BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY

APSCUF/BU Offices and Standing Committees Election

You will find the call for nominations/nomination form here for APSCUF/BU offices and standing committees. Please consider nominating yourself or a colleague for one or more offices. You must be an APSCUF member in order to nominate for or serve in any of these positions.

Completed nomination forms need to be returned to Jill Bond no later than Thursday 2-25-2019 @ 3 pm. See the call for nominations/nomination form here for details.

A list of nominations received, as of the date and time listed in the document, can be found here.

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

USEFUL INFORMATION

• University Wide Meetings – Information and Schedule
• Healthcare details
• PASSHE Technology Transfer and Commercialization
• APSCUF-BU Bylaws
• Tenure Criteria and Procedures (Approved 10/31/05)
• Collective Bargaining Agreement

Note: While every effort is made to make sure the documents above are the most recent versions, faculty are encouraged 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
• Articles and Essays for New Faculty
  • An Open Letter to Next Year’s Full-Time Tenure Track Assistant Professors by Billie Hara
  • The Five Characteristics of Successful New Faculty Members by Rob Jenkins
  • How We Value Faculty Work by Gary A. Olson
  • The Three-ring Circus of Academia: How to Become the Ringmaster by Michelle L. Toews & Ani Yazedjian

FACULTY TEACHING TIPS & BEST PRACTICES

• Please visit the BU Teaching and Learning Enhancement Center (TALE) website for a list of teaching tips, best practices, and instructional materials tailored to our campus and technology.
  • https://intranet.bloomu.edu/tale
• Additional Useful University Teaching Websites from other campuses
  • 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/
  • How to Create a Syllabus (Kevin Gannon, Grand View University) https://www.chronicle.com/interactives/advice-syllabus
  • MERLOT (Curated online resources by California State University) https://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm
  • 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/

Please help us keep this list accurate and contact the webmaster (see contact information in right sidebar) if you encounter any dead links.  Thank you.

COMMITTEES

• BU university-wide committees description (PDF)
• BU University Wide Committee Membership 2020-2021 (Jan. 2021)
• APSCUF/BU Officers and Committees 2019-2021 (Sept 2020 update)
• APSCUF/BU Social Justice committee information (PDF)

BU Member Resources

Click here to read our chapter newsletters! Please click the committee name below to learn more about it or read their updates/minutes by selecting the time period desired. Meet & Discuss Updates: APSCUF/BU Social Justice Committee Minutes:

• 2017-18
• 2015-16
• 2014-15
• 2013-14

BU APSCUF Membership & Special Services Committee Minutes.

Contact BU

Phone: 570-389-4329
Address: Bloomsburg University
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(Office manager may be working remotely during pandemic.)
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Eric Hawrelak

Office Manager
Jill Bond

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