Here’s your monthly update on upcoming events and opportunities you can’t miss from the FCTL.
Upcoming Deadlines
FCTL Teaching & Learning Grant Applications
The FCTL Teaching & Learning Grant offers up to $3000 in funding to faculty engaging in a Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) project. An SoTL project is a self-study project that examines teaching and learning practices to achieve optimal student success outcomes, enabling faculty to deepen understanding surrounding teaching topics and practices in their fields. The deadline for applications for this grant is almost here, so if you have an SoTL project that you’d like the opportunity to pursue, apply now! To learn a little more about this grant and get some inspiration to apply, check out our Top 3 Reasons You Should Apply for the FCTL Teaching & Learning Grant post. Faculty interested in applying for this grant can do so through the FCTL Academic Community in Brightspace.
The deadline for applications for this grant is February 15, 2025.
Spring Scholarship Summit Proposals
The Spring Scholarship Summit celebrates our MSU faculty’s achievements in the realm of teaching and learning. Join us to enjoy hearty hors d’oeuvres while learning from poster presentations by MSU faculty about their scholarly projects and initiatives—or present one of your own projects! To learn more about the Summit and presentation process, visit the Spring Scholarship Summit page. If you’re interested in sharing your scholarly pursuits but aren’t quite convinced about presenting, visit our Top 3 Reasons You Should Apply to Present a Poster at the Spring Scholarship Summit post. Faculty interested in presenting a poster must apply by March 1, 2025, in order to be considered. Faculty interested in attending the Summit should also sign-up to spectate through the link below.
The deadline for poster proposals for this event is March 1, 2025.
Sign-up to Attend or Present at the Spring Scholarship Summit
Showcase Proposals
The 40th Faculty Showcase on Teaching and Learning is coming up fast! This showcase exhibits any and all faculty advancements in the realm of teaching and learning, and we want to hear about yours. Are you using technology (Brightspace, AI, etc.) to further engage students in your classroom? Have you implemented any different or new teaching strategies? Are you using innovative teaching or assessment materials? There’s a million ways you innovate in your teaching every year, and this is your chance to share. Submit a proposal to share your new ideas, accomplishments, or successes in the classroom with faculty and help us shape the future of teaching and learning together!
To learn more about the Showcase, visit the Showcase on Teaching & Learning page on the FCTL website. Register to attend the event through My Learning Connection, or follow the link below to submit a proposal to present at the Showcase.
The deadline for proposals for the Showcase is March 31, 2025.
Fall FLC Proposals
Faculty Learning Communities (FLCs) are faculty-led groups that offer community and professional development through interdepartmental learning and teaching. Each FLC invites interested faculty to explore a stated topic in-depth through discussion and study with a group of like-minded peers, and provides excellent opportunities to expand horizons, develop and improve educational practices, and build connections across departments and areas of study. This spring, our offered FLCs have included topics such as AI in college writing, experiential learning, supporting student mental health and wellbeing, and writing groups and retreats for faculty.
FLCs are conceptualized and led by faculty members, and we want to hear your ideas for new groups. If you have a topic that you think would make a good FLC and are interested in facilitating a group, the FCTL is accepting proposals for Fall FLCs now! If you would like some more information about FLCs in general or would like some inspiration before you create a proposal, you can visit the FLC page on our website. To find more information about what facilitating a group looks like, what should be in a proposal, and where to submit a proposal, visit the link below.
The deadline for proposals for Fall FLCs is March 15, 2025.
Find Out More About Forming an FLC
What You Might’ve Missed
The semester is in full swing, and with so much work to be done, it’s easy for updates to go unnoticed. To make sure you don’t miss out on anything from us, here’s a quick recap of some exciting posts from the last week.
FLC Spotlight
Our MSU faculty are always impacting our campus community in powerful and exciting ways, but its rare that we get a thorough look into the avenues they do so in. We had the opportunity to sit down last week with Dr. Nicole West, Associate Professor and Assistant Director for the School of Special Education, Leadership, and Professional Studies, as well as creator and facilitator of the Wednesday Writing Circle FLC, to gain some insight into the impact her group has had on our MSU faculty. The Wednesday Writing Circle meets with the goal of fostering a stronger sense of community and promoting scholarly productivity, and the group has had resounding success in these pursuits since its formation in the fall of 2020. Through conversations with Dr. West and a few group participants, we got to hear about the immense professional, personal, and communal benefits the participants of this FLC have gained through their experiences, as well as how those experiences may continue to affect people outside the group itself.
To read more about the Wednesday Writing Circle, check out our “FLC Spotlight- Wednesday Writing Circle” post through the link below. If you’re interested in learning more about or browsing through some other FLCs, visit the Faculty Learning Communities page or our FLCs category on the blog.
Showcase Speaker Announced
We are excited to announce the keynote speaker for the 40th Faculty Showcase on Teaching and Learning! This year’s keynote speaker is Dr. Sidney Dobrin, Chair of the Department of English at the University of Florida and leading expert in the field of Generative AI. Dr. Dobrin will be sharing with us at the Showcase on August 13, 2025, along with our MSU faculty who will also be sharing their advancements in teaching. To learn a little bit more about Dr. Dobrin, check out our Showcase Speaker Alert post.
Questions?
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