by browkaa | Dec 14, 2020 | Faculty
2020-12-07-board-of-trustees-highlights
The Canisius College Board of Trustees met from December 2 – 7, 2020. Read the highlights, above.
Submitted by: College Communications
by browkaa | Dec 14, 2020 | Faculty
Save the date for #CanisiusGivingDay, which is earlier than previous years – March 3, 2021!
#CanisiusGivingDay is a 24-hour online fundraising campaign that harnesses the pride and generosity of the Canisius community far and wide to support areas on campus that mean the most to them. It provides a wonderful opportunity for programs on campus to leverage the day and raise funds for their area.
Covid-19 has shown the resilience of the Canisius community and how we are always present to support our students. That is why this year’s theme reflects “One Canisius,” a unified community of faculty, staff, alumni and friends that invest in the academic programs, athletic teams and institutes that provide each student with transformative opportunities!
This year, you must opt-in if you’d like to fundraise for your area.
What does that mean?
If you plan to actively fundraise for your respective area on Giving Day, please notify the Canisius Fund Office by Monday, January, 18. Campaign pages and designations will only be created for the programs, departments, teams, etc. that indicate they are participating. Please Email Suli Calianno, Canisius Fund coordinator, at lyons@canisius.edu or call Ext. 2712 by January 18 to officially opt-in.
We look forward to an incredible day that shows of investing in the many incredible facets of the Canisius experience, and in doing so showing that we are One Canisius!
Submitted by: Matthew Gorczyca, assistant director, Canisius Fund
by browkaa | Dec 14, 2020 | Faculty
The Division of Academic Affairs has developed a new, streamlined process for the college’s three primary summer funding mechanisms: Faculty Fellows, Mission & Identity Fellows and Arts & Sciences Dean’s Summer Grants.
Internal summer funding is an essential resource for many faculty to progress in their scholarship and creative pedagogy. This new process will make applying for internal funding easier, raise awareness of these opportunities and provide broad support for our faculty. Application information and timelines can be found on the Academic Affairs wiki.
A new initiative to recognize engaged scholarship will also be rolled out with the new application process. Scholarship at Canisius is often engaged in meaningful ways with our community and mission. The offices of Academic Affairs, Diversity & Inclusion and Mission & Ministry want to raise up and recognize this engaged scholarship as well as encourage you to think about the ways in which your scholarship may now or in the future be connected to specific engagement priorities. Applicants for summer fellowships, CEEP and ISD will be invited to self-identify the ways in which their scholarship reflects a number of engagement priorities. Click here to read more about this initiative.
Many thanks to the deans, Sarah Signorino, Mary Rockwell, Fatima Rodriguez Johnson and the members of the Summer Fellowship Selection Committee for their input on the delivery of these initiatives and to the Faculty Senate for their unanimous endorsement of this new process. Questions can be directed to Jenn Lodi-Smith, assistant vice president for academic affairs (faculty development), at lodismij@canisius.edu.
Click here to RSVP for a workshop Tuesday, December 15 at 10:00 am on the many ways Canisius can support your scholarship.
Submitted by: Emily McGorry, executive assistant, Academic Affairs
by browkaa | Dec 14, 2020 | Faculty
Check out this quick tutorial showing how to publish or make available to students, grades on D2L-based quizzes or exams. You can tell D2L to automatically publish quiz scores or manually publish them when they are ready.
Publishing feedback on quizzes is a precondition for having the overall score visible in the quizzes area, activating submission views to show students details about their quiz attempt, and to have the grades sent to the gradebook (automatically or otherwise.)
Submitted by: Tyler Kron-Piatek, academic technologist, COLI
by browkaa | Dec 14, 2020 | Faculty
Using the video here, you will be able to export information about your students in a given course in D2L.
This information can include students’ first and/or last name, which can be used for an attendance roster outside of D2L. The information can also include grades, which must be kept for five years minimum for ease of access. This is because, while D2L does keep those grades for the five-year minimum, it becomes more difficult to access those grades after a student graduates.
You can also export student Email addresses, which can be a way to easily share a file or folder on Google Drive if needed. All that and more information can be exported from D2L should you choose. Information exported this way can be in either CSV format or Excel Spreadsheet.
Submitted by: Tyler Kron-Piatek, academic technologist, COLI