Faculty Hub News
The Faculty Hub shares news through the faculty listserv, our monthly newsletter and our WordPress blog.
Below are the most recent blog posts.
April 19, 2024
Faculty Hub May Daze
As you finish up these busy days of April and May, we invite you to end your semester on a high note with programming to help you reflect on the academic year and prepare for a fruitful summer. Our reinvigorating May Daze Schedule is below. Read on for more detailed information. If you want to finish grading or get a jump start on writing before May Daze begins, please join us for our Writing and Grading Retreat on Tuesday, April 30, and/or Wednesday, May 1, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Continue reading.
April 2, 2024
Fresh Perspectives
Spring brings abundant flowers, fuzzy goslings, longer days, and a chance to look at things a bit differently as we emerge from our winter cocoons. In that spirit of spring, we invite you to explore the upcoming April offerings at the Faculty Hub. Learn from other faculty at the Celebration of Teaching. Consider a new Continue reading.
March 6, 2024
Halfway There
As we near the midpoint of the semester, we hope all is going well. Midterm can be a good time to gather feedback from your students about their experiences in your courses so far. Continue reading.
February 8, 2024
Spreading the Love
There is much to love at the Faculty Hub and beyond this month. An adjunct conversation, a writing challenge, a writing retreat, an AI workshop on LLMs, and facilitated course assessments. Oh, and we also started a puzzle on the touchdown table if you are into that kind of thing :) Continue reading.
January 18, 2024
Spring Preview
We are glad everyone made their way back! We hope you will join us for our Welcome Back Breakfast on January 19 from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. to reconnect with colleagues and enjoy some back-to-school sustenance here in the Faculty Hub on the third floor of Boatwright Library. We’ll have breakfast goodies, coffee, and door prizes. Continue reading.
January 12, 2024
Ease Into the Semester
We hope you had a restful break. We know it goes by quickly, so we have some upcoming opportunities that might help you ease into the spring semester. Improve your Blackboard game, get hands-on training with GenAI tools, learn how to implement community guidelines in your courses, keep your scholarship moving forward, and design an inclusive syllabus or a new Gen Ed course. Continue reading.
December 5, 2023
End With a Bang!
You don't have to face those end-of-semester tasks alone! Join us for a writing and grading retreat here in the Faculty Hub on Tuesday, December 12. We'll provide all participants with lunch, seasonal goodies, and beverages (coffee, tea, hot chocolate, and more) all day long. Come on by and get cozy. Stay for any amount of time that works for you between the hours of 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. Continue reading.
November 29, 2023
Upcoming Generative AI Programs
As we approach the end of the semester, a time when our students start turning in final projects and we begin to plan for the spring, I’d like to share a few opportunities for you to learn more about generative AI tools like ChatGPT and how they might affect your teaching and scholarship. I invite Continue reading.
November 10, 2023
Thankful for the Little Things
We here at the Faculty Hub are grateful to be working with so many engaged and committed faculty, staff, and administration members here at UR. We’re sending you best wishes as we head into the last part of the semester and the end of the calendar year.
Little things we are grateful for…
Kitty: Midday walks around Westhampton Lake
Jane: Jersey dirt
Kylie: Fall field trips to the eco-corridor with my FYS students
Andrew: The Cuban sandwich at Passport Continue reading.
October 19, 2023
Welcoming Michael Reder
Greetings, everyone! We hope you had a restful Fall Break. We’re excited to co-host a campus visit (October 25-27) by Michael Reder, Director of the Joy Shechtman Mankoff Center for Teaching & Learning at Connecticut College, an expert in using writing and active teaching to support student learning. Michael’s visit will allow faculty and instructional staff to reflect on the upcoming launch of the new General Education curriculum in Fall 2024. Continue reading.