The Provost's Awards Lecture Series is intended to honor and showcase the recipients of the Provost's Awards and provide them an opportunity to present, share and discuss their work with the campus. Another goal of this series is to raise the level of academic and intellectual discourse among our colleagues and to further enrich connections with others across the campus.

Date: Thursday, Nov. 9
Time: 3 - 4 p.m.
Location: All seminars will be on Zoom
Meeting ID: 882 2870 7774
Passcode: 253603

Dr. Larissa Mercado-López, Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies
“We can’t force them to care”: What I’ve Learned from Women of Color Faculty and Faculty Parents
2022-23 Faculty Service Award

In this presentation, Dr. Larissa Mercado-López discusses what she has learned from her service in support of women of color faculty and faculty parents. Grounding her approach in intersectional feminism, Mercado-López discusses the obligations, opportunities, and limitations of institutional care and the implications of these limitations for marginalized faculty. Reflecting on her years of collecting evidence, she shares what Fresno State can do more to holistically support and empower faculty in ways that promote racial and gender equity, wellbeing and democracy.

Dr. Robert Maldonado, Department of Philosophy
"The mission of the University as a way to serve"
Faculty Service Award

Dr. Robert Maldonado believes in educating our students by maximizing the environment in which they learn — a central driving force that implements the mission of the university. Maldonado will focus on three traditional components teaching, research and service. He will further explain that faculty isn’t the only factor to help implement the three traditional components. He will discuss how the university staff and administrators are also a key contributor to student success. Maldonado will provide a lens and standard in which he sees, and evaluates how he might proceed to help maximize the learning of our students. He will explain how students should not be distracted by bureaucratic self-interest or other counter-productive forces that would get in the way of the university’s mission. Having a learning environment maximized to its full potential is the key to give the student’s ability to have success in their collegiate career.