Santa Clara University

EVENT DATE: Tuesday, May 8

Student Engagement and Faculty Interaction

12:00 - 1:00 p.m.

Viewing & Taping Room B, University Library, First Floor

Interaction with faculty impacts student learning. A growing body of research demonstrates that even casual, brief conversations with faculty motivates students, enhances learning, improves performance, and positively influences retention. All of these outcomes lead to more engaged students and higher quality work in your courses. Faculty panelists will share research-based strategies that you can employ to foster effective interactions with your students.  Interdisciplinary panel led by Shoba Krishan (recipient of NSF Engage funding on this topic).  RSVP Required. (ariconosciuto@scu.edu, x2746)
 

EVENT DATE: Tuesday, May 8

Women in Engineering Programs and Advocates Network Webinar - The Stereotype Threat: The Nature and Nurture of Intelligence

1:00 - 2:00 p.m.; click here to register

Dr. Joshua Aronson, Associate Professor of Applied Psychology at NYU and internationally recognized expert on stereotype threat and the social psychology of achievement, will discuss what psychologists have learned about how certain situations can make people less intelligent, and what we can do to counter the power of these situations to encourage the expression and the development of intelligent thought and academic achievement.

EVENT DATE: Thursday, May 17

VITAL (Vitality in Teaching and Learning)
Viewing & Taping Room B, University Library, First Floor
12:00 – 1:00 p.m.

A longstanding reading and discussion group, VITAL (Vitality in Teaching and Learning) offers an opportunity to gather with peers across the disciplines to talk about teaching. This quarter we will continue to discuss How Learning Works: Seven Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching by Susan Ambrose and other teaching faculty at Carnegie Mellon University's Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence. This book strikes a useful balance between new knowledge from the field of cognitive science and practical applications for everyday pedagogy across the disciplines. Lunch will be served, RSVP required.

RSVP to Anne Riconosciuto, x2746, to get a copy of the reading.

EVENT DATE: WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25

Join us to celebrate and explore faculty innovation integrating technology and multimedia into SCU curricula.  This event is an opportunity to hear, directly from colleagues, about their ideas and experiences with using technology and multimedia for enhancing instruction. Learn about the path colleagues have taken to integrate technology - what worked, what they learned, their effort and strategies, and the impact on students.

The event will emphasize the wide array of instructional applications and tools being used by SCU faculty and their students, including digital video, digital stories, online courses, blogs, wikis, classroom response system, Second Life, Camino, web sites, podcasting, iPads, simulations and games, e-Portfolios, and classroom capture.  

Faculty presenters will include:

Olin Bjork, English

Marc Bousquet, English

Elizabeth Day, Liberal Studies

Katie Heintz, Communication

John Ifcher, Economics

Sally Lehrman, Communication

Bill Mains, Management

Yoshiko Miyakoshi, Modern Languages

David Popalisky, Dance

Noel Radley, English

Laura Robinson, Sociology

Kumar Sarangee, Marketing

Bill Stover, Political Science

Richard Trevisan, Management  

Jamie Walker, English

Noriko Yoneiji, Modern Languages

In addition to faculty demonstrations, we will have Apple joining us. Demonstration stations will be set up around the room, allowing faculty to move from station to station and talk to the faculty presenters.  

When:  Wednesday, April 25, 2012

            1:00pm-4:00pm (drop-in any time)

Where:  Lucas Hall, Forbes Reading Room, (Room 126)

Refreshments will be served, and there will be raffle.

EVENT DATE: Thursday, April 12
Pedagogy in Perspective: Cultivating a Growth Mindset in Our Classrooms
11:45 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.
Donohoe Alumni House , First Floor Board Room
Come hear faculty panelists Sharon Merritt (English), Stephen Carroll (English), and Denise Krane (English) discuss how they use the work of Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck (Mindset: The New Psychology of Success) in their teaching. Dweck argues that a fixed mindset presumes talent alone determines academic success and that talent is a fixed trait; a growth mindset, on the other hand, emphasizes resilience, dedication and hard work--stuff we can all muster in the right circumstances. To learn more about how Dweck's important work can help us motivate students to do their best work our courses this term, join us. Lunch will be served, RSVP REQUIRED - email Anne Riconosciuto, x2746.

EVENT DATE: Monday, April 23 – OR – Tuesday, April 24
Rank & Tenure Information Session
12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
Learning Commons 234
A discussion for faculty planning to apply for tenure and/or promotion in the near future. Eileen Razzari Elrod (Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Development) along with a recent member of the Rank and Tenure committee will briefly review the process, consider shared features of successful petitions, discuss what to include in your application and how to organize it, and show some recent successful examples. Feel free to bring draft materials for your own petition.

EVENT DATE: Monday, March 5th OR Tuesday, March 6th

Lecturer Reappointment
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. - Please bring a brown bag lunch
March 5th - St. Joseph Hall Room 109
March 6th - Learning Commons 234

Join Eileen Elrod, Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Development, Amy Shachter, Associate Provost for Research and Faculty Affairs, and Barbara Kelley, Senior Lecturer (Communication), for a brown bag session to get answers to your questions about the process for Lecturer Reappointment.
 

EVENT DATE: Tuesday, January 31st

VITAL - Vitality in Teaching and Learning

Tuesday, January 31
12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
Learning Commons 234
A longstanding reading and discussion group, VITAL (Vitality in Teaching and Learning) offers an opportunity to gather with peers across the disciplines to talk about teaching. This quarter we will discuss How Learning Works: Seven Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching by Susan Ambrose and other teaching faculty at Carnegie Mellon University's Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence. This book strikes a useful balance between new knowledge from the field of cognitive science and practical applications for everyday pedagogy across the disciplines.  Lunch will be served, RSVP required.

RSVP to Anne Riconosciuto, ariconosciuto@scu.edu, x2746, to get a copy of the book. For more info about the book see this review in Tomorrow's Professor or the publisher's website.

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EVENT DATE: Thursday, January 19

Getting Support for Your Work (Off-Campus), Part 2
12:00 – 1:15 p.m.

Forbes Conference Room , First Floor Lucas Hall (126)
Co-Sponsored by Sponsored Projects and the Faculty Research Committee

Last quarter we talked about ways of getting support for faculty research on campus. Now let’s talk about off-campus opportunities for more substantial support and opportunities across the disciplines. Hear from the Sponsored Projects Office, successful faculty grant recipients, and faculty who have served on federal and other major funding agencies' selection committees. Panelists include Linda Campbell (Sponsored Projects Office), Betty Young (Physics), Sally Wood (Electrical Engineering), and Amy Shachter (Associate Provost for Research & Faculty Affairs.) Lunch will be served, RSVP required.