Summer Faculty Development Week 2023
The Academic Affairs office is organizing a Summer Faculty Development Week for August 21-25. 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. RSVP by August 16th!
Bookmark this page to stay tuned for more information and other events happening this week! More sessions will be announced soon!
One-Page Itineraries
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Monday, August 21st, 2023: New Faculty Orientation & Chairs Professional Development
Breakfast
New Faculty: Faculty Lounge
Chairs and Program Directors: Tim Horton’s Vouchers
8:00 AM – 9:00 AM
Diversity and Inclusion
9:30 AM – 10:30 AM
New Faculty
Department Chairs
D2L with COLI
10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
General Roundtable
10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
Andrew L. Bouwhuis Library
11:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Schedules & Course Leaf
11:30 AM – 1:00 PM
Campus Tour
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Lunch
1:00 PM – 2:30 PM
Griff Center
2:30 PM – 3:30 PM
Hiring & Addressing Personnel Changes
2:30 PM – 3:30 PM
FERPA/Financial Aid
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Admissions & Fundraising
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Summer 2023 Faculty Development Week
Tuesday, August 22nd, 2023
Breakfast
Outside of SH-1017
8:00 AM – 9:00 AM
An assortment of pastries, bagels, fruits, freshly brewed coffee, tea, and juices will be served. Come socialize before the sessions start!
Title IX/Clery/VAWA: “I Have So Many Questions”
Deborah Owens, Title IX Coordinator & Associate Dean of Students
SH 1017
9:00 AM – 10:15 AM
You probably hear these subjects being talked about all the time, or perhaps you don’t. What are these? Why are they important? Do I play a role as a faculty member? This session will provide background about all 3 of these laws, why they are so important, especially in Higher Education and we will review the responsibilities of faculty under these laws and Canisius policy. The session will conclude with a Q&A discussion around the topics. All concerns and/or questions will be welcome and answered.
Cura Personalis in Action
(From left to right)
Jennifer Herrmann, Associate Dean of Student Success & Student Care Manager
Eileen Niland, Director & Counselor, Counseling Center
Deborah Owens, Title IX Coordinator & Associate Dean of Students
SH 1017
10:30AM – 11:45 AM
How to support students who are struggling and refer them to the appropriate resources.
Lunch
Outside of SH 1017
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Vouchers for Dining Hall
Alternative Grading Discussion
(From left to right)
Dr. Nathan Fox, Assistant Professor, Mathematics
Dr. Karl Kozlowski, Professor & Chair, Kinesiology
SH 1017
1:00 PM – 2:15 PM
Professors Karl Kozlowski and Nathan Fox discuss new developments in grading, aimed at a more accurate assessment of student learning. This motivates students to learn, rather than reinforcing traditional, unwritten curriculum that creates special challenges for certain students.
Teaching with Hypothes.is
Dr. Shyam Sriram, Assistant Professor, Political Science
SH 1017
2:30 PM -3:45 PM
Join Dr. Shyam Sriram as he goes through how he uses Hypothes.is in his Political Science courses and gives helpful tips!
Wednesday, August 23rd, 2023
Breakfast
Outside of SH 1017
8:00 AM – 9:00 AM
Tim Horton’s Vouchers
Canisius Diversity Dashboard & 2023 Campus Climate Survey on Race
Fatima Rodriguez Johnson, Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion
SH 1017
9:00 AM – 10:15 AM
In this session, Fatima Rodriguez Johnson gives us an overview of the Canisius Diversity Dashboard and discusses 2023 Climate Survey on Race.
Code Switching/Acting White
Bennie Williams, Assistant Dean of Students & Director, Multicultural Center
SH 1017
10:30 AM – 11:45 AM
Code-switching can be defined as “the practice of alternating between two or more languages or varieties of language in conversation”. In this presentation, participants will understand why code-switching happens and how to appropriately respond and interact with students, faculty, and staff. Using the book Acting White: Rethinking Race in “Post-Racial America by Devon W. Carbado and Mitu Gulati as foundation, participants will be able to come away with an understanding of how an individual conforms to behavior stereotypically associated with a certain race.
