The International Learning Committee is offering $500 mini-grants to internationalize your fall 2021 course. Participants will implement the ILC’s newly developed Global Learning Outcomes in a pilot program for fall 2021. Please visit the Curriculum Enhancement through Global Learning Program page for more information and to apply. Applications are due by April 27.
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The FSEM course, the gateway to students’ introduction into higher education at Stetson University, embraces contemporary and enduring complex societal questions and processes. Since the inception of QEP 2011, approximately 185 different FSEM courses have been offered with topics ranging from “Ghost Stories: East and West,” “Chemistry and Society,” “Revenge Drama,” “Identity Theft,” and “Salsa:Multicultural Music of Caribbean.”
More than most universities’ First Year courses, Stetson’s FSEM courses have been content driven based on the passions and expertise of our faculty. Now, in the midst of our national reckoning on diversity, equity, and inclusion, and thanks to President Roellke’s and Provost Painter’s commitment of resources to the FSEM Program, we are strategically positioned to offer students early on in their Stetson careers a prime venue to begin critical discussions on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Stetson FSEM courses have the potential to allow significant cognitive growth in our students by empowering them to think critically, write clearly and persuasively, and communicate the complex interplay of diversity, equity, and inclusivity in a pluralistic world – a world in which they become more respectful of differences in thinking and being that in turn lead to transformation of the individual and society.
The FSEM Program is pleased to invite Fall 2021 FSEM faculty committed to DEI to apply for a pedagogically-based professional development grant with the intention of critically reviewing their current FSEM course and then redesigning their course by integrating a significant number of DEI voices (theories, history, and practices) into its narrative. These $2000 Grants are intended to galvanize faculty to spend a significant amount of time before June 20, 2021 exploring the addition of previously unincluded perspectives in their courses which may help incoming FSEM students make better sense of the world they inhabit and prepare them for personal and intellectual development and global citizenship. The production of new assignments based off these newly included voices, which also play a significant role in how the faculty member assesses his or her course, is of particular importance for those seeking to be awarded the grant. An important intended outcome is for the FSEM course development grant to spill over into their other courses.
The Application Form consists of a series of questions designed to help those vetting it assess whether or not the faculty member is ready to make best use of the resources delegated by the President and the Provost.
PROPOSAL TIMELINE:
- April 14 – Call for proposals (Microsoft Application Form)
- April 28 – submissions are due along with a supportive note by the faculty member’s Chair (the latter can be sent by email to [email protected]).
- May 14 – Scholarship/grant winners are announced.
- June 20 – new course syllabus, new assignments generated, and 1000-word reflective report about the processes involved with creating these design changes sent by e-mail to [email protected]
- June 30 – Grant money included in June paychecks.
Stetson’s chapter of the ACE Women’s Network of Florida invites you to save the dates for the following leadership development events, open to staff and faculty. All learners welcome, irrespective of gender identity. Please share with your staff and faculty and encourage colleagues to participate. Check out the special perk for the statewide conference and Happy Women’s History Month!
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EVENT: Lunch & Learn with Randall Croom, Ph.D., assistant professor of Management, Stetson University
TOPIC: Professionalism as a Practice
DATE: March 18, 2021
TIME: noon-1 p.m.
LOCATION: JOIN the Lunch & Learn
Career success is about more than just whether we can get the job done–it’s how we do it. One key to getting things done well is professionalism. More than just a way of describing someone (i.e. professional vs. unprofessional), professionalism is a practice that we can all engage in. Professionalism as a practice may be the secret to better organizations, better outcomes, and more satisfying work experiences. Additionally, professionalism can make it easier to market yourself both inside and outside your organization. We’ll talk about the tenets of professionalism, how to become a more professional practitioner, and how they can help with career navigation.
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EVENT: Coffee & Conversation with presidential sponsor and president, Dr. Mark B. Rosenberg, Florida International University
TOPIC: Leading with Collaboration in Community
DATE: March 26, 2021
TIME: 9-10 a.m.
LOCATION: Join the Coffee & Conversations Watch Party – information forthcoming
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EVENT: 2021 State Conference
THEME: The Hill We Climb: Leading with Hope
DATE: April 9, 2021
TIME: 9 a.m.-noon
COST: $25
LOCATION: Live Virtual Event – registration information forthcoming
MINI-GRANTS: Mini-grants are available to cover the cost of registration. Deadline: March 22, 2021. Mini-grant recipients will be auto-registered for the conference and will receive confirmation via EventBrite. We are indebted to Prez Chris Roellke, presidential sponsor of the ACEWNFL, for this generous support.
