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Lunch and Learn: Archives to Active Learning: Special Collections and Archives Fellowships

Daniel Dining Hall - Trustees Dining Room

Special Collections and Archives offers 2 short summer fellowships for Furman faculty each year. Fellows explore our 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 […]

Lunch and Learn: Teaching and Research Lift Off: Using Drones to Enhance Learning

Daniel Dining Hall - Trustees Dining Room

Integrating technology into your pedagogy can allow tech-savvy students to engage in project-based learning in authentic and relevant ways that increase both engagement and motivation to learn. In this session, hear from three colleagues who have incorporated the use of drones in Furman courses and research projects before brainstorming opportunities to use similar technology in […]

Lunch and Learn: Writing Coaching Insight

Daniel Dining Hall - Trustees Dining Room

Finding time to do the deep work of writing can be challenging. Sometimes, the support of an accountability group or coach can help clarify writing goals, redefine attitudes toward writing, and help foment a daily (or regular!) writing practice. Join faculty who have recently worked with coaching or writing accountability groups to learn more about […]

Learning Exchange

Hartness Pavilion

Wednesday, April 26 – Hartness Pavilion With options to connect from 9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Register here and print your prize ticket here. At an institution like Furman dedicated to holistic student success, we are all educators--each of us has consulted our own experiences and evidence to evolve as our students, our roles, and […]

MayX Pro: Specs Grading

If you’ve read Grading for Equity or been experimenting with (and perhaps frustrated by!) flexible deadlines and assignment alternatives in your classes, this series is for you! Specs Grading offers practical guidelines for amplifying student agency while maintaining high standards in your courses. Participants will receive a copy of Specifications Grading and revise an existing […]

Summer SoTL Scholars

If you are working with summer research students to learn qualitative coding analysis—especially for data related to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)--and would like to join a cohort of faculty and student researchers learning the same methodology, the Summer SoTL Scholars program may be beneficial to you and your students. For more intel […]

Writing with Pleasure: Reframing Relativity to Writing Practice Learning by Design Studio

On-Demand

Developing a consistent writing practice can be challenging given the many roles and responsibilities we take up as faculty and academic staff. In this Learning By Design video, based on Helen Sword’s Writing with Pleasure, we will unlock novel ways to positively reframe your relativity to writing and tap into its joys. We’ll review research […]

AI for Classroom and Profession Lunch & Learn

Daniel Dining Hall - Trustees Dining Room

Artificial intelligence is all the rage of late but should educators be afraid, excited, or both about the implications for our profession and for the classroom? Can educators embrace AI’s potential while ensuring their students still learn the value of creating original work? How might we use the power of AI responsibly in our own […]

Fall Write Now! Writing Accountability Groups

Do you have a writing project you are invested in this fall? 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 are collaborating to organize a peer-led […]

The Discussion Book Fall Reading Circle

James B. Duke Lilbrary Haynsworth Room

Do you need a resource that you can pull out of your pocket to liven up class sessions, field experiences, study away activities, or meetings? The fifty easily applied techniques in The Discussion Book are designed to spur creativity, stimulate energy, keep groups focused, and increase participation. Faculty and staff are encouraged to join our […]

Harnessing the Power of Mid-Semester Teaching Feedback Lunch & Learn (Option 1)

Daniel Dining Hall - Trustees Dining Room

Collecting mid-semester student feedback allows you to build upon the strengths of your course and address potential areas for improvement in real time before the end of the term. Even the most talented instructors can gain insights from carefully elicited student feedback. In this session, we will highlight support resources available at Furman to help […]