Wednesday, 08 Oct 2014
Brown Bag: Portfolio Development
Learn how to package your professional credentials as you prepare materials for promotion to full professor. This session is targeted toward associate professors and their mentors, however, assistant professors and their mentors also would benefit. Presenters are CALS senior associate dean Joe Colletti and associate dean for academic and global programs David Acker. Please bring your lunch; beverages and dessert will be provided.
Award-Winning Faculty Series: We're All in This Together: Techniques for Student Engagement
Engineering professor Alan Russell shares his award-winning teaching techniques for connecting to the ever-changing student population at Iowa State. Learn how to improve student investment in your classroom, create classroom community, and help students visualize how disciplinary knowledge connects to exciting future careers.
Thursday, 09 Oct 2014
Library workshop: Scopus database
Scopus is a large, multidisciplinary database of peer-reviewed journal articles, books, conference proceedings and patents. This is a hands-on workshop with enrollment limited to 48.
Monday, 13 Oct 2014
Training: "How to Write a P&S Position Description"
University human resources is offering training on "How to Write a Professional and Scientific Position Description" in conjunction with the new PeopleAdmin 7 system training. Anyone who writes or assists with writing position descriptions is encouraged to attend. Training is offered weekly beginning Aug. 26 through Nov. 24. To register, go to AccessPlus (Employee tab > UHR Training) and choose the class you wish to attend.
Learning Community: Service-Learning
Are you interested in developing, or enhancing, a service-learning component within your course? You are invited to join this dynamic, interdisciplinary group as we walk-through the process of integrating service-learning into the curriculum. These interactive sessions will include topical discussions, readings, and sharing of best practices.
Online Tele-Workshop: Multiweek course: Developing the Resilient Writing Spirit: How to Overcome Shame and Impostor Feeling - 2
This is a 3-week workshop focused on developing one's sense of worthiness to express one's ideas and become prolific as a minoritized scholar.
Wednesday, 15 Oct 2014
HeartReach Mobile Lab
The HeartReach Mobile Lab will be doing heart disease and stroke screenings. Call 866-935-5432 to make an appointment.
Online Tele-Workshop: How to Have Healthy Conflict
Do you often feel drained by departmental drama? Do feel unclear how to handle conflicts that arise in your department? Are you unsure when, where, and how to manage conflict with people who will be voting on your tenure?
Award-Winning Faculty Series: Connecting with Diverse Learners: How can we teach when people learn so differently?
Leo Timms, award-winning Dairy Science and Morrill professor, shares how he uses context and application to relate to diverse learners both in his ISU classroom and in his experiences as an extension teacher. See how Leo's techniques for making science simple, understandable, and economical (where appropriate) connect with not only ISU's student population, but also farmers, grocers, and elementary children.
Training: Safe Zone 101
Safe Zone 101 Training is a 3-hour training program that uses interactive scenarios to prepare trainees in creating Safe Zones on campus. Faculty, staff and graduate assistants are welcome and encouraged to register. Part of Coming Out Week.
Research workshop: Submitting a competitive grant proposal
Uschi Niethammer, program officer for the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), will make a presentation about this German government- and EU-funded agency and explain its culture, the wide variety of RFPs, review process and suggestions on how to submit a successful grant proposal to DAAD.