24-25 Fellowship Cohorts Announced
The Office of Faculty and Academic Staff Development welcomes a new group of faculty, academic staff and leaders to the five cohort programs our office oversees: The Lilly Teaching Fellows,
A New Academic Year with New Connection Possibilities
Welcome to fall and the start of the 2024-2025 academic year! It seems impossible to believe that summer has flown by so quickly. But students are moving in, the marching band is holding practice,
A Culture that Values Teaching
What does it mean to value teaching? Whose views matter in assessing teaching? What is the role of student learning in quality teaching? In what ways do contextual features such as required versus elective,
Change and Transformation
Over the last several months, thoughts of organizational change and transformation have been on my mind, as they likely have been for many of you. We often espouse a desire for change without seriously considering what it would mean to each of us individually and collectively.
New Beginnings
When we return from spring break, there are often mixed emotions. Are we really over winter or is there still snow to come? Will we have time to get everything done before the term ends,
Creating and Sustaining a Respectful Work Environment
At an institution as large as MSU, we don’t have just one institutional culture and climate but are instead made up of many. From the college or department level to a program or work team,
Finding Your Support System and the Wisdom in Collectives
Welcome to 2024!
Hopefully, everyone had at least some opportunity to pause and step away from the computer, to spend time with family and friends, to take a walk or just sit and consider the wonders of how quickly time flies when waiting for snow and then,
Opportunity to Advance a University Culture that Values Teaching
MSU replaced the Student Instructional Rating System (SIRS) survey this summer with the new Student Perceptions of Learning Survey (SPLS). Conversations about a transition to a new system began several years ago due to limitations of the SIRS Online system,
Invest in Yourself: Cohort Program Applications Due March 7, 2024!
We have talked often about considering one’s career as a book with many chapters. If you are thinking ahead to what comes next in your own professional development – that next chapter you want to write –
The Road Not Taken: Where Might Reflection and Introspection Lead You?
It’s been a long fall. Somehow, it always feels like that to me and the final sprint to the end of the term, end of grading and graduation always seems a bit more hectic than intended…again.