Summer Institute
Summer Institute
Connections Within and Beyond the Classroom Leading to Success
June 10-11, 2024
Now that the Spring 2024 semester is behind us, we can start planning for what's next. We hope you'll join us for the annual Summer Institute, presented by the Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning (FCTL) and Title III Office.
Monday, June 10
Open to All
9 to 9:15 a.m.
Welcome Remarks | Join Us on Zoom
9:15 to 10:30 a.m.
Keynote Address: Creating Effective Mentoring Relationships—What Matters Most | Join Us on Zoom
Keynote: Dr. Audrey Murrell, Professor of Business Administration, Psychology, Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh, Katz/CBA School of Business. Dr. Murrell conducts research on mentoring, diversity, equity, and inclusion and social issues in management. Her work has been published widely in management and psychology journals including several books: Mentoring Dilemmas: Developmental Relationships within Multicultural Organizations (with Crosby and Ely); Intelligent Mentoring: How IBM Creates Value through People, Knowledge and Relationships (with Forte-Trummel and Bing); and, Mentoring Diverse Leaders: Creating Change for People, Processes and Paradigms (McGraw-Hill) with Stacy Blake-Beard. Professor Murrell is an associate editor for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal and an editorial board member for the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.
Dr. Murrell will provide: a) an overview of the impact of mentoring relationships for supporting personal, as well as career development, especially for diverse mentoring relationships; b) a review of existing research, highlight best practices, and explore important “functions of mentoring” along with strategies and tools that would be useful for cultivating and maintaining effective mentoring relationships; and a review of some of the key factors that “matter most” in cultivating effective mentoring relationships and dispel some of the “mentoring myths” that can reduce the power of effective mentoring. Dr. Murrell will also discuss how mentoring relationships can help to develop relational competencies or skills that can support important outcomes such as career clarity, leadership effectiveness, and individual and collective efficacy.
Dr. Audrey Morrell
10:30 to 10:45 a.m.
Break
10:45 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Mentoring Connections at CCP for Student Success | Join us on zoom
Panel Discussion:
Cory Dulaney, mentoring Black scholars
Jenna Martino, Belinda Pierce, Joseph Appiah, mentoring international students
Lynne Sutherland, Sandra Gonzales-Torres, mentoring Latinx students
12 to 12:30 p.m.
Break
12:30 to 1:45 p.m.
Teaming Up for Connections—How Does this Work? Join us on Zoom
Even though faculty are the students’ first point of contact, they need to team up with other stakeholders at the College to provide students meaningful connections and resources that will lead to student success. Join this slam session to hear how faculty and administrators teamed up.
1:45 to 2:15 p.m.
Wrap Up: One Small Thing
Kahoot with a book prize.
Tuesday, June 11
Open to Faculty
9 to 9:15 a.m.
Welcome | Join Us on Zoom
9:15 to 10:30 a.m.
Keynote Address: Connections Are Everything: Learning and Relationships in and Beyond Our Courses | Join Us on Zoom
Keynote:
Dr. Peter Felten, Professor of History, Executive Director of the Center for Engaged Learning, and Assistant Provost for Teaching and Learning, Elon University. He has published seven books about undergraduate education, including Connections are Everything: A College Student’s Guide to Relationship-Rich Education (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023) co-authored by Isis Artze-Vega, Leo Lambert, and Oscar Miranda Tapia (with an open access online version free to all readers). His next book, The SoTL Guide, is co-authored by Katarina Mårtensson and Nancy Chick, and will be published in 2025. He is on the advisory board of the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) and is a fellow of the Gardner Institute.
Decades of research demonstrate that the quality of student-faculty, student-staff, and student-student interactions are foundational to engaging, inclusive, and purposeful learning—in online as well as on-campus courses. Educational relationships profoundly influence motivation, learning, belonging, and achievement for all students, and particularly for new majority students. Drawing on more that 400 interviews with students, faculty, and staff across U.S. higher education, we will explore relationships as a flexible, scalable, equitable, and humane approach to ensuring that all students experience welcome and care, become inspired to learn, and explore the big questions that matter for their lives and our communities. You will leave with practical ideas for research-informed ways that you can cultivate educationally powerful interactions – without exhausting yourself in the process.
Dr. Peter Felten
10:30 to 10:45 a.m.
Break
10:45 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.
How do meaningful connections within the classroom lead to student success? Join us on Zoom
Join a panel discussion to learn about how faculty established meaningful connections withing the classroom.
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11:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.
Break
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12:15 to 1:30 p.m.
How do meaningful connections outside the classroom lead to a relationship rich education for students? | Join us on zoom
Join a slam session where faculty have strived to provide the experiential learning environment outside the classroom to create meaningful connections within and beyond the classrooms.
1:30 to 2:00 p.m.
Wrap Up: One Small Thing
Kahoot with a book prize
Wednesday, June 12
Open to Faculty
9 to 9:15 a.m.
Welcome | Join Us on Zoom
9:15 to 10:30 a.m.
Keynote Address: Connectiong through Collaborative International Learning (COIL) | Join Us on Zoom
Keynote: Dr. Stephanie Doscher, Assistant Vice Provost for Internationalizing Curriculum and Campus, the University of Minnesota. She is contributing editor and co-author of The Guide to COIL Virtual Exchange (Routledge, 2022) and co-author of Making Global Learning Universal: Promoting Inclusion and Success for All Students (Routledge & NAFSA, 2018). She hosted the Making Global Learning Universal podcast and serves on the advisory boards for AAC&U’s Liberal Education and COIL Connect. Areas of particular expertise include professional development for global learning and COIL virtual exchange, integrative curricular and cocurricular global learning design, and transformational partnership-building. Stephanie’s recent writing includes “Curriculum Internationalization in the Digital Age,” a chapter in Digital Internationalization: Beyond Virtual Exchange (Routledge, 2023).
Join Dr. Doscher to learn about the following:
- What is COIL and why do it?
- COIL's design sequence: icebreaker, collaborative task, reflection
- Real examples of disciplinary and interdisciplinary COILs across undergraduate curricula
- Benefits for students, faculty, institutions, and communities
- Training and support resources
- Recommendations for finding a great COIL partner
Dr. Stephanie Doscher
10:30 to 10:45 a.m.
Break
10:45 a.m. to 12 p.m.
A Showcase of COIL | Join us on Zoom
Join to learn from international COIL collaborators how they implemented COIL at their institutions.
12 to 12:30 p.m.
Break
12:30 to 2:45 p.m.—Invitation Only COIL Workshop