ABSTRACT
When the university relocated to its present location from what is now downtown Denver, Colorado, it was on the outskirts of town. Now an urban university, its current enrollment is over 14,000 students, taught by approximately 800 appointed faculty and 1,300 adjuncts, following a quarter system. As the pandemic emerged in March of 2020, leadership changes were an additional contextual factor influencing the university ecosystem. Academic instructional technology offices are often separate departments from centers from teaching and learning, but because of our historical focus on educational technology, the authors also serve as the central instructional technology support and act as administrator of the university's LMS (Canvas). Of the full-time staff, four were doctoral-level directors who engage in 1:1 faculty support, facilitate programs and institutes, and assist in realizing broader, institutional-level change in the domains of academic assessment, inclusive teaching, scholarship of Teaching and Learning and faculty learning communities, and university teaching.
