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. 

Implementation of the Ithaca Faculty Commons is underway and anyone interested in participating should indicate on the online form or contact Susanne Morgan.

Panel and discussion about teaching large-format classes on Thursday, November 12, 12:10-1:00 in the Park Auditorium. The challenge of engaging students in active learning while in lecture halls of over 100 can be daunting. Basic course management can be overwhelming. Join a faculty-student panel who will open the discussion with their observations and experiences of best practices. The presentations are available to Ithaca College faculty through iTunesU at the Ithaca College section or this direct link.

An online Narrative-Writing Seminar for 4th-Year Faculty commenced on October 14. Those preparing files for January will share goals, drafts, and reviews of their documents. Faculty at other points of the tenure process may enroll as guests. More information is at the Tenure Seminar page. You may enroll online using this form.

The Tenure Seminar is designed for any faculty member who plans to prepare an application for tenure and/or promotion to Associate Professor in the next few years, including those who are not on tenure lines. Taught by Susanne Morgan and other senior faculty, the seminar includes readings, lectures, structured activities, and online resources. We plan to help you with topics relevant to preparing your file, and also to preparing yourself for the review process. Information here.

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.

All-College Mentoring Program: Co-organized by Annette Levine, our group-based all-college mentoring program is unique and nationally recognized. Faculty at all levels of service are invited to join, and small groups are designed with no two participants from the same department. Groups devise their own agendas, with a common commitment to mutual support. Typically a group meets every other week on campus for about an hour.

"Greening your Curriculum" was a faculty workshop on integrating sustainability into curriculum in strategic management and related fields. Presented by Jean Garner Stead, Department of Management and Marketing, East Tennessee State University, Friday, September 18, from 2:00 to 3:30 pm. More information can be downloaded on the right.

Ithaca Faculty Commons: Informal noontime workshops, these gather people interested in a teaching issue, whether because they are relatively skillful or because they want to learn more. Sessions are recorded as podcasts on iTunesU. Please suggest a topic!

Linked Resources: Information Technology Services maintains a regular series of workshops; see http://www.ithaca.edu/computing/workshops/ for the schedule and registration.

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