Please submit the Faculty Academies online application.
UNG Faculty are invited to apply for the fifth Faculty Academy on High-Impact Educational Practices (HIPs). Faculty will deepen their knowledge about research-based educational experiences. A selective cohort of 8-12 will be chosen. Upon successful completion, faculty members will receive a certificate marking this accomplishment.
Application Process
Application available – July 21, 2017
Application deadline – August 25, 2017
Notifications about selection – September 8, 2017
Please submit the Faculty Academies online application.
For more information, please direct to the CTLL’s HIPs website page.
Friday, April 28, 2017
12:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Gainesville Campus | Robinson Ballroom
This event will be a joint gathering of all HIP groups.
Facilitated by: Laura Ng, Mary Carney, Becky Johnston
Gainesville | Nesbitt 3110 AB
Faculty/Staff Preview | 10 – 11 a.m
Volunteer Fair Main Event | 11 – 2 p.m.
The Volunteer Fair advances UNG’s mission of community engagement by inviting community organizations to campus, introducing them to a sizable pool of potential volunteers. Each year, the Volunteer Fair attracts more than 500 students from the Gainesville Campus!
This year, a faculty/staff “preview” hour is from 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. We encourage any faculty thinking of incorporating a service-learning component into their courses to come during this preview to explore possibilities with our community partners. Of course, all faculty and staff members are more than welcome to attend during the “main event” as well, which will take place from 11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
The Volunteer Fair:
– Encourages our students to seek out experiential learning opportunities through service-learning, internships, and volunteering.
– Facilitates community partners for faculty members as they develop experiential elements in their courses.
– Provides knowledge, awareness, and institutional contact for the campus community and those in need of the services offered by community agencies.
– Promotes interagency relations among participating community organizations.
– Contributes to the expansion of the economic impact of UNG in the community by availing participating agencies innumerable volunteer hours provided by our students.
– Advances UNG’s institutional goal of civic engagement.
Dahlonega | Banquet Hall
Schedule:
10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. – Introduction to SENCER
11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. – Lunch Break/Networking Lunch
1:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. – Hands-On Workshop
UNG is hosting a group from SENCER Center for Innovation-South, which is housed at UNC-Asheville, for a two-day workshop.
SENCER (Science Engagement for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities; http://www.sencer.net/index.cfm) is a national program that offers courses and programs that connect STEM content to critical local, national, and global challenges. In short, the SENCER approach aims to make science more accessible, real, and relevant to society.
Gainesville | Robinson Ballroom B
Schedule:
10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. – Introduction to SENCER
11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. – Lunch Break/Networking Lunch
1:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. – Hands-On Workshop
UNG is hosting a group from SENCER Center for Innovation-South, which is housed at UNC-Asheville, for a two-day workshop. Today’s and tomorrow’s workshop has the same schedule and program.
SENCER (Science Engagement for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities; http://www.sencer.net/index.cfm) is a national program that offers courses and programs that connect STEM content to critical local, national, and global challenges. In short, the SENCER approach aims to make science more accessible, real, and relevant to society.
Monday, April 25, 2016
12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Final meeting of the Faculty Academy on High-Impact Educational Practices (HIPs).
Blue Ridge Campus | Room 107
Dahlonega Campus | Barnes Hall 315
Gainesville Campus | Dunlap Mathis 137
Oconee Campus | SRC 587
For more information.
Friday, March 2, 2016
12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m.
Streamed via Blackboard Collaborate
The Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) fosters research-based practices to promote academic excellence across the U.S. Their LEAP Initiative is based on scholarly work that often grows from the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL).
In this session, Mary Carney and Laura Ng will review the research on which the LEAP Initiative is founded and recommend ways for faculty at UNG to contribute to this discourse.
Please click here for session log-in details.
Jenn Graff and Thomas Hartfield will present the AAC&U Essential Learning Outcomes & Principles of Excellence as a means of furthering efforts at Renewing Liberal Education through Faculty-Driven Reform and Innovation. This is part of the LEAP UNG Speaker Series.
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Undergraduate Research is associated with a large number of positive student outcomes and is promoted by the AAC&U LEAP Initiative as an important High Impact Practice.
In this session, Steven Lloyd and Ryan Shanks will discuss the challenges and opportunities for faculty associated with UR at UNG in an effort to promote this co-curricular High Impact Practice and foster student engagement opportunities and development. Potential UR models and solutions to challenges will also be discussed. This is part of the LEAP UNG Speaker Series.
Please click here for session log-in details.
Faculty and teaching staff can apply to join the Faculty Academy on High-Impact Educational Practices (HIPs).
For more information.
Service-Learning is a high-impact educational practice that connects classroom learning with real-world experience. In this session you will learn from Margaret Williamson and Andrew Pearl, about best practices and about service-learning at UNG. This is part of the LEAP UNG Speaker Series.
Please follow the link below for log-in information:
https://web.ung.edu/media/DETI/BbCollaborateVirtualRoomAccessInfo-LEAP Jan25.pdf
Faculty and teaching staff can apply to join the Faculty Academy on High-Impact Educational Practices (HIPs).
For more information.
Faculty and teaching staff can apply to join the Faculty Academy on High-Impact Educational Practice.
For more more information.
This webinar will explain and demonstrate the details of the use of the Grade Tool, setting up a Gradebook through the “Setup Wizard”, creating grade items and associating them with graded activities, student views, and publishing/releasing “final” grades.
Register here to receive access information for the virtual meeting room.
This webinar will demonstrate the use of the Discussion and Dropbox tools, course elements that can be assessed and entered in the gradebook. The Discussion tool can be used for creating and managing interactive topic discussion between individual students or groups. The Dropbox tool is an assignment repository for individual or group submissions. We will discuss best practices with both.
Register here to receive access information for the virtual meeting room.
This webinar will explain and demonstrate how to create a quiz or exam using the Quiz tool and a self assessment activity with its tool. A discussion of the Question Library and using different ways to build a Question Library using the supplemental tool, “Respondus” or by directly importing a textbook publisher-provided test bank of questions will be included.
Register here to receive the access information for the virtual meeting room.
Monday, November 9, 2015
12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m.
Faculty and teaching staff can apply to join the Faculty Academy on High-Impact Educational Practices (HIPs).
For more information.
This webinar will explain and demonstrate the details of the use of the Grade Tool, setting up a Gradebook through the “Setup Wizard”, creating grade items and associating them with graded activities, student views, and publishing/releasing “final” grades.
Register here to receive access information for the virtual meeting room.
This webinar will demonstrate the use of the Discussion and Dropbox tools, course elements that can be assessed and entered in the gradebook. The Discussion tool can be used for creating and managing interactive topic discussion between individual students or groups. The Dropbox tool is an assignment repository for individual or group submissions. We will discuss best practices with both.
Register here to receive access information for the virtual meeting room.