OFD Newsletter: Week of February 3, 2020
Faculty Writing Retreat: February 7
Do you struggle to keep writing projects moving during the busy semester? The Office of Faculty Development has partnered with NC State University Libraries to offer Faculty Writing Retreats for tenure and non-tenure track faculty. Our next retreat will be held on Friday, February 7, in the Faculty Research Commons spaces at James B. Hunt Jr. Library (Centennial Campus). Sign up now to find uninterrupted time to write your article, grant proposal, book chapter, or dossier materials. Coffee/tea/water and a light breakfast will be provided.
Registration is for the full-day event (8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.), but please feel free to come and go as needed — join us all day, just in the morning, just in the afternoon, or even just for an hour or two! Our Faculty Writing Retreats feature drop-in consultations with librarians from NC State University Libraries.
Librarians will be available in the Faculty Commons to consult on various subjects related to faculty writing. You must register for the Writing Retreat to take advantage of this opportunity!
New Workshop: Creating a hands-on data exploration activity for your students – no programming required!
- Monday, April 6, 2020
- 2:00-3:15 p.m.
- Clark Hall, Room 405
- Facilitator: Justin Post (Teaching Associate Professor and Director of Statistics Online Education)
Have you wanted to get your students actively involved with data around a topic you teach? This workshop offers a tutorial on a programming free web-based software that will allow your students to summarize data numerically and graphically to investigate questions of interest.
We’ll also discuss how to design an activity around this idea in order to support your students quantitative literacy ability. This activity could be used in a face-to-face, blended, or online course.
Faculty should bring a data set of interest for a course they teach to the workshop (excel, csv preferred) – a sample data set is also available for those interested but without a data set. Time will be allocated in the workshop in order to create the activity.
Best Practices in Graduate Student Mentoring: A Workshop Series for Junior Faculty and Post-Docs
The mentoring of graduate students is one of the key responsibilities of our faculty and is also a critical element in faculty success, especially with regards to obtaining promotion. However, few faculty have formal training in developing the necessary skills and competencies for effective graduate student mentoring.
The Graduate School has developed a four-part workshop series to help participants develop strong, productive, and healthy mentoring relationships with their graduate students. The workshop series is designed around the “life cycle” of a graduate student’s career, from recruitment to graduation and beyond.
Our workshop facilitators will help you develop effective and proactive strategies to support your graduate students within the context of a career map aimed to help you achieve your goals. We will discuss effective tools for: recruiting students, developing an individualized advising compact, determining suitable boundaries, identifying and eliminating implicit biases, and other aspects critical to successful mentor-mentee relationships.
Workshop Facilitators:
- Peter Harries, Dean of the Graduate School
- Pierre Gremaud, Associate Dean of the Graduate School
- Jo-Ann Cohen, Departments of Mathematics & STEM Education
To Register:
Although we strongly encourage participants to attend all four sessions as the workshops build on each other, you may also attend selected individual sessions rather than all four sessions.
- Workshop #1: Introduction – What Makes a Good Mentor/Recruiting and Enrolling Graduate Students (Feb. 6, 2020, 2-4 p.m.)
- Workshop #2: Departmental/Discipline Acculturation (Feb. 20, 2020, 2-4 p.m.)
- Workshop #3: Research, Research, Research: Finding and Defining a Research Project (March 5, 2020, 2-4 p.m.)
- Workshop #4: Graduation and Beyond (March 19, 2020, 2-4 p.m.)
Additional Info:
- All workshops will be held in Witherspoon 201.
- Information: Peter Harries, Dean (pjharrie@ncsu.edu / 919.515.1989)
Spring 2020 Engaged Scholarship Travel Stipends
The Office of Outreach and Engagement is offering stipends for participation in Community Engaged Scholarship activity.
The Office has a limited number of $500 scholarships available to attend any College or Department approved conference or meeting to present or enhance faculty engaged scholarship. Faculty and staff can apply to be reimbursed for activities between January 1, 2020 – June 30, 2020. Preference will be given to faculty who have plans to submit conference proposals or are speaking.
For approved applications, O&E’s Business Office will arrange to transfer the funds to your department. These funds are state-appropriated and must be expended by fiscal year end. Ensure your application includes a state-appropriated project ID.
Applications should be submitted by February 14, 2020 via this form. Approved applicants will be contacted within five working days and funds will be transferred to the applicant’s department.
Please contact Samantha Graham at sjgraha2@ncsu.edu if you have questions about the funds or need help with the application.
Stand Your Ground: Communicating Your Boundaries with Confidence
- Thursday, February 13, 2020
- 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
- Witherspoon Student Center, Room 126
Establishing boundaries and communicating your thoughts and ideas confidently takes practice. This workshop helps you establish and enforce healthy boundaries, and also teaches you to communicate your feelings with confidence.
Join NC State Wellness and Recreation for this FREE workshop compliments of NC State’s Council on the Status of Women and the Professional Development sub-committee.
All NC State students, staff, and faculty are invited to join this event.
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