The Brown Center for Faculty Innovation and Excellence is interested in reviving Teaching Squares at Stetson. We are seeking a few brave educators to pilot interdisciplinary teaching squares. If you’d like to participate in this pilot, please indicate your interest at this form. Q: What is a teaching square? The teaching squares project offers faculty at […]
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Do you have an innovative approach to teaching/advising students new to college ? TRPP and associates is seeking innovative developmental educators and learning assistance professionals to apply for the 2017 TRPP Innovation Award. $1000 will be awarded to an individual or team of individuals who are engaged in the practice of developmental education/learning assistance and want to explore how to integrate
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PROPOSALS ACCEPTED ON ROLLING DEADLINE (as long as funding is available) The Brown Center for Faculty Innovation and Excellence is pleased to announce the return of Stetson Teaching and Inquiry Circles. These Circles are a wonderful opportunity to engage with your colleagues throughout the year while learning and making progress on your academic goals. Teaching Inquiry
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Great Ideas for Teaching (G.I.F.T.) is an occasional series featuring Stetson faculty. To submit your G.I.F.T., contact the center staff. by Alicia Slater There have been very few moments in my life when I’ve read something that permanently changed my teaching philosophy. Here is one of them (from Huba & Freed 2000): “The individuals learning the most
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The Brown Center for Faculty Innovation and Excellence invites you to take advantage of the valuable resources available through our membership with the NYU Faculty Resource Network (FRN). This membership provides access to enrichment seminars, scholar-in-residence programs and much more. Deadlines for many of these opportunities are rapidly approaching! 2017 Network Winter Seminar American College
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Stetson University has partnered with the ALLEX Foundation to establish new Asian language courses with a goal of expanding to intermediate language courses. ALLEX Fellow, Stephanie Chung, joins Stetson University from Taiwan this year to offer Mandarin Chinese at Stetson University for the first time. “I love reading, playing clarinet, and listening to stories about different cultures,”
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As a result of a new joint venture between Information Technology and Academic Affairs, Stetson University is pleased to introduce the Office of Online Learning and Educational Technology (OOLET). The office supports the design, delivery and continuous improvement of high-quality online/hybrid courses, programs, pedagogies, instructional materials and initiatives. OOLET is tasked with the following priorities: Promote and provide a positive online environment where
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Introduced in 1990 by Ernest Boyer, the Boyer model of scholarship is an academic model advocating expansion of the traditional definition of scholarship and research into four types of scholarship. According to Boyer, traditional research, or the scholarship of discovery, had been the center of academic life. His vision was to change the research mission of
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The University of Central Florida invites faculty, administrators, and professional staff to participate in a two-day symposium focused on strengthening and developing undergraduate research. All of Florida’s public and private 4-year universities and community colleges are invited to participate in the eighth annual event. Last year, at the seventh annual event, over 90 faculty and
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Diversity, Learning, and Student Success: Voices Leading Change A Network for Academic Renewal Conference March 16–18, 2017 Jacksonville, Florida Proposals due Monday, September 12 The Association of American Colleges and Universities Call for Proposals for AAC&U’s 2017 Conference on Diversity, Learning, and Student Success: Voices Leading Change was just released. The conference will explore how the
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