The Committee on Teaching and Scholarship is pleased to announce the return of Faculty Development Day, which will be an in-person event on May 3. The schedule and number of programs are still to be determined. However, the committee is now accepting proposals for 45-minute sessions on topics related to the keynote theme or on a topic of interest to you and your peers.
Please submit a session proposal with a title, brief session description, speakers/presenters, and whether you prefer to have it recorded to the FDD Moodle site, by April 13. For any other requests or questions, please contact TAS Chair Jennette Lovejoy via email: tas@up.edu
The keynote theme is “Beyond the Bluff: Preparing Students to Thrive After UP.” This faculty development day focuses on helping faculty leverage high-impact practices and career readiness frameworks for student success after graduation. Many of these concepts are already common across campus, but we can encourage more intentional adoption in curricular, co-curricular, and extra-curricular settings. The keynote session, delivered by the former Mount Holyoake president and present AAC&U president Lynn Pasquerella, will explore what the future of higher education must look like if we are to prepare students for success in work, citizenship, and life and meet the equity mandate before us. The first breakout session will be a targeted hands-on faculty workshop focused on modeling new applications of career readiness in our professional schools and CAS.
More details are available on the Faculty Development Day moodle site.