dr. Brooks is a fellow in the Future Security program at New America...