May 1 Deadline for Fellowships

If you are interested in academic leadership or innovation in teaching and learning, the following fellowship opportunities offer extraordinary chances to learn, grow, and lead. 

• Academic Leadership Fellowship
• Adams Academy Fellowship
• Big Ten Academic Leadership Program
• Lilly Fellowship
• Learning Communities

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Goodbye SIRS,

Hello Student Perceptions of Learning Survey   

This summer MSU is launching the new Student Perceptions of Learning Survey (SPLS) to replace the Student Instructional Rating System (SIRS) and Students’ Opinion of Courses and Teaching (SOCT) surveys. SPLS will offer a better user experience for instructional staff and students by providing more consistency in the survey process while also offering more autonomy at the college and academic program levels. 

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2022-2023 All-University Awards Recipients

The Office of Faculty and Academic Staff Development is proud to share the slate of 2022-2023 All-University Award Recipients. Those selected for the William J. Beal Outstanding Faculty Award, Teacher-Scholar Awards, Excellence-in-Teaching Citations, Distinguished Academic Staff Award, Simmons Chivukula Award for Academic Leadership, Community Engagement Scholarship Award, Robert F. Banks Award for Institutional Leadership, President’s Distinguished Teaching Award, Donald F. Koch Award for Quality in Undergraduate Teaching, and Faculty Emeriti Association Award for “Outstanding Contributions by an Individual or Team of Faculty" are indicated on the provost’s honorifics website. 

These internal awards are an integral part of recognizing the excellent work of MSU’s faculty, academic specialists, graduate students, and executive leaders. The work of each award selection committee to review all of the exceptional nominees and participate in a discussion on recommendation of recipients are vital to this acknowledgement. The time and commitment that these faculty, undergraduate and graduate students, academic specialists and academic leaders put into these committees is nothing short of extraordinary, and for that, we thank them tremendously.  

We look forward to the annual All-University Awards Convocation on Monday, May 8, 3:30-5:30 pm at the Kellogg Center to formally recognize these outstanding award recipients.

View full list of award recipients

Outstanding Supervisor Award nominations due June 30

Members of the MSU community are invited to nominate a supervisor/administrator who consistently supports the professional/personal needs of their staff through positive leadership and managerial practices. The Outstanding Supervisor Award honors Michigan State University supervisors who have consistently demonstrated worklife sensitivity and support of the needs of the employees in their unit.

Critical Friends Series

This opportunity is open to all department chairs, school directors, associate deans in non-departmentally organized colleges and directors of academic programs similar to departments/schools. 

• May 10, 2023, 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.

If you currently hold one of the named positions and have not received a personal invitation, please contact Cindi Leverich at youngcin@msu.edu.

Spring Conference for Teaching & Learning

Community, Conversation, and Classroom Experience.

A conference where MSU educators gather to share approaches, tools, and techniques that support teaching and learning. Registration

• May 10 - Day 1: In-person in the STEM Teaching and Learning Facility - in-person capacity reached
• May 11- Day 2: Virtual day with online sessions (all day)   

Partner Events

Write Winning Grants Webinar, Sponsored by the Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation.

Community Engaged Research Fellows Program, Sponsored by the University Outreach and Engagement

Teaching and Learning events, compiled on #iteachmsu Commons from across the MSU community

NCFDD events, Sponsored by National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity. If you have not yet, please register with your MSU NetID for an account linked to our MSU institutional membership.

View additional educator development trainings.

The National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity 

“I just want to give a huge shout out to the National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity and to thank the University for making this wonderful resource available. I have found both their webinars and periodic Writing Challenges extremely useful -- and they actually helped me write and publish several articles last year. Woohoo!” - Anne (Ana) Coghlan, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology

Write Winning Grants Webinar

Learn how to tailor your content to relevant agencies, develop strategies for each section of the application, and to articulate your proposal in a way that makes reviewers want to read it. 

Diversity Research Network offers write ins and resources

DRN connects faculty of color and scholars interested in diversity research, to create scholarly communities, facilitate new interdisciplinary collaborations, and to advance the growth and visibility of research by underrepresented faculty as well as research on diversity across MSU. 

Lori Dickerson  

College of Communication Arts and Sciences

School of Journalism

"Dear Professor Dickerson, thank you for making my time at Michigan State University so special. Your passion and love for sports and teaching made my experience so wonderful at this school. You are such a caring and kind individual who never forgot to check on her students to see how they were doing. Your compassion is something I will never forget as a student. I learned so much from you and cannot wait to apply it in my career moving forward. You are the best! From all of your MSU journalism/sport students, we are so grateful for you."