Faculty Excellence

Plenary speaker sparks faculty-staff discussion on Disruptive Demographics

Dr. James H. Johnson, Jr., pictured standing, facilitates an engaging day-long Innovation Cafe on strategic thinking and action planning in response to Disruptive Demographics during the Third annual Faculty Learning Community Day. Dr. Johnson is the William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship and the Director of the Urban Investment Strategies Center,

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Dr. James Johnson and the 3rd Annual Faculty Learning Community Day

The Third Annual Faculty Learning Community Day held in January of 2015, brought faculty together in a reflective setting for discussion of the big issues that impact Stetson University’s mission and learning community. National scholars are invited annually to engage the Stetson community in thought-provoking conversation. These learning communities created for the faculty are intended

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Connecting the Dots and Realigning the Wheels: The future of URSCA at Stetson University

by Jelena Petrovic High-impact educational practices, mentorship, backward design, inquiry-based learning, student-as-scholar, research-skill scaffold… Sorting through the concepts that underline contemporary approaches to undergraduate research, scholarship, and creative activity (URSCA) was not a small task for our Stetson team at the Council on Undergraduate Research Institute on Creative Inquiry in the Arts and Humanities. Over

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STETSON WELCOMES CRAIG LIND AS BROWN TEACHER-SCHOLAR FELLOW

Craig Lind joins Stetson University as its most recent Brown Teacher-Scholar Fellow in Ecology. Dr. Lind will work closely with Dr. Terence Farrell and Stetson undergraduates to investigate the interactive effects of season, environmental stressors, and energetic status on hormone production, behavior, and immune function in Pygmy Rattlesnakes.  He designs and executes studies that provide a better

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Summer Grant Awards

Congratulations to all Summer Grant recipients. Summer Grants 2015 Jon Carrick – Global SME Resources Database (G-SMERD) Development Wingyan Chung – Examining the Evolution of Twitter User Networks: The Case of U.S. Immigration Reform Rachel Core – Institutional Change and Tuberculosis Control in Rural Shanghai, 1958-2003 Laura Crysel – Being the “Catcher in the Rye”:

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SAVE-THE-DATES: January 2015

9 Third annual Faculty Learning Community Day 12 Classes begin 15 Scholarly Writing Circles 19 Martin Luther King Holiday—no classes 23 Conceptualizing Arch Rivalry-School of Business Faculty Development Seminar Series 23 “Dirty Dozen” Tax Scams Plus 1-School of Business Faculty Development Seminar Series 29 Meet & Greet Reception: Brown Teacher-Scholar Fellows 29 New/Newish Faculty Reunion  30 Measuring Learning Workshop—Faculty

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New/Newish Faculty Reunion: January 29, 2015

Calling all new and newish faculty! Let’s gather together, find out how things are going, meet prospective mentors at the New Faculty Mentoring Program dinner, and participate in the book feast, The Joy of Teaching. Date: January 29, 2015 Time: 5:30 am – 7:30 pm Location: Faculty Lounge Coordinator(s): Faculty Mentoring Program Committee and the Brown Center for Faculty

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