Faculty Book Discussion, via Zoom: Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own by Eddie Glaude, Ph.D., with Gretchen Jameson, facilitator.

Noon – 1:00 pm Central/1:00 – 2:00 pm Eastern on Fridays September 25, October 23, November 13, and December 4.

“Not everything is lost. Responsibility cannot be lost, it can only be abdicated. If one refuses abdication, one begins again.” James Baldwin

In this “searing, provocative, and ultimately hopeful book,” Eddie Glaude, Jr. the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professors of African American Studies at Princeton University, suggests America can find hope and guidance to (borrowing a phrase from Lincoln) “think anew and act anew.” Begin Again is Glaude’s endeavor, following Baldwin, to bear witness to the difficult truth of race in America today.

From the facilitator: Glaude is unapologetic in his political leaning. Our goal in the book conversation will not be to argue the rightness or wrongness of political policy, but as Christian scholars and leaders, there is something provocative about the idea of claiming the mantle of responsibility, of voluntarily stepping forward to a certain civic accountability in the face of difficult and challenging topics and times.

I read this book on my summer vacation. Sitting alone on the beach and by the pool, I kept wishing I had some peers with whom to talk about what it stirred in me, the questions it let me to ponder, my own sense of responsibility and failed accountability. It will be a delight to gather together with colleagues around this book. I hope you will join us.

Teaching Long Classes over Zoom: Strategies to Maximize Student Engagement

Thursday, September 10, 5:30-7:00 pm Central/6:30 – 8:00 pm Eastern
Facilitators: Susan Gallanis, Kate Robertson, Elizabeth Evans

This session will be held over Zoom and is for faculty who teach long Zoom classes (3 – 4 hours).

Teaching a long class (3 – 4 hours) over Zoom presents unique challenges for instructors as they develop active learning strategies and create engaging learning environments to help students learn effectively. This session will focus on best practices before, during and after your Zoom meeting with students. Faculty who are experienced with long Zoom sessions, including Chris Scudella, Alexa Doebele and Marcia Stanczyk, will share effective strategies they have incorporated into their teaching. There will also be time for some hands on practice using some of the Zoom interactive tools.

Overcoming Zoom Fatigue

Tuesday, September 15, 3:00-4:00 pm Central/4:00 – 5:00 pm Eastern
Presenter: Erin Laverick

Do you notice your students’ eyes glazing over in the middle of an important lecture? Do you find yourself having to entertain more and more over Zoom? Attend this session to learn strategies and tips for better student engagement when using Zoom.

APA Manual 7th Edition: What Faculty Need to Know

Wednesday September 16, Noon – 1:00 pm Central/1:00 – 2:00 pm Eastern
Presenter: Elaine Gustafson, Mequon Library

Elaine Gustafson, Instruction Reference & Research Support Librarian at the Mequon Campus, will cover the most relevant updates to the 7th edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (2020), including the new student paper layout and changes to book, journal article, and website citations. She will also share online resources available at both campus libraries to help students and faculty transition.

Concordia Faculty Seminar: Drs. Alles and Kukor

Thursday, September 17, Noon – 1:00 pm Central/1:00 – 2:00 pm Eastern
Presenters: Brad Alles, Stacy Kukor

Brad Alles, (School of Education, Mequon) recently completed the Ed.D. in Leadership in Innovation and Continuous Improvement from Concordia University with research focused on The Effects of Apologetics Education on the Faith Development of Lutheran High School Students.

Stacy Kukor (Occupational Therapy, Mequon) recently completed the Occupational Therapy Doctorate (OTD) from Mt. Mary University in Milwaukee with research focused on Comparing Student Learning During In-program Clinical Experiences versus Community Clinical Experiences. Stacy is also a graduate of CUW.

Concordia Faculty Seminars are informal interactive presentations and conversations on faculty and staff projects including grants, research, and service designed to promote scholarship, spark new ideas, provide opportunities for meaningful discussion, and increase collaboration. Faculty, staff and students are welcome at attend.

