NOTE: Events are listed in order by date. Please scroll down.
Events are open to faculty and staff. Registration is encouraged; walk- ins are always welcome.
Equity and inclusion in evaluating teaching: Promises, pitfalls, and practical solutions
Sponsored by School of Humanities & Sciences, CFE, and Office of the Provost
Tuesday, January 16, 8.30am - 4.30pm, including breaks and lunch.
Workshop Leader: Hari Kumar
Please RSVP by January 10.
Schedule in Brief:
8:00-8:30 Croissants & Coffee
8.30-8.45: Introduction and overview of the day
Session 1: 8.45 - 10.15: Contexts and Assumptions in Evaluating Teaching
Break
Session 2: 10.30 - 12.00: Key Pitfalls and Biases in Evaluating Teaching
Lunch 12-1.00 pm
Session 3: 1.00 - 2.30: Evaluating Teaching and Learning with Equity and Inclusion: A Multifaceted Approach
Break
Session 4: 2.45 - 4.15: Practical Methods, Methodologies, and Interventions
4.15-4.30 pm: Wrap-up
Making the Move from Associate to Full Professor
Sponsored by the H&S Dean’s Office & the Center for Faculty Excellence
Tuesdays & Thursdays, 12:00 pm, from February 6 through April 26*
Center for Faculty Excellence, 316 Gannett
*Please note that sessions are cancelled during Spring Break (March 10-18) and April 4-10.
The H&S Dean's office--in collaboration with the Center for Faculty Excellence-- will be initiating a program this semester for supporting/ mentoring associate professors in their endeavor to achieve full professorships. The dean is particularly concerned at the very little support available to mid-career faculty in their path to promotion. To that end, he has asked Asma Barlas to coordinate this program which will have two related components. One will be to convene some focus groups so as to get a sense of the challenges associate professors face in maintaining an active scholarly agenda/profile. The other will be to meet with interested faculty individually to talk about their concerns and needs. The meetings will be every Tuesday/ Thursday during the noon hour in the CFE. At the end of the semester, we will meet collectively with the dean. Please feel free to get in touch with Asma Barlas (Politics) directly about this initiative at any time, at abarlas@ithaca.edu. Per Dr. Barlas, "Colleagues, The reason I've set aside both Tuesday /Thursday is because I know some faculty have regularly scheduled meetings on one of these days. Also, you're welcome to come as often as you'd like since these aren't mandatory meetings and we will design them to meet the needs of individual faculty as we go along."
Navigating the College Search with Students in Your Family and Community
Wednesday, January 31, 8:30-9:30 am (with complimentary light breakfast fare)
Center for Faculty Excellence, 316 Gannett
The Offices of Admission and Student Financial Services in collaboration with the CFE are hosting an information and discussion session on supporting high school students in the college search process. We will discuss topics including how to narrow the college selection, apply for financial aid, and support the student during the college search. We welcome all Ithaca College faculty and staff who are interested in learning how to prepare a student in their family or community for their college search and look forward to discussing your questions.
Please RSVP.
R Roundtable Discussion
Thursday, February 1, 9:00-10:00am
Center for Faculty Excellence, 316 Gannett
R is a free and multi-functional open-source software environment used across disciplines to facilitate computations. It is currently being used on campus in many ways such as facilitating research in Physics and Biology, exploring Calculus concepts, and analyzing data in Statistics classes. “R” you interested in learning more about how faculty and students are using the R software environment in their research and teaching?
Please join us for a discussion in which faculty will share their experiences with R. Event takes place on Thursday, February 1 from 9-10 a.m. in the Center for Faculty Excellence, 316 Gannett Center.
Please RSVP.
Contemplative Café
Wednesday, February 7, 12:10-1:00pm
Center for Faculty Excellence, 316 Gannett
~~“The faculty of voluntarily bringing back a wandering attention, over and over again, is the very root of judgement, character and will. An education which should improve this faculty would be the education par excellence.” -William James (1890/1950
Please join us for the Contemplative Café - Wednesday, February 7, 12:10-1pm, in the Center for Faculty Excellence, 316 Gannett Center. Mary Ann Erickson will discuss her teacher certification training from The Center for Koru Mindfulness, a program developed at Duke University specifically to introduce emerging adults to meditation practice. Mary Ann will discuss the structure of the program and how it might inform the efforts of faculty to share mindfulness practices with students.
