CFE Newsletter
Tuesday, May 17, 2022
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Dear Faculty and Friends, This will be the last CFE email for this academic year. While we will re-engage with our emails in August, please know we are here to help you all summer. We wish you a relaxing and productive summer.
Best, The CFE Team Course Evaluation Reports Release on May 21stTo access your course evaluation reports, please go to your account and make sure the Selected Term is set to Spring 2022. Here are a template and short articles that provide some strategies and tips for contextualizing and interpreting course evaluations. Ask a Trusted Colleague to Help How to make the best of bad course evaluations Course evaluations as a tool for growth My worst student ratings ever If you have trouble accessing the articles or would like to review and discuss your course evaluations with a CFE instructional designer, please email cfe@montana.edu to set up an appointment.
Undergraduate Research Mentoring for FacultyMonday, May 23 || 1:00 – 3:00 pm || Romney 236 Facilitated by Jennifer Brown, Associate Professor, Chemical & Biological Engineering and Nika Stoop, Program Lead – Research/Scholarship, Center for Faculty Excellence **Last offered in May 2021 - Half of this training is similar to 2021 and half is new material.** Looking for some ideas on how to best mentor undergraduate students in research? This two-hour session will go over principles for undergraduate mentoring: aligning expectations and assessing understanding. We will suggest some tools and practices to help you and your students navigate the mentor relationship. If you have graduate students who will be mentoring this summer, please let them know about the following session: Undergraduate Research Mentoring for Graduate Student MentorsTuesday, May 24 || 1:00 – 3:00 pm || Romney 236 Facilitated by Jennifer Brown, Associate Professor, Chemical & Biological Engineering and Dana Skorupa, Assistant Research Professor, Center for Biofilm Engineering/ Thermal Biology Institute **Last offered in May 2021 - Half of this training is similar to 2021 and half is new material.** Looking for some ideas on how to best mentor undergraduate students in research? This two-hour session will go over principles for undergraduate mentoring: aligning expectations and assessing understanding. We will suggest some tools and practices to help you and your students navigate the mentor relationship.
Visit the CFE website for the most up-to-date listing and links for registration. For a full archive of past workshops, visit the Recorded Workshop library
Join the Pilot for Student-to-student Peer Feedback ToolWe have an opportunity for 12 faculty to pilot two different peer grading platforms this fall. These tools increase student team-based learning and enable students to give each other feedback on assignments. If you are interested in learning more or participating in these pilots, please contact Dean Adams (deanadams@montana.edu). MSU Selected to Participate in the Program to Enhance Organizational Research Impacts Capacity (ORIC)MSU was selected to participate in the NSF-funded Center for Advancing Research Impact
in Society’s (ARIS) Program to Enhance Organizational Research Impacts Capacity (ORIC).
ARIS works with scientists and engagement practitioners to build capacity, advance
scholarship, grow partnerships and provide resources to help them engage with and
demonstrate the impact of research in their communities and society. Learn more
Upcoming NSF Division of Biological Infrastructure Webinar on CAREER ProgramPlease join us Tuesday, May 17th, 3pm-4pm ET for NSF-DBI’s Virtual Office Hour. Program Officers will introduce the Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program and discuss recent updates to the solicitation. They will also provide tips on how to write a great CAREER proposal. It is an opportunity to raise questions and communicate directly with program officers in your field. To participate, please register using the link below: There will be a 30-minute presentation, followed by an open Q&A session with Program Officers. Workshop: Record your Classroom Lectures with PanoptoTuesday, May 17 || 3:00 - 4:00 pm || Barnard Hall 108 Join us for an in-person workshop and learn how to use Panopto, our new institutionally-supported lecture capture service, to record your classroom lectures! In this workshop you will learn how to:
For more information about Panopto, please visit the Panopto page on the Academic Technology & Outreach website. 2022-2023 Integrating Writing Across MSU Teaching GrantsThe MSU Writing Center, with funding from a private donor, welcomes proposals for the Integrating Writing Across MSU Teaching Grants Program, 2022-2023. Grants of $2000 will be awarded to up to five faculty to work with the Writing Center over Summer 2022 to integrate writing and Writing Center support into their 2022-2023 courses. The deadline for proposal submission is May 20, 2022 at 5:00 p.m. Questions regarding the Integrating Writing Across MSU Grants and application procedures should be directed to the Director of the Writing Center, Michelle Miley (michelle.miley@montana.edu).
This online resource is available to the MSU community free of charge. Learn more about how to register. May 24, 2022 at 2:00 PM ET (12:00 pm MT) Guest Expert Webinar: How to Edit Scholarly Volumes: Lessons from the Presumed Incompetent
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