August 2025
- Aug 6: Summer Scholarship Retreats @ The Farm - August 6
July 2025
- Jul 9: Summer Scholarship Retreats @ The Farm - July 9, 23
June 2025
- Jun 16: Draft Your Dossier
- Jun 9: Prepare Your (Pre-)Promotion Packet
- Jun 4: Summer Scholarship Retreats @ The Farm - June 4, 18
- Jun 3: Introduction to Statistics Using R
- Jun 2: What's Next? Review Your Career and Design Possible Paths in Times of Change
May 2025
- May 27: Scholarship Residency (Spring 2025)
- May 21: May Symposium 2025
- May 9: Scholarship Retreats @ The Farm - May 9
April 2025
- Apr 23: Caring Space: Navigating the Landscape
- Apr 15: Open Faculty and Staff Mini-Dialogue
- Apr 11: FWWW 2025: Certification in Mental Health First Aid
- Apr 10: FWWW: Focusing on Faculty Wellness Luncheon
- Apr 9: FWWW 2025: Faculty Wellness and Well-Being Roundtable
- Apr 9: FWWW 2025: AUH Wellness and Well-Being Roundtable
- Apr 8: Scholarship Retreats @ The Farm - April 8, 25
- Apr 7: FWWW 2025: Reckoning with Mental Health and Neurodiversity in Higher Education
- Apr 7: FWWW 2025: Faculty Wellness Check-Ins
- Apr 1: Writing Studios: April
March 2025
- Mar 12: Better Conversations Together: Experiencing a Facilitated Dialogue
- Mar 11: Better Conversations Together: 5 Keys to Facilitating Better Conversations in Class
- Mar 11: Scholarship Retreats @ The Farm - March 11, 28
- Mar 10: Teaching Triangles
- Mar 4: Writing Studios: March
February 2025
- Feb 28: The Risks of Heart Disease in Black/African American Populations
- Feb 19: Better Conversations Together: What First-Year Students Are Learning
- Feb 18: Adjusting Midstream? Conducting Mid-Semester Check-Ins to Support Student Learning
- Feb 11: Scholarship Retreats @ The Farm - February 11, 28
- Feb 7: Small Teaching Idea Exchange
- Feb 4: Late Night Write
- Feb 4: Writing Studios: February
- Feb 3: Engaging Media to Promote your Scholarship: A Panel Discussion
January 2025
- Jan 31: Scholarship Retreats @ The Farm - January 31
- Jan 29: Scaling Up: Navigating Large Enrollment Courses
- Jan 27: Using Student Survey Feedback Through Ascend to Inform Teaching Improvements
- Jan 21: Writing Studios: January
- Jan 15: Teaching Time at the Farm
December 2024
November 2024
- Nov 19: Building and Expanding Your Mentoring Network
- Nov 12: Idea Exchange on Assignments to Measure and Foster Student Learning
- Nov 6: Faculty Check-In: Elections!
