MSU Faculty Write Program Retreats–Spring 2017
Dates:
Friday, April 28
Monday/Tuesday, May 22–23
Time: 9:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.
Location: Meyer Library 204, FCTL Conference Room
The Faculty Write Program focuses on promoting faculty productivity and camaraderie through writing-based experiences such as interdisciplinary writing retreats held twice a month, workshops, and 15-day writing challenges. Writing retreats include breakfast and a light lunch, opportunities to develop a strong network of peer support and accountability, and voluntary feedback sessions. Dr. Mandy Benedict-Chambers facilitates these sessions.
Contact the Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning or call 6-3059 to register.
Accessible Learning Institute
Date: July 18–20
Time: 9:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m
Location: Meyer Library 204, FCTL Conference Room
Space is limited to 15 participants
The Accessible Learning Institute is an intensive four-day program designed to help participants identify and resolve accessibility concerns in their courses. In creating an awareness around physical and cognitive disabilities and the learning barriers often experienced by those students, the program hopes to increase the adoption of proactive approaches to course design that will reduce the need for students to request certain types of academic accommodations that could delay student access to information.
Are you interested in learning more about the Accessibility Institute? Contact the Faculty Center for Teaching & Learning at 836-305.
Cultural Consciousness in the Classroom Workshop
Upcoming training session:
Date: Thursday, April 27, 2017
Time: 8:30 a.m.-3:00 p.m.
8:15 – breakfast
Location: PSU 314
Our university partners in the Lumina Project 2025 designed a cultural consciousness in the classroom training series to promote college readiness, enrollment and persistence efforts for low-income students from historically underrepresented groups including first generation students. Diversity training for key faculty is being initiated using a “train the trainer” model in order to enhance and increase the cultural consciousness and competency for those instructing such students especially GEP instructors and existing faculty. Join us in helping increase the retention rates and academic success of our first generation, Pell Grant eligible students from historically underrepresented groups by developing your awareness, knowledge and skills in our “Cultural Consciousness in the Classroom” professional development session. This will be the fourth and final session of the 2016-2017 academic year. Each session averages 17 faculty participants.
Please register through My Learning Connection