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Faculty Development Day

Faculty Development Day Call for Session Proposals (Submit by Apr. 5)

The Committee on Teaching and Scholarship is calling for proposals for 45-minute sessions for this year’s Faculty Development Day, held on Tuesday, May 7. Proposals may address the keynote theme or a topic of interest to you and your peers. If you are the Chair of a committee that traditionally presents on Faculty Development Day, please still submit a proposal. The schedule and number of programs remain to be determined.

The keynote theme is “Setting Our Standard: Collaborating to Build a Shared Vision of Effective Teaching.”

Please submit a session proposal with a title, brief session description, and speakers/presenters to the FDD Moodle site by April 5.

For any other requests or questions, please contact TAS Chair Bonnie Parks via email: tas@up.edu

Call for Proposals: Faculty Development Day—May 7, 2024

The Committee on Teaching and Scholarship welcomes creative and transformational proposals to lead Faculty Development Day on May 7, 2024, around a particular theme.

Faculty should submit a 1–2-page proposal identifying the central theme, keynote speaker, and breakout panels for session one of Faculty Development Day. Sessions later in the day may remain open as opportunities for various and distinct panels proposed by faculty across campus.

If you are interested in putting forward a central theme for the keynote and session one, please upload your FDD proposal to the FDD Moodle site by Monday February 19, 2024.

Contact TAS chair Bonnie Parks at tas@up.edu for more information or for any questions.

Faculty Development Day Call for Session Proposals (Submit by Apr. 12)

The Committee on Teaching and Scholarship is pleased to announce that Faculty Development Day will be on May 9. 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. If you are the Chair of a committee that traditionally presents on Faculty Development Day, please still submit a proposal. 

Please submit a session proposal with a title, brief session description, and speakers/presenters to the FDD Moodle site by April 12. For any other requests or questions, please contact TAS Chair Patrick Murphy via email: tas@up.edu 

The keynote theme is “The City and the Campus: Models for Becoming the University for Portland.” The day will be kicked off by a keynote address by Nicole King, a renowned scholar and practitioner of place-based public engagement. King’s keynote will spring from her experience building a series of public humanities projects and programs between universities and local neighborhoods, including Baltimore Traces and the Baltimore Field School. The presenters envision this Faculty Development Day as an inspiration to faculty from all disciplines to heed the call for scholarly public engagement in their research and teaching that can make a difference both on our campus and in our city. 

More details are available on the Faculty Development Day Moodle site.

Proposals Being Accepted to Lead Faculty Development Day (Due Feb. 20)

The Committee on Teaching and Scholarship welcomes creative and transformational proposals to lead Faculty Development Day on May 9 around a particular theme. Faculty should submit a 1–2 page proposal identifying the central theme, keynote speaker, and breakout panels for session one of Faculty Development Day. Sessions later in the day may remain open as opportunities for various and distinct panels proposed by faculty across campus. If you are interested in putting forward a central theme for the keynote and session one please upload your FDD proposal to the FDD Moodle site by Monday, February 20.  

Contact TAS chair Patrick Murphy at tas@up.edu for more information or for any questions. 

Faculty Development Day: Keynote Video Available

The opening session of Faculty Development Day is now available as a video that anyone can view. After some introductory remarks, the highlight is the keynote by Loretta J. Ross, Smith College, and Simon Aihiokhai, University of Portland, titled “Building Trust and Finding Encounters: Frameworks for Respectful Engagement with Our Students and with Each Other.” It includes presentations from the speakers followed by an engaging Q&A.

Faculty Development Day (May 11) Program is Available

The Committee on Teaching and Scholarship is pleased to announce that the virtual Faculty Development Day program is ready! We hope this helps you plan your schedule so you can get the most out of it and support your colleagues who are presenting.

The day begins at 8:45 a.m. with a welcome and keynote, followed by an array of excellent sessions to choose from, and closes with the Faculty Awards and Retirement Ceremony at 5:30 p.m. These are all Zoom-based and the ones that will be recorded are noted in the program. Those recordings will be made available later through the Faculty Development Day Moodle page.

This annual event was cancelled last year, so we are excited to bring it back in 2021! It’s a great opportunity for faculty to learn, share, connect, and appreciate each other! Please contact Diane Sotak, sotak@up.edu, with questions or requests for accommodations.  

Faculty Development Day, May 11: Call for Session Proposals

The Committee on Teaching and Scholarship is pleased to announce the return of Faculty Development Day which will be a virtual event on May 11, 2021. 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 email a title, brief program description, whether you prefer to have it recorded, and any other requests to tas@up.edu by April 1.

