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SALVAGE – FSEM CRAFT ACTIVISM FASHION SHOW

Salvage, a Craft Activism Fashion Show is a collaboration with Stetson University students where they have created clothing based off of the stories of survivors of abuse. They have selected the most powerful quotes and screen-print onto t-shirts as a form of Statement Art. This runway of artistic expression will be set behind music and spoken words.

Domestic Abuse is an issue we hear about more than often, but what we don’t hear much about is what happens to the survivors after they have left the situation. Most times they are faced with other issues of homelessness, addiction, mental health or a continued cycle of violence. We rarely have the opportunity to hear their stories. It is from their stories we can learn how to support them as they rebuild their lives.

Find below a link to Madison Creech’s FSEM Fashion Show to take place on November 16 in the Artisan Alley Garage .

Facebook link:   Salvage: A Wearable Art show

Madison Creech is a Brown Teacher-Scholar Fellow in Creative Arts at Stetson University. Madison’s work highlights a number of key learning areas at Stetson: FSEM outcomes, the Brown Teacher-Scholar Fellow Program, FSEM class, community engagement project.

Madison is a multimedia artist with a dedication to mixing digital fabrication with traditional textile processes. Textiles not only inhabit all aspects of our lives today, they also have an engrained material language that is informed by history and culture.

For tickets and more information:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/salvage-a-wearable-art-show-tickets-37967345352

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FSEM Instructor Announcements: September 2017

August 2017 Announcements

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
[email protected]

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FSEM Schedule Disrupted by Hurricane Irma

UPDATE: FSEMs, previously scheduled to end on Tuesday, Nov. 21, will now be taught through Tuesday, Dec. 5.

Stay tuned for updates on the FSEM class schedule from the Provost.  Dates are determined in consultation with the Registrar’s Office.

Questions? Email [email protected]

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Hurricane Irma Update, 6:30 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2017

Some power has been restored to some locations, allowing these updates for students.

The Lynn Business Center in DeLand is fully functional and DeLand graduate programs for the School of Business Administration will resume on Thursday, Sept. 14, 2017.

DeLand graduate programs for the College of Arts and Sciences previously scheduled for Thursday and Saturday in Davis Hall will be moved to the Lynn Business Center, and students will receive information from their faculty about the location of classes.

The Center at Celebration’s power is on. The facility is undamaged and will reopen for on Thursday to hold their graduate programs on site at the Celebration campus.

Undergraduate classes at the DeLand campus remain canceled, and residence halls and apartments are closed until Duke Energy can fully restore power to the university. The earliest that undergraduate classes will resume is Monday, Sept. 18, 2017. Unlike some universities and colleges in the region that either never lost power or already have power restored, Stetson University’s main campus remains without power, and that includes the central cooling plant that services most of the university residence halls and classrooms. Until power is restored to the main campus, the university is not able to set a specific date for classes to resume, residence halls to reopen and the campus to reopen.

Some essential personnel have been asked to return to work to support the resumption of graduate programs at the Celebration campus and in DeLand at the Lynn Business Center on Thursday.

Stetson University College of Law faces a similar situation. It cannot resume classes and cannot open campus until power is restored. As a result, all classes and activities are canceled through Sunday, Sept. 18, including weekend classes scheduled for this weekend. The College of Law has asked faculty, staff and students to plan for resumption of operations on Monday, Sept. 18, 2017.

The next update will be at 6 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2017.

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Stetson Officials Closely Monitoring Hurricane Irma

Hurricane Irma Update, Sept. 5, 12:30 p.m.

Stetson University’s Office of Public Safety and its Emergency Management Team are closely watching the direction and progress of Hurricane Irma, now a category five hurricane, as it approaches the British Virgin Islands, U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. There are multiple paths the hurricane can take this week including over Central Florida, potentially impacting Stetson University’s campus locations in DeLand, Celebration, Tampa and Gulfport. More

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FSEM Instructor Announcements: August 2017

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”.

Honor Council

Writing Center

Information Literacy

  • 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

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Resource Reminder: Stetson SSC

This is a reminder that Stetson SSC (Student Success Collaborative) is available as a resource to all faculty at DeLand/Celebration through the Student Information area of your Faculty tab in My.Stetson.

