Faculty Services
Teaching & Learning
FDL (Faculty Development Leave)
Faculty development leave of absence for study, research, writing, field observations, or other suitable purposes.
NOTE: The FDL Application and forms are found on page 2 of the FDL Policy.
Download the FDL Policy and Application
FLCo-ops (Faculty Learning Cooperatives)
The FLCo-ops will consist of cross-disciplinary faculty teams engaged in collaborative work that enhances teaching. Teams can be based on topics (i.e., clickers in the classroom) or by group (i.e., department heads). Faculty can join any team of their interest and can submit topics for creating a FLCo-op.
Teams determine their own goals and objectives, meeting times, leadership, content and dissemination methods. Each Co-op will have a presence on the CITR Web site. At the completion of their year-long projects, teams will provide presentations for the next year to the university community through the CITR.
Faculty Mentors Programs
The CITR Faculty Mentors Program will pair new faculty with experienced faculty, from their own or other departments, who will join with
them to form a confidential, professionally supportive relationships. The primary goal of the relationships is to assist junior faculty members in becoming
familiar with institutional expectations, networks and practices that are relevant to productivity and advancement. The informal mentoring relationships will typically last two-to-three years, but participants may elect to have them last longer
The program will sponsor numerous activites during the year through the CITR and participants may attend as many as they like.
Small Group Assessment
The CITR will be offering Small Group Assessment (SGA) for any faculty memebers interested in finding ways to improve their classroom teaching. A CITR representative will go to a class at mid-semester, by invitation of the instructor, and take about 20 minutes of class time with the students while the instructor is not in the room. Students will be divided
into small groups to write and discuss what is helping their learning and what could be changed or added to improve overall learning in the course. Students' written responses (all anonymous) will be transcribed and a summary of the oral discussion will be written, forming a confidential report that is given only to the faculty member.
Small Group Assessment is voluntary, formative and totally confidential. We focus on facilitating student feedback for faculty who wish to obtain information from students on their learning in the course, done in time for faculty who may decide to make some changes that will improve
learning during the remainder of the semester.
FDL (Faculty Development Leave)
Faculty development leave of absence for study, research, writing, field observations, or other suitable purposes.
NOTE: The FDL Application and forms are found on page 2 of the FDL Policy.
Download the FDL Policy and Application
FLCo-ops (Faculty Learning Cooperatives)
The FLCo-ops will consist of cross-disciplinary faculty teams engaged in collaborative work that enhances teaching. Teams can be based on topics (i.e., clickers in the classroom) or by group (i.e., department heads). Faculty can join any team of their interest and can submit topics for creating a FLCo-op.
Teams determine their own goals and objectives, meeting times, leadership, content and dissemination methods. Each Co-op will have a presence on the CITR Web site. At the completion of their year-long projects, teams will provide presentations for the next year to the university community through the CITR.
Faculty Mentors Programs
The CITR Faculty Mentors Program will pair new faculty with experienced faculty, from their own or other departments, who will join with them to form a confidential, professionally supportive relationships. The primary goal of the relationships is to assist junior faculty members in becoming familiar with institutional expectations, networks and practices that are relevant to productivity and advancement. The informal mentoring relationships will typically last two-to-three years, but participants may elect to have them last longer
The program will sponsor numerous activites during the year through the CITR and participants may attend as many as they like.
Small Group Assessment
The CITR will be offering Small Group Assessment (SGA) for any faculty memebers interested in finding ways to improve their classroom teaching. A CITR representative will go to a class at mid-semester, by invitation of the instructor, and take about 20 minutes of class time with the students while the instructor is not in the room. Students will be divided into small groups to write and discuss what is helping their learning and what could be changed or added to improve overall learning in the course. Students' written responses (all anonymous) will be transcribed and a summary of the oral discussion will be written, forming a confidential report that is given only to the faculty member. Small Group Assessment is voluntary, formative and totally confidential. We focus on facilitating student feedback for faculty who wish to obtain information from students on their learning in the course, done in time for faculty who may decide to make some changes that will improve learning during the remainder of the semester.
