Brainstorming Lunch & Learns: Handling Heavy Advising Loads

The next in the series of Faculty Development Lunch & Learns is about how to handle a heavy advising load. Supporting a large number of advisees while maintaining focus on student success is a difficult undertaking.  Join us to learn from colleagues and share strategies and tools for managing heavy advising loads. Bring your lunch – we’ll supplement with beverages […]

Updated Roles in D2L Brightspace

On April 26th updates will be made to roles in D2L Brightspace to reduce confusion, ensure roles do what they intend and bring them in line with best practices. The most apparent changes include: The teacher role will be renamed to instructor. All teaching assistant roles will be renamed to better reflect what they can do. Permissions will be added/removed […]

News snafus: Employee, student news had a tough week

First, email delivery didn’t happen last week. (It was a WordPress failure.)   Second, you were unsubscribed (oops!), then re-subscribed (yay! because we don’t want you to miss important news.)  Third, we pushed all of the missed news items into an email on Friday (we’re sorry we shared old news or events that already happened.)  Long story short: We apologize […]

Save the Date and a Preview of Oct. 3 Faculty and Professional Development Day

SAVE THE DATE: October 3, 2022 – 8:30-2:30 pmFaculty & Professional Development Day: Where Are We Now? Where Do We Go from Here?  Student Engagement in Higher Education’s Next Normal Breakout sessions, collaborative workshops, poster sessions highlighting research and applied practices, roundtable discussions to share ideas and best practices with colleagues, with a goal to achieve parity between online and in-person […]