FSEM Instructors:
Find below a few announcements from the FSEM Team.
- Student Progress: With your help, we are successfully facilitating several first-year student concerns. In response to Colin MacFarlane’s alert notice on first-year student progress, we received a strong 52% response from you. Academic Success is now reaching out to the 7% FSEM students identified as at-some-risk.
- Measuring Learning: We will provide soon an update FSEM evaluation.
- FSEM Syllabus: We are in receipt of all syllabi. Thank you. Click here to indicate your interest (or not) in sharing your syllabus with other instructors. Look out for information soon on how to access the FSEM Syllabus Library.
- TA Syllabus: Thank you to all who have already submitted TA syllabi; however, a few syllabi are still outstanding. Find here examples of TA syllabi. Note: Per Stetson Course Syllabus Policy, all courses require a syllabus. Submit your TA syllabus by October 1, 2017.
- Class Experience Budget: Each FSEM has a class experience budget of $150 to spend on an activity that is social, academic, or both.
- Discovery Initiative: Five FSEM instructors are participating in a Discovery-FSEM Initiative. The pilot, launched this summer, aims to guide undecided students through the process of exploring a major.
- FSEM Manual: The 2013 FSEM Manual is now live as is the draft of the new FSEM Manual & Resource Guide. If you have interest in providing content for the new manual, contact us.
- Teaching & Inquiry Circles: Are you considering an FSEM circle or related idea? There is a rolling deadline for instructors to apply for circle grants. The call remains open as long as resources are available.
- First Year Success Resources: Thank you to the many of you who have sent forward resources on first-year student success to build the library of FSEM Resources. Continue to send ideas and practices, as well as articles and other resources that facilitate scholarly teaching.
- Reminder: The following areas have provided resources. Click on each for details.
October 2-3: Fall Break
October 6: University Faculty Meeting
October 13: Preliminary Fall 2018 list of FSEM offerings due to Deans Everett and Glander with copy toTrena (CAS instructors)
October 18: Mid-term grade due to Registrar via Banner Web by 10 a.m.
October 18: Open House @ WORLD; 4:30-6:00 pm; 635 Bert Fish Rd, Deland, FL 32723
As we dig into a new academic year and celebrate another Values Day, it is with gratitude that I recognize your safety after Hurricane Irma disrupted your personal and professional lives, and our campus function.
Welcome back.
RAR
ROSALIE A. RICHARDS, Ph.D.
Interim FSEM Director
Associate Provost for Faculty Development
Professor of Chemistry and Education
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