2023 Fall Faculty Institute: Supporting and Sustaining Campus Collaboration

• 12:00 p.m. – Lunch
• 12:45 p.m. – Opening Remarks from President Cardelle
• 1:00-1:45 p.m. – Lightning Sessions
  • Community Table- Sustaining Students and Local Farmers
  • The Galleries at SUNY Oneonta and Campus Art Events
  • Pedagogy of Real Talk: Teaching with Vulnerability, Empathy, and Compassion
  • Internal funding opportunities for research and creative projects; finding external funding opportunities and more
  • COIL (Collaborative Online International Learning) at Oneonta
• 2:00-2:45 p.m. – Developing Innovative Student Assessment Strategies in a Community of Practice at SUNY Oneonta
• 3:00-4:00 p.m. – Supporting Red Dragons: Campus Collaboration for Seminar Success
• 4:00-4:45 p.m. – Open Meeting Times (participants are able to interact with different campus groups throughout the room)
  • Pedagogy of Real Talk
  • Getting to Know COIL
  • Academic Women’s Affinity Group
  • SDG (Sustainable Development Goals) Awareness Committee
  • Reacting to the Past Pedagogy
• 4:30-5:30 p.m. – Happy Hour

Developing Innovative Student Assessment Strategies in a Community of Practice at SUNY Oneonta

Communities of Practice are effective ways to create interdisciplinary support systems across campus to share resources, ideas, lessons learned, and provide guidance for faculty members with similar interests. The Innovative Student Assessment Community of Practice has been working together for over two years to share experiences, strategies, and resources regarding the use of alternative grading approaches in the classroom, including contract grading, mastery grading, and ungrading. This panel of faculty members will share their experiences working together in the CoP, and discuss how they have used their knowledge to increase engagement and inclusion in the classroom.

Supporting Red Dragons: Campus Collaboration for Seminar Success

Panelists from various units and roles on campus will discuss how the campus community as a whole can support the Red Dragon seminar. Panelists are asked to prepare notes on what their office does to support the RDS, what they think first-year students need that can be addressed by/through/in consideration with RDS, and suggestions they have for future collaboration. Faculty are also asked to consider interdisciplinary possibilities. Through discussion, we hope that some key needs, resource gaps, and opportunities for collaboration are identified. Every campus office has a role they can play—we encourage all to attend.

• 8:00 a.m. – Breakfast
• 8:45 a.m. – Opening Remarks from Vice Provost Morgan-Zayachek
• 9:00-9:45 a.m. – Lightning Sessions
  • The GSRC (Gender and Sexuality Resource Center): How to Collaborate & Make Our Campus LGBTQIA+ Inclusive
  • Service-learning
  • How to Get Involved with the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals
  • Connecting Careers to Curricula
  • PLACES Institute – Getting Involved
• 10:00-10:45 a.m. – Artificial Intelligence in the Classroom Roundtable
• 11:00-11:45 a.m. – Connecting Teaching Practices to Career Readiness
• 12:00 p.m. – Strategic Visioning Discussion (IRC 3)

Artificial Intelligence in the Classroom Roundtable

This year, the Faculty Center for Teaching, Learning and Scholarship is facilitating AI Tools for Instruction, a community of practice. Our working group brings together faculty and staff who want to create assignments and materials engaging with AI tools such as ChatGPT, DALL-E, and others. We support a range of approaches, including integrating such tools into curricula and inviting students to approach AI critically. As our agenda takes shape, we hope to share some of the resources we develop with the campus community. At this roundtable, faculty from disciplines as diverse as Education, Business, and Geology will talk about their different interests, aims, and approaches to AI. Come hear what others are up to and learn more about joining us.

Connecting Teaching Practices to Career Readiness

Last year, a cohort of offices, including the Faculty Center and the Career Development Center, convened a group of faculty for the grant-funded cohort, Connecting Career Readiness to Teaching Practice. Participating faculty created new or revised syllabi and assignments inspired by the National Association of Colleges and Employers’ Career Readiness Competencies. This year, the Faculty Center is recruiting a new cohort of instructors to continue this work. At this panel presentation, we’ll share information about this opportunity. Faculty from our first cohort will also present samples of their grant-funded teaching materials.