Apply for 2018-19 Faculty Cohorts on Teaching
Applications are now being accepted for our 2018-19 Faculty Cohorts, Called To Serve: Preparing Students For Careers Working With And For Others and Teaching For Inclusion And Social Justice. Cohort participants receive a $2500 stipend and spend a year investigating a new pedagogical approach that they also implement in a course taught during the cohort year. The program is open to all Boston College faculty. Descriptions of the two cohort topics and application information is available on the CTE website.
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JFCT: Finding the Balance
One consequence of the current push to continuously expand the boundaries of “excellence” in higher education is that faculty find themselves needing to meet higher and higher expectations for research productivity, teaching quality, and service to the institution. This leaves many faculty feeling overwhelmed as they try to meet expectations for tenure or contract renewal, much less maintain personal commitments to their health, well-being, family, and community. Our next Junior Faculty Conversation on Teaching, March 15 from 12:00 - 1:00, invites faculty to share their experiences with negotiating these myriad institutional expectations and the strategies they’ve found effective in the (sometimes elusive) quest for balance. Find the full spring schedule and RSVP information on the CTE website.
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CTE Reading Group: Exploring Service Learning
For the CTE’s spring reading group, Meghan Sweeney, Director of the PULSE Program for Service Learning, will be joining us to facilitate a conversation about incorporating service and community-based learning into your teaching. The group will meet twice during spring semester to discuss a few signature pieces from the field. If you are interested in participating, please email Stacy Grooters by February 15.
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Graduate Teaching Award Nominations Due
Nomination forms for the Donald J. White Graduate Teaching Awards will be distributed to Graduate Program Directors across CSOM, CSON, LSOE, and MCAS in the next few days. The Donald J. White Teaching Excellence Awards program was established to underscore and reinforce the importance of the pursuit of teaching excellence in graduate Teaching Fellows and Teaching Assistants at Boston College. The deadline for submissions is March 16, 2018.
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BC Libraries Support Online Teaching
BC Libraries have created a resource guide detailing the library support that is available for online courses. Topics covered include: research and reference help for your online students, online library instruction for your class, e-resources (book, journals, streaming media), Interlibrary Loan and Course Reserves, adding a librarian to your Canvas site, software available for your students, copyright and fair use issues, and more. As the University moves ahead with developing online classes, we hope to highlight new services on this guide.
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CSOM Faculty Explore Teaching With “Alexa”
Smart, voice-activated devices like Amazon Alexa are widely expected to transform the user experience in home electronics, automobiles, retail, and healthcare. What about the impact on higher education? With support from an ATIG grant, a CSOM faculty team (Professors Mary Cronin, George Wyner, and Peter Sterpe) will work for the next 18 months to design and develop innovative Alexa applications to support teaching, in collaboration with faculty who are interested in trying out a custom-designed Alexa application in their course next fall or spring. If you are interested in hearing more about this project, please email Mary Cronin.
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CTE Staff in the Classroom
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Matthew Goode, PhD, Programs Manager
Matthew Goode, Programs Manager, is teaching a section of "Reflections on Being Abroad", an online course developed by the Office of International Programs for BC semester abroad students.
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John Rakestraw, PhD, Executive Director
John teaches "Philosophy of the Person", a two-semester core course focusing on ethics and nature of human beings from the ancient philosophers into the twenty-first century.
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Francesca Minnone, Instructional Designer
Francesca is teaching "College Writing," an online course in the English department in the Woods College of Advancing Studies.
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John FitzGibbon, Programs Manager
John teaches "Comparative Politics", an asynchronous online course at the Woods College. The course helps students use the approaches of comparative politics to answer pressing contemporary issues.
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