OFD Newsletter: April 12, 2021

Faculty Conversation Series

The next installment of this semester’s Faculty Conversation Series, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning as Part of your Teaching Practice, will be held this Wednesday (April 14, 2021, 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.) with special guest Dr. Diane Chapman (Executive Director, OFD). How does your teaching inform your scholarship, and how do we turn that into published work? Join us for a session filled with tips, inspiration, and information.

For each session of the Conversation Series, faculty will read a relevant article/paper about the topic (optional), receive question prompts, engage in conversation around the topic with other faculty members, and reflect on how the conversation may have changed thinking on the topic. Conversations are facilitated by Dr. Maria Gallardo Williams, OFD SoTL Faculty Fellow.

To register for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning as Part of your Teaching Practice, click here.

New Conversation Added!

We are also pleased to announce that we have added an additional conversation for this semester. On May 5 (11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.), join special guests Anne Burke and Hannah Rainey (NC State University Libraries) for Addressing mis/disinformation through systems awareness and information literacy, a discussion on critical approaches to understanding mis/disinformation, which were developed for an Honors course. Participants will be invited to share their experiences and challenges with these topics, and collectively brainstorm strategies and methods for addressing them across disciplines.

To register for Addressing mis/disinformation through systems awareness and information literacy, click here.

Twitter Book Giveaway!

OFD is giving away a copy of When to Use What Research Design by W. Paul Vogt, Dianne C. Gardner, Lynne M. Haeffele to one lucky NC State faculty or staff member!

Here’s how to enter:
1. Follow OFD on Twitter
2. Like and retweet the giveaway post
3. Tag a friend! Each tag counts as an additional entry!
The giveaway is open to NC State faculty and staff. The winner will be chosen this Thursday, April 15!

Chat Café: Coffee Talk for Wolfpack Faculty

Are you ready for some coffee talk? Looking for a place to connect with colleagues, ask questions, and share ideas about teaching in these challenging, uncertain times? Join DELTA, NC State University Libraries, and OFD virtually for the Faculty Chat Café in the spring. The Chat Café is open via Zoom every Friday from 9:00-10:00 a.m., plus this Thursday’s (April 15) Wellness Day! Go to go.ncsu.edu/fac-chat to save the dates on your calendar with the Zoom links.

New Posts on Faculty Forum

We are pleased to share two new posts on Faculty Forum, OFD’s blog:

• Facilitating a Leadership Team with Course Assistants: An Interview with Dr. Annette Moore: You can listen to the audio of this interview at the link!
• Setting the Tone by Dr. Marion Martin (Department of Chemistry): Dr. Martin discusses how he has used music to improve warmth and openness in his classroom.

If you have something you’d like to write about for Faculty Forum, let us know!

Leveraging GPS Analytics for Faculty-Led Projects on Student Success

April 27, 2021, 2:00- 3:00 p.m.
The Division of Academic and Student Affairs embarked on a new initiative to offer one-time funding opportunities to faculty interested in analyzing and leveraging data related to undergraduate student success.

The main goal of the initiative was to encourage faculty-led, focused institutional research that supports data-informed decision making through the use of Institution Reports in the Student Success GPS platform.

This showcase will highlight several of our GPS Analytics award recipients’ findings from their projects and the ways in which they hope to address identified barriers to student success. Come learn about the great work of our colleagues and consider ways that you could similarly use GPS Analytics to support student success in your program. Our award recipients for this showcase include:

• Dr. Kimberly Bush, Teaching Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Programs- Parks, Recreation, and Tourism Management, College of Natural Resources
• Dr. Daniel Gruehn, Associate Professor and DUP, & Dr. Dana Kotter-Gruehn, Associate Teaching Professor- Psychology, College of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Dr. Alice Lee, Teaching Assistant Professor-Biological Sciences College of Sciences
• Dr. Dmitri Mitin, Assistant Teaching Professor- Political Science, College of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Dana Thomas, Academic Advisor and Teaching Coordinator- Biological Sciences, College of Sciences

Workshop Objectives:

• Participants will describe how NC State faculty have used the GPS Analytics platform to inform program and advising changes across campus.
• Participants will identify strategies for using GPS Analytics and institutional data to support student success outcomes in their own programs.
• Participants will identify resources on campus to support use of the GPS Analytics platform.

