OFE Newsletter: February 14, 2022

In this Issue:

• Faculty Conversation Series: Engaging Students through Grading Online
• The Art of Grant Writing
• Teaching and Learning Symposium: Register to Attend
• Upcoming Events for Faculty

Faculty Conversation Series: Engaging Students through Grading Online

OFE’s Faculty Conversation Series continues next week with Engaging Students through Grading Online (February 23, 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.). Join series facilitator Dr. Maria Gallardo-Williams and OFE Faculty Fellow Dr. Michelle Bartlett to talk about tips and techniques, such as video grading, that will improve and expedite your online grading while engaging your students.

The Art of Grant Writing

Grant writing is probably the very least favorite activity for most scholars, and yet it is one of the most important. Without grants we don’t get funding, and without funding…well without funding we can’t do most of the things that we love about academia. Today on Faculty Forum, we launch a new three-part series of blog posts: The Art of Grant Writing. Check out Part 1 now!

Teaching and Learning Symposium: Register to Attend

The Office for Faculty Excellence is pleased to host their 2022 Teaching and Learning Symposium on Friday, February 25, 2022 from 10:00 a.m. to 2:45 p.m., virtually via Zoom. This year’s theme will be Creating Our New Normal. The Symposium will include a keynote lecture, concurrent sessions, and a poster session.

Our keynote speaker will be Dr. Susan D Blum. Dr. Blum is a professor of anthropology at the University of Notre Dame, currently fixated on education and pedagogical praxis, after a previous incarnation as a China anthropologist. She is the author of “I Love Learning; I Hate School”: An Anthropology of College (Cornell, 2016) and My Word! Plagiarism and College Culture (Cornell, 2009), and the editor of the recent volume Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (and What to Do Instead) (West Virginia University Press, 2020). With 5 co-authors, she has written “A Theory of Public Higher Education,” published in Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal in July 2021.

We invite faculty, postdoctoral scholars, and staff from all member institutions of the Cooperating Raleigh Colleges (NC State, Meredith College, Saint Augustine’s University, Shaw University, Wake Tech Community College, William Peace University) to attend.

Upcoming Events for Faculty

Wednesday, Feb. 16

• Engaging Students with Polling and Annotation in Zoom, 11:00-11:45 a.m.
• Facul-Tea – Structuring Courses to Encourage Intrinsically Motivated Learning Online, 12:30-1:00 p.m.

Monday, Feb. 21

• Mindful Mondays, 9:00-9:30 a.m.