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Academic Affairs Announcements

Post author By Rosalie Richards
Post date March 23, 2021

March 23, 2021

IRB protocols
IACUC proposals
External Scholarships

From: Michael Eskenazi, IRB Chair

The deadline to submit Full Board Review protocols for review by the end of the semester is Wednesday April 7^th. The deadline to submit Exempt or Expedited Review protocols for review by the end of the semester is Wednesday April 14^th. Any protocols submitted after these dates will be reviewed in the order of their submission at the beginning of the fall semester.

If you cannot meet these deadlines but have work that will begin over the summer, please let me know and I will review these Exempt or Expedited Review protocols after the deadline. However, Full Board Review protocols must be submitted before April 7^th for work that will begin over the summer.

Please be sure to use the updated Protocol Description Form and Consent Form when submitting your IRB application. These forms can be found at the bottom of the main page of MentorIRB. You can access MentorIRB through the Resources tab in MyStetson.

If you have questions about whether you need to submit your research for IRB review, what your level of review should be, or anything else, please contact me at [email protected] or 386-822-7398.

From: Melissa Gibbs, Professor & Director of the Aquatic & Marine Biology Program

Attention all faculty members who plan to conduct new research projects involving non-human vertebrate animals this summer:

As is our usual routine, if you plan to work with non-human vertebrate animals this summer for a research project that has not yet been approved by the IACUC, you will need to submit a proposal for our review by Friday April 23^rd. The forms and guidelines used for writing proposals can be found on the Provost’s web page: http://www.stetson.edu/administration/provost/policies-and-guidelines/research-guidelines-for-animal-use/application-procedure.php. If you have several students who are all working on a similar project with you, you may choose to submit a single proposal and list the names of students who will be participating. You and your students, however, must have completed some form of IACUC training within the past two years, and have submitted health forms (to Campus Health Services) for review.

We offer research training through CITI https://www.citiprogram.org/members/index.cfm?pageID=50. You will need to register for CITI using your Stetson ID, and then select the basic Working with the IACUC module. There are several other modules that you might want to have your research students complete (e.g. Mice & Rats, Wildlife Research, Working with Amphibians, Working with Fish).

The next call for proposals and reviews will be in early August, with a deadline toward the end of that month.

You will be notified individually if you need to submit a continuing review form or a project completion form.

From: Grace Kaletski Maisel, Learning & Information Literacy Librarian, Research & External Scholarships Advisor

This advising season, I encourage you to keep distinguished scholarships and fellowships in mind. If you have a student who expresses interest or shows promise for a distinguished scholarship/fellowship opportunity, please refer them to Research & External Scholarships Advisor Grace Kaletski-Maisel at [email protected], or the appropriate campus advisor listed below.

An info session for students providing information on a variety of opportunities will be held on Tuesday, March 23^rd from 12-1 PM via Zoom. RSVP at https://stetson.libwizard.com/f/infosessionsignup. Cultural credit is available for this event. Additional information is online at https://guides.stetson.edu/externalscholarships.

Name of Scholarship/Fellowship Program	Campus Representative
Barry S. Goldwater Scholarship	Mike King
Harry S. Truman Scholarship	David Hill
Morris K. Udall Foundation	Wendy Anderson
Fulbright Student Program	Bill Nylen & Ana Servigna
James C. Gaither Junior Fellows	Tim Stiles
Rhodes Scholarship & Marshall Scholarship	Melinda Hall
Boren Awards & Critical Languages Scholarship	Yohann Ripert

Submitted via email from the Office of the Provost & Academic Affairs

2021 ACEWNFL State Conference Mini-Grants

Post author By Chris Griffin
Post date March 18, 2021

The 2021 ACE Women’s Network of Florida State Conference will offer a jam-packed morning of leadership development with peers from across the state.
As a result of the generous support of our presidential sponsor, Prez Chris Roellke, Stetson University is pleased to offer mini-grants to Stetson staff and faculty to cover the cost of registration for the Conference. Please complete the brief application form below by March 22, 2021. Mini-grant recipients will receive notice of award and will be automatically registered. Please ensure correct contact information when filling out the form

REgistration Form

Announcements Wellbeing

Session 2 (repeat): Faculty Well-Being in the Age of COVID – National Braintrust

Post author By Chris Griffin
Post date February 25, 2021

Session Portal

February 26, 2021 at 3 p.m. This session will go live at 2:45 p.m. EST.

Faculty development is a caring profession and our roles as faculty developers are changing in the face of a global coronavirus pandemic. We are deeply committed to fostering environments where faculty thrive and thus, in learning what faculty need to sustain their work. We all have thoughts and concerns about this sustained engagement with loss — a raging pandemic, balancing life and livelihood, civil unrest, economic instability, increased emotional labor, isolation, caring for others, new teaching delivery methods for some, and more. Thankfully, there may be some light at the end of this long tunnel.

