UPCOMING EVENTS Friday, April 12, 2013 Workshop for Chairs, Future Chairs & Directors
Managing Conflict & Colleagues: Mending the Cracks in the Ivory Tower
May 13 - 15, 2013
Faculty Writing Retreat (FULL, waitlist below)
May 14 - 16, 2013
Grant Funding Workshops (NSF, NIH, Humanities, Individual Consultations)
Lucy Deckard, Academic Research Funding Strategies
Monday May 13 - Wednesday, May 15, 2013
FULL (Call 786.4644 to waitlist)
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The Faculty Writing Retreat is designed to provide the opportunity for intensive, focused, non-distracting, supervised writing time so that you may make significant progress toward the completion of your writing project.During the Retreat, directors Dr. Sonja Foss and Dr. William Waters work individually with participants to solve whatever problems must be solved to facilitate maximum productivity, including assistance in: • developing individual writing plans • unblocking writing blocks • developing frameworks or research questions for projects • writing literature reviews efficiently • coding qualitative data efficiently • analyzing data to develop conceptual schemas • organizing ideas • developing strategies for efficient writing • energizing and motivating
Most Retreat participants report dramatic progress towards achieving their writing goals.
DATE/TIME/LOCATION
Monday, May 13, 2013 9am- 4pm CPISB 121 (includes continental breakfast & lunch)
Tuesday, May 14, 2013 9am- 4pm CPISB 121 (includes continental breakfast & lunch)
Wednesday, May 15, 2013 9am - 12pm CPISB 121 (includes continental breakfast)
Must Attend Entire Intensive (Space is Limited)
Register (FULL)
Faculty Writing Retreat Waitlist CALL 786-4644
Tuesday, May 14 - Thursday, May 16, 2013  Faculty of all disciplines: Please join us for one or all of a series of short workshops designed to greatly increase your chances of securing grants!
 Led by Lucy Deckard, Academic Research Funding Strategies
Lucy worked in research development at Texas A&M University for 8 years, most recently serving as Associate Director of the university's Office of Proposal Development. She has helped to develop and write successful proposals to NSF, NIH, the Department of Education, the Department of Defense, and other agencies and foundations, including proposals for large institutional and center-level grants.
In addition, she directed the university's New Faculty Initiative, helping new faculty jumpstart their research by identifying funding opportunities, developing a strategy for pursuing funding, understanding funding agencies, and learning how to write a competitive proposal.
Before joining Texas A & M she worked as a research engineer in industry for 16 years, obtaining funding from DoD, DARPA and the Department of Energy.
SCHEDULE (All events held in LIB 307 unless noted)
Tuesday, May 14 - Wednesday, May 15, 2013 1/2 Hour Individual One-on-one Consultations w/Lucy Deckard
Discuss one-on-one with Lucy Deckard your research interests and be provided
individual advice based on your specific funding needs, interests and
questions Sessions available at the following times, call 786.4644 to schedule a consultation:
Tuesday, May 14 LIB 304
1 - 1:30pm
1:30 - 2:00pm
2 - 2:30pm
2:45 - 3:15pm
3:15 - 3:45pm
3:45 - 4:15pm
4:30 - 5:00pm Wednesday, May 15 LIB 304
8 - 8:30am
8:30 - 9am
11:30 - 12:00pm
3:30 - 4:00pm
4:00 - 4:30pm
4:30 - 5:00pm
Please call Liisa at 786.4644 to set up a consultation.
Wednesday, May 15, 2013 Pursuing Funding in the Humanities & Humanities-related Social Sciences
1:00 - 3:00 pm LIB 3072-hour seminar on the types of funding available to
support research in the humanities and humanities-related social sciences and
how to compete for them. The seminar focuses on how to compete for grants from
the NEH, NEA, private foundations and grants to travel to collections and
libraries.
Thursday, May 16, 2013 New Faculty: Funding Your Research
8:30 - 11:30 am LIB 3073-hour workshop for new faculty covering strategies for developing a
research agenda, identifying and analyzing funding opportunities, understanding
funding agencies, creating a funding plan, and recruiting mentors and
collaborators.
