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January
23
2024

AI in Academia: Teaching Challenges and Opportunities

Tuesday, January 23rd, 2024, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Tags: Faculty

Presented by the National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity (NCFDD) Facilitator: Julia Shaffel At the end of November in 2022, OpenAI launched ChatGPT, a text-generating AI with never-before-seen capabilities of producing almost any type of text with the click of a button. Students immediately realized the potential of using it for their assignments, easily […]

January
19
2024

Prioritizing and Time/Email Management

Each year, the Leadership Institute series offers academic administrators the opportunity to interact with their peers around key topics. This series of 90-minute sessions are designed to expand upon themes introduced at New Administrator Orientation. These sessions are required for department chairpersons, school directors, and associate deans of non-departmentally organized colleges within the first two […]

January
12
2024

Community-Engaged Scholarship Write-Ins

Friday, January 12th, 2024, 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Zoom and In-person option @ 366 West Circle Drive, Room W206, East Lansing, Michigan, 48824, United States

Would scheduling regular, specific times to write about your outreach or engagement work be helpful? If so, please join us each month for three hours of dedicated time to advance your scholarship. Past participants have written journal articles, grant proposals, book chapters, theses or dissertations, curricula, pieces for public audiences, and community engagement portfolios. Participants […]

January
11
2024

SKILL #1: Every Semester Needs A Plan

Thursday, January 11th, 2024, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Tags: Faculty

Presented by the National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity (NCFDD) Facilitator: Mindi Thompson, PhD Do you often start the semester or term with high hopes for your writing projects, but end disappointed by your actual productivity? Do you desperately want (or need) to write a lot this semester? Do you want to figure out […]

January
10
2024

Instructor Jumpstart: Part 2

Wednesday, January 10th, 2024, 9:00 am - 10:30 am
Categories: Orientation

Join the Center for Teaching and Learning Innovation (CTLI)- in partnership with the Office for Faculty and Academic Staff Development (OFASD)- for a two-part introduction to high-level topics related to quality, inclusive teaching at Michigan State University. Each session in “Instructor Jumpstart” is a ninety-minute presentation, co-facilitated by two of CTLI’s Educational Developers. This series […]

January
10
2024

Write Winning Grants

Wednesday, January 10th, 2024, 8:30 am thru Friday, January 26th, 2024, 12:00 pm
Webinar

Writing a winning grant requires a winning strategy. This two-day (January 10 and January 17) webinar is designed for faculty members, postdoctoral researchers, graduate students, and administrative staff, and our partners from Henry Ford Health who have some exposure to writing grant applications. Write Winning Grants comprehensively covers practical and conceptual aspects essential to the proposal-writing […]

January
4
2024

Instructor Jumpstart: Part 1

Thursday, January 4th, 2024, 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Categories: Orientation

Join the Center for Teaching and Learning Innovation (CTLI)- in partnership with the Office for Faculty and Academic Staff Development (OFASD)- for a two-part introduction to high-level topics related to quality, inclusive teaching at Michigan State University. Each session in “Instructor Jumpstart” is a ninety-minute presentation, co-facilitated by two of CTLI’s Educational Developers. This series […]

December
12
2023

NCFDD: Supporting Academic Parents: Recommended Policies and Practices

Tuesday, December 12th, 2023, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Tags: Faculty

Offered by the National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity (NCFDD) Facilitator: Cleopatra Abdou Kamperveen, PhD More information coming soon! Click here to register. If you have not yet, please register with your NetID for an account linked to our MSU institutional membership by clicking on the NCFDD website here (external link). Creating an account […]

December
6
2023

Community-Engaged learning in the Classroom: Rubrics, Reflections, and Resources

Wednesday, December 6th, 2023, 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm

Attention: Faculty, academic staff, and instructors, new or experienced with community-engaged learning This session will discuss creative examples, strategies for grading, and best practices for leading students to reflect upon and make meaning of their community-engaged learning experiences. Hear from faculty peers, dialogue with colleagues, and leave with new ideas to enhance student learning and […]

December
1
2023

Leadership Institute: Faculty and Academic Staff Performance Reviews

Friday, December 1st, 2023, 9:00 am - 10:30 am

Description Each year, the Leadership Institute series offers academic administrators the opportunity to interact with their peers around key topics. This series of 90-minute sessions are designed to expand upon themes introduced at New Administrator Orientation. These sessions are required for department chairpersons, school directors, and associate deans of non-departmentally organized colleges within the first […]