The Academic Affairs office is organizing a Summer Faculty Development Week for August 15-19. Each session will be approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes long. Breakfast and Lunch will be available Tuesday-Friday with details and options noted in the RSVP form. For Lunch, please choose only ONE of the available options for that day. Please RSVP for meals by Wednesday, August 10.

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Monday, August 15th 2022

Tuesday, August 16th 2022: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

8:00AM – 9:00 AM, Breakfast

Faculty Lounge

Collaborative Annotation via Hypothes.is

9:00AM – 10:15AM

OM 104

Panelists (left to right):

Dr. Jennifer Desiderio, Associate Professor of English, Co-Director of First-Year Experience

Dr. Becky Kraweic, Chair and Professor of Religious Studies and Theology

Dr. Christopher Lee, Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Theology

Dr. Graham Stowe, Assistant Professor of English, Director of the Writing Center

Collaborative Annotation allows students to discuss a source at the site of the source by creating a shared, conversational marginalia on web-based documents and pages. In this session faculty discuss their methods and experiences with collaborative annotation using the Hypothes.is toolset, built into D2L.  

Diversifying the Library Collections

10:30AM – 11:45AM

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Kristine Kasbohm, Library Director, Andrew L. Bouwhuis Library

The Library is undertaking a project to bring more diversity to our collection. How can we ensure that we are using our limited resources to best support the curriculum while ensuring that diverse scholars and points of view are represented? Please join this important conversation.

12:00PM – 1:00PM: Lunch (See Sign-up Sheet for Options)

Student (Dis)Engagement: A Conversation

1:00PM – 2:15PM

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In this session, faculty will discuss extraordinary teaching challenges we face in the COVID-19 (and likely post-COVID-19) era, surrounding student disaffection, disengagement, frustration, and even hostility.  The pandemic, associated economic disruptions, tumultuous politics, the perils and pressures of emergency remote academics have all taken their toll on students and faculty.  Academics seem harder to do in 2022, than in the semesters before Spring 2020.

We will attempt to develop practical, actionable steps to rebuild a mutually supportive classroom community, and assist students who may be struggling to focus in and complete their academic work.

The Post-Covid, Distracted, Silent, Disengaged, ADHD, Anxious, Depressed, Unable to Self-Regulate Students: How to Learn to Love Them!

2:30PM – 3:45PM via Zoom or the President’s Board Room, Bagen Hall

Dr. Marsha Glines

As faculty it is a dream to teach the motivated, excited, and engaged student but it is important to learn strategies to reach the others! Through this session, attendees will learn about the neurology research of Dr. Robert Emmonds, Dr. John Medina, and Dr. Janet Zadina to assist all students to achieve academic success. The presenter will review the significance of meaningfulness and purpose in the classroom setting and the importance of gratitude for our work and our students. Practical strategies such as why graphs, mind maps, and color coding activities will be shared.

Dr. Marsha Glines has a national reputation in teaching and learning theory, special education, non-traditional program design and higher education curriculum development.

In 1989, Dr. Glines was the founding president of Beacon College and in October 2021 she was awarded an Honorary Degree Of Humane Letters from Beacon. Beacon College is America’s first accredited baccalaureate school to educate primarily students with learning disabilities, ADHD, dyslexia, and other learning differences.

After founding Beacon, Dr. Glines joined the Lynn University community where she created and provided oversight of many academic alternative, innovative programs including: an undergraduate human service degree, the Advancement Program, the Lynn Educational Alternative Program and the “nationally recognized” Institute for Achievement and Learning. After 20 years at Lynn University, as a dean and full professor, Dr. Glines spent a year as a dean and professor at American College Dublin in Ireland followed by 4 years as a dean overseeing academic support and teaching in the Educational Leadership Doctoral Program at Regis College in Massachusetts.

Dr. Glines has conducted numerous training workshops both nationally and internationally and is a frequent presenter at various conferences on learning and higher education. Most recently, she presented in Athens, Greece at the 25th International Conference on Learning.

She has published several pieces on post-secondary learning opportunities for students with learning disabilities and her innovative and thoughtful work has been discussed in several books including Transitional Skills for Post-Secondary Success, Maybe You Know My Teen and, more recently, Beyond Discipline: Managing the Modern Higher Education Environment.

After earning a Bachelor’s degree from Emerson College and a Master’s in Education with special education certification from Lesley College, Dr. Glines continued her studies in education as a special studies student at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education. In October of 1988, she was awarded her Ph.D. in higher education administration from the Union Institute. Later, she attended the Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Project Zero training and additionally studied at Chapel Hill (University of North Carolina).

Wednesday, August 17th 2022: Health And Wellness

8:00AM – 9:00 AM, Breakfast

Faculty Lounge

Self-Care and Wellness

9:00AM – 10:15AM

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Dr. Jonathan Lawrence, Associate Professor and Chair of the Canisius College Faculty Senate.

Nadine Natale and Michelle Carberry, Independent Health Association, INC.

