Spring Write Now! Accountability Groups
ZoomDo 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 […]
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Faculty Development Center Events
Lunch & Learn: An Introduction to Multi-Modal Assignments (Spring Seminar Series)
Daniel Dining Hall - Trustees Dining RoomMultimodal assignments—assignments that ask students to use more than one mode of communication, such as verbal + visual or verbal + aural—offer students a challenge while allowing them to combine […]
Lunch & Learn: Teaching Development and Innovation Grant Brainstorm and Panel
Daniel Dining Hall - Trustees Dining RoomThe FDC offers two primary grant programs – Teaching Development and Teaching Innovation - to enhance teaching pedagogy that facilitates student learning and to integrate new technologies that enhance or […]
Spring 2024 Reading Circle – Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier
Duke Library - Room 042The conversation about happiness--what it is, what it isn't, and how to cultivate it--is an ongoing discussion.  Join us to learn more about what Build the Life you Want The Art […]
Learning by Design Studio – Two Stage Exams
On-DemandThe two-stage exam method approaches the act of taking an exam as an individual and a team effort and views course-based assessments as opportunities both to formally assess learning and […]
Learning by Design Studio – Play Pedagogy: What’s all the FUn About?
On-DemandIn this Learning By Design Studio we'll introduce the benefits and and principles of Play Pedagogy in Higher education. There will be an opportunity to draw (or even sculpt clay […]
Spring 2024 Reading Circle – Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions
Duke Library - Pitts Room (Room 203) 3300 Poinsett Hwy,, Greenville, South CarolinaWith her genius for demystifying science, Temple Grandin draws on cutting-edge research to take us inside visual thinking and uncover how a world increasingly geared to the verbal tends to […]
Designing Multimodal Assignments Workshop (Spring Seminar Series)
Duke Library - Room 042This workshop is the second of a three-part series on multi-modal projects brought to you by Sarah Archino, Paige Dhyne, Magdelyn Helwig, and Jean Schwab. Colleagues are welcome to join as […]
Supporting Students’ Composing of Multimodal Assignments Workshop (Spring Seminar Series)
Duke Library - Room 042This workshop is the third of a three-part series on multi-modal projects brought to you by Sarah Archino, Paige Dhyne, Magdelyn Helwig, and Jean Schwab. Participation is welcome as a […]
Archives to Active Learning: Special Collections and Archives Fellowships Lunch & Learn
Daniel Dining Hall - Trustees Dining RoomSpecial 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 […]
Advising Students Interested in Law in 2024
Duke Library - Room 042Join 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 […]
FYW Passing the Torch Lunch & Learn
Faculty/Staff Dining Room, Daniel Dining Hall 3300 Poinsett Hwy, Greenville, United StatesAs 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 […]