17 February - Thrivent Application
Dear Faculty:
Concordia has recently been awarded a grant through Thrivent Financial for
Lutherans 2004 Youth Leadership Grant Initiative. As part of this program,
funding has been allocated to support faculty interested in revising existing
courses to incorporate service learning pedagogy and enhance classroom
engagement.
Attached is the application information. Please
submit applications to the Office of Academic Affairs by April 9th.
Rebecca Amundsen, Assistant to the Dean
Chelle Lyons Hanson, Director of Student Leadership & Service and Project
Co-Director
15 February - Spring mid-term grades
TO: Concordia Faculty
FROM: Carole Stalheim, Registrar
Mid-term grades for the SPRING 2005 session will be due on or before March 3
at 4:00 p.m. All grades will be submitted electronically on the WEB. Beginning
Wednesday, February 16 at 1:00 p.m., you will be able to access the WEB to
determine if you have grades to submit. Mid-term grades are necessary for
reporting the progress of students who are new to Concordia College or on
probation. Block 4 grades for these students are being defaulted to
"IP" (in progress) since no grades are available for these courses.
If you have any problems accessing the WEB, please contact Dr. Alex Sze, WEB
Support Specialist, at sze@cord.edu or x4153.
Please let us know if you have any questions or concerns about the process.
15 February - Faculty development opportunities
To: All Faculty
From: Jim Aageson, Chair, Division of Arts and Humanities
The Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) has expanded their focus to
promoting undergraduate research in the social sciences and humanities, as well
as the natural sciences. They will be holding a three-day workshop July 22-24,
2005 at Bridgewater State College, MA
This three-day workshop will bring together teams of three to five faculty
members and administrators engaged in enhancing undergraduate research
opportunities at their home institutions, focusing on undergraduate research as
faculty development, opportunities and ideas for community-based research,
student-based inquiry and institutional support structure. Participants will
hear plenary lectures presented by facilitators associated with CUR, participate
in individual team meetings with CUR mentors, discuss models of undergraduate
research, mentorship and collaboration; what "research" and
"mentorship" mean in different disciplines in the social sciences and
humanities; establishing and maintaining research contacts within the community;
assessing the value of undergraduate research; and means of augmenting funding
for undergraduate research internally and externally.
Teams typically consist of at least one academic administrator, one or more
department chairs, and several interested faculty members. For information on
applying for this Institute, registration fees, travel and lodging, please visit
www.cur.org and complete the on-line
application. Questions may be addressed to the CUR National Office (cur@cur.org
or 202-783-4810). Enrollment is limited so apply early.
As a member of the Minnesota Humanities Commission, Dr. Dovre provided the
following information about their “Works in Progress Scholar Grants”
available to faculty in the humanities. Ten $2500 grants will be made available.
Draft proposals are due April 15.
http://www.minnesotahumanities.org/About/about.htm
14 February - Nominations for Secretary of the Faculty
To: Faculty
From: Mark Krejci Interim Dean & Vice President for Academic Affairs
Nominations for secretary of the faculty will be open from February 14 –
16. In addition to serving on the Faculty Senate, the secretary of faculty also
serves on the Senate Coordinating Committee. The term of office is a three-year,
non-renewable term. The names of six persons who obtain the most nominations
will be voted on March 3 – 7 (via CC Angel). Voting on the ballot containing
the names of two candidates receiving the highest number of votes will be March
8 –10 (via CC Angel). Please send your nominations to Nonnie Tangen at tangen@cord.edu.
11 February - February edition of F.Y.I.
To: Faculty and Administrators
From: Kay Schneider (schneide@cord.edu or 4723)
Re: February edition of F.Y.I. Assessment and Institutional Research
newsletter.
The February edition of F.Y.I. is accessible via a Concordia internet
connection at http://www.cord.edu/dept/acd/local/assess/feb2005.htm. Contents
include:
- Thank you to discourse writing faculty for providing class time for
administration of a college-wide survey.
- Results of the faculty survey of attitudes toward assessment.
- Collaboration conference announcement.
- Report of first-year student retention from fall to spring semesters.
Hard copy is available upon request.
11 February - Last chance to apply for Bush funding!
Date: February 11, 2005
To: All Faculty
From: Jim Aageson, Chair, Division of Arts and Humanities
Re: Last chance to apply for Bush funding!
The summer of 2005 marks the end of the funding period for the Bush Grant.