Competing for Funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF)
12:30 - 2:30pm LIB 307
2-hour seminar on the National Science
Foundation (NSF) covering the agency's mission, funding priorities, how NSF is
organized, how proposals are reviewed, the types of projects funded by NSF, and
a step-by-step discussion of how to write a proposal to NSF.
Competing for Funding from the National Institutes for Health (NIH)
3:00 - 5:00pm LIB 307
2-hour seminar for faculty researchers who are
new to NIH, covering how NIH is organized, how to find and understand NIH
funding opportunities, how NIH proposals are structured, the review process,
and keys to writing a competitive proposal.
REGISTER for these workshops
Grant Funding Workshop Registration
FALL 2012/SPRING 2013 Events (PAST)
Wednesday, 9/19, 10/17, 11/15 CCEL Faculty Colloquia Brown Bag Series:
September 19, 2012 "Gennady Gienko - 3D Photo Modeling"
October 17, 2012 "Frank von Hippel - Chester Creek Watershed Monitoring"
November 15, 2012 "Caroline Wilson-Brain Bee"
These events will be held in Library 304 in the CAFE Conference RoomPlease visit the CCEL website for more information: http://www.uaa.alaska.edu/engage/index.cfm
Register Here
Thursday, 9/20, Friday 10/19, Wednesday, 11/7/2012 Help Prevent Student Suicide:
A Workshop for UAA Faculty
Thursday, September 20, 2012 GHH 105 10:00 - 11:00 am
Friday, October 19, 2012 LIB 304 10:30 - 11:30 am
Wednesday, November 7, 2012 GHH 103 9:00 - 10:00 am Suicide is a serious concern among UAA students. Research
shows 22% of students at UAA have experienced suicidal ideation or have
attempted suicide at some point in their lives. Of these, 6% are considered at
very high risk, reporting suicidal ideation or attempting suicide within the
last 12 months. Among UAA faculty, 40% have had a student they were concerned
was at risk for suicide, yet less than one fourth report confidence in
recognizing the warning signs of suicide.
UAA faculty members are uniquely positioned to make a difference
in the lives of students in this area.
Join us as staff from the Center for Behavioral Health Research and
Services discuss verbal and behavioral clues associated with suicide risk among
college students, offer ideas on how to encourage help-seeking, and provide
information about campus and community support services.
Register Here
Thursday, November 8, 2012 "The State of Alaska should restrict the size of sugary drinks to curb obesity"
Public Policy Debate
Thursday, November 8, 2012
7:00 - 9:00 pm
UAA/APU Consortium Library Room 307
Free of charge and open to the public
featuring the award-winning UAA Speech and
Debate Team,
a faculty response panel, and a facilitated discussion.
A conflict in New York city over the sales of large sugary drinks
is headed to the courtroom and the issue may spread rapidly to other states. NYC's
mayor has proposed that restaurants, street carts, entertainment and sports
venues must limit the size of sugary drinks to 16 ounces or less. The Board of
Health has approved the proposal, and the soft-drink industry, joined by
several New York restaurant and business groups, has filed a lawsuit to stop
the action. City health officials have argued that the plan can help curb
runaway obesity rates in the city, where more than
half of adults are overweight or obese. This event
is part of a series of debates and discussions sponsored by the UAA Center for
Advancing Faculty Excellence since 2003 to offer the Anchorage community access
to university resources as a basis for discussions of policies and issues
affecting their future.
For information: eroderick@uaa.alaska.edu or 786-4605
Friday, November 30. 2012 Teaching Research Methods this spring?
Here's a great resource!Friday, November 30, 2012
10:00 am - 11:00 am
LIB 306
Interested in new research
methods? Frustrated at the cost of research methods text books? Do you just
LOVE those SAGE Research Little Green and Little Blue books and wish you had
them all? Then come find out about Sage Research Methods Online (SMRO), a great
resource available FREE from the Consortium Library!
