OFFICE OF IDEAS Newsletter 🗞️

End of Fall Semester

As we wrap up the Fall semester, we want to ensure the process is smooth and easy. We've compiled a comprehensive Canvas End of Semester Checklist to guide you through essential steps to wrap up your courses.

HIT Refresh
Humanizing, Inclusion, and Technology 

Are you looking to make changes to your course? Is it time to give your course a refresh? The Center for Faculty Excellence and the Office of IDEAS will be offering 6 half-day workshops (2 sessions each day) focusing on current and emerging technology, inclusion in the classroom, and student-centered approaches. You can choose to attend just one or participate in all of them.

Professional Development funds of $150 per half-day workshop will be transferred to your department and available for your use. Lunch will be provided.

Date: January 9, 10, 11, 2024

Library Kanopy Request for Spring 2024 

To suggest a Kanopy film for the Library, go to Kanopy, log in with your Fresno State credentials, and search for the title. If Kanopy offers the film and the library has not yet licensed that title, a request form will appear for you to complete. If the film does not appear, then Kanopy does not offer that title.

If you realize that you need a film after the deadline, you will need to purchase a Kanopy license with your professional development or department funds.

Please contact Darren Atwood at datwood@csufresno.edu or Marianne Foley at mf09@csufresno.edu in Library Acquisitions for any questions.

Want to learn how to implement one of the most effective "high impact practices" into your classes and receive $750 in professional development funds? We are now taking applications for the spring 2024 Service-Learning Faculty Development Grant and invite you to apply. During the three-part seminar series, you will learn about this powerful teaching and learning approach and how to integrate it into one or more of your courses. To learn more about the Service-Learning Faculty Development Grant, go to the proposal. The deadline to submit your application is January 18th, but you are encouraged to apply sooner if you would like! 

For more information, please contact the Fresno State Faculty Service-Learning Scholar, Dr. Benjamin Boone <bboone@csufresno.edu>, or the Director of the Richter Center for Community Engagement and Service-Learning, Chris Fiorentino <chrisf@csufresno.edu>.

In Spring 2024 the FLC will be offered again, with the support of Chico State’s Office of the President and College of Behavioral and Social Sciences, and the Office of the Chancellor’s Innovative Teaching & Learning Programs. The FLC will be open to all CSU campuses and aligns with the California State University Sustainability Policy, which “is intended to position the nation's largest university system as a leader in the teaching and use of applied research to educate climate literate students.” If you have any questions, please contact Fresno Campus Lead <fengkt1@mail.fresnostate.edu> or visit their official website.

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