Check-in on Poly-synchronous and Room Technology at the Mequon Campus

Friday, September 18, Noon – 1:00 pm Central
With Justin Frisque, Susan Gallanis, Elizabeth Evans

With the traditional semester underway, please bring your questions about teaching poly-synchronously in a HyFlex classroom or a Zoom classroom. This session will include a brief overview of classroom technology, common troubleshooting, sharing of challenge and successes, and Q & A.

Supporting our Post Traditional Military Students and Veterans

Wednesday, September 30, 12:00-1:00 pm
Coordinated by Mercedes Fisher, Extended Campus Operations

What faculty need to know about military students and veterans and how they can be supported in student success. With representatives from the Veteran’s Services office at Concordia Mequon. Coordinated by Mercedes Fisher, Extended Campus Operations, 262 243 2013

Concordia Faculty Seminar: Exploring Metaethics and Philosophy with Dr. Stephen Parrish

Thursday, October 1, 2:15 – 3:00 pm Central/3:15-4:00 pm Eastern

This program is for faculty, staff and students and is sponsored by the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs (ORSP).

Dr. Parrish’s talk will focus on his most recent works involving philosophy and the current projects he is working on. Last year he published his book ‘Atheism?’ and will discuss the research that went into tackling such a complex topic. Dr. Parrish will also discuss the current book he is working on, which focuses on metaethics as well as a paper that focuses on panpsychism.

Concordia Faculty Seminars are informal interactive presentations and conversations on faculty and staff projects including grants, research, and service designed to promote scholarship, spark new ideas, provide opportunities for meaningful discussion, and increase collaboration. Faculty, staff and students are welcome at attend.

Humanities Roundtable: Approaches to Critical Thinking/Creative Problem Solving

With Angus Menuge (Philosophy), Susan Mobley (History), Brian Gunderson (Multicultural Studies), Gaylund Stone (Art), Stephanie Guedet (English)
Wednesday October 7 Noon Central Time/1pm Eastern Time

This program is for faculty. Each colleague will share

• how their discipline/department frames an approach
• how faculty teach critical thinking/creative problem solving;
• how students demonstrate linked knowledge/skills/attitudes

Includes how the Common Core is teaching and evaluating Critical Thinking through CCE 120 Western Thought & Worldview. This is part of the Focus GLO of the Year (GLO #4 Critical Thinking/Creative Problem Solving) faculty development programming. This is one in a series which hopefully will include future roundtables by Sciences (Physical and Social) and Professions.

How Faculty Write

Wednesday, October 7, 2:30-4:00 pm Central/3:30 – 5:00 pm Eastern
Presenter: Christine Tulley

Learn how to research, write, and publish while still carrying a heavy teaching load. In her recent book, How Faculty Write, Dr. Christine Tulley unpacks how the most successful academics write often and get published. In her presentation, she will share her findings with you and provide with tips for creating a manageable research agenda.

Concordia Faculty Seminar: Drs. Chuhran and Hollander

Thursday October 8, 3:00-4:00 pm Central/4:00 – 5:00 pm Eastern
Presenters: Kyle Chuhran and Erik Hollander

Kyle Chuhran (School of Education, Ann Arbor) recently completed an Ed.D. in Higher Education from Concordia University Portland with research focused on Effective Introvert Teachers: A Phenomenological Study of Their Lived Experiences.

Erik Hollander (Batterman School of Business, Mequon) recently completed the Ed.D. in Organizational Change and Leadership (OCL) from the Rossier School of Education at the University of Southern California (USC) with research focused on Universal Wellness Network: A Study of a Promising Practice.

Concordia Faculty Seminars are informal interactive presentations and conversations on faculty and staff projects including grants, research, and service designed to promote scholarship, spark new ideas, provide opportunities for meaningful discussion, and increase collaboration. Faculty, staff and students are welcome at attend.