ABOUT THE ACE WOMEN’S NETWORK OF FLORIDA: Stetson University is a proud Presidential Sponsor of the ACE Women’s Network of Florida. The ACE Women’s Network is a national system of networks within each state with the goal of advancing and supporting women in pursuing higher education leadership. ACE aims to develop programs that identify, develop, encourage, advance, link and support (IDEALS) women in higher education careers. For details about the ACE Women’s Network and Stetson’s activities, visit the website or contact Rosalie Richards or Lua Hancock.
Dr. Lee Skallerup Bessette, Learning Design Specialist with the Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship (CNDLS) at Georgetown University
What is affective and emotional labor, and how have staff in particular been asked to perform this form of labor during COVID-19 and beyond? Join us for a discussion about what we can do to start recognizing and rewarding this important form of labor we perform.
DATE: Wednesday, March 17
TIME: 12:00 pm PST | 1:00 pm MST | 2:00 pm CST | 3:00 pm EDT
LOCATION: RSVP for Zoom link
The ACE Women’s Network of Florida invites you to join the Coffee & Conversation Watch Party on Feb. 26. All learners welcome, irrespective of gender identity.
EVENT: Coffee & Conversation with president and ACEWNFL presidential sponsor Dr. Alexan Cartwright, University of Central Florida
TOPIC: Leadership During Challenging Times
DATE: Feb. 26, 2021
TIME: 9-10 a.m.
LOCATION: Register here
The Office of the Provost and Academic Affairs is pleased to congratulate our Stetson teacher-scholar faculty on the submission of proposals for innovative scholarship, research and creative inquiry. The following Summer Grants Program projects were recommended by the Professional Development Committee to the Provost for their outstanding potential and dedication to Stetson’s mission of teaching, research, and artistic development:
Khushbu Mishra “Do Remittances Reshape Household Expenditures? Evidence from Nepal”
Joshua Rust “Kurt Lewin’s notion of biological genidentity: what makes a caterpillar and a butterfly stages of the same organism?”
Mayhill Fowler “War Stories: Theater on the Frontlines of Socialism”
Chaz Underriner “Moving”
Sean Kennard “Video Recording of Chopin’s 24 Preludes”
Kevin Taylor, “The effects of deal complexity on entrepreneur sentiment during early-stage fundraising”
Corie Charpentier, “The impact of light pollution on coastal larvae”
J. Anthony Abbott, “Creating a Geodatabase of William Bartram’s Travels in Florida”
Asal Johnson, “Epidemiology of COVID-19 in Florida Communities and Counties in Florida, 2020-2021”
Teresa Carmody, “Raptured”
Rachel Core, “The Social Construction of Two Epidemics in China: Tuberculosis and COVID-19”
Michael Eskenazi, “How Much Do Readers Know About Their Eye Movement Behavior?”
Mary Ellen Oslick, “Building ESOL Networks (Project BEN) as pathways of change: Innovative Professional Development for Teachers of ELs and Teacher Candidates”
Chesya Burke, “In Service to the White Creator: The Black Maid Archetype in Ann Petry’s The Street and Kathyrn Stockett’s The Help”
Paul Sibbald, “Study of Organic Chemical Reaction Mechanisms Using Computational Methods.”
Kelly Smith, “Public Health Retrenchment: Vaccine Exemption Laws in the US States”
Raisa Ankeny, “Building ESOL Networks (Project BEN) as pathways of change: Innovative Professional Development for Teachers of ELs and Teacher Candidates”
Giovanni Fernandez, “Liquidity Needs, Emergency Funds, and Tax-Efficient Withdrawal Rates”
Joseph Woodside, “Global Supply Chain Digitization and Innovation in the COVID-19 Era”
Matthew Imes, “Determinants of Female Board Director Power”
Nicole Mottier, “Threat Multiplier: War, Foodways and Agroecologies in Modern Mexico”
Peter Smucker, ““Appalachian Folk Music, the Supernatural, and Social Encounters in Kentucky Route Zero.”
Stuart Michelson, “Individual Financial Literacy and Financial Planning”
Matthew Shannon, “Characterization of Atomic Level Interactions Between Proteins and Small Molecules Probed by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Spectroscopic Methods”
Carol Azab, “YOU SAY BLACK LIVES MATTER- Do service providers walk the talk?”- Examining racial discrimination bias in service recovery”
Jon-Michael Carrick, “Unicorn Founders Database”
Jamie Clark, “Hear Her Voice”
Rajni Shankar-Brown, “Creating Justice: Artivism for Civil and Human Rights”
Congratulations to all award recipients!