Stetson SSC is great for:

  • Scheduling Meetings with students – extremely helpful for Advising Week.
  • Alerting Campus Life and Student Success so appropriate follow-up can be done for students in non-emergency distress.  Always call Public Safety or 911 in an emergency ?
  • Messaging (text or email) your students.
  • Reviewing student information (pre-college characteristics, academic performance, engagement with support services such as tutoring or success coaching) all in one spot.

Helpful user guides with step by step screen-capture instructions are available online (click the Training Materials link in the navigation menu). You can also book a training for yourself or your department by emailing Colin MacFarlane.

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First-Year Advising Labs

All first-year students are required to attend a First-Year Advising Lab.

The purpose of the lab is to assist students in preparing to have discussions with their faculty advisors about course selection and how to include high impact practices in the student’s education. This lab will teach students more about the Stetson curriculum and how it impacts their specific goals. More

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Honor Council offers resources to FSEM instructors

Image result for Honor codeColleagues:
This year, the Stetson Honor System Council is focused on a variety of educational initiatives aimed at first year students.

Primarily, we offer presentations for FSEM and first year classrooms. These presentations take 10-15 minutes, depending on content and engagement level. In addition, we are planning several other initiatives:

  • a workshop series to take place during September and October, with subjects including academic integrity, plagiarism, and MLA, APA, and Chicago citation styles. We would be most grateful for professors to encourage their students’ attendance;
  • a 5-7 minute video presentation that can serve in lieu of an in-class presentation; and
  • a 5-7 minute video on plagiarism.

FSEM instructors who would like Honor Council members to visit their classrooms should contact Kimberly Noriega, vice president for education; Kathryn Renae Metcalf, president; or Cindy Bennington, faculty advisor.

Thanks,

Cindy Bennington
Honor Council Faculty Advisor

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Director of Moral Courage Project to Speak at Values Day on Sept. 26

Stetson University’s Values Day will take place on Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2017, according to the Values Day Committee.

Irshad Manji will be the speaker at Stetson’s 2017 Values Day on Sept. 26. Photo by Jimmy Jeong/courtesy of Simon & Schuster.

The 2017 Values Day speaker is Irshad Manji. She is the Founder and Director of the Moral Courage Project, which equips students to make values-based decisions. She has turned her journey as a Muslim feminist reformer and lesbian activist into teachings about professional leadership, informed by cutting-edge research that connects across the disciplines.

The New York Society for Ethical Culture has given Manji the Ethical Humanist Award. And Oprah Winfrey awarded Manji the first annual Chutzpah Award for “audacity, nerve, boldness and conviction.” Manji has also produced a PBS documentary in the America at a Crossroads series titled “Faith Without Fear” and the documentary was nominated for a 2008 Emmy Award.

To learn more about Manji and her work, please visit her personal website and her NYU project.
 This year’s R.E.A.D. (Reflect Engage & Affirm Diversity) book, “Allah, Liberty and Love” (2011), is written by Manji. Manji describes the book as an effort to “reconcile faith and freedom in a world seething with repressive dogmas.” One of the key teachings of Manji’s work and a universal theme in her book is “moral courage” or the willingness to question, speak up, and be a courageous global citizen in a world filled with inequities. To check out a description of her book, visit the following site or Amazon.

For faculty, staff and students eager to read the book prior to Values Day and for faculty/staff members interested in integrating the book in 2017-2018 courses, the Office of Diversity and Inclusion has generously ordered books and should have copies available for pick-up Aug. 7, 2017. Additionally, copies will be made available at Convocation and during the R.E.A.D. session at Values Day.

For any inquiries or questions regarding Values Day, please contact Dr. Chris Bell ([email protected]), Savannah-Jane Griffin ([email protected]), or me ([email protected]).

In community,

Rajni Shankar-Brown, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Jessie Ball duPont Chair of Social Justice Education
Director of Education Graduate Programs
Stetson University

Adapted from Stetson Today. August 27, 2017