CTL Happenings - Message #542

Office Academic Affairs seeks two faculty fellows to serve as Faculty Advancement and Leadership Development Fellows. Chosen fellows will provide leadership for developing and delivering workshops in support of promotion and tenure for faculty (both tenure-track and non-tenure-track), supporting the Leading and Inspiring Faculty Together (LIFT) Mentoring Circles, and collaborating with the IUPUI Next Generation 2.0 program. The combination of responsibilities will be determined based upon the interests, preferences and expertise of the candidates chosen to serve as Fellows. The Faculty Fellow position is a part-time appointment and should be ideal for an individual interested in gaining experience working with campus-wide academic administration and devoted to the work of mentorship and faculty development in higher education. Candidates should submit the following information to oaa@iupui.edu by June 30, 2022.

1. A letter of 1-2 pages providing evidence of the qualifications outlined above and describing special projects or areas of interest to explore in this position;
2. An abbreviated curriculum vitae; and
3. Indication of support from department chairperson or dean.

Questions may be directed to Margie Ferguson at mferguso@iupui.edu.

The IUPUI Office of Academic Affairs and the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) invite interested IUPUI faculty to join the Forum Fellows. The purpose of the Fellow position is to generate a greater sense of community among faculty on the Indianapolis, Columbus, and Fort Wayne campuses, to support professional development in areas that intersect with teaching (e.g., mentoring, inclusive teaching, multicultural competency) and to encourage innovation in teaching and SOTL scholarship. Supporting projects that involve interdisciplinary sharing and exchange among faculty from different schools is particularly valued. The Forum Fellow position is a part-time appointment for one-to-two years and should be ideal  for an individual devoted to student learning and interested in gaining professional development, 
experiences that could help provide a foundation for future leadership positions. 

Candidates should submit the following information to oaa.iupui.edu by June 30, 2022.

1. A letter of 1-2 pages providing evidence of the qualifications outlined above and describing special projects or areas of interest to explore in this position;
2. An abbreviated curriculum vitae; and
3. Indication of support from department chairperson or dean.

Questions may be directed to Margie Ferguson at mferguso@iupui.edu

The CTL's Learning Environments Grant (LEG) program offers up to $25,000 per award to create inclusive and effective learning spaces at IUPUI, IUPUC, and IU Fort Wayne. First, talk with colleagues at your school about spaces that may be changed to improve student learning inclusively, and to build community among students, faculty, and staff. Then contact Douglas Jerolimov (djerolim@iupui.edu) at the CTL to discuss your ideas. See the LEG website for more information and to download the RFP. Full proposals are due by September 22, 2022, but preliminary ideas must be submitted in a Capital Projects Request for Service form no later than June 22, 2022. Act now! It’s almost June 22!

Kinzie, J., Silberstein, S., McCormick, A. C., Gonyea, R. M., & Dugan, B. (2021). Centering racially minoritized student voices in High-Impact Practices. Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 53(4), 6-14.

A strong body of literature demonstrates that High-impact practices (HIPs) are beneficial for all students, particularly historically excluded groups. However, do all students experience HIPs in the same ways? This article presents results that highlight differences in experiences of racially minoritized students in the context of time and effort, interactions with faculty and peers, engaging with diversity, and the most and least satisfying aspects of their experience. If you use or plan to use HIPs, consider how these findings can impact your course design strategies!

Transparent assignment designs have been proven to motivate increased student effort and to promote student success. Clarification and elaboration of an assignments’ purpose, task, and grading criteria works to scaffold student learning activities. Doing so helps all students, but especially students from underserved populations and students who are unfamiliar with college success strategies. In this webinar, participants will be introduced to the transparent design framework, analyze sample transparent assignments, and will begin drafting or revising a transparent assignment.

Rubrics make grading consistent and speedy, and increases transparency of assignments to students. Rubrics also make concrete a course’s and assignment’s learning objectives, which helps students become critical thinkers and to assess their own work. In this webinar, you will learn basic principles to streamline the creation of rubrics for equitable and effective assessment of student learning. You will also evaluate and discuss the merits of sample rubrics.

Looking for a way to make your course content more accessible? This webinar, offered by the IU campus Teaching and Learning Centers in collaboration with the Assistive Technology and Accessibility Center, will introduce a new tool that is intended to help you create accessible content for your students. Join us as we discuss Anthology Ally and walk you through how it can be leveraged in your Canvas course.

Faculty who seek to refine and promote their teaching efforts may document their work through the development of a teaching portfolio, a site where faculty engage in reflective practice to measure the effectiveness of, and to refine, their teaching practices. This webinar introduces faculty to the teaching portfolio and to the several interrelated tasks that yield the teaching portfolio's elements: developing a teaching philosophy, identifying specific teaching practices to explore, document, and to improve, situating an identified teaching practices in an appropriate context, and collecting and evaluating evidence of teaching and learning.

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June 8 - 9: The REMOTE virtual summit, hosted by ASU, where faculty, staff, and administrators share strategies for all learning modalities, is free again this year

June 15: LEAP Indiana Teaching Awards Nominations Due 

June 24: Teach, Play, Learn Conference 

June 30: Call for FALCON session presenters for the 2022 FACET Conference

July 1: FACET/Mack travel grant applications are now open