OTL Conference Room (Anderson Academic Commons 345)

The Heart of Higher Education is an opportunity to gather as a DU community to share the challenges and opportunities of transcending the institutional, professional and personal choices that tend to separate core identity/integrity from day to day actions. The meetings are open to all faculty (of any rank) and staff (of any title).  The Conversations are hosted by the Office of Teaching and Learning and facilitated by OTL Faculty Teaching Fellow, Professor Paul Michalec from the Morgridge College of Education. The Heart of Higher Education Conversations create a positive and constructive space where staff and faculty can explore ways of re-connecting calling with professional responsibilities. Our time together is bounded by norms designed to create an open invitation to share while respecting individual choices to not share at a particular time. Prior to each meeting an agenda and brief reflective reading is sent out.

Bring your lunch.  Come late or leave early.  This is an invitation for self-care.  No guilt necessary.

Maglione Hall (Sie Complex, Room 5025)

Rethinking Mentoring: How to Build Communities of Inclusion, Support, and Accountability

• Does your department, college or university effectively mentor pre-tenure faculty?
• How can you work towards providing faculty at different stages of career development meaningful mentoring relationships and experiences?
• How does mentoring differ for pre-tenure and post-tenure faculty?
• How can institutions provide effective mentoring for under-represented faculty?

This workshop is designed to start a new type of discussion about mentoring by describing the common problems that pre-tenure and post-tenure faculty members experience and why traditional mentoring programs fail to meet those needs. We propose an alternative framework for mentoring that focuses on needs assessment and shifts the idea of mentoring from a relationship between two faculty members towards building a broad network of support, community, and accountability. The workshop concludes with a presentation of best practices in mentoring pre-tenure, under-represented and mid-career faculty.

OTL Conference Room (Anderson Academic Commons 345)

Do you struggle with program assessment? Do you feel overwhelmed and confused about where to even begin with program assessment? If you answered "yes" to either question, congratulations! You are not alone. Please join us for an Assessment Meetup. The first 15 minutes consists of a just-in-time assessment tutorial. Afterwards, you are welcome to use this space and time in whatever ways will make assessment meaningful and manageable. The Meetup will include delectable snacks and guided support from DU friends who can offer assessment consultations. We look forward to seeing you! 

OTL Conference Room (Anderson Academic Commons 345)

Does the idea of “work-life” balance make you want to laugh – or cry – as you juggle raising children and your academic workload? You are not alone! The Parenting and Productivity group will foster a supportive, non-judgmental atmosphere to tackle the specific challenges facing academics who are parenting children (or anyone else who provides time-intensive and physically demanding dependent care).

Join us for donuts and a hot beverage as we watch and discuss NCFDD’s four-week series on Parenting and Productivity. We will meet in the OTL Conference Room (room number) from 8:30-10:00 a.m. on January 14, 28, February 11, and 25, 2020 from 8:30-10:00 a.m.

Feel free to come or leave early and to join us as you are able.

OTL Conference Room (Anderson Academic Commons 345)

The Heart of Higher Education is an opportunity to gather as a DU community to share the challenges and opportunities of transcending the institutional, professional and personal choices that tend to separate core identity/integrity from day to day actions. The meetings are open to all faculty (of any rank) and staff (of any title).  The Conversations are hosted by the Office of Teaching and Learning and facilitated by OTL Faculty Teaching Fellow, Professor Paul Michalec from the Morgridge College of Education. The Heart of Higher Education Conversations create a positive and constructive space where staff and faculty can explore ways of re-connecting calling with professional responsibilities. Our time together is bounded by norms designed to create an open invitation to share while respecting individual choices to not share at a particular time. Prior to each meeting an agenda and brief reflective reading is sent out.

Bring your lunch.  Come late or leave early.  This is an invitation for self-care.  No guilt necessary.

OTL Conference Room (Anderson Academic Commons 345)

This month we will be reading and discussing Chapter 4: Generating the Research Idea (Bishop-Clark, C. & Dietz-Uhler, B., 2012)

Please join us in exploring how to incorporate the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning into the balance of your work at DU. Blending your teaching and research agendas is a great way to invigorate your course design through a systematic approach.

We will be using  the following two texts (we have copies for you in the OTL office):

Chick, N.L. (2018). SoTL in action. Illuminating Critical Moments of Practice. Sterling, VA: Stylus.

Bishop-Clark, C. & Dietz-Uhler, B. (2012). Engaging in the scholarship of teaching and learning. A guide to the process, and how to develop a project from start to finish. Sterling, VA: Stylus.

Please join us if you are new to this topic or have been involved for years. 

OTL Conference Room (Anderson Academic Commons 345)

Please register if you plan to attend, but also feel free to drop by if you aren't able to register ahead of time!

Online

The 14-Day Challenge is online and an opportunity for you to experiment with daily writing, online community, and supportive accountability. It's very simple:

1. You commit to write every day for at least 30 minutes.
2. At the beginning of your writing time, you login to our online community, start the timer, complete your writing, and post your progress at the end.
3. You take 5 minutes to support other writers in your group by commenting on their progress.

This is NOT for you if: 1) you don't want to post your progress on a daily basis and/or 2) you don't want to interact with other people.

If you're up for the challenge, you can signup at facultydiversity.org.