The Office of Faculty Engagement at Stetson University in collaboration with The Learning and Teaching Commons at Evergreen State College will be hosting a braintrust for faculty developers and others to connect, listen, and support each other through this unprecedented and uncertain time. This session will offer an opportunity for crowd-sourcing and community-building by engaging in the act of deep listening as we share practices in our roles as well as thoughts and feelings about our roles. The session is designed to allow the work to emerge from participants who are present in the space. The facilitated circle practice uses a three-prompt protocol in which each participant takes one turn (or passes) to respond to a prompt and to listen closely to others.

Facilitators

Rosalie A. Richards, Associate Provost for Faculty Development and Professor of Chemistry and Education, Office of Faculty Engagement, Stetson University

Julia Metzker, Director for the Washington Center for Improving Undergraduate Education and The Learning and Teaching Commons, The Evergreen State College

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Session 1: Faculty Well-Being in the Age of COVID – National Braintrust

Post author By Chris Griffin
Post date February 25, 2021

Session Portal

February 25, 2021 at 11 a.m. This session will go live at 10:45 p.m. EST.

Facilitators

Rosalie A. Richards, Associate Provost for Faculty Development and Professor of Chemistry and Education, Office of Faculty Engagement, Stetson University

Julia Metzker, Director for the Washington Center for Improving Undergraduate Education and The Learning and Teaching Commons, The Evergreen State College

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Announcements

Office of Faculty Engagement

Post author By admin
Post date May 1, 2020

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Advising Announcements

First Year Student Advising 101 Lab

Post author By Rosalie Richards
Post date September 24, 2018

Stetson requires first-year students to complete an Advising 101 Lab prior to registering for spring courses. The lab helps the students to be better prepared for meeting with their faculty advisers to discuss their academic and career goals, and the selection of spring courses that would support those goals.

First-year students were told about the labs during FOCUS. The email copied below will be sent out to them on Wednesday with specific information about how to access the lab through Blackboard. When you are contacting your advisees to arrange for advising meetings, I recommend that you encourage the first-year students to complete the Advising 101 Lab prior to meeting with you.

If students are experiencing any issues or have any questions about the Advising 101 Lab you can direct them to Academic Advising at 386-822-7345 or [email protected].

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Announcements Writing

Writing Center Information for Fall 2018

Post author By Rosalie Richards
Post date August 17, 2018

Dear colleagues,
As you put the finishing touches on your syllabi for the upcoming semester, I wanted to send you some useful information about the resources at the Writing Center.

1) We will open on a limited schedule during FOCUS week, Mon, Aug 20 to Wed, Aug 22, from 6 pm to 9 pm. On Thursday, August 23 we begin our regular hours for the semester.

Here are the hours for Fall 2018:

Monday to Thursday: Noon–10 p.m.
Friday: Noon–3 p.m.
Sunday: 3 p.m.–6 p.m.

2) Tutors are available to visit your classes for a 15-20 minute presentation about the services offered at the Writing Center. It’s a great opportunity for your students to meet a tutor and learn more about what happens during a tutoring session. Email me ([email protected]) to schedule a visit.

3) I’ve attached a brief description that explains what students can expect when they visit the Writing Center. Feel free to copy and paste it into your syllabus.

I’m looking forward to working with your students this semester!

Leigh Ann

Leigh Ann Dunning
Writing Center Director
Assistant Director of the Writing Program
Stetson University
DeLand, FL 32723

Announcements

Excellence in Teaching First-Year Seminars Award

Post author By Rosalie Richards
Post date November 18, 2017

The National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and McGraw-Hill Higher Education annually awards the Excellence in Teaching First-Year Seminars Award to one exceptional teacher at the annual First-Year Experience Conference.

The winner will receive:

Excellence in Teaching First-Year Seminars plaque
Cash award of $1,000
Travel expenses to attend the annual First-Year Experience Conference up to $750

A dean or chief academic officer can submit one nomination from the university. Nominate an instructor who has achieved great success in teaching first-year seminars and who inspires student learning, development, and success. The selection committee includes a national panel composed of members and former members of the Advisory Board of the National Resource Center, past outstanding first-year student advocates, and other leaders in American higher education.

Award Details

Important Dates:
August: Submission for nominations opens
February: Award recipient is be recognized at the Annual Conference on The First-Year Experience

Sponsored by McGraw-Hill Education and The National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition, University of South Carolina

Announcements FSEM Showcase

SALVAGE – FSEM CRAFT ACTIVISM FASHION SHOW

Post author By Rosalie Richards
Post date November 16, 2017

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

Announcements

FSEM Instructor Announcements: September 2017

Post author By Rosalie Richards
Post date September 27, 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]