Tag archives for professional growth and development
Dr. Michele Hill receives prestigious honor
Dr. Michele Hill, Associate Professor and Associate Department Head of Psychological Science, wasn’t expecting to be awarded the USG Felton Jenkins, Jr. Hall of Fame Faculty Award. In fact, she…
CTLL Offers Services for Part-Time Faculty
The Center for Teaching, Learning, and Leadership (CTLL) offers a variety of services to both full-and part-time UNG faculty. CTLL bases these offerings upon four areas: Teaching and Learning, Academic…
Finding Time as an Academic Writer
It’s challenging to create a writing routine that is sustainable and adaptable to the new demands of each year and the new schedule of each semester. Drawing on the work…
Leadership Development: Staying Attuned to Your Talented, Diverse Workforce
After a decade of serving as a dean of libraries, and earlier as a faculty member in a graduate program, one of the most important cornerstones of my leadership philosophy…
Teaching and Leading as Community: “The Source of Our Hope”
One of the obstacles I have encountered as a new administrator is balancing my administrative role and my position as faculty. Going into this new role, I was aware this…
Reflections on Leadership
My 45 years plus career has found me in leadership positions in the military, corporate world and in education. During that time, I have used a few practical guidelines that…
Write@UNG
The Write@UNG is a new multifaceted faculty development program that stretches across five campuses and enriches scholarly productivity through a focus on research and writing skills. Workshops are facilitated by…
Space to Teach: The Teaching Professor Technology Conference
In 2013, the English Learning Support department at UNG was awarded a $100,000 grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. As part of the "Adaptive Learning Market Acceleration Program" (ALMAP)…
What it Means to be Connected
October was Connected Educator Month. Started by the Department of Education in 2012, CEM has gone global and in 2013 reached 14 million educators through twitter alone. As a college…
Pretending to Be A Student Reminds Me How to Teach
Every summer, the Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction at the University of Kansas presents the Intensive Institute on the Study of Science Fiction, a two week seminar…