Learn how to access FULL-TEXT methods chapters, journal
articles, textbooks, videos by researchers about why and how to use different
research methods, and ALL the Little Green & Little Blue Books free online.
Instructors will provide an overview of SRMO and some of
its features and share ideas for using it in your research and teaching.
Register Here
Thursday, January 10 - Friday, January 11, 2013 TEAM-BASED LEARNING CONFERENCEPresented By:
Team-Based
Learning™ (TBL)is an educational strategy developed in the business school environment. Only
in the last six years has medical education begun to tap this strategy's
potential. TBL can be used in classes as large as 200 (e.g., UME) and as small
as 12 (e.g., GME).It transforms
instruction into active learning and promotes the development of professional
competencies in interpersonal skills, teamwork, and peer feedback. Unlike
Problem-Based Learning (PBL), TBL does not require a multitude of faculty to
facilitate small groups and it can either replace or supplement lectures that
occur in the traditional lecture hall.Interest in TBL continues to grow, along with publications on its
effectiveness in various settings and courses. It is an instructor-led,
learning-centered strategy that is learned best in an experiential format.
Link to the following videos from Duke School of Medicine on why TBL WORKS!
Duke
School of Medicine embraces Team-Based Learning (video)
TeamLEAD
at DUKE-NUS (video)
The following workshops will be offered:
Thursday, January 10 Team-Based Learning: How and Why It Works
Thursday, January 10 Creating An Effective TBL Module
Friday, January 11 Writing Meaningful Objectives and Effective Multiple Choice Questions
To Register for these workshops click on the workshop title above.
Thursday, January 10, 2013 Team-Based Learning: How and Why It Works(Limited to 50 participants)  8:30 am - 12:00pm
AHS 206(includes continental breakfast)
Team-Based Learning™ (TBL)is an educational strategy developed in the business school environment. Only in the last six years has medical education begun to tap this strategy's potential.TBL can be used in classes as large as 200 (e.g., UME) and as small as 12 (e.g., GME).It transforms instruction into active learning and promotes the development of professional competencies in interpersonal skills, teamwork, and peer feedback. Unlike Problem-Based Learning (PBL), TBL does not require a multitude of faculty to facilitate small groups and it can either replace or supplement lectures that occur in the traditional lecture hall.Interest in TBL continues to grow, along with publications on its effectiveness in various settings and courses. It is an instructor-led, learning-centered strategy that is learned best in an experiential format.TBL 101 will provide participants with a real TBL module, designed for health professions educators who have little or no knowledge about it. They must complete a preparation reading assignment, take a ten-minute Individual Readiness Assurance Test (IRAT), a Group Readiness Assurance Test (GRAT) as team members, and participate in a Group Application Exercise. There will be little sidebar commentary until the workshop is completed, thereby ensuring that participants understand the process from the learner's perspective. There will be no PowerPoints or introductory lecture! By the conclusion of this workshop, participants will be able to: 1. define the four essential principles of TBL and describe how implementation of these principles affects the learning outcomes of team members.
2. explain the relationship between behaviors practiced by effective teams and the development of competent physicians.
3. describe the five components of the readiness assurance process, explaining how each component contributes to students' mastery of course concepts and content.
4. identify four objectives that should be accomplished during the first day of a course to increase the likelihood that TBL will be implemented successfully.
5. identify three principles that guide the formation of teams in a course using TBL.
6. describe the "4 S" criteria that characterize effective group applications.
7. identify four beneficial outcomes for students participating in TBL.
8. identify four beneficial outcomes for faculty who use the TBL strategy.
Register Here
Please continue below to register for the next TBL workshop in this series...