Sustainability Lunch
Outside of SH 1017
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
In this lunch, Sustainability Leader Genevieve Fontana will talk about how to be a sustainable professor while we enjoy a plant-based meal from Sunshine Vegan Eats.
QPR Suicide Prevention
(From left to right)
Mike Cammarata, LMHC, Associate Director & Counselor, Counseling Center
Charita Price, LMHC, Counselor, Counseling Center
SH 1017
1:00 PM – 2:15 PM
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.
Robots holding hands, created by Bing Image, based on DALL-E
Stump the AI
COLI
SH 1017
2:30 PM – 3:45 PM
In this session, COLI will give a quick overview of LLM AI’s (Large Language Model Artificial Intelligence). After this quick introduction, COLI spin up a few of the most popular AI’s and allow the audience to give us prompts to put into the AI. We will then discuss the output.
Thursday, August 24th, 2023
Breakfast
Outside of SH 1017
8:00 AM – 9:00 AM
Tim Horton’s Vouchers
Teaching and Learning with the Bouwhuis Library
Lisa Sullivan, Collection Services Librarian
SH 1017
9:00 AM – 10:15 AM
Come and join our fantastic librarian as she guides you through navigating the library resources and site, requesting resources, library instruction options as well as how to receive research assistance for you and your students.
Information Literacy in the Core
(From left to right)
Dr. Patricia Coward, Library Assessment and Instruction Coordinator
Dr. Stephen Chanderbhan, Associate Professor, Philosophy & Director, Catholic Studies
SH 1017
10:30 AM – 11:45 AM
Information Literacy is much more than just knowing how to cite books and articles in a bibliography. Rather, it refers to the interconnected nexus of skills associated with finding, understanding, critically evaluating, and ethically using claims and sources in support of one’s own knowledge claims. All these tasks are introduced and reinforced in various ways to all Canisius students through the Core Curriculum. In this interactive presentation, Dr. Steve Chanderbhan and Dr. Pat Coward will review how Information Literacy skills are addressed in various parts of the Core and facilitate a discussion about how these skills, which are becoming more and more crucially important, can be highlighted and more intentionally developed in Core courses and beyond.
Lunch
Outside of SH 1017
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Today, we urge you to experience restaurants nearby Canisius! Here are a few:
- The Great Aussie Bite Food Truck will be on Campus (Vouchers will be available for the Food Truck!)
- Or feel free to explore nearby:
- Buffalo’s Golden Corner
- Lloyd
- Cole’s
- Mythos
- SATO
- Eggsperience
- And more besides!
Retirement & TIAA
(From left to right)
Dawn Rotterman Benefits/HRIS Manager, Human Resources
Edmund Haspett, Financial Consultant, TIAA
SH 1017
1:00 PM -2:15 PM
The road to retirement can be a long (and bumpy!) one. Luckily, Canisius HR and TIAA can help make it easier! In this session, Dawn Rotterman will give an overview of how to enroll in Canisius’s Retirement Plan and how to change contributions. Afterward, Edmund Haspett will provide information focusing on contributing to retirement and creating a budgeting plan for contributing.
Mission and Identity in the Classroom
Dr. Stephen Chanderbhan, Associate Professor, Philosophy & Director, Catholic Studies
SH 1017
2:30 PM – 3:45 PM
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.
New Student Convocation
Koessler Athletic Center, 4:00 PM
Save the date to start a new tradition welcoming our incoming class at New Student Convocation on Thursday, August 24 at 4pm in the Koessler Athletic Center! As a part of the event, new students will process in through two lines of faculty and staff paralleling the procession at commencement. All faculty and staff attending will receive t-shirts sporting the new Canisius branding to wear for the occasion! We hope you will join in this exciting new tradition – stay tuned to your email and The Dome for RSVP information later in the month.