Welcome to the Center for Faculty Excellence, part of the Office of the Provost. Our virtual Center is in transition as a comprehensive planning process is undertaken. The Provost charged Susanne Morgan with a two-year initiative which will culminate in the articulation and implementation of a faculty development model for Ithaca College. Reduced to one year, the final report is now available for faculty review and comment. The report and other documents are on the FD@IC page. 

The face to face activities of the Center for Faculty Excellence have been enhanced through iTunesU, where audio recordings of most events are available to Ithaca College faculty. The login is at http://itunes.ithaca.edu or by clicking here. You may need to install iTunes on your computer. This service is due to a formal collaboration with Information Technology Services. The partnership document can be downloaded on the right.

Faculty Excellence Award recipients for 2009 are listed here. More information is linked here and the descriptions of recipients can be downloaded on the Faculty Recognition page.

• Hongwei Guan, Assistant Professor, Department of Health Promotion and Physical Education
• Bruce Henderson, Professor, Department of Speech Communication
•  Cynthia Scheibe, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology
•  Ellen J. Staurowsky, Professor, Department of Sport Management and Media
• Susan Swensen, Associate Professor, Department of Biology

Spring events:

May Faculty Institute "Theirs, Mine and Ours: Meeting Collective Objectives through Comprehensive Assessment" May 19; more information here; program on the right.

Panel and Workshop: "Using Podcasts in Your Courses*is a two-part series on May 18 and 21 sponsored by ITS and CFE.  On May 18, 10:30 a.m.-noon in CHS 207 is a Panel and Discussion -- "Course Podcasts: Imagining the Possibilities" followed, on May 21 and 22, by two hands-on workshops. See the Intercom story for more information and the registration link.

"Preparing a Winning Book Proposal" is a workshop with Sheri Englund, Ph.D., on Tuesday June 9, 10:30-noon in the DeMotte Room. Information on the right; online registration here.

Spring Faculty Development Conference: This annual event features faculty scholarship illustrating each of the five types of scholarship in our Faculty Handbook. It is on Wednesday, May 13 from 9 to noon in the Klingenstein Lounge. Please come for any or all of the sessions. The program is here 

Successful Tenure at Ithaca College: Open Program. Ithaca Faculty can hear the presentations at iTunesU.

Interdisciplinary Teaching Panel is archived on iTunesU. Download program at right; hear the presentations at iTunesU.

"Choosing and Using Qualitative Software" a workshop and consultations with Ray Maietta of ResearchTalk, archived for a limited time for faculty download at iTunesU.

"Grants, Fellowships, and the Renewable Career" was a discussion with Paul Hamill and Will Kay, the College's grants officers. More information to download on the right and notes and audio are at iTunesU.

Teaching and Learning Commons at Ithaca College Launched
Informal workshops, or scholarly conversations about our work, this series is named for the initiative of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. information here. Spring events were archived  Hear the presentations and discussion at iTunesU.

• A Balanced Portfolio: Teaching, Scholarship, Service, featuring Rebecca Plante
• My Return on My Investment in Assessment, featuring Michael Smith

The Fall Faculty Workshop took place on Saturday, September 6. Who We Are and What We Do featured remarks from each of this year's Excellence Award recipients followed by mini-workshops led by faculty members. The tracks of the workshops were Teaching with Technology, Classroom Effectiveness, and Scholarship in a Comprehensive College.  More information is on the right.

The Tenure Seminar occurred for a second year, open to anyone anticipating creating a file for tenure and/or promotion.  More information is on the right.

The all-college Mentoring Program once again welcomed faculty members at any length of service. We form small heterogeneous groups and they meet typically every two weeks.