Thursday, January 10, 2013 Writing an Effective TBL Module(Limited to 50 participants)  12:00 pm - 3:30pm AHS 206
(includes lunch with registration) This workshop is for instructors who have completed the introductory workshop on Team-Based Learning™ — sometimes called TBL 101. They will read chapters 2 and 3 in the textbook Team-Based Learning in Health Professions Education.The entire workshop is conducted in a TBL format and there is an advance assignment. Participants will be asked to read a brief review article on a timely topic in medicine — one that does not require a Ph.D. in the basic medical sciences or sub specialty training to understand! After a brief small group (team) exercise on goal setting and a discussion about important contextual issues necessary for any TBL module, participants will begin the backward design process for constructing a Group Application Exercise (GAE) question that will be based on the reading. Continuing the unique design process that works so well for developing a TBL experience, participants will conclude the workshop by identifying the key elements for a good Readiness Assurance Process Test, along with meaningful learner- centered objectives. By the conclusion of this workshop, participants will be able to: - define group cohesiveness and explain how each of six factors contributes to cohesiveness of groups: small size, stable membership, close physical proximity of members, accountability of individual members, rewards for group success, and external forces that are perceived as threats to the group's success.
- explain why heterogeneous groups of 5-7 members are recommended for team-based learning.
- name the "4 S" guidelines for effective application assignments, and explain how each guideline promotes learning during intra-team and inter-team discussions.
- discuss how effective application assignments motivate learners to: (a) apply factual content appropriately and (b) develop higher-level cognitive skills.
- compare learning by assimilation vs. learning by "deep processing" in terms of how new information becomes available for long-term retrieval and use.
- use an organizing template that enables case-based instructional modules to be transformed into TBL application exercises.
- apply a sequential strategy for developing high-quality TBL modules.
- identify four criteria that inform critical retrospective evaluation of a TBL module and help faculty to improve the module.
Register Here
Friday, January 11, 2013 Writing Meaningful Objectives and Effective Multiple Choice Questions(Limited to 50 participants)
Friday, January 11, 2013
8:30 am - 12:00pm (includes continental breakfast) AHS 206
This workshop is conducted in a Team- Based Learning™ (TBL) format. It is designed to enable faculty to write meaningful learning objectives for a unit of study and to craft well-written and more effective multiple- choice questions that reflect those objectives. Novel idea? Unfortunately, many of us have written our exam questions just before the deadline, rarely giving much thought to how they are constructed, and in the end struggled to understand the statistics that were then generated. Workshop participants will read a brief article about learning objectives and multiple-choice questions prior to the workshop. Participants are then assigned to a team of 5-7 other faculty. They are asked to complete a10-question Readiness Assurance Test based on the article. Then they proceed, using the TBL process, to develop skills in writing objectives and questions that are more meaningful and effective to the learner. The learning is through dialogue, debate, activity, and best-practice examples, not lecture. By the conclusion of this workshop, participants will be able to: - Compare and contrast meaningful learning objectives with ones that focus on only knowledge acquisition.
- Identify key elements for an effective multiple-choice question.
- Explain reliability, difficulty level, and discrimination factor in the context of good examination composition.
- Explain how the 'power of why' in question writing generates so much learner engagement
Register Here
Friday, January 11, 2013 Teaching Technologies for TBL in the Face-to-Face Environment
8:30 am - 10:30 am
AHS 207
More detailed description coming soon.
Register Here
Teaching Technologies for TBL in the Distance & Blended Environment
10:45 am - 12:45 pm
AHS 207
More detailed description coming soon.
Register Here
Wednesday, January 16, 2013 Teaching Research Methods this spring?
Here's a great resource!
10:00 am - 11:30 am
LIB 309
Interested in new research
methods? Frustrated at the cost of research methods text books? Do you just
LOVE those SAGE Research Little Green and Little Blue books and wish you had
them all? Then come find out about Sage Research Methods Online (SMRO), a great
resource available FREE from the Consortium Library!
Learn how to access FULL-TEXT methods chapters, journal
articles, textbooks, videos by researchers about why and how to use different
research methods, and ALL the Little Green & Little Blue Books free online.
Instructors will provide an overview of SRMO and some of
its features and share ideas for using it in your research and teaching.
