The Center for Teaching and Learning will be offering FLCs during the 2018-19 Academic Year. Participating in an FLC requires a commitment to meet together 6-8 times (about every 2-3 weeks) over the course of a semester. In most cases, FLCs work over a two-semester period. In addition to the meetings, participants will read, collaborate, and make progress on individual projects between meetings. Each participant will actively contribute as responders, facilitators, peer reviewers and experts in selected areas of teaching and learning. Faculty should consider their other professional commitments before applying.
CUREs – Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experiences (2018-2019)
Conducting research at a primarily undergraduate institution is a challenging task. Faculty need to balance teaching, research and service; often with an expectation to achieve research excellence but without the advantages of well-funded graduate programs. This presents an opportunity for faculty to think creatively and strategically about the relationship between their research and their teaching. [more…]
Apply for this faculty learning community at http://tinyurl.com/ybmrbept
Facilitators:
- Dr. John Rakus, Assistant Professor, COS/Chemistry
- Dr. Steven Leigh, Assistant Professor, COHP/School of Kinesiology
Creating Inclusive Environments While Increasing Our Capacity for Diversity
(Co-Sponsored by the CTL and President’s Commission on Diversity, Equality and Inclusion)
Over the coming academic year, participants in this FLC will share a common reading experience (the 2nd edition of Diversity’s Promise for Higher Education, Making It Work by Daryl G. Smith). During our interactive meetings, we will jointly explore the broad concept of institutional diversity in the context of:
- Education and Scholarship;
- Institutional Viability and Vitality;
- Climate and Intergroup Relations; and
- Access and Success.
These contexts provide a framework that guides and contributes to our understanding of what diversity means for our institution, relationships, teaching and learning, and scholarship … [more]
Apply for this faculty learning community at https://tinyurl.com/y9ltg224 Registration for this FLC is now closed.
Facilitator: Dr. Sherry Early, Assistant Professor, COEPD
Digital Humanities Across the Colleges (2018-2019)
The mission statements of Marshall University’s Colleges emphasize an interdisciplinary, intercultural, and/or interactive curriculum. With digital technologies permeating the personal and academic lives of our students and ourselves, faculty members have been exploring how digital technologies can help us promote connectivity in our pedagogy. As more of us ask our students to create digital texts, study texts that were “born” digital, and use digital tools to analyze texts, let’s investigate what a digital humanities (DH) pedagogy looks like across the colleges at Marshall. How and why … [more]
Apply for this Faculty Learning Community at http://tinyurl.com/ycma3dwn
Facilitators: Dr. Allison Carey, COLA/English Department & Dr. Kristen Lillvis, COLA/English Department