Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs

Candace Kuby is the associate provost for faculty affairs at the University of Missouri. In this role, Dr. Kuby manages faculty recruitment, hiring, salary and workload adjustment, and the faculty promotion and tenure process. She leads the university’s HLC accreditation efforts, serves as liaison to Faculty Council, serves as the academic liaison to the SEC, and coordinates efforts to study faculty satisfaction.

Dr. Kuby supports faculty success and development, including building new programs that support faculty and coordinating existing faculty development efforts across campus. She manages internal and external honorific faculty awards processes and leads efforts to plan campus faculty recognition events. Lastly, she runs the Provost Leadership Program.

Specific duties that Dr. Kuby fulfills include:

• Manage faculty recruitment efforts including the review of faculty hires
• Review faculty compensation and workload adjustments 
• Oversee the faculty promotion and tenure process 
• Review faculty research and development leaves
• Serve as Mizzou’s HLC accreditation liaison officer 
• Serve as liaison to Faculty Council 
• Serve as the academic liaison for the SEC
• Design and oversee new faculty orientation and supports
• Manage faculty development programs, such as the Mid-Career Research Development Fellows, Arts & Humanities Fellows, and LEAP
• Provide leadership and support for Connection, a faculty retention program
• Support faculty mentoring efforts across campus, including Mentoring at Mizzou
• Provide leadership and support for Mizzou’s Aspire Alliance & iChange Network efforts
• Provide support for Mizzou’s Professional Development Council & Faculty Success Council
• Run the Provost Leadership Program
• Coordinate two COACHE survey efforts for campus and serve as a liaison on the campus COACHE committee
• Manage applications for faculty support initiatives, including the Faculty Success Program (NCFDD), the Provost’s Great Books Program, Provost Scholars Program, and the Highly Prestigious Awards Course Release Program
• Manage internal & external honorific awards processes
• Chair campus committee that plans and hosts all campus-wide faculty recognition events
• Other duties as assigned

Before Dr. Kuby’s roles in the Office of the Provost, she served as department chair of Learning, Teaching, and Curriculum and the Director of Qualitative Inquiry for the College of Education and Human Development. Prior to becoming a faculty member, Dr. Kuby taught primary grades in public U.S. schools and preschoolers in Japan. Dr. Kuby’s research centers on pedagogies as relational in two ways: 1) the coming-to-be and the pedagogies of literacies when young children work with artistic and digital tools, and 2) approaches to and pedagogies of qualitative inquiry. She has published twelve books and edited journal volumes and numerous book chapters and articles in journals including Qualitative Inquiry; International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education; Journal of Early Childhood Literacy; and Journal of Literacy Research. Dr. Kuby has secured approximately $3.3 million dollars of internal and external funding to support her work. 

Honors for Dr. Kuby’s teaching and research include the Outstanding College Teaching Award (University of Missouri, College of Education & Human Development, 2020), the Chancellor's Award for Outstanding Research & Creative Activity in the Behavioral & Social Sciences (University of Missouri, 2020), the Isabelle Lyda Research Professorship (University of Missouri, College of Education & Human Development, 2015 to 2017), and the Emerging Scholar Award, American Educational Research Association, Critical Perspectives in Early Childhood Education Special Interest Group (2015). Dr. Kuby co-hosted two webinar series: Post philosophies and the doing of inquiry and Doing higher education differently: In conversation with Neuroatypicality produced in partnership with the University of the Western Cape and Ghent University.