(Sponsored by the Contemplative Pedagogy Working Group)
Individuals requiring accommodations should contact Kathryn Caldwell at kcaldwell@ithaca.edu or (607) 274-1371. We ask that requests for accommodations be made as soon as possible.
Please RSVP via this link: https://www.ithaca.edu/jotform/preview.php?formID=80281818734
Reflective Pedagogy: Tools for Teaching
Tuesday, February 13, 2:30-3:20pm or Wednesday, February 14, 12-12:50pm
Center for Faculty Excellence, 316 Gannett
Are you interested in how your learners make connections between their various learning experiences? Eric Machan Howd, Department of Writing, will share his experiences and facilitate a discussion with faculty colleagues. Please join us to better understand the landscape of reflective-based pedagogies as well as the various frameworks you can use to promote life-long learning and meta-cognition in your teaching.
Please RSVP
Double-Edged Sword: Learning Disability and the Pursuit of Grad School
Thursday, March 1, 12-1:00pm
101 Muller Faculty Center
Student Accessibility Services, in conjunction with the Center for Academic Advancement, Career Services, and the Center for Faculty Excellence, is pleased to welcome Peta Long. Peta Long will share her personal story involving dyslexia as she pursued a post-graduate degree. Peta will reveal her experiences with dyslexia and explain differences in learning to better understand how one learns and how to use that information to approach ones work. Having had the opportunity to be both a teacher and a student, she will provide insight into how her difficulties challenge and motivate her through the academic journey.
This will be an interactive session open to students, faculty and staff. Students exploring their own learning styles are encouraged to attend. This will also serve as a learning and professional development opportunity for faculty and staff.
Peta is completing her PhD in Mass Communication and Media Studies at Syracuse’s Newhouse School. Peta will be on campus as part of the Park School of Communications ALANA scholars-in-residence program and will be doing a series of presentations on topics related to the communications field as well. In addition to her personal experiences, she will reference information during this session from The Dyslexic Advantage: Unlocking the Hidden Potential of the Dyslexic Brain coauthored by Dr. Brock Eide and Dr. Fernette Eide.
Writing Reflective Prompts
March 21, 12-12:50pm & March 27, 1-1:50pm
316 Gannett, Center for Faculty Excellence
How do you help learners reflect? What reflective prompts help to deepen learning experiences? Join your colleagues at the Center for Faculty Excellence in a 50-minute workshop on writing reflective prompts. Eric Machan Howd, Department of Writing, will lead this hands-on experience for attendees to have practice and share the writing of reflective prompts during this time together. Please join us.
Student Accessibility Services Informational Sessions
Tuesday, March 20, 2:30-3:45pm & Friday, March 30, 12-1:00pm
Center for Faculty Excellence, 316 Gannett
As the spring semester moves forward, faculty and staff should be aware that more than15% of our student population is registered with Student Accessibility Services. As a faculty member, it is likely that you will work with students on campus with a variety of disabilities including, but not limited to, learning disabilities, visual and hearing impairments, physical impairments, psychiatric or psychological conditions, and other health related needs. Topics that will be covered in this informational session include:
* process and procedures of the SAS office
* roles and responsibilities
* academic accommodations and other areas of interest
There will also be time for questions and answers.
Presenters include:
Leslie Reid, Manager, Student Accessibility Services
Jean Celeste-Astorina, Student Accessibility Specialist.
RSVP for March 20th session here.
RSVP for March 30th session here.
