1 / 13

Faculty Led Initiatives: Just Ask

Faculty Led Initiatives: Just Ask. League for Innovations Conference Wednesday March 5, 2014 9:15 – 10:15. Valencia College. Founded 1967 Serving students in Orange, Osceola, and Seminole counties 5 campuses 71,000 students 22% of all UCF grads started at Valencia

curt
Download Presentation

Faculty Led Initiatives: Just Ask

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Faculty Led Initiatives: Just Ask League for Innovations Conference Wednesday March 5, 2014 9:15 – 10:15

  2. Valencia College • Founded 1967 • Serving students in Orange, Osceola, and Seminole counties • 5 campuses • 71,000 students • 22% of all UCF grads started at Valencia • Inaugural winner of the Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence

  3. East Campus Mathematics Department • 22,543 - students • 13,429 college level • 9,114 developmental level • 35 full-time faculty • 59 adjunct faculty • 911 courses offered

  4. Introduction • Are you in a position where there is never enough time? • Do you have innovations you would like to implement? • Do you know if the folks in your division want the innovation also? • If so, ask them to get involved. Take just a minute and think of something you would like to implement in your division.

  5. Adjunct Hiring • Created a structured hiring process • Interested persons were instructed to submit an application and scheduled for an interview • Interviews were conducted on the first Wednesday of every month before a committee of faculty and dean • Over ½ of full-time faculty volunteered to participate • Led to faculty support of adjunct faculty • No good deed goes unpunished…

  6. Mentoring Program • Supplied several articles I had collected • Asked for volunteers for a committee • Committee created; process, forms, and marketing • Dean’s only involvement is setting up the mentor/mentee pairs • 95 faculty have participated in the program since 2009 • 33 mentors completed the program • 52 mentees completed the program • 4 mentees became mentors • Link to clip

  7. Classroom Observation Rubric • Faculty asked about expectations • Led faculty in a rubric creation exercise • Introduction to Rubrics by Stevens and Levi • Old Form • New From • Faculty overwhelmingly prefer the new form

  8. MathHelp 24/7 • 25 pens and cameras purchased for participating faculty • 22 faculty contributors to date • 577 videos • Usage report

  9. Math SPA – Specialized Preparatory Area Started in 2007 Room for 12 students Grew to 2 rooms that summer Found space – Last year fall-summer 21,659 student visits

  10. Intersections & Unions Conference To share best practices across campuses Faculty presenters Held twice: 2012 and 2014 Approximately 125 participants both times After the conference course

  11. What’s Next? • Remember the initiative you thought of at the beginning of this session • Discuss with the person sitting next to you how you might be able to get faculty to help with this initiative • Where can you find fertile ground? • Is there a faculty member who has mentioned an initiative you could help support? • How can you help get this off the ground • If it is worth doing the faculty will join in if invited. If they don’t join in, maybe it’s not worth doing – or at least not in your department.

  12. Questions?

  13. Mentoring Invitation Outline of Program Mentee Forms Mentor Forms

More Related