Teaching Circles are designed to support faculty dialogue around a particular book or set of readings related to an aspect of teaching and/or learning. Faculty facilitators lead a semester-long conversation, often with four or so meetings over the course of a semester. 

Faculty Learning Communities (FLCs) bring faculty together to work on projects of mutual interest. Each FLC consists of a facilitator and a group of 8-12 faculty. All faculty are eligible to participate. The groups meet over the course of a semester or year, working on either collaborative or parallel projects.

For more information and to see a list of Teaching Circles and Learning Communities for Winter 2016 go to the Pew FTLC website.

January 7, 10am - 3pm – 107D DEV

Four one-hour back-to-back sessions...designed especially for faculty teaching General Education Issues courses. Of course, all faculty are welcome to attend. Attend one or attend all four.  

Each of these sessions will (a) provide concrete suggestions on four critical aspects of the topic at hand, (b) provide handouts and sample assignments for each aspect, and (c) allow ample time for discussion and sharing of your successes and challenges. Participants will be sent a link to a 20 min. video presentation to watch in advance of the session. Please register through Sprout. 

For detailed session decriptions visit  the FTLC website. Please register in Sprout.

10-11am:     
Critical and Creative Thinking
Facilitator: Christine Rener, Pew FTLC

11am-12pm:
Engaging Learning Through Online Discussion
Facilitator: Glenna Decker, IDeL

1-2pm:        
Collaboration and Problem Solving
Facilitator: Christine Rener, Pew FTLC

2-3pm:         
Creating and Managing Group Projects in an Online Environment
Facilitator: Kim Kenward, IDeL

Disability Support Resources is looking for your input on a survey regarding testing needs at Grand Valley from a faculty perspective.  Please take a moment to fill out a brief survey so the Testing Taskforce can better understand the needs of our faculty on campus. Please follow this link and take survey before January 20, 2016. Thank you in advance.

January 25 and 27, 1-3pm, LIB001
Instructor: Data Inquiry Lab staff

Learn to code basic SAS procedures for data import, descriptive statistics, and fundamental visualizations.  The workshop is intended for those new to the SAS system and others needing a refresher on basic SAS procedures. 

January 20, 1-3pm, LIB001
Instructor: Data Inquiry Lab staff

Learn to use the IBM SPSS point-and-click interface for data import, descriptive statistics, and fundamental visualizations. The workshop is intended for those new to the SPSS system and others needing a refresher on basic skills. 

January 12, 1-3pm and January 15, 12-2pm, LIB001

A workshop intended for those totally new to the R statistical programming environment.  Learn to use R functions for data import, install packages for data visualization, and where to go for help and guidance on more advanced usage. Instructor: Data Inquiry Lab staff

Dr. Dafina-Lazarus Stewart
February 3, 9-11am
2250 Russell H. Kirkhof Center

In this plenary session, Dr. Stewart will discuss the need to approach student success from an intersectional theoretical perspective grounded in Grand Valley State University’s unique context. More than a buzzword, intersectionality requires institutional actors to do the hard work of looking deeply beyond the broad segments of the student population to identify how policies and strategies may undermine institutional goals to achieve student success.
Please register in Sprout.

Julie White, Writing and Carolyn Shapiro-Shapin, History
February 10, 2-3pm
3068 JHZ

Have you ever wondered how you can make your student letters of recommendation more engaging, unique and convincing? At this workshop, we will share techniques to make those graduate and professional school LORs pop for our Lakers. Come have some popcorn and share your ideas. Please register in Sprout.