[Professorsofteaching] REQUEST FOR INPUT: Wording about Professors of Teaching (PoT) for The CALL

Mon Feb 23 22:14:43 PST 2026

I echo everyone - thank you for all this, Annie and Todd, and I am happy to
have my name added as well.

Best,

Yasemin
--

Yasemin Irepoglu Carreras, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Teaching
Department of Political Science
University of California, Riverside
*Author of: Decentralization, Interactive Governance and Income Inequality
in Europe <https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-95983-7>*

https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/ycarre

On Mon, Feb 23, 2026 at 10:06 PM Emily Graham via Professorsofteaching <
professorsofteaching at lists.ucr.edu> wrote:

> Thanks for this, Annie and Todd. You can include my name, too.
>
> Best,
> Emily
>
> On Feb 23, 2026, at 9:53 PM, Dmytro Zagrebelnyy via Professorsofteaching <
> professorsofteaching at lists.ucr.edu> wrote:
>
> 
> Good evening Everyone,
>
> I support the change as well. You can also include my name in your email.
>
> Best,
>
> Dmytro
>
> On Mon, Feb 23, 2026 at 4:32 PM Analisa Flores via Professorsofteaching <
> professorsofteaching at lists.ucr.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hi Annie and Todd,
>>
>> I agree with Worku. This is important to include. You can also include my
>> name in your email.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Analisa
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 23, 2026 at 3:34 PM Worku Nida via Professorsofteaching <
>> professorsofteaching at lists.ucr.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Annie and Todd,
>>>
>>> Thank you so much for paying attention to this important matter and
>>> suggesting the change. I just reviewed the attached documents and fully
>>> agree that the suggested phrase may ensure an inclusive (in terms of
>>> research types) review for us. Please feel free to include my name in your
>>> email to VPAP.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Worku
>>>
>>> On Sun, Feb 22, 2026 at 6:41 PM Annie Stanfield Ditta via
>>> Professorsofteaching <professorsofteaching at lists.ucr.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Professor of Teaching Colleagues,
>>>>
>>>> *TLDR: *
>>>> Below please see a proposed email to be sent to the VPAP’s office
>>>> regarding proposed changes to The CALL. Todd Sorensen (PoT in Economics)
>>>> and I would like to suggest some wording to strengthen the degree of choice
>>>> for PoTs in terms of what type of Professional and/or Scholarly Achievement
>>>> and Activity to engage in. The deadline for changes to be sent to their
>>>> office is end of business, Wednesday Feb. 25th. If you have any suggested
>>>> changes to our email and/or other any changes you want to make to The CALL
>>>> that you haven't passed along yet, could you please send them to us by end
>>>> of day Tuesday 2/24 (sorry for the short turnaround!)?
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>>
>>>> If you have a little more time and want to read more about this request:
>>>>
>>>> *Some background:*
>>>> We were happy to see that the VPAP sent out some FAQs (attached) to
>>>> better inform chairs about the roles of Professors of Teaching and of our
>>>> review process. One concern we had was that some of the language could be
>>>> interpreted as de-emphasizing the option of disciplinary research as a
>>>> contribution to "Professional and/or Scholarly Achievement and Activity”.
>>>>
>>>> Specifically, the second page of the FAQ (FAQ1) has a bullet list of
>>>> examples of "What types of scholarly or professional activities are
>>>> valued?” Initially, disciplinary research was not included as an example.
>>>> However, in an updated draft of this document (FAQ2), "Traditional
>>>> disciplinary research or presentations” was added to this list.
>>>>
>>>> In addition, we feel that the last paragraph on the first page
>>>> de-emphasized this path for PoTs:
>>>>
>>>> "Traditional disciplinary research is not required. However, Professors
>>>> of Teaching are expected to engage in scholarly or professional activity
>>>> related to teaching, such as pedagogical scholarship, curriculum
>>>> development, or educational leadership."
>>>>
>>>> We felt that the spirit of valuing traditional disciplinary research
>>>> would be better expressed by the paragraph below; we have gone forward with
>>>> the spirit of “what we wish the FAQ had said” to make our suggested changes
>>>> to The CALL. We are not trying to get the FAQ document edited, but wanted
>>>> to note this for possible future use.
>>>>
>>>> "Professors of Teaching are expected to engage in *scholarly or
>>>> professional activity*, which may take different forms. Traditional
>>>> disciplinary research is *not required* but such work is valued in the
>>>> merit and promotion process. Additionally, activities such as pedagogical
>>>> scholarship, curriculum development, and/or educational  leadership
>>>> are valued in this category."
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> *Proposed Email Draft:*
>>>>
>>>> Dear Dan,
>>>>
>>>> Thank you for valuing the role of PoTs, and the broad set of potential
>>>> contributions to Professional and/or Scholarly Achievement and Activity”
>>>> that is valued in our roles. We especially appreciate the intentionality in
>>>> sending around an FAQ document on this, and on adding "Traditional
>>>> disciplinary research or presentations” as a bullet point item in the list
>>>> of “What ˚types of scholarly or professional activities are valued.”
>>>>
>>>> We would like to suggest the following changes to The CALL to reflect
>>>> the spirit of a broad interpretation of Professional and/or Scholarly
>>>> Achievement and Activities (including traditional disciplinary research or
>>>> presentation) that will be valued in our review process:
>>>>
>>>> Page 37; 4b: add in parentheses at end of line “(this includes both
>>>> pedagogy-related and discipline-specific research)”.
>>>> Similar wording being added to #2 on pages 1-2 of the "UCR Guidelines
>>>> for Professor of Teaching Series” would also help emphasize this point.
>>>>
>>>> Best and thank you for your consideration,
>>>> Annie Ditta & Todd Sorensen
>>>> [and anyone else that wants to add their name!]
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> *Annie S. Ditta, Ph.D.*
>>>> Pronouns: she/her/hers (what's this?
>>>> <https://www.mypronouns.org/what-and-why>)
>>>> Associate Professor of Teaching
>>>> Distinguished Teaching Professor
>>>> Department of Psychology
>>>> University of California, Riverside
>>>> LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/anniesditta
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>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> Worku Nida, PhD
>>>
>>> [he/him/his]
>>>
>>> Associate Professor of Teaching
>>>
>>> Department of Anthropology
>>>
>>> University of California, Riverside
>>>
>>> Email: worku.nida at ucr.edu
>>>
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