2015 Spring Semester Calendar of Events
January 2015
Friday, January 9, 2015, 1:00pm – 2:30pm, CNH, Room 401
A Conversation to Encourage Women to apply for the UCF Excellence Awards
UCF Women's Studies and the UCF Center for Success of Women Faculty invite you to an
informal conversation with Excellence Awards faculty winners from previous years. They will
provide tips on how to better prepare your application for the 2015 Excellence Awards on
Teaching, Research, Professional Advising and Service. Faculty will have their winning
portfolios available for display and discussion. Come learn how to become the next winner.
February 2015
Wednesday, February 4, 2015. Noon to 1:00pm, SU Cedar Key Room 223. CSWF Spring
Workshop Series for UCF Faculty, Staff and Students Interested in Work-Life
Balance. “Family Stories: Using Yoga to Connect Stories and Folklore to our Lives.” Our
spring Yoga and Storytelling classes will be based on Vinyasa or flow yoga. This type of yoga
focuses on the coordination of breathing and movement. It will include fundamental yoga
postures and sun salutations that can be adjusted to different levels. Stories, in the form of folk
literature, will be integrated into the yoga classes as a way to allow us to consider how stories
impact and inform our lives. CSWF 2015 Faculty Fellow: Deirdre Englehart, Associate
Professor, Early Childhood Development and Education, College of Education and Human
Performance.
Friday, February 20, 2015. 3:30pm – 5:00pm, Honors College Reading Room. Life @ UCF
Women Faculty Excellence Awards and Reception. Invitation-only reception to honor UCF
women faculty who are currently promoting President Hitt’s goal of being more inclusive and
diverse. Life @ UCF funded partnership awards will be presented at this event. Application
deadline: January 15, 2015.
Wednesday, February 25, 2015. Noon – 1:00pm, CB-1, Room 207. CSWF & FCTL Book
Club. “Mad Men and Working Women” co-authored by UCF faculty member Kimberly
Wilmot Voss. Chapters: Introduction and Chapters 1 – 4. This book offers interpretive and
contextual tools to read the AMC television series Mad Men, providing a much-needed historical
explanation and exposition regarding the status of women in an era that has been painted as preor non-feminist. In chapters aimed at helping readers understand women’s lives in the 1960s,
Mad Men is used as a springboard to explore and discover alternative ways of seeing women.
The book offers historical insight for thinking about serious issues that «modern» working
women continue to face today: balancing their work and personal lives, competing with other
women, and controlling their own bodies and reproductive choices.
Friday, February 27, 2015, 11:30am – 4:30pm, SU Garden Key 221. Elect Her
Workshop. Co-sponsored by UCF Women’s Studies, LEAD Scholars, CSWF and
AAUW. Elect Her – Campus Women Win is funded by AAUW (one of 50 colleges nationally
for 2015) and is a 4.5 hour training course to encourage and train undergraduate women to run
for student government on their campuses.
March 2015
Month-long celebration of Women’s History Month! Please visit our website where we will
introduce you to 31 (one each day) amazing UCF women faculty and staff who are shaping
UCF’s future!
Friday, March 6, 2015. 11:30am - Noon. Meet at Gate 1, Football Stadium at 11:15 am
Campus Tour (of those places you always wondered about!)– UCF Roth Tower. Guided
tour of the Roth Tower which houses club lounge, press box and broadcast, and administrative
suites for UCF’s sports programs. Tour Guide: Tyler Greulich, Assistant Director, UCF
Athletics Event Operations.
Friday, March 6, 2015. 2:00pm – 3:00pm. SU Pensacola Board Room
222
A Conversation to Encourage
Women to apply and receive UCF TIP & SoTL Awards
UCF Women's Studies and the UCF Center for Success of Women Faculty invite you to an
informal conversation with TIP and SoTL award faculty winners from previous years. They will
provide tips on how to better prepare your application for the 2015 TIP and SoTL awards.
Faculty will have their winning portfolios available for display and discussion. Come learn how
to become the next winner.
Monday, March 23, 2015. Noon to 1:00pm, SU Garden Key Room 221. CSWF Spring
Workshop Series for UCF Faculty, Staff and Students Interested in Work-Life
Balance. “Family Stories: Using Yoga to Connect Stories and Folklore to our Lives.” Our
spring Yoga and Storytelling classes will be based on Vinyasa or flow yoga. This type of yoga
focuses on the coordination of breathing and movement. It will include fundamental yoga
postures and sun salutations that can be adjusted to different levels. Stories, in the form of folk
literature, will be integrated into the yoga classes as a way to allow us to consider how stories
impact and inform our lives. CSWF 2015 Faculty Fellow: Deirdre Englehart, Associate
Professor, Early Childhood Development and Education, College of Education and Human
Performance.