Applications will be due March 9th to the Academic Affairs Office. Please
consider areas you, your colleagues or your department would like to explore
that may coincide with the goals of the grant. The following opportunities are
still available:
- First-Year Pedagogy Partnership Grants: Faculty members have the
opportunity to receive $1000 stipends to explore pedagogy especially suited
for first-year courses, working within the context of research on students’
first-year experiences. Participants can receive assistance from the college’s
Learning Community Consultants - Julie Rutherford and Molly Flaspohler.
- Interdisciplinary Partnership Grants: $500 stipends, plus limited expense
funds are provided to teams of faculty members from different departments
committed to exploring an interdisciplinary topic of mutual interest. Grants
for Collaboration with Off-Campus Teaching Partners: Faculty members will
receive one course release time to establish working relationships with
off-campus teaching partners, for the purpose of using the off-campus
partners’ expertise in a specific course in significant ways. Off-campus
partners will receive stipends of up to $1500.
- Mini-grants for Department/Program Workshops on the Liberal Arts and
Pedagogy: Funds for two-day workshops are available, allowing departments
and programs to reflect on the relationship of their programs to the college
’s overall liberal-arts goals. Particularly encouraged are discussions of
the implications of the college’s liberal arts curriculum on curricular
and pedagogy issues in department specific disciplines.
- Mini-grants for Interdisciplinary Program Retreats: Stipends of up to
$1,000 are available for two-day workshops discussing the creation or
revision of interdisciplinary programs.
- Grants for Course Creation or Revision—supporting growth from Bush Grant
programs: Faculty members will receive $1000 stipends and $500 materials
expenses to change or create courses/case units that put new understandings
gained from activities sponsored by other Bush Grant programs into practice.
10 February - Faculty Mentors for Orientation 2005
To: All Faculty Date: February 10, 2005
From: Mark Krejci Interim Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the
College
Re: Faculty Mentors for Orientation 2005
As we continue our efforts to strengthen the academic integration components
of orientation, we are again looking for faculty members who are willing to
serve as orientation mentors. A faculty orientation mentor should be a good
communicator, role model and advocate for the mission of the college. He/She
will work together with their Communicators to establish a good working
relationship and plan and develop club activities. This year we anticipate
needing approximately 40 faculty members interested in creating a link between
orientation and a successful first-year experience.
For most first-year students, the mentor will be the first college faculty
member students have the opportunity to get to know. You will play a major role
in how our new students understand the centrality of the academic mission. In
their time of transition, they need support and encouragement as well as a solid
understanding of college level expectations and the requirements for academic
achievement.
Based on the success of the Club/Class Connections over the past several
years, we will again make every effort to link clubs with a class or cohort. If
you plan to teach a course next fall that would be appropriate for this
connection, please let us know what that course is and we will make every effort
to link the club, class and instructor together. If you do not have a class that
would be appropriate, please do not let that stop you from applying for a
Faculty Mentor position.
Faculty Mentors will be asked to attend a meeting this spring with
Communicators on Saturday, March 19th from mid-morning to late afternoon. An
additional workshop to review the schedule is tentatively planned for early
August and a final training time with Communicators will be held during the
afternoon on Friday, August 26th. The dates for Orientation this year are
Sunday, August 28 – Wednesday, August 31.
A $1,200 stipend will be paid to those willing to serve as a faculty mentor
during orientation and to participate in Orientation related workshops and
meetings.
Please e-mail your interest to Rebecca Amundsen at amundsen@cord.edu
on or before Friday, February 18th. Thank you for your interest in our
first-year students. The applications will be reviewed and positions announced
the week following mid-semester break.
Thank you for your continued interest and dedication to first-year students.
8 February - Faculty development opportunities
To: All Faculty
From: Jim Aageson, Chair, Division of Arts and Humanities
Following is a list of programs, workshops, grants and conferences available
for faculty professional development and growth. Some opportunities are also
available for students, so please contact any students who may be qualified.
Complete information including descriptions, eligibility requirements, and
registration deadlines about each of these is located in the Division of Arts
and Humanities Office in BW247, or contact Shanda Schmidt at the Division of
Arts and Humanities (4344 or sschmidt@cord.edu).
The dean’s office will sponsor one faculty member to attend the AAHE 2005
National Conference on Higher Education, March 17-20 in Atlanta, GA
The conference title is "Courage, Imagination, Action: Rallying the
Trendsetters in Higher Education"
".....participants will discuss issues that must be addressed if
higher education is to maintain and strengthen its ability to serve the larger
society in the decades ahead."
