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

[Christopher Murillo]

Dear Annie and Todd,

Thank you for your work/labor on this. I agree with these proposed changes.
I appreciate your advocacy on this. I fully support this as well and please
feel free to add my name.

Thank you!

All Best,

Christopher

On Tue, Feb 24, 2026 at 9:13 AM Wallace Cleaves via Professorsofteaching <
professorsofteaching at lists.ucr.edu> wrote:

> Thank you for your advocacy on this. I fully support this as well and
> please add my name if you wish to.
>
> Wallace Cleaves
>
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2026, 8:45 AM Christophe Katrib via Professorsofteaching <
> professorsofteaching at lists.ucr.edu> wrote:
>
>> Dear Annie and Todd,
>>
>> Thank you for your work on this. I agree with the proposed changes and
>> the wording of the email. Please feel free to include my name as well.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Christophe
>>
>> *Sent from my smartphone*
>>
>> Christophe Katrib, MFA
>> Assistant Professor of Teaching
>> 2024-25 CHASS Teaching Award
>> 2025-26 Regents’ Faculty Fellow
>> Department of Theatre, Film and Digital Production
>> University of California, Riverside
>>
>>
>> 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
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Professorsofteaching mailing list
>>> Professorsofteaching at lists.ucr.edu
>>> https://lists.ucr.edu/mailman/listinfo/professorsofteaching
>>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Professorsofteaching mailing list
>> Professorsofteaching at lists.ucr.edu
>> https://lists.ucr.edu/mailman/listinfo/professorsofteaching
>>
> _______________________________________________
> Professorsofteaching mailing list
> Professorsofteaching at lists.ucr.edu
> https://lists.ucr.edu/mailman/listinfo/professorsofteaching
>


-- 
*Christopher Scott Murillo, MFA*
*Assistant Professor of Teaching in Production Design for Stage and Screen*
Department of Theatre, Film and Digital Production <https://theatre.ucr.edu>
| College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences <https://chass.ucr.edu/>
University of California, Riverside
Pronouns: He/Him/His
Office: CHASS INTN 4008 | christopher.murillo at ucr.edu
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.ucr.edu/pipermail/professorsofteaching/attachments/20260224/74ec6ce1/attachment.htm>