Badges for your Professional Narrative

From March 27 - 29, 2023, the Faculty Center team participated in the USG Teaching and Learning Conference in Athens, GA. With the presentation "Documenting and Planning for Professional Growth," we demonstrated our Badging Program designed to assist Georgia Southern faculty in documenting their professional development.

With seven badge tracks and six training levels, our Badging Program showcases faculty's commitment to excellence, student success, and professional growth. We are proud to say that this level of organization and programming is unique in our field, and we look forward to keep improving for greater effectiveness and faculty support.

If you aren't familiar with our program, please visit our website and find out how we can help you write and track your professional narrative for success.

The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Mentor Program (formerly known as the SoTL Fellow Program) fosters faculty engagement and leadership in SoTL through a mentorship program for the development of eligible research projects. Primarily for early career faculty, the program hopes to improve the understanding of teaching and learning.

Applications are open until April 30, 2023.

The Outstanding SoTL Scholar designation recognizes a Georgia Southern faculty member for their outstanding contribution to SoTL.

Application for SoTL Scholar is open, and runs until April 30, 2023.

The Faculty Center is excited to announce the inauguration of its Faculty Writing Room! We are utilizing our flexible tech space as a writing room for faculty to meet and collaborate, or simply to get away from busy hallways and offices and work in an environment conducive to writing. The Writing Room is currently open from 9am - 4pm for walk-ins, but will later be available through scheduling for our own control and better space management.

Come visit our Center, have a cup of coffee on us, and enjoy this productive space.

Also, stay tuned for our Summer Writing Bootcamps (schedule and announcement in May).



We would like to congratulate Dr. Eric Johnson and Dr. Beulah Narendrapurapu from the College of Science and Mathematics on their selection for the 2023 Governor's Teaching Fellows Summer Symposium. Congratulations!

Did you know that The Faculty Center offers teaching observations and consults to faculty members who request them? It is as simple as clicking on a button and filling out a form. This is how the process works:

1. Fill out the teaching observation request form.
2. Attach/submit documents.
3. The Faculty Center confirms date and time.
4. Faculty Center professional observes class, with a fifteen minute window towards the end for verbal student feedback.
5. Observer prepares a report that is only shared with the observed faculty.
6. Faculty member meets with Faculty Center professional to discuss observation and suggestions for improvement.

Easy, right?

The Faculty Center's Spring 2023, calendar has exciting new training opportunities. Here are some professional development opportunities for April:

• Practical Trauma: Informed Teaching & Learning Strategies for the College Classroom. April 10, 12pm-1pm.
• Finding Funding/Communicating with POs/Building Competitive Proposals. April 11, 11am-12pm.
• Guiding your Students' Learning. April 12, 10am-11am.
• Data Management Planning. April 18, 1pm-2pm.
• Beyond the Buzzword: Become Intentionally Inclusive in your Teaching. April 27, 2pm-3pm.

Didn't find what you are looking for? Click below and see the whole calendar for our April training.