The 2016 new faculty orientation was a resounding success. The Brown Center for Faculty Innovation and Excellence welcomed 16 tenure-track and 15 visiting faculty from 27 institutions as well as 12 adjunct faculty, an ALLEX Asian language scholar and two Fulbright Language Teaching Assistants. The orientation consisted of a diverse program designed to orient our new faculty […]
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Values Day: September 20, 2016 Values Day, celebrated in September, is an annual tradition established by Stetson University’s eighth president, H. Douglas Lee. It is a day dedicated to Stetson University’s core values of personal growth, intellectual development and global citizenship. This year, the Values Day Planning Committee has selected Chimanda Ngozi Adichie’s powerful and award-winning book Americanah (2013)
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[Looking for Day 1? Click Here!] Days 2 & 3 of new faculty orientation provided some important resources and a time to think about your course design and syllabus. We rounded out the orientation with a faculty resource fair where campus departments shared the resources available to new faculty and the all important overview of
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From left to right Row 1: Julia Metzker; Nadine Bascombe; Mary Jo Jackson; Libba Galloway; Lou Sabina; Vernita Glenn-White Row 2: Delphine Prevote Pinet; Joy McGuirl-Hadley; Sandra Sanchez Adorno; Madison Creech; Grace Ramsey; Ana Paula Spalenza Row 3: Song Gao; Antonio Golan; Holley Lynch; Sharmaine Jackson; Stephanie Chung; Shun Kiang Row 4: Molly Brown; Michael Eskenazi; Kelly Hall; Heather Edwards; Danielle Palow Row 5: Nicole Porther; Lonnie Hevia; Karen Coker-Merritt; Randall Croom; Bill Jackson Row 6: Steven Smallpage; Gregory LeFils; Ben Tanner; Tomasz Fediuk; Carol
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Do you struggle to talk with students or co-workers about issues such as #BlackLivesMatter and the Orlando shootings? Are you interested in leading dialogues around race/ethnicity, religion, socioeconomic class and/or sexual identity but don’t know where to start? August 26-28, Stetson University is hosting its first, three-day Intergroup Dialogue Institute. Consultants Dr. Deirdre Johnston and
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[Looking for Days 2 & 3? Click Here!] Day one of the 2016 Stetson New Faculty Orientation was jam packed with information. Luckily, most of this information is available to you electronically when you need it. Greetings & Introduction Noel Painter, Interim Executive Vice President and Provost Dr. Painter welcomed the group and encouraged new
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In just two weeks, the newest class of faculty will be arriving on Stetson’s campus and as a community, we look forward to welcoming them. Faculty will attend orientation August 16 –18 where they will learn what to expect during their time at Stetson. During these three days, new faculty have the opportunity to interact with each other, current
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Dear New Adjunct Faculty, I am honored to be able to welcome you to the Stetson faculty. Stetson’s faculty, a wonderfully talented group of teacher-scholars, form the cornerstone of an inclusive community deeply committed to academic excellence and student learning. On their behalf, I welcome you as a new colleague! I myself just recently joined
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Call for Submissions, Summer 2017 CUR Quarterly Consider submitting an article or vignette for the Summer 2017 CUR Quarterly on “Undergraduate Research and Higher Education of the Future”; deadline is August 5, 2016. View the full call for papers. Additional highlights from CUR … ISSoTL-CUR Pre-Conference Workshop – October 12 NCUR 2017 – April 6-8 REU Symposium – Nominations Due August 18!
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Noel Painter, Ph.D., interim executive vice president and provost and an associate professor of music, assists student Marcus Jones. In the 1990 landmark report Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate, Ernest Boyer called our attention to the need for institutions of higher education to connect the work of the academy to the social and environmental
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