OFD Newsletter: February 8, 2021
Faculty Conversation Series Begins This Week!
Our Spring 2021 Faculty Conversation Series begins this Wednesday (February 10, 2021, 2:00 – 3:00 p.m.)! Dr. Maria Gallardo Williams, OFD SoTL Faculty Fellow, and special guest Dr. Angie Smith, Teaching Associate Professor, Department of Educational Leadership, Policy, and Human Development, will facilitate a conversation on Faculty Well-Being for the Long Term.
Are you stressed? We know we are. Let’s come together to discuss best practices to survive and thrive in this difficult teaching and learning environment created by the aftermath of COVID-19.
To register for this and other sessions in the Faculty Conversation Series, visit REPORTER.
Faculty Forum: Checking in With Our Students
This week on Faculty Forum, Lisa Paciulli, Claire Gordy, Joy Little, Melissa Ramirez, and Maria Gallardo-Williams discuss how to check in with your students on how they’re doing. As faculty members most of us are not qualified mental health professionals, but the compassionate act of asking our students to tell us how they are doing can go a long way in establishing a safe and inviting classroom environment during these trying times. From graphic scales (sometimes humorous) to additions to your learning management system, checking in shows our students that we care about what is going on in their lives, and it can be done in ways that don’t interfere with the class time devoted to content delivery.
Spring 2021 Wellness Days
NC State Wellness Days offer students, faculty, and staff various events and workshops focused on supporting the mental health and wellbeing of the Wolfpack community. Visit the Wolfpack Wellness Website to order your care package and learn more about events and resources to help you have a successful spring semester.
Don’t forget that the Faculty Chat Café will be open via Zoom on our spring Wellness Days (Tuesday, February 9; Wednesday, March 24; and Thursday, April 15). Go to go.ncsu.edu/fac-chat to save the dates on your calendar with the Zoom links.
2021 Teaching and Learning Symposium: Registration Still Open!
There is still time to register to attend the Office of Faculty Development’s annual Teaching and Learning Symposium will be held on Friday, February 26, 2021, 10:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on Zoom. Register now to attend! During this virtual event, attendees will have the opportunity to participate in roundtable discussions led by NC State faculty, watch a keynote lecture, and meet and talk with NC State peers who are interested in teaching and learning.
The Teaching and Learning Symposium is free of charge, and you will receive instructions for joining the Zoom event via email after completing your registration.
Our 2021 keynote lecture, Increase Faculty Success by Increasing Student Resilience: Metacognition is the Key!, will be delivered by Dr. Saundra Yancy McGuire. Faculty and student success in a new teaching and learning environment requires implementing new strategies. When we teach students new strategies that cause them to experience rapid, extensive academic improvement, they become more engaged in the learning process, demonstrating increased resilience and making faculty more successful.
Dr. McGuire is the Director Emerita of the Center for Academic Success and retired Assistant Vice Chancellor and Professor of Chemistry at Louisiana State University. She has delivered keynote addresses or presented workshops on effective learning strategies at over 400 institutions in 47 states eleven countries. Prior to joining LSU, she spent eleven years at Cornell University, where she received the coveted Clark Distinguished Teaching Award. Her best-selling book, Teach Students How to Learn, was published by Stylus in 2015. The student version, Teach Yourself How to Learn, was released in January 2018.
For complete schedule of events, please visit our website.
Register to attend the Teaching and Learning Symposium
Office of Global Engagement Funding Opportunities
The Office of Global Engagement is now accepting applications from faculty and staff for their Internationalization Seed Grant Program and their Global Project Supplement Fund (formerly known as International Travel Fund).
Both programs provide financial support to foster meaningful, collaborative, global scholarship and engagement and improve the range of NC State’s international partnerships.
Please share these funding opportunities with anyone you see fit:
- To learn more about the Internationalization Seed Grant Program, please click here.
- To learn more about the Global Project Supplement Fund, please click here.
- Learn more about all of NC State Global’s funding programs.
Libraries Open Cafe Express
Beginning on Thursday, February 11th at 10am, join the Libraries for the recurring weekly Open Café Express – a mini Open Education themed drop-in series held via Zoom.
Throughout this series, faculty are invited to learn more about Open Education and its potential to help support student affordability as well as stimulate transformative teaching and learning within the classroom.
Visit go.ncsu.edu/opencafe to learn more.
New Fulbright Catalog
Each year the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program offers approximately 470 teaching, research or combination teaching/research awards in over 125 countries. Fulbright’s 2022-2023 Competition officially opens on Monday, Feb 1st with the release of the new catalog of Fulbright opportunities.
The catalog features many new and exciting opportunities including fellowships in the following areas:
- Over 50 grants to research and study in Canada, as well as 40 grants for teaching and research in India
- Journalism and Media/Information Literacy grants in Japan, Bulgaria, and Albania
- Brazil has new Distinguished Scholar awards in STEM, public policy, and democracy studies
You can access the catalog here to see the full scope of exciting opportunities. If you have any questions about Fulbright or are interested in applying, please reach out to the Director of External Faculty Awards and Recognition, Maria Almanza at maria_almanza@ncsu.edu.
Upcoming Events
Tuesday, February 9
- Faculty Chat Café, 9:00 a.m.
Wednesday, February 10
Friday, February 12
- Faculty Chat Café, 9:00 a.m.
Monday, February 15
- Mindful Mondays, 9:00 a.m.
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