The Faculty Center Announcements | |
Welcome to the new Faculty Center Announcements!
We have streamlined our announcements so that we can highlight Faculty Center events and offerings, provide easy-to-access and timely information about courses, and provide quick links to our partners' events and offerings.
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Important Information for Fall Classes | |
Dates, times,
and rooms
have been
scheduled.
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Final Exam Schedule Available
Information can be viewed in Section Tally or Self Service. The exam is the last meeting entry, with a date that falls during finals week, December 14-20. Enrolled students and assigned faculty have received email notification.
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Enhancing and Supporting Teaching | |
Choose one and Register
Nov. 21
9:30-10:30 am
Nov. 22
2:30-1:30 pm
Hybrid
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New! What Are 9 Practical Steps to Implement Mastery Learning?
Part of the Grading… and Ungrading series of the Enhancing and Supporting Teaching program. How mastery learning improves student success, how instructors can apply it without dramatically increasing their workload, and how technology can be a time saver.
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Choose one and Register
Nov. 28
9:30-10:30 am
Nov. 29
12:30-1:30 pm
Hybrid
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New! How Can Rubrics Make Grading Easier and Faster?
Part of the Grading… and Ungrading series of the Enhancing and Supporting Teaching program. Rubrics help you develop a better grading system with fair results, help students learn, and make effective use of your time. Basic formats and recommendations to help you transform.
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Call for Nominations: Lindback Distinguished Teaching Award
The Lindback Distinguished Teaching Award honors one permanent faculty member with an outstanding record of teaching and a sustained commitment to student learning. The award is funded through a gift from the Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Foundation. All nominees will be notified and will receive details about the materials required to complete a Lindback Distinguished Teaching Award application.
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Upcoming Professional Development | |
November 28
4:00 pm
on Zoom
Register
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Social Annotation for STEM Subjects
The Hypothesis team will discuss how collaborative annotation with Hypothesis can be used to make student reading visible, active, and social in STEM courses.
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Resources from Recent Faculty Center Events | |
Help! I’m a Professor, Not a Psychologist!
On October 3 Lindsay Johnson, Assistant Director, Well-being, presented Help! I’m a Professor, Not a Psychologist! The number of college students presenting with issues related to mental health continues to rise and, as a result, faculty are encountering more students with mental health concerns. Faculty Guide for Supporting Student Well-being. We recognize that faculty might struggle to know if, when, and how to intervene. Signs that a student may be struggling, along with concrete ways for faculty to address those concerns, are discussed in the presentation video (log in with your Rowan Net ID, password: 8W3%$9NY).
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Reframing Our Beliefs as Profs: Students, Technology, and Me
On October 27 the Rowan Teaching Connection held their fall mini-conference, Reframing Our Beliefs as Profs: Students, Technology, and Me, a series of collaborative workshops including Healing Forward: Supporting the Next Generation, Using Generative AI to Support Teaching and Learning, Using Hypothesis for Student Engagement, Reflecting on How We Engage with Students, and Games, Play, and Movement to Support Student Learning and Engagement (log in with your Rowan credentials to access). Mentioned at the workshop were brain breaks and focused attention practices, as well as the Division of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion's Certificate Level Two: Inclusive Pedagogy and Practices Certificate, a professional development opportunity for teaching professionals and professional staff interested in learning more about developing an inclusive educational environment.
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Rowan University Student Evaluations | |
Deadline for Cross-Listing
LATE START Courses:
November 17
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For LATE START Courses: Deadline for Cross-Listing
Frequently Asked Questions about IDEA SRIs. Cross-listing is used for sections with very small enrollments that would benefit from combining those sections into one course evaluation. More about Cross-Listings. To be cross-listed, courses must be taught by the same instructor and must be in the same part of term.
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Deadline for Cross-Listing
SECOND SESSION Courses:
November 20
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For SECOND SESSION Courses: Deadline for Cross-Listing
Frequently Asked Questions about IDEA SRIs. Cross-listing is used for sections with very small enrollments that would benefit from combining those sections into one course evaluation. More about Cross-Listings. To be cross-listed, courses must be taught by the same instructor and must be in the same part of term.
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Supports for Faculty and Student Wellbeing | |
Rowan Thrive
Rowan Thrive is our community's commitment to help each person cultivate well-being throughout life's journey of highs and lows; a toolkit for developing a mindset, actions and behaviors that will help you build a life of purpose, resilience and engagement.
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November 16
9-10 am Wellness Center Training Room
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Green Dot Bystander Intervention
How can you intervene in a safe way to prevent power-based personal violence? Find out how to help keep our campus & community safer. Green Dot is a comprehensive approach to violence prevention that capitalizes on the power of bystander awareness and intervention.
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November 30
1-2:30 pm Wellness Center Training Room
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QPR Suicide Prevention Training
QPR (Question, Persuade, Refer) is an evidence-informed program that works to help us recognize when someone is having a suicidal crisis, and gives us tools to help them get the resources they may need. This training is open to students, staff, and faculty.
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December 13
8:30 am -
4:30 pm
Winans 111
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Mental Health First Aid Training
This in-person training teaches participants how to assess a situation, listen, and refer to services or self-support options. Topics covered include anxiety, depression, trauma, substance use disorders, and mental health. There will be required pre-training course work. To cover the cost of materials, departments sending staff or faculty will be asked to do a DCA for $43.
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Research, Scholarly, & Creative Activity | |
Grant Workshop Series
The Division of University Research, in partnership with University Advancement, University Library Services, and IRT, offers workshops.
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Resources for Faculty
The Division of University Resources has resources from proposal development, to funding sources, to the processes for pre- and post-award.
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Technology Support and Training | |
Get Answers
Get answers to common questions in our Knowledge Base and from our chatbot, Ask Susan, at any time.
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LinkedIn Learning
LinkedIn Learning provides faculty, staff, and students with access to more than 13,000 courses taught by expert instructors.
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Experience the Rowan University Community | |
Nov. 16 10-3,
Nov. 27-29
10-7,
Nov. 30 10-3
Student Center
room 129
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Free Professional Headshots for Faculty and Staff
Obtain professional photos, no appointment needed, no charge. Copies of all photos are given to the Office of Media and Public Relations for use in promotion of faculty and staff activities and accomplishments.
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The Faculty Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning
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