FSEM Instructors:
Find below a few announcements from the FSEM Team.
- Thank you for your assistance during the first few weeks of the seminar. With your help, we have successfully facilitated several first-year student concerns. See also Colin MacFarlane’s student alert notice on first-years requiring additional support and important information about Stetson’s Student Success Collaborative.
- FSEM Syllabi and Teaching Apprenticeship Syllabi are due. Submit to [email protected] or deliver to Maribel Velazquez at Flagler Hall by August 31, 2017. Indicate your interest (or not) in sharing your syllabus with other instructors.
- Note that suggested language for learning outcomes related to mentoring and student integration components of FSEM is available at FSEM Resources.
- The following areas have provided resources for your consideration. Click on each for details or search for others using “Resources”.
- A draft FSEM Manual & Resource Guide is available. Interested in providing content? Contact Us.
- Each FSEM has a class experience budget of $150 to spend on an activity that is social, academic, or both. To receive an immediate cash reimbursement, submit receipts for the FSEM experience directly to Maribel Velazquez in the English Department Office (second floor of Flagler Hall). If you prefer the University pay the vendor directly, please contact Maribel Velazquez at least one week prior to the event to receive a Departmental Purchase Order (DPO). The DPO allows you access to a number of restaurants and businesses in town in lieu of direct payment.
- I promised a poll in August to identify your best availability to participate in the Fall 2017 FSEM Student Success Workshops. However, I am awaiting confirmation on FSEM Leadership from the Provost. In the meantime, please think about workshop topics and possible facilitators. Also, might you have interest in a forum to come to consensus on which of the expectations (5 General Learning Outcomes and 3 QEP priorities) are most critical to the FSEM and which are optional? The poll will include these questions so stay tuned.
- Provost Painter is reviewing the outcomes of the FSEM Instructor Welcome Back Workshop (August 2017) and the FSEM Transformative Learning Institute (May 2017). Stay tuned for announcements.
Here at home, we are coping with the passing of sophomore Nick Blakely. And in Texas, colleges and universities are dealing with the onslaught of Hurricane Harvey. And the list keeps growing. Thank you to those of you who have shared actions you/your students are undertaking to commemorate Nick’s life or support victims in Texas.
Special thanks also to the many who have sent suggestions and items to be posted at the FSEM Blog. Please do not hesitate to share what you/your students are doing so that we can share with the FSEM community and others. Submit your announcements, questions, ideas, and recommendations to [email protected].
Have a productive semester.
RAR
ROSALIE A. RICHARDS, Ph.D.
Interim FSEM Director
Associate Provost for Faculty Development
Professor of Chemistry and Education