Faculty Academy Promotes Student Success

The Center for Engaged Teaching and Learning sponsors monthly meetings with Senate and non‐Senate faculty members interested in supporting instruction of first-year students through the Faculty Academy on Teaching First-Year Students.

This year, monthly meetings focus on topics that intersect with “Implications of Deliberate Practice for Academic Performance.” The goal is to refine faculty members’ understanding of first-year students’ preparation, dispositions and needs for further instructional resource planning. To support this work, the Faculty Academy on Teaching First-Year Students offers a certificate program. A description of the certificate program is posted online.

Benefits to participating in the academy include:

• opportunities to collaborate with faculty members with similar instructional responsibilities from a range of disciplines;
• development of innovative strategies to increase first-year success; and
• creation of resources for all instructors of first-year courses to share on the Teaching Academy website.

Faculty members interested exploring the instructional needs of first-year students and planning support activities are invited to attend the monthly meetings, held from noon to 1:15 p.m. in the Acorn Room of the Leo and Dottie Kolligian Library (KL 159). Upcoming meeting dates are:

• Oct. 12
• Nov. 16
• Dec. 7

For more information, contact Adriana Signorini.