Friday, January 30, 2015
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Mary Idema Pew Library, Multipurpose Room (030LIB)
Please register at https://www.gvsu.edu/sprout/

The showcase promises to provide a lively forum for exchanging ideas and engaging in conversation with a diverse array of community partners and Grand Valley faculty, staff, and students who are actively involved in community-based projects. Stop by at anytime, enjoy a free catered lunch, and learn about current community-based teaching and research initiatives.

Loosemore Auditorium, Richard C. DeVos Center
Thursday, February 5, 4:00 PM

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
Regina McClinton

Pew Teaching Excellence Award for Part-time Faculty
Mike Braid

University Outstanding Teacher Award
Darren Walhof

Pew Teaching Excellence Award
Mary Bair
Susan Harrington
Lisa Kasmer
Thomas Pentecost
Jason Yancey

Pew Teaching with Technology Award
Robert Talbert

The Equity Within the Classroom Conference provides a forum for higher and postsecondary education personnel (faculty, administration, staff), along with community supporters, to come together to present and review current research findings including annual retention outcome data, best practice strategies, and specific King Chavez Parks (KCP) Initiative developed retention strategies positively impacting equality of opportunity and degree achievement for Michigan’s academically and economically disadvantaged students.

The conference is a statewide event hosted annually by a sponsoring institution and is a collaborative effort between the State of Michigan’s King Chavez Parks (KCP) Initiative, Michigan’s 15 public universities, and other private colleges and organizations whose missions and goals align with those of the KCP Initiative.

The annual Equity Within the Classroom Conference site is provided by a host institution during the Spring, generally March or April, each year. For more information, contact the State KCP Initiative Office at (517) 373-9700 or visit the website at www.equityconference.com.

Patty Stow Bolea
January begins our third semester of meetings. As a small group, we have worked together to complete a number of successful projects including: a white paper outlining best practices in Community Engagement for GVSU, dialogue around issues of risk and liability in community engaged teaching with Mick Doxey, provided feedback regarding aims of community engagement within the structure of the Faculty Senate Campus dialogues on high impact teaching and learning. We also represented community engaged teaching at the Pew FTLC Fall Teaching Conference, engaged in discussion around Design Thinking with John Berry, and offered feedback on the current University Strategic Planning process via the Office of Community Engagement. We are looking forward to our work together this semester around outlining rewards and incentives within the university for Community Engaged Teaching and Learning.

2014 Pew Scholar Teacher Grant
Recipients: Lara Jaskiewicz, Greg Cline & Priscilla Kimboko, School of Public, Nonprofit and Health Administration
Title of Project: Building Team-Based Learning into the Masters of Health Administration Core Curriculum
Project Description: Team-based learning (TBL) provides an active approach to teaching some core competencies for healthcare administrators that are recommended for Masters in Health Administration (MHA) programs by the Council on Accreditation of Healthcare Management Education in their self-study guidelines.  In preparation for accreditation candidacy, the core MHA faculty members sought to build a more robust approach to team-based learning by hosting a day-long workshop with consultant, Dr. Chris Burns, CMU Medical School, to which all faculty teaching MHA courses were invited, including those from Economics and the School of Computing and Information Systems.  Following the workshop, each participant implemented at least one team-based learning and assessment strategy into the curriculum the following academic year.  Assessment of the impact was gathered through mid-semester feedback from students and faculty.

Wednesday, February 4, 2015, 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Kirkhof Center, RM 2250, Grand River Room
Please RSVP by filling out this brief form.

Dr. Terrell Strayhorn, director of the Center for Higher Education Enterprise and professor of Higher Education in the Department of Educational Studies within the College of Education and Human Ecology at The Ohio State University, will present "An AWE Approach: Acting as Cultural Navigators, Working across Divisions, Ensuring Student Success."

In this presentation, Dr. Strayhorn will describe what it means to become a “cultural navigator” committed to increasing the odds for student success. He also will describe meaningful ways faculty, staff, students, and student services professionals can develop meaningful partnerships that are student-centered, encourage ownership of student success for all, and provide momentum to ensure student success at Grand Valley State University.