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2020-2021 Sabbatical Awards
Congratulations to the recipient of the 2020-2021 Sabbatical Awards:
Yves-Antoine Clemmen, Professor and Chair of World Languages and Cultures (French),“An evening at the Grand Guignol, Bilingual Edition of Forgotten Plays from the French Theatre of Horror.”
Joshua Eckroth, Associate Professor of Computer Science, “Implementation and Deployment of Artificial Intelligence-Based Course Advising Software at Stetson University”
Ramee Indralingam, Professor of Chemistry, “An exploratory study of corporate re-branding via communicated identity”
Asal Johnson, Associate Professor of Public Health, “A Mediation Analysis of Bladder Cancer Survival in Florida; Neighborhood, Insurance and Treatment Effects on the Risk of Death”
Camille King, Professor and Chair of Psychology, “Obese-prone: Is biology destiny?”
Michael King, Professor of Biology, “Distribution of Fos-Immunoreactive neurons across the brain elicited by taste or visceral simulation in mice”
Mitchell Reddish, Professor of Christian Studies,“John of Patmos: From Text to Legends”
Michelle Skelton, Associate Professor of Health Science, “The effects of IgY Max™ on microbial diversity of the gastrointestinal tract, gastrointestinal symptoms, and overall health and well-being in a sub-clinical
population”
Page Thanasiu, Assistant Professor of Counselor Education, “GAL Play: A Trauma Informed Model for Training Guardians ad Litem”
Daniil Zavlunov, Associate Professor of Music, “Opera in Russia during the Reign of Nicholas I (1825-1855): A Cultural History”
Wendy Anderson, Professor of Environmental Science and Studies, “Growing Food for Communities, not Commodities”
Krista Franco, Associate Professor of Theater Arts, “Storytelling through Digital Rendering Techniques”
Deborah Goldring, Professor of Marketing, “An exploratory study of corporate re-branding via communicated identity”
Danielle Lindner, Associate Professor of Psychology, “Examining Self-Objectification and its Consequences in Adolescents
Megan O’Neill, Quality Enhancement Program Director,“Writing Assessment at Small Liberal Arts Colleges”
Madhu Rao, Professor of Decision and Information Science, “Modelling and Analysis of Cumulative Warranties with Phase Type lifetime distributions”
Rajni Shankar-Brown, Professor and Jessie Ball duPont Endowed Chair of Social Justice Education, “Time for Recalibration: Engaged Scholarship for Equity and Social Justice in Education”
Rachel Core, Associate Professor, “Health and Disease in Global Asia”
William Nylen, Professor of Political Science, “Slamming the Door Shut: Educational Reform in President Bolsonaro’s Brazil”
Joshua Rust, Associate Professor of Philosophy, “Four Social Ontological Investigations”
Margaret Venzke, Associate Professor of History, “Essays on Ottoman Land Administration in the 16thCentury: A View from the Older Islamic Provinces in Eastern Anatolia and Syria, with a Particular Emphasis on Aleppo”
Nathan Wolek, Professor of Digital Arts, “Documenting the soundscape of coastal regions using audio field recordings.”
The Institute for Water and Environmental Resilience (IWER) at Stetson University will be making an environmental difference in Volusia County thanks to a $185,000, two-year Florida Sea Grant.
Florida Sea Grant is a university-based program that supports research, education and extension to conserve coastal resources and enhance economic opportunities for Floridians.
IWER is partnering with the East Central Florida Regional Planning Council; Thomas Ruppert, the Florida Sea Grant program’s coastal planning specialist; and Volusia County to implement a landscape conservation and climate resilience planning project.
“The joint project provides an opportunity to develop robust recommendations for land conservation in Volusia County that account for the economic value of natural landscapes including environmental planning for flood avoidance, pollinator habitat maintenance, water storage and purification, and carbon sequestration,” said Jason Evans, PhD, interim executive director of IWER and associate professor of environmental science and studies at Stetson.
Grant funds will be used to employ a post-doctoral resilience modeling specialist who will implement geospatial modeling approaches for examining the landscape with mapping techniques through a partnership with Stetson University’s Brown Visiting Teacher-Scholar Fellows Program.
“I believe the Florida Sea Grant award demonstrates that IWER is recognized as a leader in resilience planning, research and implementation,” said Evans. “Having resilience planning experience and the ability to conduct a project of this magnitude in Volusia County are important aspects of the grant.”
