As classes wrap up and the year starts slowing down, we would like to wish you and yours happy holidays!

We wish our Georgia Southern family the very best, and look forward to another engaging year of growth, excellence, and community for 2024!

Before we can truly gear up for the holidays, here are a few important reminders:

Deadline for the submission to the Faculty Senate's Faculty Development Committee (FDC) award is December 31, 2023. Please read all information and requirements in the link below.

Remember to sign up for our January 2024 PD-Day Cultivate This!

We are offering:

• Morning session open to all faculty on "Motivating Student Success in a New Era of Distraction" from 8:00am to 1:30pm.

• Afternoon session for faculty in leadership positions such as Chairs, Deans, Program Directors, Directors, etc on "Academic Leadership: Leading Change" from 1:45pm to 3:30pm.

Registration for each session will be done separately.

For more information on registration, date and times, and different sessions click on the link below.

SoTL Commons Conference registrations are still ongoing. Register now for the special Georgia Southern faculty rate of $250.00

Consider applying for the FDC award (deadline December 31, 2023 - see above) to possibly help with costs.

The Faculty Center is excited to present its upcoming IMPACTS Series. Following USG institutional recommendations on Core IMPACTS to emphasize and direct the language and understanding around the importance, applicability, and communication of skills in General Education, the Faculty Center designed a series to help faculty navigate this scenario and discourse.

Our IMPACTS Series will cover all seven IMPACTS areas (Institutional Priority; Mathematics and Quantitative Skills; Political Science and US History; Arts, Humanities, and Ethics; Communicating in Writing; Technology, Mathematics, & Sciences; and Social Sciences) with the possibility of earning professional development credentials.

Workshops will begin late January, so check back for our January newsletter for more information and for the opportunity to register.

We would like to give a special shoutout to our very own Debbie Walker and to Georgia Southern faculty Diana Botnaru, Trent W. Maurer, Heidi Eisenreich, Shainaz Landge, Jane Lynes, Felicity M. Turner, Ellen H. Williams, and Yue Zhang who participated in a collaborative SoTL Commons project published in the Fall 2023 ijSoTL Journal. The article is The Hospitality of the Commons: A Collaborative Reflection on a SoTL Conference, and was presented internationally at the ISSOTL Conference in Utrecht, Netherlands, last month.