This session will introduce some of the health and wellness resources the college and our insurance providers offer, and will include a short walk in Forest Lawn Cemetery across the street (weather-permitting – please wear comfortable shoes)

Ch-ch-ch-Changes… Making that Health Behavior Change

10:30AM – 11:45AM

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Dr. Karl Kozlowski, Professor and Chair, Department of Kinesiology

As higher ed professionals, we often dedicate much of our time helping our students, colleagues not to mention our own family members navigate life’s challenges. This leaves little time for our own needs.  What about our own health? This session is designed to introduce a process you can use to help make that health behavior change you’ve been thinking about.

12:00PM – 1:00PM: Faculty & Staff Appreciation Luncheon

Economou Student Center Dining Hall

This event has a separate RSVP Page Available at this Link

WordPress for Research

1:00PM – 2:15PM

OM 104

Benjamin Dunkle, Associate Professor of Digital Media Arts

WordPress is the most popular website management tool in the world. It’s also free and open-source.

In this session, you’ll learn how to use it as a tool for publishing a variety of content types. No experience with WordPress is required.

QPR Suicide Prevention Training

2:30PM – 3:45PM

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Eileen Niland, LMHC, Director, Counseling Center

Charita Price, LMHC, Counselor, Counseling Center

QPR, the “CPR” for suicide prevention, stands for Question the person about suicide, Persuade the person to get help and Refer the person to help. QPR is designed to increase your ability to recognize suicidal thoughts and behaviors and to refer a student who is at risk to campus and community resources.  In this session, counselors from the Canisius Counseling Center will offer QPR methods and resources for faculty and staff.

Thursday, August 18th 2022: Mission

8:00AM – 9:00 AM, Breakfast

Faculty Lounge

Classroom Technology: A Conversation

9:00AM – 10:15AM

OM 104

Canisius College Media Center works hard to provide effective and easy-to-use classroom technology, and they are interested to know how faculty use (or do not use) classroom technologies.  In this session, faculty sit down with the Media Center staff and discuss how they employ existing classroom technology, and some new improvements or possibilities for Canisius classrooms in the future.   

Mission and Identity in the Classroom

10:30AM – 11:45AM

OM 104

Dr. Stephen Chanderbhan, Associate Professor, Philosophy, and Director, Catholic Studies

Canisius faculty and the Center for Online Learning & Innovation have developed a new resource to assist professors in incorporating Jesuit pedagogy, Catholic social teaching, and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition into their courses. This is not a spiritual resource for Catholics. Instead, the Mission In Curriculum resource is aimed at linking what we do in our classrooms to who we are as an institution by providing background on some of the values that are unique to a Catholic, Jesuit college. Come join a conversation about the resource, its development, and its future. Learn how your courses can benefit by aligning course content and activities with Jesuit social and intellectual perspectives.

12:00PM – 1:00PM: Lunch

If you RSVP’d, you can pick up your Voucher from the Office of Academic Affairs

Laudato Si’ Lunch

Location: Dining Hall

Grab a plant-based lunch and learn about the Canisius’ Laudato Si’ self-assessment and ideas for Canisius’ sustainability initiatives!

Community Based Learning Workshop

1:00pm – 2:15pm

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Dr. Mary Rockwell, Director of the New Buffalo Institute

Community Based Learning allows students to live the mission of Canisius College by actively engaging with our community. In this session, you learn all you need to know to effectively incorporate CBL into your courses. We will discuss introducing CBL to your students and connecting it to your curriculum. We will also review the processes involved such as identifying community partners, tracking hours, offering time for reflection and evaluating the experience.

FYE Planning For Success

2:30PM – 3:45PM

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Dr. Jennifer Desiderio, Associate Professor of English, Co-Director of First-Year Experience

Tracy Callaghan, Assistant Dean of Student Success, Director of Academic Achievement, Co-Director of First-Year Experience

FYE instructors are required to attend the session.

This session will help prepare faculty to teach the First-Year Experience (FYE) course for incoming undergraduate students in CAS and SEHS. Co-directors Jen Desiderio and Tracy Callaghan will introduce the goals and objectives of FYE and review the syllabus, assignments, and policies for FYE. While getting to know one another and building the FYE team, we will review the class modules and curriculum. 

Canisius Women’s Soccer 

4:00pm

Season opener, vs. St. Francis Brooklyn, at the Demske Sports Complex.  

Friday, August 19th, 2022: Scholarship

In collaboration with the Canisius College IMPACT Center

8:00AM – 9:00 AM, Breakfast

Faculty Lounge

Grant Incubator

9:00AM – 10:15AM

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Mary Ann Langlois, Director, Office of Sponsored Programs

Come learn about resources for grant writing.  Connect with other Canisius faculty who are at various stages in the fascinating world of grants.

Introductory ‘R’ Workshop

10:30AM – 11:45AM

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Dr. Jennifer Lodi-Smith, Professor of Psychology and Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs

Learn the basics of R, the free statistical program that is becoming one of the normative data analytic tools in many disciplines today. We will focus on applications rather than underlying math or programming and geared towards the individual who has never worked with R before, or is still getting comfortable with R and has taken one undergraduate-level statistics course. Ideally, individuals will come with a data set they want to work with, a question/hypothesis or two in mind about the data and some understanding of their discipline-specific best practices of how to approach the data. Bring your own device to this workshop!

12:00PM-1:00PM Lunch

If you RSVP’d, you can pick up your Voucher from the Office of Academic Affairs