2016-17 New Faculty Institute Agenda
Alumni Center
August 16, 2017 8:00 – 5:00
Kick starting your IPFW career!
Welcome and Introductions
8:00 – 9:00 Breakfast with your liaison librarian
9:00 – 9:30 Welcome: Chancellor Carwein & VCAA Drummond
9:30 – 9:45 Preview the 2016-17 New Faculty Institute
9:45 – 10:30 Get to know your colleagues
Break 10:30 – 10:45
Getting to know IPFW and our students
10:45 – 11:15 am What is IPFW? Origins, mission, metropolitan status Associate Dean Bruce Kingsbury
11:15 – noon Who are our students? Dr. George McClellan
Noon – 1:30 pm Scavenger hunt on campus
1:30 – 2:30 Lunch: Individual pictures and group picture
Break: 2:30 – 2:45
How do you effectively teach IPFW students?
2:45 – 3:15 pm Teaching philosophy – being authentic in the classroom Assistant Vice –Chancellor Marcia Dixson
3:15- 3:45 pm Assignments to assess learning and effective grading practices Associate Dean Terri Swim
3:45 – 4:00 Important things to know for syllabi and class functioning
4:00 – 4:45 When students need help
IPFW Student resources
With disabilities (processes and resources): Julie Schrader, Accommodations Specialist, Services for Students with Disabilities
Legal/Ethical concerns: academic misconduct and grade apeals: Dean of Students, Eric Norman
4:45 – 5:00 Questions?
The rest of the story . . .
(Your attendance at these events is expected unless you have class at this time)
September 9: 12:30 – 2:30 Documenting your success at IPFW
Governance Structure
Senate Documents
Your college documents
Reappointment process
P & T process and support resources
October 14 12:30 – 2:30: Assessing your teaching success at IPFW
How are you doing? Using midterm evaluations/SGIDs/CATs to assess your teaching now. Preparing student evaluations to assess your teaching at the end of the semester.
November 11 12:30 – 2:30: Teaching IPFW students with high impact practices (HIP)
What are high impact practices? Why should we care? Which are useful for you? What resources do we have to help you develop/offer HIPs
January 20 12:30 – 2:30: Advising IPW students: What you need to know and do
Know: General Education, Baccalaureate framework; myBLUEprint, Banner
Do: Intrusive advising
February 10 12:30 – 2:30: Resources for research at IPFW (Continuing Lecturers, Clinical and Visiting are welcome but not required to attend)
Institute for Research, Scholarship and Creative Endeavor (IRSC), Institutional Review Board (IRB), Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP), Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Publishing in open access and avoiding predatory journals.
March 17 12:30 – 2:30: How to get your research done at IPFW (Continuing Lecturers, Clinical and Visiting are welcome but not required to attend)
IPFW Writing Circle, successful researchers panel, accountability colleagues
April 14 12:30 – 2:30: How did the first year at IPFW go? What do you need in your second year?
Open discussion
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