Faculty Learning Communities: 2018-2019

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.

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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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