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The Fairwinds Foundation presented Stetson University with a $23,651 grant that will help provide 30 students with career training and mentoring in order to successfully secure an internship or job.
The grant matches a $23,651 grant from the Jessie Ball duPont Fund for Stetson’s EDGE 2020 program, which “focuses on accelerating social capital and success for 30 students with limited incomes,” said Tim Stiles, executive director of Career and Professional Development at Stetson.
The EDGE program is open to first-year students through seniors. It will begin May 6-8 with a three-day “Orlando Bound” excursion that will include meeting with various employers, attending networking events, and receiving online and in-person financial literacy training and development.
“The program will continue with one-on-one and small group mentoring for eight to 12 months — until every participant uses their training and contacts to successfully secure an internship or job,” Stiles said.
If you are interested in applying for the program, contact Career and Professional Development at [email protected] or 386-822-7315.
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Many coastal cities are sinking and becoming more susceptible to climate change. As the world and oceans become warmer, rising sea levels will continue to cause flooding and storm surge in low-lying areas. A new grant gives researchers throughout the Southeast the opportunity to discover green infrastructure solutions to mitigate the effects of this flooding on coastal communities.
The Institute for Water and Environmental Resilience (IWER) at Stetson University is collaborating with the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration’s Office of Coastal Management and Sea Grant College Programs in Florida, Georgia, and North and South Carolina to evaluate green infrastructure interventions for reducing flood risks. The research opportunity is made possible by funding from a $404,000, two-year Karl Havens Memorial South Atlantic Regional Research on Coastal Community Resilience Grant.
“The goal of the project is to assess how green infrastructure interventions — like natural land conservation and restoration of coastal wetlands, oyster reefs and beach dunes — may provide cost-effective flood mitigation within essential transportation networks,” said Jason Evans, PhD, interim executive director of IWER and the grant project’s team leader. “Each state team is working closely with its partner communities to develop project recommendations. The team works very well together because of its overall spirit of collegiality, collaboration and commitment to furthering long-term resilience of coastal communities.”
Stetson’s environmental science and studies students will have an opportunity to intern with the East Central Florida Regional Planning Council, assist with implementing key project objectives and work directly with the country’s leading resilience experts.
IWER has conducted sea-level rise vulnerability assessments and developed adaptation planning strategies for numerous local governments in the past, and often in collaboration with research and outreach partners from Florida Sea Grant, the East Central Florida Regional Planning Council and other universities throughout the southeast region.
“IWER’s mission includes conducting advanced research methods and outreach that promotes creative solutions to complex environmental challenges,” said Evans. “Being selected to lead this grant-funded project in partnership with university collaborators, a diverse set of coastal communities and planning professionals, and the Sea Grant College Program’s network of outreach specialists, is a clear indication that IWER’s high-impact experiences and capabilities have been well-recognized.”
Earlier this year, Evans, et al, presented recently published research findings at the Environmental Law and Policy Annual Review (ELPAR) symposium at Vanderbilt University.
“Roads to Nowhere in Four States: State and Local Governments in the Atlantic Southeast Facing Sea-Level Rise,” published in the Columbia Journal of Environmental Law, discusses how local and state governments in Florida, Georgia, and North and South Carolina are handling sea-level rise issues and road infrastructure. The research paper was selected by a review committee as one of the top four journal articles in 2019 to be published in ELPAR’s special issue of the Environmental Law Reporter.
In addition to Evans, project researchers include Chris de Bodisco, PhD, assistant professor of economics at Stetson; Shana Jones, JD, planning and environmental services unit program manager, J. Scott Pippin, JD, public service associate and Jon Calabria, PhD, associate professor of environment and design at the University of Georgia; Daniel Hitchcock, PhD, associate professor of agricultural sciences at Clemson University Baruch Institute of Coastal Ecology and Forest Science; Narcisa Pricope, PhD, associate professor of geography at the University of North Carolina Wilmington; and Tara McCue, AICP, director of planning and community development and Luis Nieves-Ruiz, AICP, economic development program manager at the East Central Florida Regional Planning Council.
Partner communities include Cape Canaveral, Florida; Garden City, Georgia; New Bern, North Carolina; New Hanover County in North Carolina; and Georgetown County in South Carolina. The cities and counties will be working with the lead researcher in its state to identify specific project sites for possible green infrastructure interventions as well as develop cost-benefit analysis models for providing a range of estimates for long-term values, including flood protection, habitat creation and preservation, contaminant mitigation and the integration of green spaces within a built environment.
-Sandra Carr
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