Diane Filion Center for Advancing Faculty Excellence (CAFE) | Advancing Faculty Excellence | University of Missouri - Kansas City

Comprehensive Resources, Support and Programming

We're developing comprehensive resources and support under four pillars — teaching and learning, research and creativity, service and engagement and faculty life and leadership.

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The Diane Filion Center for Advancing Faculty Excellence (CAFE)'s pillar leads and faculty fellows are developing and offering a variety of programs and resources to support faculty. While some programs will be single-session workshops, others will be semester- or year-long professional learning.

Facts About Our Faculty

3,668

Publication

Books, chapters, articles and conference proceedings published in the past 36 months

UMKC Faculty Scholars dashboard

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1,255

Registrations

Number of registrations in professional learning (duplicated) workshops since January 2020

CAFE Professional Learning

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1,265

Faculty

UMKC employed 641 full-time and 623 part-time faculty last year

“Not only is Dr. Grieco inspiring, but she pushes me to my full potential. I don’t think I would have done any of this research work if it wasn’t for her." - Victoria Dominguez '22

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Faculty News

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Here’s How UMKC is Embracing Artificial Intelligence

Using AI in teaching and research is just the beginning