Monday, January 25 and Wednesday, January 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. Register in Sprout.

Loosemore Auditorium, Richard C. DeVos Center
Thursday, February 4, 4:00pm

We encourage you to attend the upcoming Faculty Awards Convocation and to support your colleagues who will receive milestone awards for years of service as well as university-wide awards for teaching, scholarship, and service. It is an honor to recognize these teaching award winners.

The Burch, Jacobs, & Moore Diversity Teaching Excellence Award
Amy Masko

Pew Teaching Excellence Award for Part-time Faculty
Nicholas Johnson

University Outstanding Teacher Award
Thomas Pentecost

Pew Teaching Excellence Award
Feryal Alayont
Todd Aschenbach
Richard Geisel
Wendy Reffeor
Ellen Shupe
Jessica VandenPlas
Severine Ward

Pew Teaching with Technology Award
Meagan Luttenton-Knoll
Maureen Wolverton

Wednesday, February 10, 2-3pm, 3068 JHZ
Julie White, Writing and Carolyn Shapiro-Shapin, History
Have you ever wondered how you can make your student letters of recommendation (LOR) 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. Register in Sprout. 

Friday, February 26, UClub, 107C DEV
1:30-3pm: Workshop, Dr. Andrew Reiss of the Washington, D.C. Fulbright office
3-4pm: Wine and cheese reception with GVSU Fulbright scholars
Be one of the next crop of GVSU faculty to teach, research (or both) overseas! The Faculty Fulbright workshop will provide an overview of Fulbright opportunities, details on the application process, and how to get started on a successful application today. Immediately after the workshop, stick around for a wine and cheese reception with GVSU faculty who are previous Fulbright awardees.
Register online in Sprout.

We are establishing an online presence to support part-time faculty at GVSU. This will happen in a couple of ways. If you are on Linkedin, please join our group – “GVSU Part-Time Faculty”. Search for the group and request membership. If you use your gvsu.edu email, then you will be automatically accepted. If you use a different email, we will see the request and approve your membership. We are hoping to use this site to provide links to other networking groups as well as each other. The second online presence will be through Blackboard. We are building a Blackboard site, “Part-time Faculty Network”. In a week or two you will see this show up on your Blackboard home page under the “My Organizations” list. We plan to use this to distribute information about on-campus programming and activities that would be of interest to and/or specifically for our part-time faculty members. See the sidebar to the left for schedules of current partner programming.

As always, if you have any questions or concerns, feel free to contact either of us and we will be glad to help!

Jennifer K. Lattin, Pew FTLC Part-time Liaison, Sr. Part-time Faculty, College of Community & Public Service, lattinje@gvsu.edu

Thomas Pentecost, Associate Professor of Chemistry & Faculty Fellow and Director of Part-time Faculty Support, Pew FTLC, pentecot@gvsu.edu

Teaching Circles
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. The Pew FTLC covers the cost of a book for each member of the circle as well as (optional) light refreshments for meetings. All faculty, full- or part-time, are eligible to participate.

The Teaching Circles for Winter 2016 are listed below. Please email the facilitator to express your interest in participating. Additional details for each Teaching Circle may be found on the Pew FTLC website.

Contemplative Teaching
Facilitator: Peter Anderson, Classics

Interdisciplining Digital Humanities: Boundary Work in an Emerging Field
Facilitator: Kim McKee, Liberal Studies

Online & Hybrid Teaching Circle
Facilitator: Kim Kenward, Instructional Design for eLearning

Data Visualization
Co-Facilitators: Whitt Kilburn, Political Science, and Gerald Shoultz, Statistics

Never Send a Human to do a Machine's Job: Correcting the Top 5 EdTech Mistakes
Facilitator: Erica Hamilton, College of Education - Leadership and Learning

Teaching Information Literacy Threshold Concepts: Lesson Plans for Librarians
Facilitator: Ashley Rosener, University Libraries

Faculty Learning Communities
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.

Apply on the Pew FTLC grant application site.

Intergroup Dialogue and Social Justice Education
Co-Facilitators: Joel Wendland, Liberal Studies, and Marlene Kowalski-Braun, Division of Inclusion and Equity

Confirmation Bias: What is it? How Does It Affect Us and Our Students? Can Our Writing Assignments Inhibit It?

Facilitator: Lindsay Ellis, Department of English

Increase Student Engagement in Your Classroom
Facilitator: Scott Grissom, School of Computing and Information Systems, Pew FTLC

Engaging Difference in the Classroom through Intercultural Competence

Facilitator: Dana Munk, Pew FTLC, Division of Inclusion and Equity

Community as Classroom: The Pedagogy and Practicality of Community-based Teaching and Learning
Facilitators: Danielle Lake, Liberal Studies and Patty Stow Bolea, Pew FTLC