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Building Communication And Collaboration Skills Through Inter-Professional Simulation Design Challenges, Amelia Huelskamp, Chase Dubois Mar 2023

Building Communication And Collaboration Skills Through Inter-Professional Simulation Design Challenges, Amelia Huelskamp, Chase Dubois

Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings

This presentation focuses on the benefits of inter-professional education, provides an overview of a sample project, and offers recommendations for inter-professional collaboration in higher education.


Building A Department Community: Connecting With Faculty, Kathleen Everts Danielson Mar 2023

Building A Department Community: Connecting With Faculty, Kathleen Everts Danielson

Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings

Participants will learn about building a community within a department to build connections with and among faculty, including strategies for communication, appreciation, and interactive faculty meetings, as well as mentoring suggestions for new faculty.


Lessons Learned: Curriculum Map As An Assessment Tool, Paul Antonellis Apr 2022

Lessons Learned: Curriculum Map As An Assessment Tool, Paul Antonellis

Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings

During this session, participants will learn about the steps taken to use curriculum mapping as an assessment tool, what worked well, challenges encountered, and recommendations going forward at the graduate and undergraduate level. The program will demonstrate how the program curriculum map can be linked to the general educational outcomes and aligned with intuition outcomes (Banta, 2014; Hundley & Kahn, 2019). Curriculum mapping will reveal program strengths and weaknesses before beginning the assessment process, avoiding costly mistakes in the assessment process. The mapping process will assist in determining which outcomes are assessed, when the outcome is assessed, and in which …


What Services And Products A Scholarly Communications Department May Offer Your Department/College, Kris S. Helge Apr 2020

What Services And Products A Scholarly Communications Department May Offer Your Department/College, Kris S. Helge

Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings

The presenter and the participants will discuss what faculty needs may be met by the services offered by members of a Scholarly Communications Department. Some of these needs may include citation counts, publishing needs, scholarship dissemination and preservation, assistance with intellectual property conundrums, and help with open educational resources.


Building Faculty Community Via Oer, Jorg Waltje, Amanda Zerangue Apr 2020

Building Faculty Community Via Oer, Jorg Waltje, Amanda Zerangue

Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings

This presentation will delineate ways for chairs and college administrators to encourage faculty to explore better and less costly ways to deliver instructional content to their students. It will highlight how to reward and recognize these efforts, while at the same time creating excellent opportunities for faculty collaborations and community building.


Integrating Assessment With Teaching And Learning Excellence: A Proactive Model, Teresa Flateby, Patricia Gregg Apr 2020

Integrating Assessment With Teaching And Learning Excellence: A Proactive Model, Teresa Flateby, Patricia Gregg

Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings

Is your department a pocket of excellence? Through interactive case studies and discussion, you will learn how to systematically and proactively connect student learning assessment with curriculum and instructional planning. Walk away with a plan of concrete action steps to get in the pocket to maximize student learning.


Administering High Impact, Faculty-Led, International Travel Courses, Christopher Hirschler Phd, Kira Espiritu Phd Mar 2018

Administering High Impact, Faculty-Led, International Travel Courses, Christopher Hirschler Phd, Kira Espiritu Phd

Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings

Chairs can play an important role in the creation and sustainability of high impact, faculty-led, international travel courses. Engaging faculty is critical to the success of campus internationalization initiatives. This session presents best practices for utilizing faculty-directed programming as a means of campus internationalization.


Leading The Transition To Active Learning Strategies And The High-Engagement Teaching Model, William J. Buchhorn, Elena Allen Mar 2018

Leading The Transition To Active Learning Strategies And The High-Engagement Teaching Model, William J. Buchhorn, Elena Allen

Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings

This interactive workshop will showcase several strategies used in the new active learning model of teaching as chairs from English and Reading at Butler Community College (KS) share insights developed during the multi-year implementation of a partnership with AVID for Higher Education.


How To Evaluate A Syllabus For An Online Course., David Line Denali, Mary-Katherine Smith, Stephen F. Pyle Mar 2016

How To Evaluate A Syllabus For An Online Course., David Line Denali, Mary-Katherine Smith, Stephen F. Pyle

Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings

This session explores how to determine strengths and weakness of an online course by examining the syllabus. Presenters and participants will move beyond the technical aspects such as alignment of content and into the flow of the online course. For this workshop participants are welcome to provide a syllabus for review.


Assessment Manual: Practical Tool For Keeping Assessment Processes On Track, Leslie L. Griffin Mar 2016

Assessment Manual: Practical Tool For Keeping Assessment Processes On Track, Leslie L. Griffin

Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings

Department chairs are tasked with ensuring that complex and comprehensive assessment plans related to academic programs are in place and monitored, providing outcomes data that drive program improvement. Participants will review a model Assessment Manual designed to keep stakeholders on track within the assessment system.