For a conference schedule: http://www.aahe.org/National/schedule2.htm
If you would like to attend this conference, please contact Jim Aageson at aageson@cord.edu
or ext. 3425 no later than Friday, February 11.
The Collaboration’s 16th Annual Summer Institute, “Sustaining
Innovation for Greater Student Learning in a Climate of Rapid Change” will
be held June 7-11, 2005 in Northfield, MN
Deadline for Proposals: March 11, 2005
http://www.collab.org/programs&services/institute.html
8 February - Introductory-Course Redesign Seminars from the Center for Academic Transformation
Something that arrived in my inbox, from the Center for Academic
Transformation:
REGISTER NOW TO LEARN MORE ABOUT... INCREASING SUCCESS FOR
UNDERSERVED STUDENTS: REDESIGNING INTRODUCTORY COURSES
Although greater access to higher education has increased diversity on
our campuses, we still need to increase the success of students who have often
been underserved--adult students, students of color, and low-income students.
Offered by the Center for Academic Transformation, these seminars focus
on specific techniques from the Program on Course Redesign that led to
increased success and retention among these underserved students.
Participating faculty members will discuss the methods that led to better
learning at reduced costs at their institutions. The conversations will
emphasize those approaches that fostered greater student learning among
underserved students.
Plan to:
- Learn firsthand how to increase student success and retention among
underserved students: adult students, students of color, and low- income
students.
- Talk with experienced faculty about how their redesign decisions led
to greater student learning.
- Find out how to design learning environments using techniques that
will increase student success by tapping the expertise of those who have
done it.
Benefit from the ideas of multiple faculty gathered in one place:
- * March 18, 2005, in Phoenix, Arizona
- * May 20, 2005, in Chicago, Illinois
For additional information and registration materials, visit http://www.center.rpi.edu/LForum/LdfWrkSe.html
These seminars are supported by Lumina Foundation for Education
3 February - Summer workshop proposals
Once again, it is time to plan for summer workshops. If you have a proposal
for a summer workshop that you would like to lead, please submit a brief
description of the workshop you would like to offer and a brief rationale for
why you think this would be of interest to your colleagues on the
attached form. Proposals may be e-mailed to amundsen@cord.edu
or sent through campus mail to the Academic Affairs office and will be due March
9, 2005.
Rebecca Amundsen, Assistant to the Dean
3 February - Faculty Senate
To: Faculty
From: Senate Coordinating Committee
The Faculty Senate meeting scheduled for Monday, February 7 has been
cancelled. Please note that the next meeting is scheduled for Monday, February
14 in the Centrum, Knutson Center.
3 February - 2006 May Seminar and Exploration Seminar Applications
TO: All Faculty
FROM: International Education Office
RE: 2006 Leader Application for May and Exploration Seminars
Faculty leader applications for 2006 are now available at the International
Education Office. Please email Stacy Rodlund at rodlund@cord.edu
to have an application mailed to you or call 4549. All applications are due back
to the International Education Office by Monday, February 28th, 2005. Please
call with any questions.
Thank you, Victor Udin
2 February - Faculty development opportunities
Date: February 2, 2005
To: All Faculty
From: Jim Aageson, Chair, Division of Arts and Humanities
Re: Faculty development opportunities
Following is a list of programs, workshops, grants and conferences available
for faculty professional development and growth. Some opportunities are also
available for students, so please contact any students who may be qualified.
Complete information including descriptions, eligibility requirements, and
registration deadlines about each of these is located in the Division of Arts
and Humanities Office in BW247, or contact Shanda Schmidt at the Division of
Arts and Humanities (4344 or sschmidt@cord.edu).
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The Midwest Qualitative Research Conference committee announces call for
proposals, deadline March 7, 2005. The conference committee invites graduate
students, faculty and practitioners to submit presentation proposals on
qualitative research projects in the fields of K-12 education, higher education,
sociology, ministry, social work, women’s studies, health care, public policy,
business, engineering and law.
Information can be found at: www.stthomas.edu/education/events/
The Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) invites
applications for the 2005 Institute on General Education to be held May 20-25,
2005 at Salve Regina University, Newport, Rhode Island. Deadline for
applications is February 25, 2005.
A complete listing of all AAC&U meetings for 2004-05 is available at www.aacu.org/meetings
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