Register Here
Friday, January 18 & Thursday, January 24, 2013 Help Prevent Student Suicide:
A Workshop for UAA Faculty
Friday, January 18, 2013 9:00 - 10:00 am LIB 304
Thursday, January 24, 2013 10:00 - 11:00 am GHH 105
Suicide is a serious concern among UAA students. Research
shows 22% of students at UAA have experienced suicidal ideation or have
attempted suicide at some point in their lives. Of these, 6% are considered at
very high risk, reporting suicidal ideation or attempting suicide within the
last 12 months. Among UAA faculty, 40% have had a student they were concerned
was at risk for suicide, yet less than one fourth report confidence in
recognizing the warning signs of suicide.
UAA faculty members are uniquely positioned to make a difference
in the lives of students in this area.
Join us as staff from the Center for Behavioral Health Research and
Services discuss verbal and behavioral clues associated with suicide risk among
college students, offer ideas on how to encourage help-seeking, and provide
information about campus and community support services.
Register Here
Tuesday, January 22, 2013 Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC)'s for the Rest of Us - An Inside Higher Ed Webinar
10:00 am - 11:30 am ADM 204Join us for a discussion about one of the most widely-debated
developments in higher education!
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) have become the talk of
academe, with many colleges and universities debating whether they
should start them, join one of the consortia offering the courses, or decline
to offer them entirely.
This webinar features two experts from the National Institute
for Technology in Liberal Education leading a discussion of:
·How to
determine the role of online education at institutions withdiffering missions and
finances;
·Why
MOOC ideas can be applied to course offerings that are not massive or open;
·Examples
of programs that apply MOOC-like approaches for liberal arts colleges,
regional state universities or other kinds of institutions;
·How to
set up new online collaborative programs with other institutions;
·How to
engage faculty members in the planning and execution of these ideas.
UAA's FTC Director, Dave Dannenberg, will facilitate a
discussion following the webinar.
Register Here
Wednesday, February 20, 2013 Copyright for UAA Faculty & Staff
10:30 am - 12:00 pm
ADM 204 (note this is a room change)
How can you use others' copyrighted works or let them use yours in permissible ways? What are the boundaries of Fair Use or the TEACH Act? Can you use works that have unknown authors? Who has rights if there are multiple authors? When do you need permission to make copies or post something on Blackboard?
Please join Mike Hanley, University Counsel, for a Q and A forum on copyright issues in the academy.
In order to tailor the forum to your needs, you are invited to send your questions about copyright issues prior to the workshop. Please add your questions to your registration form below or by email to lkmorrison@uaa.alaska.edu by February 8, 2013.
Register Here
Thursday, February 28, 2013 The Center for Advancing Faculty Excellence
& the UAA/APU Difficult Dialogues Initiative invite you to
A public debate, faculty forum, and discussion:
“Should the state of Alaska lower taxes on the oil industry
to encourage new exploration and development in the state?”
 7-9 pm
UAA/APU CONSORTIUM LIBRARY RM 307
Free
of charge and open to the public
featuring the award-winning UAA Seawolf Debate Program, a faculty response
panel,
and a facilitated discussion.
With:
Mike Doogan,
Journalism
Willie Hensley, Business and Public Policy
Mouhcine Guetabbi, ISER/Economics
This event is part of a series of debates and
discussions sponsored by the UAA Center for Advancing Faculty Excellence since
2003 to offer the Anchorage community access to university resources as a basis
for discussions of policies and issues affecting their future.
For information: eroderick@uaa.alaska.edu
or 786-4605
Or
Visit the CAFE website at: http://www.uaa.alaska.edu/cafe
Friday, April 12, 2013 (NEW DATE) A Workshop for Directors/Chairs and Future Chairs
Managing Conflict and Colleagues:
Mending the Cracks in the Ivory Tower
Friday, April 12, 2013 - NEW DATE
8:00 am Continental Breakfast
8:30 am - 11:30 am LIB 307
Department Chairs are encouraged to attend!
Register Here
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