Student Engagement and Success: Strengthening, Promoting, and Measuring Efforts Across Campus
Tuesday, March 22, 8:30am-3:30pm
Campus Center, Klingenstein Lounge
Please join us for a collaborative discussion facilitated by Dr. Jillian Kizie, Associate Director, Center for Postsecondary Research and National Survey of Student Engagement Institute Faculty, Indiana University, Bloomington. Sponsoring Coalition: Ithaca College Seminar (ICSM), Honors Program, IC Student Learning Outcome Assessment Committee (SLOAC), Center for Civic Engagement, Integrative Core Cirriculum (ICC), and the Center for Faculty Excellence (CFE). More details coming soon.
Contemplative Cafe: Utilizing Mindfulness Strategies to Support Student Learning
Friday, March 23, NOON - 1pm, Feel free to bring a lunch
Center for Faculty Excellence, 316 Gannett
Join us at the Center for Faculty Excellence for the Contemplative Cafe, a series of presentations and conversations about the use of contemplative and reflective pedagogies in the classroom. This week, Kit Muma from Biology and Michael Faber, former IC Chaplain, will present. Michael Faber will share his experience of teaching a course on meditation to IC students, and Kit Muma will share how she uses mindfulness and meditation techniques in her science courses.
Kudos to You: Celebrating Faculty and Staff Engagement and Scholarship
Monday, April 16, 4pm - 5:30pm
Clark Lounge, Campus Center
Join us as we celebrate the successful endeavors of our faculty and staff. Throughout the academic year “kudos” are made explicit, for publishing books and scholarly articles, making award winning films, giving conference talks, commenting for the national media, etc. Less known but celebration worthy are the several IC resources that support creative thinking, collaboration and the dissemination of ideas across campus through our library and innovative space design. We invite faculty and staff to share in the celebration of a year of our productivity across the campus. Selected short presentations will provide a taste of our collective and notable work. We hope you take time to be together and enjoy light refreshments.
Sponsors: TELE Collaborative (Technology Enhanced Learning and Engagement), IC Library, Teaching and Learning with Technology, and the Center for Faculty Excellence.
No RSVP required.
Making the Peaks Higher: Outcomes Department by Department
Sponsors: H&S Assessment Committee / Center for Faculty Excellence
May 10, 2018, 11:00AM - 1:30PM (lunch provided), A+E Center, VIP Room
Are there ways to design useful and meaningful departmental assessment processes? How can assessment processes guide planning for programmatic change? How can the assessment narrative of one department inform others’ assessment plan, implementation, analysis, and decision-making? To answer these questions (and more), please join the H&S Assessment Committee as they partner with the Center for Faculty Excellence to host a working lunch centered on departmental assessment processes. This workshop will be facilitated by H&S faculty from Politics, Art, and Biology, as well as members of the H&S Assessment Committee.
All faculty are invited to come and discuss the why, what and how of programmatic assessment that matters. It is an opportunity to work alongside other H&S faculty members on assessment challenges. Faculty are invited to come and workshop any topic, including:
- Using assessment to improve the curriculum
- Creating student learning objectives
- Creating rubrics to assess student learning
- Curricular mapping
- Navigating Taskstream
- Agenda:
11:00 AM: Discussions led by Politics, Art, and Biology:
“How we got to where we are and how we’re using assessment to improve our program”
12:00 PM: Lunch
12:45 PM: Workshop
Contemplative Cafe
Friday, April 20, 12pm - 1pm, Feel free to bring a lunch
Center for Faculty Excellence, 316 Gannett
Please join us for the last Contemplative Cafe of the academic year.
Jason Hamilton from Environmental Studies will be sharing his use of "clandestine mindfulness", sit spots and tracking techniques in his classes. He will also share about how New Roots Charter School students are developing mindful texting habits.
Student Engagement and Success: Strengthening, Promoting, and Measuring Efforts Across Campus
Tuesday, May 22, 8:30am-3:00pm
Campus Center, Klingenstein Lounge
Program is full and participant registration for the event is closed
Please join us in our campus-wide collaboration as we work with Dr. Jillian Kinzie to interpret and learn from our National Survey for Student Engagement (NSSE) data. Working together, we will create an integrative picture of student engagement and success at Ithaca College. What do we do well? What do we need to improve? Our day of dialogue and discussion will help us strengthen student engagement and enhance our students’ success.
