OFD Newsletter: Week of January 13, 2020

Spring 2020 Reading Circles

Registration is open now through January 22 for OFD’s Spring 2020 Reading Circles. We offer Reading Circles in two modalities: Face to Face or Virtual (synchronous via Zoom).

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This semester’s book selections are:

• Reach Everyone, Teach Everyone: Universal Design for Learning in Higher Education by Thomas J. Tobin and Kirsten T. Behling (West Virginia University Press, 2018, 312 pages). Co-author Thomas J. Tobin will be the keynote speaker at OFD’s Annual Teaching and Learning Symposium on February 28, 2020 at the McKimmon Center. Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a framework grounded in the neuroscience of why, what, and how people learn. Tobin and Behling show that, although it is often associated with students with disabilities, UDL can be profitably broadened toward a larger ease-of-use and general diversity framework. Reach Everyone, Teach Everyone is aimed at faculty members, faculty-service staff, disability support providers, student-service staff, campus leaders, and graduate students who want to strengthen the engagement, interaction, and performance of all college students.
• Bandwidth Recovery: Helping Students Reclaim Cognitive Resources Lost to Poverty, Racism, and Social Marginalization by Cia Verschelden (Stylus Publishing, 2017, 170 pages). This book argues that the cognitive resources for learning of over half our young people have been diminished by the negative effects of economic insecurity, discrimination and hostility against non-majority groups based on race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or gender identity, and other aspects of difference. Recognizing that these students are no different than their peers in terms of cognitive capacity, this book offers a set of strategies and interventions to rebuild the available cognitive resources necessary to succeed in college and reach their full potential.

Career Mapping Workshop with Dr. Katharine Stewart

• Career Mapping: A Tool to Help You Set Goals and Design a Development Plan
• Friday, February 14, 2020
• 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
• Clark Hall, Room 405

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Career mapping is a structured process that helps professionals identify their career goals and develop a plan for getting the mentorship and professional development they need to achieve those goals. Dr. Katharine Stewart, Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs, has refined a career mapping process specifically for faculty, and has used this process with hundreds of graduate students, postdoctoral trainees, and faculty at all stages of their careers (from first year through planning for senior administrative roles or research leadership).

In this workshop, Dr. Stewart will help you get started in building your own career map and identifying the components of a professional development and mentorship network that will be most helpful to you in the next few years.