Special Collections and Archives offers two short summer fellowships for Furman faculty each year. Fellows explore the collections and liaise with library faculty and staff with an eye to enhancing an existing course or developing new course assignments or content to engage students with Furman’s rare and unique books, manuscripts, documents, and objects. Come to […]
Join Furman’s pre-law advisor Maya Russell for a workshop to discuss significant changes to law school admissions including: the removal of the LSAT analytical reasoning section, a growth in schools admitting on the GRE test, the introduction of the JDNext testing option, how AI is impacting file review, how the revision of the USNWR ranking […]
As we wind down from the spring semester and start looking forward to next academic year, Writing Programs invites you all to join together for lunch in the Trustees’ Dining Room and conversation about teaching FYW. Those of you currently teaching FYW can pass the torch to your colleagues teaching FYW in the spring, and […]
In Tiny Habits: the Small Changes that Change Everything psychologist BJ Fogg offers a simple recipe or formula for translating new behaviors into successful habits to help us “find our shine” and “feel unstuck.” The secret ingredient may surprise you: Celebration! Come celebrate with us to share a reflective and joyful send off to the […]
Join colleagues for a customizable Course (Re)Design seminar (CRD) to advance pedagogical innovation while developing or redesigning an upcoming course. Participants will focus on one of three areas of emphasis (or another focus of their choosing); cohorts will be guided in the backward design process with breakout discussion/design opportunities around these themes: Real-World Projects: Participants […]
Do you have a writing project you are invested in this spring? Would you like to connect with other Furman colleagues to achieve your goals? Research shows that scholars engaged in writing groups write more often and are more productive. The Faculty Development Center and the Furman Humanities Center will continue our popular peer-led structure of accountability to help […]
With your first week of classes nearly in the books, the names and faces of your students are probably starting to look familiar. But what happens when one of your students stops showing up for class or you notice behavior that could indicate underlying physical or emotional challenges? What campus resources exist for students who […]
If you’ve been considering proposing a new FYW seminar, join members of the Writing Programs Advisory Group (WPAG) team focused on FYW course development as we explore the proposal process from initial thematic brainstorming to nitty-gritty Curriculog instructions. We will also share insights from student surveys and focus groups. Anyone interested in proposing a new […]
Are you ready to breathe new life into your course assignments and activities? Are you interested in exploring innovative ways to measure student learning and progress? Participants in this workshop will use scripted prompts coupled with details about one or more course activity, assignment, or assessment strategy to harness the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) […]
We pile on “to-dos” but don’t consider “stop-doings.” We create incentives for good behavior, but don’t get rid of obstacles to it. We collect new-and-improved ideas, but don’t prune the outdated ones. Every day, across challenges big and small, we neglect a basic way to make things better: we don’t subtract. Leidy Klotz’s pioneering research […]
The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) provides many avenues for integrating your work as a teacher scholar. SoTL research is iterative, structured, and systematic inquiry to student learning and experience in your courses for the purposes of learning improvement. SoTL is conducted by faculty in any discipline and is informed by the broader literature […]
All first-year students are required to attend an academic integrity workshop in their first semester. In this session, we will briefly review an aspect of the student integrity workshop in order to discuss what to expect of students in the classroom, institutional policies around integrity and academic engagement, and the issues students have considered in […]