Sponsoring Coalition
Ithaca College Seminar (ICSM), Honors Program, IC Student Learning Outcome Assessment Committee (SLOAC), Center for Civic Engagement, Integrative Core Curriculum (ICC), First Year Experience, The Exploratory Program, and the Center for Faculty Excellence (CFE)
Dr. Jillian Kinzie Bio
Jillian Kinzie, Ph.D. is Associate Director, Center for Postsecondary Research and the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) Institute, Indiana University School of Education. She conducts research and leads project activities on effective use of student engagement data to improve educational quality and issues of teaching and learning, and serves as senior scholar with the National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment (NILOA) project. She is co-author of Assessment in Student Affairs (2016), Using Evidence of Student Learning to Improve Higher Education (2015), Student Success in College (2005/2010). She is co-editor of New Directions in Higher Education and serves on the boards of the Washington Internship Institute, and the Gardner Institute for Excellence in Undergraduate Education. Kinzie earned her PhD from Indiana University in higher education with a minor in women’s studies. Prior to this, she served on the faculty of Indiana University and coordinated the master’s program in higher education and student affairs. She also worked in academic and student affairs at Miami University and Case Western Reserve University.
Enrollment is limited to 80.
ALANA Faculty Writing Workshop
Monday, May 21, 9:00am-4:00pm
Klingenstein Lounge, Campus Center
Last Day to RSVP: May 11th. RSVP via this link
This hands-on workshop is designed to help participants strategize realistic personal and professional writing goals for the summer. At the end of the morning session, participants will have a realistic weekly schedule to achieve their summer goals. The afternoon session will consist of two opportunities for feedback on research. Participants can present research at any stage and receive feedback from peers and/or meet with a second reader from the Center for Faculty Excellence or Writing Center to discuss specific issues they are having with a piece of writing (see agenda for more details).
ALANA Faculty Research/Writing workshop
May 21, 2018
9:00-4:00
9:00-12:00 Morning Session: Planning for the Summer
9:00-9:30 Breakfast/Socializing
9:30-9:40 Welcome & overview of the day
9:40-10:00 Who is in the room: brief introductions
10:00-10:15 Warm up activity
10:15-11:00 Strategic Planning for the Summer
11:00- 11:15 Break
11:15 – 12:00 Weekly Schedule
12:00-1:30 Lunch & Panel
12:00-12:30 Lunch
12:30 – 1:30 Lunch/Panel -representatives will share a perspective about the writing / research process from their perspective. There will also be time for Q&A.
· Reviewer representative
· Editor representative
· Newly tenured perspective
· Mid-career perspective
1:30-4:00 Afternoon Session: Peer and Second Reader Feedback
The afternoon session will consist of two simultaneous opportunities.
Opportunity One: Participants who would like to get feedback on something they are working on can present their work (at any stage) to an audience of their peers. Just let us know what you would like feedback on. These presentations will be 30 minutes each. The time is yours to divide in whatever way is most helpful to you. For example, if you would like to practice a conference presentation, you can present for 5-15 minutes (or however long the conference allows for your presentation) and use the remainder of the time (15-25 minutes) to receive feedback. You do not need to have a finished project to present, you just some aspect of your work that you would like feedback on. This might be an idea for a new project, it might be how to narrow down an existing project, it might be getting feedback on an argument, etc.. , For this portion of the workshop, you are welcome to invite discipline specific guests to hear your presentation and give you feedback. We can accommodate 4-8 presenters.
Opportunity Two: Participants can also choose to meet with a second reader from the CFE or Writing Center to discuss specific issues they are having with a piece of writing. These sessions are not intended to give line edits, but rather give the author the opportunity to receive feedback on and structure, explication, and language. Participants will need to submit a manuscript of no more than 15 double spaced pages five days in advance along with what they would like the content editor to read for/ comment on (e.g. does the argument make sense, do I do what I said I was going to do in the introduction). We will try to accommodate as many requests for consultation as we receive.
You may choose to participate in both activities.
3:45 Closing Remarks