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- Meeting the Future with Online and Graduate EducationBy Cynthia Rutz, Director of Faculty Development, CITAL Stefanie Heinrich wants to help faculty create high-quality online and graduate courses so that Valpo can meet the future. Stefanie, our new Director for Graduate and Online Education, notes that future trends show that these two areas have great potential […]
- The Power of Leadership in LearningBy Ed Finn, Executive Director, CITAL I was fortunate to attend the 26th Annual International Leadership Association (ILA) Global Conference in Chicago, November 7-10. The impact of leadership in higher education cannot be overstated. In this article, I will mention just a few takeaways and implications that struck […]
- Two Responses to AI and An Innovative Approach to Teaching EthicsBy Cynthia Rutz, Director of Faculty Development, CITAL In this blog I will share with you three more sessions from the recent Lilly Conference that could be helpful for your own teaching. The first two sessions have very different approaches to AI. The first provides some practical classroom […]
- Check-Ins to Foster Community and Building Your Students’ AI ToolboxBy Cynthia Rutz, Director of Faculty Development, CITAL I recently attended the Lilly Conference on Evidence-Based Teaching and Learning in Traverse City, Michigan. In this blog I will share with you two sessions that could be helpful for your own teaching. The first gives some ideas for simple […]
- Getting the Grant: Try and Try AgainBy Cynthia Rutz, Director of Faculty Development, CITAL Kudos to Patrice Bouyer, who recently received an NIH grant for $318, 554. The journey to this grant was not an easy one, so we asked Patrice to tell us about it so that all of us can benefit from […]
- What is Your Favorite Feature of Canvas?By Cynthia Rutz, Director of Faculty Development, CITAL Many of you are trying the Canvas LMS for the first time this semester. So we asked you what features of Canvas you have found work best for teaching and learning in your classes. Twelve of you responded. Here are […]
- Improving your Writing with Valpo’s Writing CircleBy Cynthia Rutz, Director of Faculty Development, CITAL This summer, a group of faculty and staff met weekly to work on their writing. In this article Stacy Hoult (FORL), Natalie Krivas (English), Margarita Rayzberg (Sociology), Stefanie Heinrich (Graduate & Online Education), Mike Longan (Geography), and Matthew Ringenberg (Social […]
- Improving Retention Through A Sense of Belonging: The EPIC ProgramBy Mike Watters, Professor of Biology Student retention is important to any university, especially keeping commuter students who are traditionally less anchored in campus life. Even more at risk, given the leaky STEM pipeline, are STEM commuter students. To address this issue, a group of Valpo faculty and […]
- Teaching Underprepared Students and The Hidden CurriculumBy Tiffany Kolba (Math & Stats), Jenna Van Sickle (Lilly Fellows), Jesse Sestito (ME), & Lauren Sestito (ME) This academic year, fifteen Valpo faculty and staff members met biweekly for a Faculty Learning Community (FLC) on “Teaching Underprepared Students and The Hidden Curriculum.” During the fall semester, we […]
- Reimagining the CurriculumBy Theresa Carroll (CONHP), Alberto López Martín (World Lang & Culture), and Karen Hernes (CONHP) Several of your colleagues have been working to increase underrepresented voices in their courses as part of the “Reimagining the Curriculum” (RIC) Initiative. These faculty attended a three-part workshop series last spring and […]
- Fostering Community and Student EngagementBy Natalie Krivas (English) & Stacy Hoult (World Languages & Cultures) For the past year, a group of Valpo faculty and staff have been meeting as a Faculty Learning Community (FLC) to discuss Fostering Community and Student Engagement. FLC members learned about and experienced the Solutionary Process, to […]
- Talking is TeachingBy Abbie Thompson, Department of Psychology In this article Abbie Thompson (Psychology) describes how students in her service-learning courses support new mothers in Porter County to teach our youngest learners: babies and young children. The name says it all. Talking is teaching as many of us faculty know. […]
- What is New in ValpoScholar?By Jon Bull, Associate Professor of Library Science What is ValpoScholar? Since 2011 ValpoScholar has been Valpo’s institutional repository, hosted by the Christopher Center Library. In short, the platform tries to collect the university’s intellectual output in one place. That output includes University Archives, student work, faculty work, […]
- Inside-Out Prison Exchange – A Class Like No OtherBy Dawn Jeglum Bartusch, Department of Sociology and Criminology In 1995, Professor Lori Pompa from Temple University took 15 students to a prison in Pennsylvania for a tour and conversation with incarcerated men. My colleague, Danielle Lavin-Loucks, and I have been doing similar prison tours and conversations with […]
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