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Welcome to our April Faculty Success Newsletter!
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Sunrise over the Pueblo of Santa Ana.
During the week of spring break, the Academic Affairs and Student Affairs divisions jointly sponsored a team of five faculty and staff to attend the Alliance of Hispanic Serving Institution Educators (AHSIE) annual best practices conference, which took place at the Pueblo of Santa Ana, the home of the Tamaya people, in New Mexico.
As you may know, SJSU is an HSI, a federal designation for the diverse set of postsecondary institutions that have at least 25% Latinx full time equivalent student enrollment.* Given the conference theme, “The Future of HSIs: Leveraging Excellence and Cultura,” many sessions focused on how HSIs can move from being Hispanic “enrolling” (simply achieving the 25% enrollment threshold) to Hispanic serving, fostering organizational cultures that enable students to bridge their cultural and academic identities. The idea of servingness is critical because it requires that beyond collecting and analyzing data points such as retention graduation rates, we must also consider the policies, practices, and pedagogies that make for a culturally-enhancing educational experience.**
For everyone in the group, it was our first in-person conference since the start of the pandemic. It felt newly strange to be traveling for work and returning to conference mode after so long—and a new type of conference mode at that, with face masks and color-coded stickers to place on your badge to let other attendees know your preferred level of personal proximity. But the adjustments were worth it, as the SJSU team returned with fresh insights, models, and ideas for engaging our campus community to enhance our HSI identity.
The 2023 AHSIE Best Practices conference will take place in San Francisco—so we hope to take a much larger team of faculty and staff and expand our institutional capacity to carry the word forward. If you are interested in learning more or getting involved in HSI work, please reach out to the Faculty Success team.
* SJSU is also a federally designated Asian American, Native American, and Pacific Islander Serving Institution (AANAPISI).
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Center for Faculty Development News and Updates
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The end of the spring 2022 semester is in sight, and we know there is a lot you will need to accomplish between now and when grades are due. Before you give your calendars over entirely to grading, we hope you’ll consider joining us for our upcoming writing retreat. If you’ve been meaning to set aside time to read that article you’ve been putting off, or if you’d like some help making plans to (re)start a RSCA project, or if you just enjoy writing in community with others, you’ll find us on campus and in Zoom on April 19th and 20th, 9-11:30 am (register).
Join us for as much or as little of this time as you would enjoy. Time spent on your research, scholarship and creative activity, on the scholarly and public conversations you enter and enrich--even and perhaps especially in the rush to the end of the semester--is not only well spent, it is essential.
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As part of the CSU Student Quality Assurance Impact Research (SQuAIR) program, we are completing a study to evaluate the impact of course design on student experience and grades. There is a short questionnaire for faculty to complete based on one course of their choosing that they taught in Fall 2021, in any modality (in-person, online, or hybrid). The questionnaire asks about the features of Canvas you used for this course, and about the volume of questions you received from students about the features. Your input is very important for our evaluation of course design at SJSU and is much appreciated.
Please contact Sulekha Anand, sulekha.anand@sjsu.edu, Adjunct Faculty in Biological Sciences and Student Quality Assurance Impact Researcher for eCampus or Jennifer Redd jennifer.redd@sjsu.edu, Senior Director of eCampus if you have questions or concerns.
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Adobe Express templates make it easy for those without any design experience to create professional posters, webpages and videos. You might design a poster to advertise your office hours, display some essential content, or recap a unit’s key points. Your students can use it to demonstrate their knowledge on a topic in a visually engaging way. This 7 minute video shows some basic tips on how to edit an Express Post template.
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Gradescope
is a feedback and assessment tool that streamlines the grading process online. Gradescope speeds up the grading process and provides for uniform yet dynamic grading, as you can create and edit rubrics on the fly, and have the changes applied across all grades. Gradescope is integrated with Canvas, where faculty and students access their dashboard. Gradescope works with many disciplines and subject areas and permits grading of online and paper-based assignments, exams and quizzes. Uploaded assignments can be lab reports, book problems, essay questions, programming assignments and more. Students can even hand-write or draw assignments and exams, then upload them as pdf for grading. You can learn more about Gradescope’s features, capabilities and workflow in workshops and
online resources
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Get Published!
Tips on Authorship, Open Access, & Research Impact
To learn to prepare manuscripts for peer-review, explore open access publications, and enhance research visibility and impact, join us for a presentation by Craig Griffith, IEEE’s Client Services Manager. Craig will also discuss scholarly communication do’s and don’ts, as well as competitions and grant opportunities for students.
April 19, 2022, 12 p.m. - 1 p.m. [
Register Now
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April 21, 2022, 12 p.m. - 1 p.m. [Register Now]
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To Mint Or Not To Mint: The NFT Question
Are you Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) curious? Want to know how artists and entrepreneurs are using NFTs to overturn traditional systems of marketing, sales, and governance of creative works? Want to learn about the potential costs and challenges of implementing this new crypto-focused technology?
Then join us on April 28 from 10am-3pm (PDT) for an interactive day of panel discussions sharing perspectives from all sides of the technology. We’ll ask you to decide if the costs and risks are worth the promise and reward – to mint or not to mint!
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Congratulations to Dr. Kerri Malloy, Assistant Professor of Global Humanities in the Department of Humanities, who is one of fifteen faculty nationwide–and the first from SJSU–selected to join the ELEVATE program at Rutger’s Center for MSIs.
Supported by a grant from the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations, ELEVATE is a unique professional development experience that helps early-career faculty navigate the professoriate and enhance their capabilities as researchers, scholars, and educators. The program aims to highlight the educational contributions of Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) to ensure their participation in national conversations and to increase rigorous scholarship on MSIs.
Dr. Malloy is the coordinator for and teaches in the Humanities Honors program. His research focuses on Indigenous genocide, healing, and reconciliation in North America and the necessity of systemic change within social structures to advance transitional justice. Dr. Malloy’s work explores the potential obstacles to initiating transitional justice in societies that have experienced genocide or mass atrocity events. He interweaves his research with his teaching to further the development of the field and demonstrate to students that all disciplines and career paths can affect positive change.
The Office for Faculty Success applauds Dr. Malloy!
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April
Monday, April 18
12:00 PM LEAD Luncheon for Chairs and Directors
Tuesday, April 19
12:00 PM Get Published! Tips on Authorship, Open Access, & Research Impact [Register Now]
Wednesday, April 20
Thursday, April 21
12:00 PM Get Published! Tips on Authorship, Open Access, & Research Impact [Register Now]
Monday, April 25
Wednesday, April 27
Thursday, April 28
Friday, April 29
May
Tuesday, May 3
Wednesday, May 4
Thursday, May 5
Friday, May 6
5:00 PM Public Voices Application Deadline (call for applications coming soon)
Tuesday, May 10
Wednesday, May 11
<>Thursday, May 12
Friday, May 13
Monday, May 16
12:00 PM LEAD Luncheon for Chairs and Directors
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Got five minutes before your next meeting, while waiting in line, or taking a break from work? Check out these short pieces related to different aspects of faculty life.
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Do you have a story, highlight, reading, or tip that you would like to share in this newsletter?
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