OTL Conference Room (Anderson Academic Commons 345)

This Faculty Learning Community is centered around Robin DiAngelo's White Fragility book. DiAngelo brings "language to the emotional structures that make true discussions about racial attitudes difficult [and] in doing so, [she] moves our national discussion forward with new rules of engagement."

We will explore how the phenomenon of white fragility impacts how we show up in the classroom, and how we make space for all our students to grow and thrive. Our goal is to unpack "how white fragility develops, how it protects racial inequality, and what we can do to engage more constructively" to increase our intrapersonal and interpersonal awareness and enact Inclusive Excellence.

Co-facilitated by OTL Directors Dr. Valentina LaGrave and Dr. Karen Swanson. This is a collaborative Faculty Learning Community structured around book chapters. Participants will take turns leading the discussion, and will receive a copy of DiAngelo's book once registration is closed.

We will meet every other week on Wednesdays, beginning on April 1st in the OTL Conference Room. Please feel free to bring your lunch and anything else to be comfortable in the community.

OTL Conference Room (Anderson Academic Commons 345)

This Faculty Learning Community is centered around Asao B. Inoue and Mya Poe's book Race and Writing Assessment (2012).

Facilitated by the Director of Inclusive Teaching and the Director of Faculty Learning Groups and Scholarships, community members will read the edited collection of established and up-and-coming scholars in composition studies to explore how writing assessment needs to change to account for the increasing diversity of students in college classrooms today.

Space is limited. If registration is full and you arei nterested in participating please email otl@du.edu.

OTL Conference Room (Anderson Academic Commons 345)

The Heart of Higher Education is an opportunity to gather as a DU community to share the challenges and opportunities of transcending the institutional, professional and personal choices that tend to separate core identity/integrity from day to day actions. The meetings are open to all faculty (of any rank) and staff (of any title).  The Conversations are hosted by the Office of Teaching and Learning and facilitated by OTL Faculty Teaching Fellow, Professor Paul Michalec from the Morgridge College of Education. The Heart of Higher Education Conversations create a positive and constructive space where staff and faculty can explore ways of re-connecting calling with professional responsibilities. Our time together is bounded by norms designed to create an open invitation to share while respecting individual choices to not share at a particular time. Prior to each meeting an agenda and brief reflective reading is sent out.

Bring your lunch.  Come late or leave early.  This is an invitation for self-care.  No guilt necessary.

Garden Room (Chambers Center Colorado Women's College)

For many academics, a book manuscript is key to earning tenure and establishing a scholarly identity. However, the path to academic book publishing can often be confusing, nebulous, and filled with scary myths and misperceptions. This workshop focuses on helping you to take the first steps toward getting your project into print. In this workshop, you will learn:

• When should I start writing the proposal?
• What is the best way for me to contact an editor?
• How do I pick the best press for my project?
• What does a “winning” book proposal look like?

Facilitated by: Badia Ahad, PhD, Associate Professor, Loyola University

OTL Conference Room (Anderson Academic Commons 345)

This month we will be talking about Finding a Theoretical Framework for Your SoTL Project.

Please join us in exploring how to incorporate the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning into the balance of your work at DU. Blending your teaching and research agendas is a great way to invigorate your course design through a systematic approach.

We will be using  the following two texts:

Chick, N.L. (2018). SoTL in action. Illuminating Critical Moments of Practice. Sterling, VA: Stylus.

Bishop-Clark, C. & Dietz-Uhler, B. (2012). Engaging in the scholarship of teaching and learning. A guide to the process, and how to develop a project from start to finish. Sterling, VA: Stylus.

Please join us if you are new to this topic or have been involved for years. 

OTL Conference Room (Anderson Academic Commons 345)

The Heart of Higher Education is an opportunity to gather as a DU community to share the challenges and opportunities of transcending the institutional, professional and personal choices that tend to separate core identity/integrity from day to day actions. The meetings are open to all faculty (of any rank) and staff (of any title).  The Conversations are hosted by the Office of Teaching and Learning and facilitated by OTL Faculty Teaching Fellow, Professor Paul Michalec from the Morgridge College of Education. The Heart of Higher Education Conversations create a positive and constructive space where staff and faculty can explore ways of re-connecting calling with professional responsibilities. Our time together is bounded by norms designed to create an open invitation to share while respecting individual choices to not share at a particular time. Prior to each meeting an agenda and brief reflective reading is sent out.

Bring your lunch.  Come late or leave early.  This is an invitation for self-care.  No guilt necessary.

OTL Conference Room (Anderson Academic Commons 345)

Season Finale: We will be discussing creating a writing plan for the summer to start, continue or complete a SoTL project. Lunch will be served.

Please join us in exploring how to incorporate the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning into the balance of your work at DU. Blending your teaching and research agendas is a great way to invigorate your course design through a systematic approach.

We will be using  the following two texts:

Chick, N.L. (2018). SoTL in action. Illuminating Critical Moments of Practice. Sterling, VA: Stylus.

Bishop-Clark, C. & Dietz-Uhler, B. (2012). Engaging in the scholarship of teaching and learning. A guide to the process, and how to develop a project from start to finish. Sterling, VA: Stylus.

Please join us if you are new to this topic or have been involved for years.