Tonight Amada and I watched a SABER spring 2021 talk entitled “Structural racism, institutional transformation, and diversifying the STEM faculty” by Dr. Kimberly Griffin from the University of Maryland. This presentation happened live on February 18th. Griffin started by talking about the small share of US college faculty that are nonwhite by presenting Pew Research […]
I watched the Online with LSE: “Using Personas as a Tool for Learner-Centered Professional Development” webinar tonight. Dr. Paula Lemons from the University of Georgia described their study with nineteen faculty from long-term learning communities at six institutions. These communities focused on evidence-based assessment practices. Lemons started this study in early 2014! The volunteer participants […]
I watched another Lilly Conference recording that was uplifting and demonstrates the resourcefulness and ability of faculty development units to support instructors during the pandemic. Kathryn Zawisza and Don Johnson from the University of Arkansas described the efforts of their units to support instructors. They, like many other instructor support units, had to quickly launch […]