Faculty Learning Community Projects
Open-theme faculty learning communities are designed to bring together small groups of faculty who are interested in focusing on investigating a particular teaching and learning issue for a full academic year. The experience is intended to enhance each participant's teaching in ways that may lead to documentable changes in student learning and, when appropriate, to the production of scholarship (e.g., presentations, publications) that disseminates teaching innovations.
"It's About Engagement" faculty learning communities follow the same model as open-theme FLCs, but are funded through and themed around the "It's About Engagement" intitiative.
The Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning celebrates the work of these recent faculty learning communities:
2021-2022
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Undergraduate Research
Category: It's About Engagement
Leader: Robert Simon
Participants: Sohyun An, Sara Evans, Cameron Greensmith, Tsai-Tien Tseng, Amy Buddie (member ex officio)
Internships as Engagement: Comparing Student-Faculty Perceptions of the QEP
Category: It's About Engagement
Leaders: Susan Smith and Darlene Xiomara Rodriguez
Participants: Tyra Burton, Uli Ingram, Mike Serkedakis
Building Interdisciplinary Models for Sustainable Service-Learning Projects
Category: It's About Engagement
Leader: Jessica Stephenson
Participants: Margaret Pendergrass, Lara Smith-Sitton, Tanja Link, Seneca Vaught, Mack Curry
2020-2021
It’s About Engagement: Navigating Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experiences During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Category: It's About Engagement
Leader: Cameron Greensmith
Participants: Tsai-Tien Tseng, Joy Li, Yan Huang, Sara Evans, Robert Simon, Amy Buddie (unfunded)
An additional manuscript by Greensmith and Evans is in progress.
Growing Student Engagement: The KSU Food Forest as a Site for Service Learning, Student Internships, and Undergraduate Research
Category: It's About Engagement
Leader: Jason Rhodes
Participants: Brian R. Lawler, Vanessa Slinger-Friedman, Amy Gruss, Uli Ingram, Tiffini Jones
A Proposal for the Improvement of Collaboration Among Co-Op and Internship Students
Category: It's About Engagement
Leader: Dawn Tatum
Participants: Austin Asgill, Cyril Okhio, Susan VandeVen, Zhigang Li
Project-Based Learning in the Language Classroom
Category: Open-Theme
Leaders: Alan Watts and Renata Creekmur
Participants: Karen Graf, Akiko Davis, Luc Guglielmi, Zaya Rustamova, Ana Rodriguez Padial, Andrea Scapolo (unfunded)
Teaching and Learning with a "Sticky" Curriculum: Art and Design Pedagogy in Higher Education
Category: Open-Theme
Leader: Diana Gregory
Participants: Craig Brasco, Valerie Dibble, Jessica Stephenson, Page Burch, Sandee Chamberlain, April Munson
2019-2020
Enhancing Engineering Students’ Troubleshooting Skill
Category: Open-Theme
Leader: Bill Diong
Participants: Craig Chin, Sandip Das, Ayse Tekes, Walter Thain
Diong, B. M., & Chin, C. A., & Das, S., & Tekes, A., & Thain, W. (2021, July), Enhancing Engineering Students’ Troubleshooting Skills Paper presented at 2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual Conference. https://peer.asee.org/37083
Faculty Learning Community on Undergraduate Research
Category: It's About Engagement
Leader: Sara Evans
Participants: Yuri Feito, Rongkai Guo, Tsai-Tien Tseng, Jennifer Willard, Ayse Tekes, Jeffrey Yunek, Evelina Sterling (Ex Officio), Amy Buddie (Ex Officio)
SPCEET Service Learning Faculty Learning Community
Category: It's About Engagement
Leader: Christina Scherrer
Participants: Adam Kaplan, Adeel Khalid, Lori Lowder, Roneisha Worthy, Tom Yanuzzi (Ex-Officio)
Faculty Learning Community on Internships and Co-Ops
Category: It's About Engagement
Leader: Lara Smith-Sitton
Participants: Jennifer Dickey, Dan Niederjohn, Cyril Okhio, Sabine Smith, Dawn Tatum
2018-2019
Engaging in Undergraduate Research: A Cross‐Disciplinary Effort to Improve Faculty and Student Experiences
Leader: Evelina Sterling
Participants: Jennifer Willard, Rongkai Guo, Yuri Feito, Tsai-Tien Tseng, Angela Farr Shilling, Sarah Holmes, and Amy Buddie (ex-officio)
Teaching Sustainability Across Colleges: Designing and Innovative Certificate for All Students
Leader: Beth Giddens
Participants: Ed Akins, David Glassmeyer, Amy Gruss, Maria Kalamas Hedden, Vanessa Slinger-Friedman, and Matt Weand
Teaching from a Third Space: Experiences of International Faculty
Leader: Nyasha GuramatunhuCooper
Participants: Darlene Rodriguez, Sabine Smith, Luc Guglielmi, Uttam Kokil, Zaya Rustamova, and Pinder Naidu
Social Justice in the Language Classroom
Leader: Karen Graf
Participants: Robert Simon, Federica Santini, Jaime Cruz-Ortiz, Neysa Figueroa, Allison Webb, Renata Creekmur, and Alan Watts
