BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY
Upcoming Elections
Thanks to all who voted in the recent campus elections.
USEFUL INFORMATION
- 2019-20 Master Meeting Schedule
- Healthcare details
- PASSHE Technology Transfer and Commercialization
- 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 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
- 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/
- 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/
BU Member Resources
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