Click here to register via Reporter.

Call for Proposals: University Global Partnership Network Research Collaboration Fund

The UGPN exists to create a foundation for international collaboration enabling academics and students from world-leading universities to work together on issues of global importance. Its members are North Carolina State University (NC State), the Universidade de São Paulo (USP), the University of Surrey (UOS) and the University of Wollongong (UOW).

The RCF supports international activities leading to high-quality research collaborations between UGPN partner institutions.

For the RCF 2021 call, the network would particularly welcome proposals which:

• contribute to research areas ‘Sustainable Planet’ or ‘Industries for the Future’ and/or;
• are multidisciplinary/interdisciplinary across STEM/Social Sciences/ Humanities

Funding of up to US$10,000 (or the approximate AU$, £, R$ equivalent) per participating university will support costs for: travel and subsistence associated with researchers spending time at partner institutions, organizing workshops (virtual or face to face), consumables directly related to the project, and costs for dissemination of results (publication, media, etc.).

Projects run from 1st August 2021 to 31st July 2022.

The deadline for proposal submissions is Monday June 21, 2021.
For further information and to make an application, please visit the members area of the UGPN website.

For queries, please contact David Dixon at djdixon@ncsu.edu or ugpn@surrey.ac.uk. See more information, including previously funded projects, at the Office of Global Engagement website.

Online Lilly Conference Registrations Available

DELTA and the Office of Faculty Development are pleased to announce the purchase of a site license for the ITLC Online Lilly Conference, occurring May 5 – May 26, 2021 with asynchronous sessions available through August 31. The Lilly conference is focused on enhancing online, onsite and hybrid teaching and learning. Attendees will enjoy 4 full days of conference programming, conveniently scheduled across four Wednesdays to reduce disruption to your teaching schedule.

The conference is geared toward faculty and administrators at various stages in their academic careers, representing nearly every discipline found in higher education. Attendees will enjoy a variety of 20-minute and 40-minute asynchronous sessions, traditional plenary addresses, synchronous facilitated discussions, and poster presentations addressing contemporary issues and include proven, innovative pedagogies.

No Cost For The NC State Community

The NC State site license provides up to 150 free conference registrations for faculty, staff and graduate students using their NC State email addresses. Registration is normally $325 per person. Registration includes:

• Access to ALL conference presentations
• Synchronous sessions including Q&A with all 10 plenary presenters
• Synchronous sessions including Q&A in select sessions
• Asynchronous sessions and participate in discussion boards
• Poster gallery with audio introductions and discussion boards
• Networking with colleagues on discussion boards
• Conference workbook
• Exhibitor sessions with product discounts
• Raffles

How to Register

The Office of Faculty Development is managing registration for the conference and will gather registration requests and send them to Lilly Online in batches. If you want to attend the conference, complete the registration form. You will receive a confirmation of your registration from the Office of Faculty Development and later from ITLC Online Lilly Conference when we send them the batch registrations.

If you have questions about this opportunity or about the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), please contact the Office of Faculty Development at faculty-development@ncsu.edu.

Upcoming Events for Faculty

Wednesday, April 14

• Faculty Conversation Series: Scholarship of Teaching and Learning as Part of your Teaching Practice, 11:30 a.m.

Thursday, April 15

• Faculty Chat Café, 9:00 a.m.
• Open Cafe Express: Not sure where to start with OER? Introducing the OER Starter Kit, 10:00, a.m.

Friday, April 16

• Faculty Chat Café, 9:00 a.m.

Monday, April 19

• Mindful Mondays, 9:00 a.m.
• Engagement in Synchronous and Asynchronous Classrooms, 10:00 a.m.
• Panopto Basics, 1:00 p.m.