OFE Newsletter: May 16, 2022

Faculty Mentoring Central

Are you a new faculty member and are interested in having a mentor? Are you a veteran faculty member and interested in mentoring?

Mentoring relationships provide developmental expertise and professional knowledge from a more experienced perspective. A mentor acts as an advisor or a coach for an individual that has less experience in the field. Mentoring is at the heart of faculty development because learning from successful colleagues is key to being successful.

Forms and resources related to mentoring for mentees, mentors, department heads and deans as well as general mentoring support can be found on the Faculty Mentoring Central website.

Save the Date: Idea Camp 2022

The Office for Faculty Excellence will be hosting an asynchronous, online summer camp for any faculty or staff that is interested in joining. Idea Camp will focus on how to generate ideas and take them from generation to implementation. Our focus will be on innovative pedagogy and educational research.

Registration will open June 1 and run through July 1. The four part series will take place on each Tuesday in July, starting on Tuesday, July 5. Each installment will include a blog post, short podcast, relevant readings, activities, and more. More information coming in the next few weeks.

SoTL Institute Featured on the POD Network

The Office for Faculty Excellence’s Diane Chapman, Executive Director & Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Development, and Maria Gallardo-Williams, Senior Faculty Development Specialist were featured on the POD Network’s Centering Centers Podcast where they discussed their experiences on how to organize and sustain successful Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) faculty institutes at the institutional level.

POD Network: Faculty Leading Faculty: A SoTL Institute

Gallardo-Williams, with faculty fellow Zakiya Leggett, offered the initial, week-long online training of OFE’s 2022 SoTL Institute to selected faculty last week. In this year-long experience, participants will design and conduct an educational research study, with a focus on dissemination and publication of their findings. They will continue to receive guidance and support of their SoTL endeavors through the 2022-23 academic year.

Global Leadership: What’s in It for Faculty and Why Bother?

Thursday, May 26, 10:00-11:00 a.m., via Zoom
Presented by Dr. Natalia Timuș (Fulbright-Schuman Scholar, NC State Office for Faculty Excellence; Head of Academic Development, Center for Active Pedagogy, University Côte d’Azur, France)

Higher education faculty, staff and students are confronted with an increasing need to develop global leadership skills. These skills are crucial for the 21st century teaching and learning in order to address the complex global challenges and equip the students with intercultural and global competence. Moreover, the COVID-19 context has stressed the importance of leveraging international collaborations in order to provide a global perspective to formal and informal curricula beyond study abroad mobilities.

This webinar will address the above issues by providing a scientific and practitioner’s perspective on global leadership skills for faculty. Drawing on personal experience, Dr. Timuș, a global leader and a Fulbright-Schuman scholar at the Office for Faculty Excellence, will share research results from her current project on “Inclusive Global Teachers for the 21st Century” and some practice-based insights. A special attention will be devoted to harnessing international collaboration opportunities to promote global learning for all and how to leverage collaborative and agile approaches for propelling new initiatives forward within higher education.

Upcoming Events for Faculty

Thursday, May 19
1:00 – 4:00 PM (ET)

Imposter Syndrome: What Is It and What Impact Does It Have?

A free virtual workshop of the National Academies’ Committee on Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine, exploring what impostor syndrome is, who it affects, and the best practices for addressing it.