CTL Happenings - Message #543

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! 

The Center for Teaching and Learning invites you to recognize the upcoming retirement of Terri Tarr, CTL director, after 28 years of service to the university, at a reception on Thursday, June 23, from 3 to 5 p.m. at the CTL. Dr. Tarr will officially retire on June 30. Cake and light refreshments will be served. Remarks will take place at 3:30 p.m. If you are unable to make it in person, we have created a Zoom room that will allow you to join the reception to watch the remarks and then have an opportunity to share your best wishes to Terri afterward. The Zoom room will be open from 3 to 4 p.m. Please RSVP for the reception.

UITS Learning Technologies is launching a new opportunity for faculty to work one-on-one with educational technologists/developers to explore and help build new tools that support student success. Built as an offshoot of the Next.IU website/initiative, the Next.IU eLearning Faculty Fellowship is a year-long program open to all faculty, and fellows will receive a $5,000 stipend to help us develop, pilot, and assess their idea.

You can find out more on the webpage for the fellowship, including exploring the criteria for which we will evaluate proposed projects.

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

Monsivais, D. (June 10, 2022). From barely there to fully present: Three ways to improve your instructor presence. Faculty Focus. 

In online courses, how instructors interact with students and guide their learning is essential for student success. This article provides instructors with a three-step approach to improve their presence in a course and enhance student learning.

Looking for a way to make your course content more accessible and your course more inclusive? This webinar, offered by the IU Campus Teaching and Learning Centers in collaboration with the Assistive Technology and Accessibility Center, will provide a basic understanding of the Seven Simple Steps you can take to improve the accessibility of your course and make changes that will benefit and include all students in the learning process.

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.

Take your presentation skills to another level when you learn how to create and present in the fast-paced, storytelling/presentation known as PechaKucha. The purpose of this workshop series is to give participants an opportunity to reflect on their personal journeys in academia, teaching or research and prepare a compelling PechaKucha to present during PechaKucha Night.  To learn more and to sign up for the PechaKucha workshop series, visit the Faculty Crossing website.

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 open