Faculty Learning Communities
A faculty learning community (FLC) meets regularly to explore a teaching topic that interests them. This interdisciplinary group researches the topic, reads together, and supports each other in making positive changes in the classroom. Since Fall 2013, members of the VU faculty have been involved in multiple FLCs each year.
Small Teaching Online
Coleen Wilder and Melissa Desjarlais
This group will read and discuss the book Small Teaching Online: Applying Learning Science in Online Classes by Flower Darby and James M. Lang. The idea of small teaching is simple: make…
Read more »Inclusive Excellence in STEM
Thomas Goyne and Laurie S. Eberhardt
The goal of this FLC is to create a culture of inclusive excellence in the STEM disciplines. To do this, we hope to equip STEM faculty with the skills needed…
Read more »Faculty Civility
Christina Cavinder and Brooke Starkoff
This FLC will focus on improving civility among faculty on our campus. We will use Libby Roderick’s Toxic Friday: Resources for Addressing Faculty Bullying in Higher Education. We will also explore…
Read more »Faculty/Student Mentoring
Nancy Scannell and Zsuzsanna Szaniszlo
According to the Educational Advisory Board, mentoring is a high-impact practice fostering student satisfaction, sense of belonging, and overall success. What does good mentoring look like? How can we serve…
Read more »Teaching by Discussion
John Ruff and John Fantuzzo
We would all like to have great conversations in our classes. But they are not always so easy to bring about. Students can be shy or tired or disinterested or…
Read more »New Directions in Artificial Intelligence
Paul Nord and Karl Schmitt
Self-driving cars may soon change the world. But even more world-changing is the revolution taking place in speech and image recognition, predictive analytics, and deep learning. These new forms of…
Read more »Difficult Dialogues in the Classroom and Beyond
Phillip Powell & Christina Cavinder
Colleges ought to be the place where the free exchange of ideas and civil discourse is modeled and practiced. Instead, campuses have increasingly become places of tension, polarization, and even…
Read more »Small Teaching
Melissa Desjarlais
Have you ever wondered about how to help students in your classes learn better? Perhaps you would like to make changes to your course design or teaching methods, but you…
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