Wednesday, March 25, 2015. 2:00pm – 3:30pm, FCTL – CB-1 Room 205. CSWF Successful
Women Seminar Series – Karen Morrison, UCF Chief Diversity
Officer. “Recalculating…Navigating the UCF Experience”.
With a new chief diversity officer and directive, the UCF Office of Diversity and Inclusion
(ODI) is in the process of evaluating services and facilitating campus-wide communication,
collaboration and engagement on diversity topics and creation of a more inclusive culture. This
session will include a discussion of the new direction for ODI, including an opportunity for your
input on the most-needed strategies and priorities for improving women’s experience at UCF.
The session will also include a dialogue about work life balance challenges and potential actions
we can take to improve the quality of our professional and personal experiences.
April 2015
Wednesday, April 1, 2015. 1:30pm – 2:30pm, SU Cape Florida Room 316CD. CSWF Spring
Workshop Series for UCF Faculty, Staff and Students Involved in Elder Care and Caring
for Family Members. “Mother’s Little Helper: Myths and Realities of a Work-Life
Balance when Caring for Aging Family Members.” This workshop will focus on the myths
and realities of “work- life balance" for female faculty dealing with a primary care-giving role or
caring for an aging parent. A discussion of the cognitive, emotional, and psychological aspects of
"balancing" the roles of caregiver with personal and career goals will be presented. We will
briefly explore the impact of care-giving on women’s lives and some common myths about
personal adjustment. A topic of emphasis in this workshop will be "role strain," which is a social
psychological term referring to the difficulty people encounter fulfilling all of their different role
obligations (Matlin, 2012). This discussion will involve the different aspects and consequences
of role strain including: guilt, anxiety, and depression. Attendees will be provided with various
measures to assess their own levels of role strain as well activities relating to coping and role
management. Overall, the workshop will focus on emotional, psychological acceptance of
personal limitations in various life roles, as well as understanding the emotional, psychological
realities and consequences of the pressure experienced when dealing with career and care-giving
tasks. CSWF 2015 Faculty Fellow: Grace White, Lecturer, Department of Psychology, College
of Sciences.
Monday, April 6, 2015. 1:00pm – 2:00pm, SU Cedar Key Room 223. CSWF Spring
Workshop Series for UCF Faculty, Staff and Students Planning your Childs College
Path. “Sending our “Babies” off to College.” CSWF 2015 Faculty Fellow: Iryna
Malendevych, Instructor, Department of Criminal Justice, College of Health and Public Affairs.
Tuesday, April 7, 2015. 10:00am - 11:00am, Career Services Building. Pathways to Success –
Women in Academia: Careers in Academia. This workshop for graduate students and
postdocs will feature women faculty members from across campus. After each briefly shares
how they arrived at their current positions, the floor will be open for questions from graduate
students/post‐docs on everything from the research and teaching pressures for untenured faculty
to professional and university service to life‐work balance.
Wednesday, April 8, 2015. Noon – 1:00pm, CB-1, Room 207. CSWF & FCTL Book
Club. “Mad Men and Working Women” co-authored by UCF Faculty member Kimberly
Wilmot Voss. Chapters: Chapters 5 – 8 and conclusion.
Wednesday, April 15, 2015. Noon – 1:30pm, FCTL, CB-1 Room 205. CSWF Spring
Workshop Series for UCF Faculty, Staff and Students Interest in Work-Life
Balance. "Professor Moms: Balancing Parenting with Teaching and Research." This panel
will feature faculty members offering their advice about various parenting topics including
picking a daycare or nanny, balancing a research agenda and parenting, and teaching options for
when children get sick. CSWF 2015 Faculty Fellow: Kimberly Voss, Associate Professor,
Nicholson School of Communication, College of Sciences.
Friday, April 17, 2015. Noon - 12:30pm, NSC, Room 130. Campus Tour - WUCF-FM.
Guided tour of WUCF-FM Studios. WUCF-FM, is the university’s public broadcasting
service radio station, highest rated, full-time, noncommercial jazz station in the
nation. Tour Guide: Kayonne Riley, General Manager.
May 2015
May 11 – 14, 2015, Summer Faculty Development Conference. CSWF Track: Empowering
Faculty Success! This track (available to both male and female colleagues) will provide handson training for a range of important faculty issues, including conflict resolution among
colleagues, how to mentor and be mentored (using Teach-Live!), budgeting 101, branding
yourself, career-life balance, etc.