Fall is my favorite season, mostly because of the beautiful colors that change the scenery when walking or driving around campus and local neighborhoods. The changing season is a good reminder of the richness of the foliage and the beauty of our environment. The MSU environment increasingly reflects the diversity of our students and educators […]
Six weeks into the semester, faculty and staff can still be consumed with schedules, planning, and immediate daily tasks. Time to reflect, focus on ourselves, and our professional development seems a long way off, rather than something incorporated into our plans for the semester or the academic year. Students plan their course schedules, interns identify […]
The calendar may say classes are starting up and fall has arrived, but no doubt many are trying to cram in one last get-away, time together with family and friends before launching into a busy new year. The anticipation of things to come, the excitement of being together in person more safely than in recent […]
The 2021-22 All-University Awards recipients selected for the William J. Beal Outstanding Faculty Awards, Teacher–Scholar Awards, Distinguished Academic Staff Awards, Excellence-in-Teaching Citations, Community Engagement Scholarship Award, Donald F. Koch Award for Quality in Undergraduate Teaching, President’s Distinguished Teaching Award have been announced. All University Awards will be celebrated on May 11 from 3:30-5:00 p.m. at […]
The month of May is fast approaching. Debating whether spring is here to stay or if we may continue to have reminders of a long winter. Trying to figure out how to get all the big and little things on our to-do lists done, even knowing many items may be carryovers til who knows when. […]
We have been immersed over the last several months in numerous discussions, small and large group meetings organizing and visioning into the strategic planning efforts represented in MSU 2030. Two central themes, closely connected in many ways, are student success and staff and faculty success – both involving several sub-goals that foreshadow an exciting future […]
It’s already late January so a “Happy New Year” wish almost seems obsolete. Looking forward brings much more optimism and potential than reflecting back on the year that was, so keeping that sense of well-wishes is useful especially since we have already seen many disruptions continuing in our personal and professional lives. If you […]
It’s a time when we often reflect on what has been happening in our lives personally and professionally, as we recognize the seasons also changing around us. This combination of reflection and change is often what we think about when characterizing what it means to be an educational institution where learning is at the center […]
Teaching and Learning are core features of any postsecondary institution, closely tied to student success in so many ways. Yet, it is an aspect of academic work for which most have little real training before assuming their position at a research university like Michigan State University (MSU), with the exception of those who might have […]
Whether this is the first time you are setting foot on the MSU campus or whether this is the first time you are doing so after an 18 month hiatus, it is a distinct experience –beautiful grounds to walk around and gardens to explore, a brand new STEM education building to walk through, and of […]
