Lunch on Learning
Are you interested in seeing the Faculty Centers Advisory's two models? Do you want to make sure that your voice is heard as the Faculty Centers Advisory (FCA) continues to work towards making a final proposal for F&M's faculty center? If so, be sure to stop by October's Lunch on Learning, which runs from noon to 1:30 in the faculty catering suite on October 17. The FCA will present two models and will have have posters displaying all of your feedback from the September 8 Kick Off Event. This is the BEST time to make sure your voice is heard by every member of the FCA. Mark your calendars!
Below, you can see a summary of the two proposals the FCA will present at October's LOL. Use this information to prepare yourself for the LOL and to form some questions you know you will want to ask in advance. If you would like to take a look at the models the FCA examined to develop these proposals, head on over to the Kick Off Event page to take a look at what was presented there.
Summary of Available Student Programs
A faculty center that stresses cooperative student and faculty development (such as a combined center like the one at HWS) would have a number of student programs as part of the center. A faculty center structured in this way would include already existing faculty and student programs such as the Writing Center, future Lunches on Learning, and the Precepting program. Other potential programs for a combined model (programs organized by category):
- Writing: The Whitesell Prize, Writing Center faculty workshops and programs
- Quantitative: Peer tutoring
- Learning Support: Preceptors
- Teaching Support: Weekly LOL's, the Assessment Fellows program, summer working groups
- Research: Research fair, faculty travel and research funds, help for writing grant proposals
- Other: Disability services, new faculty orientation
At the LOL on October 17, we will present a handout that summarizes the Combined Model. To get an early look at it, please click on the link below.
Summary of Available Faculty Programs
A center stressing a primarily faculty model would place a larger and more exclusive emphasis on the faculty. Student involvement would be very limited. It would likely place a larger emphasis on research and career development than the combined model. Some sample programs in a faculty-only model could include (programs organized by category):
- Writing: Writing Center faculty workshops/programs
- Pedagogy: Weekly lunches on learning, the Assessment Fellows program, summer working groups
- Research: Faculty travel and research funds, faculty presentations on their research, help with writing grant proposals, scholarly support groups, endowed year-long faculty workshops
- Career Development: New, mid-career, and late-career faculty development programs
- Other: Faculty dining room, other faculty social spaces and events
At the LOL on October 17, we will present a handout that summarizes the Faculty Only Model. To get an early look at it, please click on the link below.