The keynote theme is “Building Trust and Finding Encounters: Frameworks for Respectful Engagement with Our Students and with Each Other.” The presenters are Professor Loretta J. Ross, Smith College and Simon Aihiokhai, University of Portland.

Keynote Abstract:

As faculty members at the University of Portland prepare students to respond to the needs of an interconnected world, it is essential to navigate the terrain of increasingly globalized and diverse identities and to build trust. Our multiple identities: race, class, gender, religion, ability and other salient aspects influence how we view and react within our local, national and global spaces. Faculty members have the opportunity to learn about their students who come from diverse backgrounds and experiences, to de-colonize their curricula, and to teach in culturally responsive and relevant ways. We all need to learn to communicate with those whose identities are embedded within different political, cultural, and religious or secular worldviews by seeking encounters with humility and by building trust through these encounters. Engagement with multiple perspectives is the hallmark of an educated person, and understanding how our identities as well as belief systems, both religious and secular, influence our institutions, cultures, and policies, as well as our own disciplinary perspectives is a critical undertaking. Three pillars will form the basis of the keynote: Trust, Encounter, Knowledge.

More details are available on the Faculty Development Day moodle site.

Faculty Development Day, May 5: Session Proposals Welcome

The Committee on Teaching and Scholarship is excited to announce this year’s Faculty Development Day theme, “A Globalized Curriculum: Frameworks for Respectful Engagement with People from Diverse Religious and Secular Traditions.” See below for a detailed description of the day’s theme. The morning keynote address and several late morning sessions will be centered around this theme. The remaining sessions, most of which will occur in the afternoon, are then open to a variety of topics, which may or may relate to the overall theme.

The Committee on Teaching and Scholarship is now accepting proposals from faculty who would like to organize 45-minute sessions on a topic of your choice. Please send your suggestions/requests to committee chair Hannah Highlander (tas@up.edu) no later than Friday, March 27. In your request, please include a title and abstract. If you have any other preferences or special needs, please include those as well.  The committee will make every effort to accommodate requests.

More information about the theme for the day:

As faculty members at the University of Portland prepare students to respond to the needs of an interconnected world, it is essential to navigate the terrain of increasingly globalized and diverse identities. Students come from a wide array of backgrounds and intersectional identities while faculty members, many of whom still are part of dominant groups, are faced with the opportunity to learn about their students, de-colonize their curricula, and teach in culturally responsive/relevant ways. Inclusion matters, and more work can be done on campus in exploring multiple faith-based and secular traditions. Given that our student, staff, and faculty populations identify with the breadth of religious and secular traditions, it is imperative for us to begin to incorporate religious and secular worldviews in our inclusion work.  Our students, and indeed our faculty and staff, need to learn to communicate with those whose identities are embedded within different political, cultural, and religious or secular worldviews.  Engagement with multiple perspectives is the hallmark of an educated person, and understanding how both religious and secular beliefs influence culture, domestic and foreign policy, and our own disciplinary perspectives is a critical undertaking. The keynote and workshops are designed to begin the dialogue that is necessary for better understanding our various systems of belief and how they influence our worldviews and our actions on and off campus.

This FDD theme seeks to build on that strength and uphold the core mission by exploring two essential intersecting realities that universities face today in the area of encountering those of different belief systems and worldviews. One is the issue of globalization and diversities, whether in the context of religion, secular belief, or culture, and the second has to do with how a globalized classroom functions today that brings to bear religious, secular, and cultural diversities in the formulation and delivery of the curriculum.

May 7 Faculty Development Day Program Ready Now

The program for Faculty Development Day, scheduled for Tuesday, May 7, is now available through the Committee on Teaching and Scholarship. To save paper, the committee encourages faculty to download a copy of the program in advance so they can use it to orient themselves between sessions using their mobile devices. A limited number of paper copies of the program will be available on the day of the program.

  • Faculty Development Day program can be found here.

For more information contact Hannah Highlander, TAS chair, at highland@up.edu.

 

Faculty Development Day, May 7: Session Proposals Welcome

The Committee on Teaching and Scholarship is excited to announce this year’s Faculty Development Day theme, “Compassionate listening and responding: How to transform UP into a more diverse, supportive, and inclusive campus.” The morning keynote address and several late morning sessions will be centered around this theme. The remaining sessions, most of which will occur in the afternoon, are then open to a variety of topics, which may or may not relate to the overall theme.

The Committee on Teaching and Scholarship is now accepting proposals from faculty who would like to organize 45-minute sessions on a topic of their choice. Please send suggestions/requests to committee chair Hannah Highlander (tas@up.edu) no later than Friday, April 12. Please include a title and abstract, along with any other preferences or special needs. The committee will make every effort to accommodate requests.