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Faculty Learning Communities

Spring, Fall, and Summer Faculty Learning Communities

Faculty Learning Communities for Fall 2023-Spring 2024

Associate Professor of Mathematics Ross Sweet welcomes 2nd, 3rd, and 4th-year faculty to our Faculty Learning Community on Advising. The programming aligns with the advising schedule and ranges from nuts-and-bolts trainings on registration strategies to holistic approaches to engaging students and making them feel welcome and included. All faculty on the workshop list will be invited to several of the sessions included in the link: Advising Group Meetings 

 

Faculty Learning Communities for Spring 2023 

Chad Timm (Stipends, NetVUE): Selected readings related to Living with Authenticity, Meaning, and PurposeSign-Up Vocational Faculty Learning Communities.docx

Jon Kara Shields (Stipends, NetVUE): Living a Feminist Life, Sara Ahmed: Sign-Up Vocational Faculty Learning Communities.docx

Denise Leifker (Books and Food): This reading group will read Anthony Ray Hinton's book, The Sun Does Shine. Hinton will be coming to campus on 3/28/2023. He was wrongly incarcerated for almost 30 years before being released with the help of a civil rights attorney. Sign up below. The meeting time will be arranged around the schedules of those who sign up.
SunDoesShine Reading Group.docx

Faculty Learning Communities for Fall 2022

1. Year-Long Faculty Learning Community on Inclusive Teaching (Stipends!). This year-long FLC will meet six times during the year and will provide faculty an opportunity to share their best inclusive teaching practices with their colleagues. Click here to sign up!

2. Fall DEI & VOCATION Faculty Reading Group (Stipends!) Led by VP of DEI Keyah Levy, this Fall Faculty Learning Community will meet once a month (1 morning retreat + 4 in-person meetings) between August-December to discuss Eddie S. Glaude’s Democracy in Black (2016). Participants will be asked to take something that they have learned from the reading group and use it to create a lesson for students in a first-year course (Foundations I, II, or 100-level). That material must in some way address the idea of vocation or living with authenticity, meaning, and purpose. It will be shared on the NetVUE Vocational Discernment Moodle page for other instructors to use. Click here for more information and to sign up.

Faculty Learning Communities for Summer 2022 

1. Summer Vocation Reading and Work Group (Stipends!). Led by Mara Bailey and sponsored by our NetVUE Grant, this summer Faculty Learning Community of six people will read and discuss Patrick Reyes’ The Purpose Gap: Empowering Communities of Color to Find Meaning and Thrive (2021). The group will meet four times total. This includes an in-person, morning retreat and three more meetings on Zoom. Click here to learn more and sign up.

2. Reading and Peer Mentoring Group: Teaching Diversity and Social Justice (Books and Food!). More than just a reading group, this peer mentoring group will discuss the book Navigating Difficulty Moments in Teaching Diversity and Social Justice (2021), share our own stories of difficult moments, and help each other identify ways to prevent and respond to those moments. This is not a group for people who have all the answers; it's a group for people seeking ways to improve our teaching of diversity and social justice, whether that teaching occurs in a course focused on diversity/equity/inclusion/justice (DEIJ) or in a course where DEIJ issues are addressed only occasionally. Led by Sal Meyers. The group will meet via Zoom from 10-11 a.m. every other Wednesday from June 1 to July 27. Interested? Click here to sign up.

3. How do I teach Writing? Summer Faculty Work Group with Colin Payton, Director of the Writing Center (Books and Food!). This learning community will meet throughout the summer with Colin Payton to hone your upcoming writing projects. Supplies, books, and food will be provided by the SCTLC. Click here for more information and to sign up.