• Faculty Inquiry Group (FIG): FIGs are small groups of faculty members who read a common text that is applicable to teaching best practices. Past topics include equity issues in teaching, engaging students in online courses, syllabi best practices, etc.
  • Mindset Meetup: The Mindset Meetup includes faculty and staff reading a common text and meeting to have discussions around concepts covered in those texts. Past topics include equitable practices and wellness and work.
  • Full-day workshops
  • Coordination of faculty-assigned duty days
  • Consultation and planning portions of the administratively assigned professional development days
  • Asynchronous Online Training Courses: Library and Information Literacy Tutorials, Accessibility, POET

The CFI staff also act as resources for individual assistance to our faculty and staff members in one-on-one meetings.

Reading Across the Curriculum

Because critical reading is a key skill in all courses, instructors should teach reading skills needed for their disciplines. This requires an understanding of why there may be a reading skills gap along with how to support all students, but especially those who struggle, to gain those necessary skills. Instructors have the opportunity to participate in a learning community to earn this badge, showing that they have acquired the knowledge to implement specific reading strategies in their courses.

Reading Across the Curriculum Badge for the Center for Faculty Innovation

Podcasts

Because critical reading is a key skill in all courses, instructors should teach reading skills needed for their disciplines. This requires an understanding of why there may be a reading skills gap along with how to support all students, but especially those who struggle, to gain those necessary skills. Instructors have the opportunity to participate in a learning community to earn this badge, showing that they have acquired the knowledge to implement specific reading strategies in their courses.

Video Podcast: No Dumb Questions

No Dumb Questions Season One (2020-2021)

  • Episode One, “Out loud and confused!” (on how to appropriately respond to a student who has come out in class)
  • Episode Two, “Stuck with a silent student” (on how to encourage student participation):
  • Episode Three, “All the same” (on why treating students equally isn’t always the best course of action)
  • Episode Four, “Could I be clearer?” (on what to do if students are confused by your course setup)
  • Episode Five, “Sick of teaching online” (on how to spice up your online teaching when it’s starting to feel like a drag)
  • Episode Six, “Can you see me now?” (on how to react when more and more students stop using their cameras in Zoom)
  • Episode Seven, “Stuck in limbo” (on being sick and tired of the daily grind of the pandemic)
  • Episode Eight, “Plagued by plagiarism” (on how to work with a student who has plagiarized)
  • Episode Nine, “Sticking with science” (on how to redirect students when they are getting too opinionated in online discussion boards)
  • Episode Ten, “Not so sorry about chatting” (on why it’s good to take class time to chat about random things with your students)
  • Episode Eleven, “Due dates overview” (on what we mean when we’d like to see everyone have a “Due Dates Overview” in their online courses for spring)
  • Episode Twelve, “Grading Grinch?” (on how to avoid the stress and guilt of finals grading)
  • Episode Thirteen, The Ghosted Instructor (on what do when your students stop showing up)
  • Episode Fourteen, Head Scratching Online Teacher (on how to help students learn independently online)
  • Episode Fifteen, The Acronym-Confused Faculty (on how to navigate the college and system abbreviations and codes)

No Dumb Questions Season Two (2021-2022)

Student and Instructor Podcast: Going There