WELCOME BACK!!!
CITI extends a warm welcome to our new faculty and a heartfelt "Welcome Back" to our returning colleagues. As always, we look forward to partnering with you to achieve excellence with your course and faculty development needs. This first edition includes a special "Welcome Back" gift from the CITI team--a Teaching Success Tool kit that you can download to your computer as a quick reference. Together, we will make the 2024-25 academic year a tremendous success!
A SPECIAL GIFT FOR FACULTY--STUDENT SUCCESS TOOLKIT
Welcome to the new academic year! This year, we want to focus on a student success mindset that examines how we all can contribute to our strategic priorities. To assist in this endeavor, the CITI Team wants to gift faculty with a special student success “toolkit.” Your downloadable kit contains the following tools:
- Articles, written by our CITI team members, with tips and reflections to assist you with instruction and classroom management
- Links to our CITI services and resources
- Useful teaching and learning reading articles
Click below to begin using your toolkit!
LOOK WHAT'S HAPPENING....
....IN YOUR CITI
On August 26, we commenced with our fourth faculty cohort for ACUE certification in Effective Online Teaching Practices. Designed for instructors teaching in asynchronous, synchronous, hybrid, or HyFlex formats, this course offers faculty foundational, research-based teaching practices to build on their existing knowledge and expand their instructional toolkits. By prompting faculty to apply and reflect on their learning, this program helps to reinvigorate educators and ensure students experience dynamic and inspired teaching in any modality. This course takes approximately 25 weeks to complete:
- Promoting Active Learning Online
- Inspiring Inquiry and Preparing Lifelong Learners in Your Online Course
- Designing Learner-Centered Courses
Faculty who complete this course will earn a Certificate in Effective College Instruction and digital badges, which can be added to a curriculum vitae, used in online teaching portfolios, and displayed on LinkedIn profiles or webpages as a sign of your achievement.
ACUE’s professional development courses, endorsed by the American Council on Education (ACE), equip faculty with evidence-based practices proven to increase student engagement, retention, and performance. An ACUE course is a fully online, asynchronous learning experience with a facilitator and a cohort of peers. Participants spend approximately 2–3 hours of activity per week on a course. Currently, 122 WSSU faculty have completed the Effective Online Teaching Practices course. To read reflections from WSSU faculty on their course experience, view Class of 2024, Class of 2023, and Class of 2022.
SUMMER RECAP IN CITI:
FYE Faculty Orientation
The CITI team partnered with University College's Associate Dean of New Student Experiences and Undergraduate Engaged Learning, Dr. Jerrell Robinson, to help the First Year Experience faculty prepare for student success. Topics included "Introduction to College Teaching", "Using Adobe Express for FYE Assignments" and "Canvas Basics." Pics from the workshop are below.
New Faculty Development and School of Health Sciences Orientation
This month, CITI joined forces with the Office of Faculty Affairs and the School of Health Sciences to introduce our team and our roles in helping new and returning faculty achieve student success. You can access our presentation here.
DON'T FEAR...WE'RE HERE!
The Center for Innovative and Transformative Instruction (CITI) is an inclusive, supportive, and collaborative common area for faculty, staff and administrators to pursue innovation and transformation in higher education teaching and learning, including the scholarship of teaching & learning (SoTL). CITI will keep you updated on the latest innovative and transformative instructional methods and technologies. CITI Team personnel are all experienced college faculty with a strong background in teaching and learning, course design, instructional technology, and Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL).
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
THE HBCU FACULTY DEVELOPMENT NETWORK
Ensuring quality in higher education has been a cornerstone of the HBCU Faculty Development Network Annual Conference. For over 30 years, the HBCU Faculty Development Network has covered a variety of programs for administrators, faculty, and staff, aimed at improving students learning outcomes. Programs include (but are not limited to) quality management, curriculum development, and faculty development. We cordially invite you to participate in this 31st Annual HBCU Faculty Development Network Conference to be held on October 17 – 19, 2024. We invite faculty, administrators, faculty development directors, and personnel of all areas that support an academic program to submit proposals for presentation at this year's conference that support the theme: “Teaching, Learning and Sustainability in an Era of Change.”
The 2025 University System of Georgia Teaching & Learning Conference will take place on April 3-4, 2025 in Columbus, GA. Look for the Call For Proposals in October, 2024.
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