BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY

Search Committee for the Provost/Vice President for Academic Affairs ELECTION

Please find the call for nominations/nomination form for members of the Search Committee for the Provost/Vice President for Academic Affairs by clicking HERE. Please consider nominating yourself or a colleague who is willing to serve on this important committee. One member from each college and one from the non-aligned faculty is being sought.

Nominations will be accepted until August 9^th at 3 pm.

The election will be held on Wednesday and Thursday, August 23 and 24.

The current running list can be found by clicking HERE.

Jeffrey D. Leitzel, Ph.D., Chair, Nominations, Elections, and Rules Committee

USEFUL INFORMATION

• 2017-18 Master Meeting Schedule
• Healthcare details
• PASSHE Technology Transfer and Commercialization (click on the Faculty Guide on right side of page)
• APSCUF-BU Bylaws
• Tenure Criteria and Procedures (Approved 10/31/05)
• Collective Bargaining Agreement – Article 15 – Tenure

Note: While every effort is made to make sure the documents above are the most recent versions, faculty are encourage to double check them against the documents on the (S:) Drive.

NEW FACULTY INFORMATION

• Moving To Bloomsburg
• Getting Started On Campus
• Setting Up Classes
• Technology Questions
• Helpful Organizations
• Research Grants
• Performance Review
• Other Important Information

FACULTY TEACHING TIPS & BEST PRACTICES

• Advising Syllabus
• Advisor Essentials
• Class Participation
• End of Semester Tasks
• Field Trips
• First Day of Class
• Grieving Students
• Information Literacy
• Improving Student Learning
• Rubric Basics
• Self-Authorship and Learning Partnerships
• Student Learning Outcomes
• Syllabus Best Practices
• Useful University Teaching Websites
  • Center for Teaching Excellence (University of Kansas) http://cte.ku.edu/teaching-ku
  • Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning (Harvard University) https://bokcenter.harvard.edu/online-resources
  • Engaging Students in Discussion – Center for Teaching Excellence (University of Virginia)
    http://cte.virginia.edu/resources/engaging-students-in-large-humanities-discussions/
  • Explore the Art and Science of Facilitating Learning https://www.teachinginhighered.com/
  • MERLOT (Curated online resources by California State University) https://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm
  • PASSHE Virtual Conferences: Transforming the Teaching and Learning Environment
    http://www.passhe.edu/inside/asa/DEConf/Pages/Virtual-Conference-Home.aspx
  • Pedagogy in Action (Carleton College) https://serc.carleton.edu/sp/index.html
  • Self-Paced Tutorials Center for Educational Innovation (University of Minnesota) https://cei.umn.edu/faculty-and-instructors
  • Solve a Teaching Problem – Eberly Center (Carnegie Mellon University) https://www.cmu.edu/teaching/solveproblem/index.html
  • Teaching in Higher Education http://teachinginhighered.com/ 
  • Writing Across the Disciplines (University of Minnesota) http://writing.umn.edu/wac.html
• Blogs and Free Electronic Newsletters
  • Faculty Focus (Magna Publications) https://www.facultyfocus.com/
  • Great Ideas for Teaching (Mira Costa College) http://www.miracosta.edu/studentservices/writingcenter/gifts.html
  • IDEA: Improving Learning In Higher Education (Kansas State University) http://www.ideaedu.org/category/helpful-resources/knowledge-base/idea-papers
  • Lingua Franca: Language and writing in academe (Chronicle of Higher Education) https://www.chronicle.com/blogs/linguafranca
  • ProfHacker: Teaching, tech, and productivity (Chronicle of Higher Education) https://www.chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker
  • Tomorrow’s Professor (Stanford University) https://tomprof.stanford.edu/

COMMITTEES

• BU university-wide committees description (PDF)
• BU University Wide Committee Membership 2018-2019 (May 17, 2018)
• APSCUF/BU Officers and Committees 2017-2019 (Feb 2018 update)
• APSCUF/BU Social Justice committee information (PDF)