Concordia Faculty Seminar: Drs. Kabara and Frazier

Monday October 12, Noon – 1:00 pm Central/1:00 – 2:00 pm Eastern
Presenters: Pollyanna Kabara and Tiffany Frazier

Pollyanna Kabara (Physician Assistant Studies, Mequon) recently completed the Ed.D. in Higher Education from Concordia University Portland with research focused on Lived Experiences with Inauthenticity of the Physician-Assistant-Program-Admission Essay: A Phenomenological Study.

Tiffany Frazier (Physician Assistant Studies, Mequon) recently completed her Doctor of Medical Science (DMSc) Degree from Lynchburg University in Lynchburg, Virginia with research focused on Predictors of Success in Physician Assistant Education.

Concordia Faculty Seminars are informal interactive presentations and conversations on faculty and staff projects including grants, research, and service designed to promote scholarship, spark new ideas, provide opportunities for meaningful discussion, and increase collaboration. Faculty, staff and students are welcome at attend.

Concordia Faculty Seminar: Graven Images: Martyrdom and Sainthood in the Poetry of John Donne

Thursday, October 29, 2:15 – 3:00 pm Central/3:15-4:00pm Eastern
Presenter: Neal Migan

This program is sponsored by the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs (ORSP). If you have questions, please contact Rachel Heil.

The trajectory of the life of John Donne, the seventeenth-century English poet (and eventual Dean of St. Paul’s Cathedral in London), was Augustinian in nature. A contemporary of Shakespeare’s, he began as something of a libertine and ended up a saint. My discussion traces the course of my research over the last decade. I attempt to make some sense of Donne’s life by examining some of the most ghastly images from his poetry, arguing finally that these deathly, “graven images,” in the way they make a case for his martyrdom, worked not against his case for sainthood, but for it.

Concordia Faculty Seminars are informal interactive presentations and conversations on faculty and staff projects including grants, research, and service designed to promote scholarship, spark new ideas, provide opportunities for meaningful discussion, and increase collaboration. Faculty, staff and students are welcome at attend.

Are You Ready for Poly-Synchronous?

Wednesday November 4, Noon – 1:00 pm Central (Mequon only)
Presenters: Justin Frisque and Susan Gallanis

Attend in person (limit 28) or via Zoom. Registration link

After Thanksgiving break, traditional students will choose whether to learn in-person or virtually/online during the week of November 30 – December 4. Prepare to teach with some students in the classroom and some virtually (poly-synchronous) with this session, especially for instructors who are new to teaching poly-synchronously.

Justin Frisque will demonstrate the classroom technology used for poly-synchronous teaching. Susan Gallanis will review effective ways to communicate with in-class and virtual students during class time. Participants in the room will have the opportunity to try out the technology for themselves.

Concordia Faculty Seminar: HepSight: A Personalized Medicine Tool for Drug Selection and Dosing

Thursday, November 5, 12:15-1:00 pm Central/1:15 – 2:00 pm Eastern
Presenter: Joe McGraw

This program is for faculty, staff and students and brought to you by the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs. If you have questions, please contact Rachel Heil at rachel.heil@cuw.edu.

Dr. McGraw has been working with a team of CUW faculty and students to develop a diagnostic tool called HepSight. It is a first in class diagnostic to help clinicians select appropriate drugs and doses for patients based on the activity of important liver enzymes. Liver cytochrome P450 (CYP450) enzymes are responsible for the majority of variability in human exposure to drugs. Unlike genetic tests, which predict CYP450 activity, HepSight directly measures the activity.

Concordia Faculty Seminars are informal interactive presentations and conversations on faculty and staff projects including grants, research, and service designed to promote scholarship, spark new ideas, provide opportunities for meaningful discussion, and increase collaboration. Faculty, staff and students are welcome at attend.

