Annual Faculty Scholarship Week - Tuesday
Staying Curious: Fueling Your Career Through Scholarship
Faculty Scholarship Presentations + Resource Fair for Faculty Scholarship
Tuesday, April 1, 2025, 2:30-4:30 PM, TB 225D-A/B
| Time | Room A | Room B | ||
| 2:30 | Welcome + Remarks David Hubert, Associate Provost for Learning Advancement |
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| Nursing | History | |||
| 2:45 | Candice Williams | The Power of Communication: Building Confidence and Creating Impactful Interactions | Aarti Nakra | Value of mindfulness practices in college classrooms |
| Associate Professor | Candice Williams: Candice will be presenting on her investigation into methods for reducing communication anxiety among nursing students. Candice’s research highlights the ways that intentional assignment design can promote student success. | Associate Professor | Aarti will be presenting on the ways that mindfulness practices can transform the student educational experience. Aarti’s research helps us understand the ways that “whole student” instruction can transform teaching and learning. | |
| English, Linguistics & Writing Studies | Mathematics | |||
| 3:00 | Tif Rousculp | Meaningful Assignments, Meaningful Evaluation, and Generative AI | Melissa Quinn | |
| Professor | Tif Rousculp: Tif will be presenting a proof-of-concept investigation into the ways that student and faculty use of AI can transform meaningful experiences in education. Tif’s research highlights the importance of not making assumptions about the impact of AI on student connection to coursework. | Associate Professor | Melissa will be presenting on her investigations into the ways that faculty can harness our analytics dashboards to better understand our students’ needs. Melissa’s research highlights the ways that faculty can examine their own practices in the pursuit of teaching effectiveness. | |
| English, Linguistics & Writing Studies | Political Science | |||
| 3:15 | Stacey VanDahm | Gordon Dunne | ||
| Associate Professor | Stacey will be presenting on the ways that student communication preferences connect with students’ abilities to engage with course content. Stacey’s research highlights the importance of understanding authority and peer relationships in classroom dynamics. | Associate Professor | Gordon will be presenting on the ways that reflective and contemplative teaching practices can enrich the faculty experience. Gordon’s research helps us understand the ways that self-observation promotes teaching growth. | |
| Marketing | French | |||
| 3:30 | Ahmad Kareh | Intercultural Tolerance | Jeanine Alesch | Building an Online OER Beginning French Course |
| Associate Professor | This presentation will reveal overlooked challenges in our organization's approach to intercultural tolerance, propose practical solutions, and inspire the audience to contribute ideas for fostering a space where diverse minds collaborate to create meaningful community impact. | Associate Professor | My sabbatical was used to design a fully online, asynchronous FRN 1020 course using OER. One major goal was to create a viable alternative to high cost, commercially-produced online “workbooks” while retaining the kinds of support and scaffolding typically found in f2f classrooms. Another was to focus on a broad variety of current cultural and social issues by incorporating authentic written, visual and auditory artifacts from French-speaking areas throughout the world, such as the Ivory Coast, Senegal, Cameroun and Quebec. | |
| Resource Fair + Reception | ||||
| 3:45 | Engaged Learning Office | Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Faculty Fellows | ||
| Distinguished Faculty Lecturer | Community Engagement Grant | |||
| Library Liaison Program | Office of Sponsored Projects: Grant Development Fellows | |||
| Sabbatical Leave | UN Sustainable Development Goals Open Pedagogy Fellowship | |||
| Open SLCC Grants | ||||