The Wait is Over - SGIF is Available On Demand!
Dozens of Harper faculty and hundreds of Harper students have participated in the Small Group Instructional Feedback (SGIF) process since it was introduced at Harper in 2019, with great results. Prior to Spring 2023, faculty were required to attend a workshop or other scheduled professional development experience to try out SGIF. Starting with this semester, SGIF is now available on-demand! Faculty interested in having SGIF conducted in one of their courses can fill out an interest form in the first half of the semester to request one. Within the form, faculty can also request to be partnered with another faculty to conduct SGIF for one another and earn 0.4 CEUs. This opportunity is open to all faculty, even those that participated in SGIF workshops in the past.
What is SGIF? What do faculty and students think about SGIF?
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2023 Faculty Retreat Theme Announced: "Toward Community Responsiveness and a Shared Vision"
This year's faculty retreat will take place at Eaglewood Resort in Itasca on April 14-15. Doors will open at 12 p.m. with light lunch available to take into the general session, which will begin at 1 p.m. with a keynote from Dr. Jeff Duncan-Andrade, Associate Professor of Raza Studies and Education at San Francisco State University, followed by a discussion and faculty sharing. After dinner, the evening programming will include community-building events hosted by faculty facilitators such as the "Moth Story Hour" led by Maham Khan, Journalism faculty, and "Outside the Text Team Trivia" with emcee Karega Cooper, Math faculty. Saturday's program will include part II of our faculty dialogue on Equity and Pedagogy: Creating a Shared Vision, which is continued from Spring 2023 Opening Week. More details and registration to follow, but please continue to save the date for one or both of the days of the retreat in the meantime.
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Workshop Tomorrow - Creating Equitable Learning Experiences: An Introduction to the Enacting Equity Course Review Tool
What can Harper instructors do to make their courses more equitable? This workshop presents opportunities for instructors to implement more equitable practices using the Enacting Equity in Courses tool. Under the guidance of instructors and Academy staff, participants will review institutional data and consider areas for improvement in their own courses. Faculty who complete a full equity course review are eligible to receive a stipend.
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Using Starfish to Support Student Success
The Starfish student success system is a retention tool used to connect students to campus resources and allows faculty to deliver positive reinforcement and timely feedback to students, which is a critical component of supporting their academic success.
Spring 2023 Starfish Progress Surveys are beginning to launch. Progress Surveys are intentional pulse checks in the Starfish system that are used at key times in the semester. They allow faculty to highlight a concern (raise a flag), recommend support (a referral), or commend good work (a kudo).
- When will early alert Progress Surveys be available this semester?
- Can I provide feedback to any student outside of Progress Survey periods?
- What message do students receive when a faculty member raises a flag or kudo?
- What impact does raising a flag or kudo have on student success?
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Academy & Blackboard Support: How to Get Help
The Academy team is available on campus for drop-in support in Building F, Room F317, as well as available for remote support.
Not sure what to ask or where to start? We’re here for you! Just fill out the Academy Request Form, and an Academy team member will follow-up with you.
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Information to consider sharing with your students in a Blackboard announcement:
Harper Disability Cultural Programming is bringing two artists, Genevieve and Grishma, to Harper on March 8. Please join us to create a welcoming space where diversity and individuality are embraced and celebrated in honor of International Women’s Day and Disability Awareness month in March. Learn more using the link above.
Use the following links to learn more about and register for upcoming programs from the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion:
The application cycle for the Level II Adjunct Faculty Engagement Program 2023 is now open. Watch the recording of the virtual info session and learn more using the link above. Completed applications are due to division deans by February 17.
Use the links below to view important deadline and due dates from the Registrar's Office:
Harper has recently partnered with Google to help us build skills that will keep our organization on the leading edge of technology and business change. Harper has been awarded the opportunity to participate in Google’s Professional Certificates learning initiative, which consists of free self-study online learning. Learn more using the link above and RSVP for an upcoming info session.
The Academy team has developed some resources to help you as you prepare for the Spring 2023 semester, including a Blackboard Course Template. Learn more and view resources using the link above.
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How strong are Harper students' critical thinking skills?
Shared by the Learning Assessment Committee
Our General Education Learning Outcomes state that students should be able to “Use evidence to develop arguments, make decisions, and evaluate outcomes” at the time they graduate from Harper.
This spring, the Learning Assessment Committee and its Critical Thinking Work Group will lead an assessment of the Critical Thinking outcome. Those of you who teach a course that maps to this outcome may be asked to participate in the assessment. Courses are selected at random and faculty members will be notified by their Dean. Additional instructions will be provided by the Outcomes Assessment Office in the coming weeks.
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Harper Welcomes Fulbright Scholar in Residence, Dr. Rabia Ali
A professor and scholar from the International Islamic University in Islamabad, Pakistan, will bring a global perspective to Harper College this semester. Dr. Rabia Ali arrived in Palatine in mid-January to begin her role as a Fulbright Scholar in Residence for five months. Ali is chair of the sociology department at her institution in Pakistan and teaches and publishes extensively on the topics of gender, culture, and leadership.
Welcome Reception Today
Please join us in welcoming Dr. Ali to Harper. Stop by the Performing Arts Center between 3:30-5 p.m. today for a reception. Light refreshments will be available. Learn more.
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Join the OSCQR Rubric - Distance Course Design Review Workshop Running this March
We are aiming to grow our group of trained peer reviewers who are essential to the OSCQR rubric-based distance course design review process we implement here at Harper. If you are an experienced full-time or adjunct faculty member of a distance course (having taught online or blended at Harper within the past 3 semesters) and would like to become a peer reviewer of Harper distance courses - offering both possible ideas for modification as well as notes on sound course design to faculty colleagues - then we invite you to join the upcoming OSCQR Rubric – Distance Course Design Review workshop.
This workshop will run asynchronously, in Blackboard, for 2 weeks during which time you will gain hands-on experience with the review process and rubric. Upon successful completion you will be eligible to participate in Harper distance course design reviews.
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Upcoming Professional Development Credit Opportunities |
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February 9, 11 a.m. (CEUs: 0.2)
February 21, 1 p.m. (CEUs: 0.2)
February 27 - March 12 (GECs: 1) register by: February 13
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What's Happening @ Harper? |
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Academy for Teaching Excellence | 847.925.6174 | Building F, Room F317
Monday - Thursday, 8 a.m. - 6 p.m. and Friday, 8 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
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The mission of the Academy for Teaching Excellence is to create a vibrant teaching and learning culture for full-time and adjunct faculty that cultivates professional development in support of student success. |
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Accessibility: Individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation or who have questions about physical access may contact the event host or Access and Disability Services at ads@harpercollege.edu, 847.925.6266, at least two weeks in advance of the event date.
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Harper College enriches its diverse communities by providing quality, affordable, and accessible education. Harper College, in collaboration with its partners, inspires the transformation of individual lives, the workforce, and society. |
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