Experiences as a Post-Traditional Learner

Tuesday, November 10, 2:00 – 3:00 Central/3:00-4:00pm Eastern
Presenter: Stephanie Land

As we continue to recruit and welcome post-traditional students to CUWAA, it’s important to consider how to best serve this population of learners. Come and listen to the Stephanie Land, author of the bestseller, Maid, speak about her experiences as a single mom attending college.

Concordia Faculty Seminar: The Provider’s Experience of Delivering a Caregiver Wellness Program via Telehealth

Thursday, November 19, 12:15-1:00 pm Central/1:15 – 2:00 pm Eastern
Presenter: Katrina Serwe

This program is for faculty, staff and students and brought to you by the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs. If you have questions, please contact Rachel Heil.

Dr. Serwe will share the results of a mixed-method study examining the clinician’s experience of delivering an evidence-based caregiver wellness program called Powerful Tools for Caregivers via telehealth. The presentation will share the study results and discuss implications for clinicians delivering an education-based class synchronously (live) using videoconferencing.

Concordia Faculty Seminars are informal interactive presentations and conversations on faculty and staff projects including grants, research, and service designed to promote scholarship, spark new ideas, provide opportunities for meaningful discussion, and increase collaboration. Faculty, staff and students are welcome at attend.

Workshop for CIRG Research Grant Applicants

Thursday December 17, 11:00 am – Noon Central/Noon – 1:00 pm Eastern via Zoom

Presenters: Julie Dresen, Rachel Heil

This program is brought to you by the Concordia Intramural Research Grant (CIRG) Committee and the Office for Research and Sponsored Programs (ORSP).

This workshop is to help faculty with the CIRG grants application process. The workshop will focus on the following:

1. Budget Development (Ensuring that your budget is appropriate, addresses necessary resources, and is justified)
2. Objectives and Outcomes (Developing goals, objectives, and outcomes)
3. Efficient and professional writing (Ensuring that your proposal is concise, specific, and clearly communicates your intent)

The purpose of these grants is to support scholarly activity among interested full-time Concordia University faculty. These grants are intended to function as seed money in obtaining additional funding from outside sources. If you are unsure if your idea is eligible, please review the definition of scholarship described in the CU Faculty handbook, or review the application for further information. CIRG is a faculty committee, and full time faculty in all disciplines are encouraged to apply for a grant. Examples of past successfully funded proposals can be found in the portal link faculty page under the “research and scholarship” tab, along with the application.

Summer Zoom Weekly Drop-In for Faculty Every Thursday

This summer CELT is sponsoring a time to keep in touch with colleagues every Thursday Noon – 1:00 pm Central time/1:00 – 2:00 pm Eastern from May 28 through August 20. This time is for socializing and talking about teaching. E-mail Elizabeth.evans@cuw.edu for Zoom link.

Faculty Scholarship Workshop

Sponsored by the Faculty Scholarship Committee

Tuesday June 2, 2020 from 9:00 am to 2:30 pm Central Time/ 10:00 am to 3:30 pm Eastern Time
(Audience: FT faculty from both campuses)

Our traditional approach to Faculty Scholarship Boot Camp is being reimagined this year. Instead of a quiet place to work with lunch and snacks, we are planning time to learn from and share with each other about our work in the steps of a research project – from idea to publication.

Schedule of Events
9:00 – 10:00 am Developing a Research Question – Sandy Slater
10:00 – 11:00 am Discerning Design from an Initial Research Question – Angela Walmsley
11:00 – 11:45 am Developing a Teaching and Learning Project and next year’s CITG Application (CITG due June 15, 2020) – Elizabeth Evans
11:45 am – 12:45 pm Roundtable Discussion on Current Research Projects (bring your own lunch) – Facilitated by Julie Dresen
12:45 – 1:30 pm Writing a Book Proposal – Mark Wolf
1:30 – 2:30 pm Writing an Abstract – Jeff Walz

One Small Change Can Make a Big Impact: Universal Design Benefits All Students

Thursday June 4, 1:00 – 2:00 pm Central Time/2:00 – 3:00 pm Eastern Time via Zoom.

