Faculty Forums 2013

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Program reviews, accreditation reports, and other types of program-level assessments are often regarded by faculty with frustration, dread, and a sense of relief when they are completed. Assessment may also be viewed as an additional burden on an already full schedule of teaching, research, and service. However, assessment, if designed carefully, can lead not only to program improvement and better instruction but can also provide opportunities for scholarly output.
If you have ever been involved with program level assessment such as your program’s five-year review or accreditation report, or if you might do so in the future, please plan to attend this “lunch and learn” session.

Participants will learn:

• Approaches to collecting more meaningful assessment data
• Strategies for increasing faculty engagement in program assessment
• Options for using assessment experiences for scholarship

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Dr. Kristin Klopfenstein, executive director of the Education Innovation Institute, will answer questions about recent bills and other education policy-related issues. Topics may include educator licensure; educator evaluation; accountability in educator preparation programs;common core; early literacy; school finance; and other topics of interest to attendees. The session will be framed around how policy affects UNC faculty and the students we prepare to work as teachers and principals. Participant questions will drive the discussion.

Participants will:

• Work together to analyze how education policy in Colorado is affected by and affects the UNC community
• Be able to summarize the potentially diverse array of interests and concerns regarding specific education policies
• Learn about the work of the Education Innovation Institute at UNC

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This interactive session explores possibilities for engaged scholarship in the context of a multi-year collaborative research project involving youth media, culturally responsive arts, and civic engagement for language minority students. The presentation addresses ways that engaged scholarship can benefit both higher education and schools–meeting the needs and requirements of both–and invites participants to consider ways that their own research efforts can be amplified by incorporating principles of community engaged scholarship.

Participants will:

• Learn how one builds a university-school-community collaboration, and explore how collaborations can be conceptualized within the framework of engaged scholarship.
• Explore ways that faculty and graduate students can undertake engaged scholarship at UNC, building on their existing research agendas.  

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Have you walked into a classroom and found that it does not have a traditional whiteboard or chalkboard, but has a Smartboard? Are you intimidated to know how this works? This training will take you through the basics on how it can enhance your class rather than be a hindrance. We will then move to some more advanced topics on how to use it for student engagement.

Learning activities with an interactive whiteboard will include, but are not limited to the following:

• Manipulating text and images
• Making notes in digital ink
• Demonstrating or using software at the front of a room
• Creating digital lesson activities with templates, images, and multimedia
• Writing notes over educational video clips
• Using presentation tools that are included with the whiteboarding software to enhance learning materials

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Quality Matters is a proven methodology for developing quality online courses.  Based on research, standards, and best practices, the Quality Matters rubric is a tool that you can use to improve the quality of an existing online course OR develop new online courses from scratch.  This session will provide an introduction to the Quality Matters process and how it is being implemented at UNC.  In addition, the session is the kick off for a hybrid course (2 additional meetings and online component) in which you explore the Quality Matters standards in detail and how to apply them in your online courses.  Join us for the faculty forum and decide if you want to learn more!

Attendees at this session will:

• Be introduced to the Quality Matters rubric and process
• Understand how the rubric can be used to improve online course quality
• Learn about professional development opportunities and becoming a certified Qualtiy Matters reviewer

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For questions about the Engaged Faculty Institute or to submit your completed application form either in hard copy or electronically, please contact Associate Director of CETL, Deborah Romero, deborah.romero@unco.edu

The Engaged Faculty Institute (EFI) provides an opportunity for faculty to participate in a multi-faceted training experience around service learning, a dynamic teaching/learning strategy that has been shown to augment students’ mastery of course content, enrich campus/community relationships, and positively impact retention rates. Service learning is an experiential, student-centered pedagogy that enhances classroom learning while addressing community needs. 

Participants commit to attend all the EFI sessions, build service-learning partnerships, and integrate tools and methods into at least one course within one academic year, with the intention of ultimately engaging students in the community while enhancing their classroom learning.  
 
The EFI will employ readings, hands-on workshops, and discussions with regional experts to provide the best practices for service-learning and guide participants as they integrate service-learning into their own curricula and in the context of engaged scholarship. Participants will leave the EFI with a new or modified syllabus for one (or more) of their courses that demonstrates the principles and best practices of service-learning.  Faculty from the University of Northern Colorado, the University of Wyoming, Front Range Community College-Larimer County, Casper College and Colorado State University will be selected to join the 2012 cohort.

Program Description and Participant Application

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Students in any level course often report that they remember learning being the most salient during in-class simulations or activities. These simulations can transform students’ learning in terms of altering their world view or approach to almost any topic in higher education. This workshop asks participants to bring their in-class activities “to the table” to share and discuss with faculty across disciplines with the goal of offering innovative ways to apply different activities to your specific courses.

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Empathy is often referred to as an emotional or cognitive state where we experience another's experience or plight. As we face complex challenges, the ability fo recognize the interconnectedness and interdependencies in human organizations and society is critical. What is required is a type of empathy to be able to see and sense a larger system within which we are acting, what we call transcendent empathy. In this forum, we will discuss what transcendent empathy is and how we can learn and teach it. Transcendent empathy may be the next invisible hand that will save humanity.

Attendees at this session will:

• Understand systems thinking
• Learn about transcendent empathy
• Explore ways to cultivate and teach transcendent empathy

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The Annual Conference on Race and Ethnicity is the leading and most comprehensive national forum on issues of race and ethnicity in American higher education. The presenters will discuss prominent themes that emerged during the conference. Attendees will then have an opportunity to discuss how these issues impact the UNC campus community.

Attendees at this session will:

• Understand the national themes/trends/issues as related to Race and Ethnicity in Higher Education.
• Understand the differences between race and ethnicity and understand the unique differences as related to identities.
  
• Have an opportunity to discuss how these issues inform practice at UNC.

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“Totem Teddy” (a Tlingit totem pole) was UNC’s mascot between 1914 and 2004, and the reason why we became the Bears. I will share a brief history of the Bear Clan totem that was returned to its rightful owners, the Tlingit tribe of Alaska, in 2004. The 1990 Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act provided for the legal claim for this return. Additionally, photos of the Tlingit festivities that surrounded the return of this long-lost totem pole will be included.
Attendees at this session will:

• Learn how UNC became “The Bears”
• Discover the history of Totem Teddy
  
• Understand more about Native America culture

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The Pew Hispanic Center tracks trends and changes in the Latino population. Dr. Lopez will share highlights from three recent reports released by the center that focus on:

• Statistical portraits of Latinos in the U.S.
• Technology use among Latinos
  
• Unauthorized immigrants and the impact of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)

Dr. Lopez’s presentation will use the latest available data to help educators and others learn about the growing Latino community. This information can support program development and initiatives to increase college preparation, access, enrollment and completion in the Latino community.

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