Ithaca College Center for Faculty Excellence
The Center for Faculty Excellence Website is the repository for faculty development announcements and resources.
Faculty Development at Ithaca College
Faculty development is a process through which faculty enhance their teaching and research base in an effort to become a more effective teacher, scholar and contributor to academic and professional communities. Faculty development programs at Ithaca College are focused on providing interested faculty opportunities to engage in activities focused on professional development (interpreted broadly as teaching scholarship and service) and to interact with others with similar goals.
The primary goal of faculty development is to help faculty learn new ways to achieve excellence and to grow as faculty members. It is an ongoing process of understanding, learning, and growth. Faculty development includes education, collaboration, resources and support.
In addition to faculty and instructional development, faculty development concerns itself with culture change. Through educational programs and workshops faculty can learn the skills necessary to reach excellence in a changing academic environment.
Our Philosophy
To inspire, stimulate, and motivate faculty to go beyond usual routines, to help them understand student perspectives, to introduce varied approaches to teaching and learning and to integrate these in to their repertoire of knowledge and skills.
Upcoming Events:
The Daily Grind
Center for Faculty Excellence, 316 Gannett Center
The Daily Grind welcomes faculty every weekday morning from 8:00 – 10:00 a.m. for coffee. Please drop by to chat with colleagues, watch the news, or just get ready for the workday.
TRANSITION TO COLLEGE IN YOUR ICSM: WORKSHOP ON BEST PRACTICES FOR TEACHING FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS
Shaianne Osterreich, Ithaca Seminar Coordinator and Associate Professor
Helping students transition to the academic and social rigors of college life is an important piece of the Ithaca Seminar. This workshop will provide you with some best practices and new ideas from long time ICSM faculty. The emphasis for this hour will be on sharing ideas on what works.
Please register for one of the following sessions:
Monday, April 8, 2013, 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. (register here)
Tuesday, April 9, 2013, 12:10 - 1:05 p.m. (register here)
Both sessions will take place in the Center for Faculty Excellence, 316 Gannett Center.
OUR THOUGHTS AND EXPERIENCES ON CHINESE EDUCATION
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
3:00 p.m., Center for Faculty Excellence, 316 Gannett Center
Brief introduction to the Chinese educational system and focus on several aspects about educational differences or cultural differences. We also want to show information about our university information (scenery, sites, admisssions).
Dr. Xiaoqin (Susan) Wu and Prof. Jielin (Sylvia) Song are visiting scholars from China West Normal University (CWNU).
Dr. Wu is a lecturer in Finance at the Business School of CWNU. She is spending a month at Ithaca College’s School of Business in pursuit of her research interests in international trade, portfolio risk value adjustments, and international exchange rates.
Prof. Song is a lecturer in the School of Foreign Languages at CWNU. She is a visiting scholar at the Ithaca College School of Humanities and Sciences.
Register Here
NEW FACULTY ORIENTATION FOCUS GROUP EVALUATIONS
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
12:10 - 1:05 p.m., Center for Faculty Excellence, 316 Gannett Center
As you enter your second semester at Ithaca College, the Center for Faculty Excellence would like to secure your input on the New Faculty Orientation Program that you were involved in during the Fall semester. To accomplish this task, we have scheduled this session where you can share your impressions of the program and interact with other first-year faculty on the trials, tribulations, and successes of your first semester at Ithaca College. Perhaps through this interaction you will be able to gain some new ideas, have a few laughs, and find out that you have friends who are having similar experiences.
Register Here
FACULTY ASSOCIATES IN THE FYRE PROGRAM, SUMMER ORIENTATION ADVISORS, AND ITHACA SEMINAR INSTRUCTOR TRAINING
If you are a faculty member who is going to serve as a Faculty Associate in the First-Year Residential Experience Program, a summer orientation advisor or an Ithaca Seminar instructor please attend one of these sessions. Each session will provide a one hour overview of the Integrated Core Curriculum, the themes and perspectives, and the First-Year Residential Experience Program. The presentation will give you the information you need to know in order to answer parents/students’ questions and begin to plan for the fall. The Faculty Associates will follow the first hour with a half hour small group planning meeting to begin to develop ideas for the residence hall programs linked to each theme.
Please register for one of the following sessions:
Tuesday, April 23, 2013, 8:00 - 9:30 p.m. (register here)
Monday, April 29, 2013, 4:00 - 5:30 p.m. (register here)
Wednesday, May 22, 2013, 10:00 - 11:30 a.m. (register here)
Thursday, May 23, 2013, 10:00 - 11:30 a.m. (register here)
All session will take place in the Center for Faculty Excellence, 316 Gannett Center.
WEBINAR
Faculty Senates 2013: Challenges & Opportunities
Thursday, April 25, 2013
2:00 - 3:30 p.m., Center for Faculty Excellence, 316 Gannett Center
Join the presenter, who serves as AAUP chair of the Committee on College and University Governance, as he guides you through a brief history of the development of shared governance and then explores how faculty senates can more effectively contribute to meeting the challenges and opportunities facing higher education in the 21st century. Participants will:
- Understand effective faculty senate models and traits that make faculty senates work.
- Hear about current and future challenges that can impact and influence the effective role for faculty in governance.
- Explore why in turbulent times university governance especially needs faculty involvement.
- Understand the link between the overall expectations of faculty and the increased role faculty play in college and university governance.
Register Here
STORY WRITTEN AND PERFORMED BY REGI CARPENTER
Friday, April 26, 2013
4:00 p.m., Center for Faculty Excellence, 316 Gannett Center
Snap!- sometimes you have to go back so you can get out A true story of a young girl's experience of mental illness and her incredible journey back to sanity and freedom. A powerful and compassionate tale of darkness and redemption with exquisite music by cellist Elizabeth Simkin.
" absolutely beautiful, and truly unlike anything I've ever seen. It was dynamic and illustrative, and honest. Her ability to use humor was stunning. Incredible music! So beautifully performed." Ithaca College audience member
"Harrowing, riveting and unexpectedly hilarious." Harvard Crimson Review
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