Presented by Laura Traynor (Pharmacy) and Susan Gallanis (CELT)

This session is for faculty. The presenters will introduce the concept and principles behind Universal Design and how making small changes can positively impact all students in a course. A new Blackboard tool that enhances Universal Design, Ally, will be introduced. Ally assists faculty in developing a course that benefits all types of learners.

Best Practices for Poly-synchronous Teaching (in-person students and Zoom students at the same time)

Thursday July 23, 3:00 – 4:00 pm Central/4:00 – 5:00 pm Eastern

Instruction for traditional undergraduate and graduate courses that would normally be fully in-person will be different in Fall 2020 as we use social distancing. In most classes, not all the students will be able to fit in the classroom at the same time; one method to address this problem is to have those students who cannot be present physically join in that lesson via Zoom at the same time the lesson is being delivered.

This is a high tech set up and needs an instructor who is thinking about engaging both groups of students throughout the class period.

Vocation: Finding Meaning and Inspiring Students [NetVUE Grant] (via Zoom)

Rachel Pickett, with Elizabeth Evans
Tuesday August 4, 11:00am Central to 12:30pm Central/ Noon Eastern to 1:30 Eastern
Drop ins at the beginning of the program are also welcome

Exploring vocation enriches students’ higher education experiences and supports our university mission to develop the whole person. This session will include information and resources about vocation and developing related tools to use with students. Ideas on how to address Lutheran vocation to facilitate faith and learning in the classroom are included. This is an introduction to the NetVUE Grant program which NOW offers a $500 stipend for faculty and staff who participate, develop a lesson for students, and share the evaluation of student learning connected to that lesson. https://celt.cuw.edu/netvue-grant-process/

New and Returning Faculty Development Day – August 6, 2020

All sessions via Zoom

Designing Your Course and Syllabus – Elizabeth Evans, Erin Laverick and Kate Robertson
8:15 to 9:45 Central/9:15 to 10:45 Eastern
Learn about and incorporate best practices in syllabus development and course design. Discussion will include the Concordia University syllabus template, including the latest revision for this fall, how to demonstrate connection to Global Learning Outcomes and what is required to document the credit hour policy.

Active Lecturing – Susan Gallanis and Elizabeth Evans
10:00am to 11:00am Central/11:00 to Noon Eastern
Learn strategies to maintain students’ attention when you lecture including effective PowerPoint design.

Faculty Resources – Elizabeth Evans, Susan Gallanis, Julie Dresen and Erin Laverick
11:15 to 12:15pm Central/12:15 to 1:15 pm Eastern
Learn what resources are available to you as faculty, including research/scholarship support, where to find them, and who to contact if you need more help.

Blackboard Basics – Susan Gallanis and Justin Frisque
1:00pm to 2:30 pm Central/2:00pm to 3:30pm Eastern
Learn how to add content, Blackboard Assignments (“dropboxes”) and set up the gradebook for a fall course! This is an ideal session for faculty new to using Blackboard.

Traditional Adjunct In-Service
Preparing for Fall 2020 Instruction at the Mequon and Ann Arbor Campuses

With Erin Laverick, Elizabeth Evans, Tori Negash, and Steve Taylor

Thursday August 6 (20200806-5)
4:00 pm to 5:45pm Central/ 5:00pm – 6:45pm Eastern
Or (repeat)
Wednesday, August 12 (20200812-1)
4:00 pm to 5:45pm Central/ 5:00pm – 6:45pm Eastern

Topics include COVID Considerations, Faculty Uncommon Return, Teaching with COPPER (Communication, Organization, Planning, Presence, Enthusiasm and Rapport); Student Support and Accommodations, Classroom technology updates, Blackboard Responsibilities, Updated; Accessing Zoom and Blackboard training, resources and help.