- Nov 5: Writing Studios: November
- Nov 1: Scholarship Retreats @ The Farm - November 1 & 12
October 2024
- Oct 29: Addressing Imposter Syndrome
- Oct 25: Better Conversations Together: What Our First Years Are Learning
- Oct 10: Making Time for Teaching: Sharing Time-Saving Strategies
- Oct 9: Managing Your Academic Mid-Career
- Oct 8: AI and the Future of Writing
- Oct 7: Writing Accountability Group
- Oct 1: Scholarship Retreats @ The Farm - October 1 & 15
- Oct 1: Writing Studios: October
September 2024
- Sep 27: Introduction to Perspectives
- Sep 27: AAAD/CFI Critical Perspectives and Pedagogies Institute
- Sep 26: BYO Lunch and Learn: Facilitating Better Conversations in the Classroom
- Sep 25: Non-Tenure Track Faculty Interest Group Meetings (Fall 2024)
- Sep 19: Five Keys to Facilitating Better Conversations in Class
- Sep 18: Difficult and Crucial Conversations Reading Group
- Sep 16: Mid-Semester Student Feedback Through Ascend
- Sep 15: Call for Faculty Associates
- Sep 10: Preparing for Promotion on the Non-Tenure Track (Online Studio)
- Sep 10: Designing Your Courses
- Sep 3: Scholarship Retreats @ The Farm - September 3 & 20
- Sep 3: Writing Studios: September
August 2024
- Aug 23: Scholarship Retreats @ The Farm - August 23
- Aug 15: 2024 New Faculty Welcome: JMU People, Structure, and Culture
- Aug 12: 2024 Faculty Community Welcome
June 2024
- Jun 10: Draft Your Dossier
May 2024
- May 28: Scholarship Residency
- May 28: Preparing Your (Pre-)Promotion Packet
- May 22: Summer Scholarship Retreats @ The Farm
- May 20: What's Next? Review Your Career and Design Possible Paths in Times of Change
- May 16: May Symposium 2024
- May 15: May Symposium 2024
April 2024
- Apr 24: How to Revise and Resubmit Your Scholarship
- Apr 16: Teaching for the Common Good: Engaging with the Americans Who Tell The Truth Project
- Apr 16: Contextualizing Gender Differences in Research Productivity
- Apr 11: Faculty Luncheon: Academic Identity and Wellbeing
- Apr 10: FWWW: Addressing Faculty Burnout through a Change in Culture
- Apr 8: FWWW: April 8-9 Programs
- Apr 5: May Symposium Rapid Roundtable
- Apr 2: Teaching at an R2
- Apr 2: What Does it Mean to Us? Navigating the AI Frontiers in Academia
March 2024
- Mar 28: Faculty's Role in Employment Justice for Students with Dr. Temple Grandin
- Mar 27: Optimizing Large Seminar-Style Classes
- Mar 27: Non-Tenure Track Faculty Interest Group Meetings (Spring 2024)
- Mar 26: Discuss the Videorecording of the Recent Communication Strategies Presentation
- Mar 20: Exploring a Pivot
- Mar 6: Call for Faculty Associates
- Mar 1: Engaged Teacher-Scholar Program Call for Applications 2024-2025 (Faculty Community)
February 2024
- Feb 27: Career Tools 3: How To Email
- Feb 27: Get Feedback on Your Assignments (Workshop)
- Feb 26: Reducing Barriers to Student Success Through Classroom Communication
- Feb 26: Unraveling Faculty Burnout (Read & Dialogue)
- Feb 20: Book Discussion with Flower Darby
- Feb 16: Women’s Work: Scholarship, Voice, and Resistance in the Academic Generation of Knowledge
- Feb 12: Student Experiences Project Ascend Program
- Feb 7: Academic Career Reframing
- Feb 7: Inclusive Teaching Institute
- Feb 6: Transforming A-Day: Faculty and Staff Wellness and Wellbeing
January 2024
- Jan 29: In-Person Writing Studio - Spring 2024
- Jan 26: Online Writing Studio - Spring 2024
- Jan 26: Scholarship Retreats @ the Farm
December 2023
- Dec 11: Take a Break During Finals
November 2023
- Nov 30: CFI (Small) Teaching "Gift Exchange"
- Nov 29: A Culture of Speed: What Does it Mean to be “Excellent” in Research?
- Nov 14: Career Tools 2: How to Run a Meeting (Workshop)
- Nov 14: Advancing Equity in Every Class: Practical Course Design and Teaching Strategies
- Nov 3: Talk about a Toolbox!
- Nov 2: Preparing Mid-Tenure Documents Accountability Group
October 2023
- Oct 30: Universal Design and Pedagogy of Care(taking) (Roundtable)
- Oct 26: Read and Dialogue: Intellectual Humility
- Oct 24: Creating Transparent Assignments
- Oct 24: CFI Read and Dialogue: Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree brown
- Oct 12: Non-Tenure Track Faculty Interest Group
September 2023
- Sep 26: Career Tools 1: How to get the Right Things Done and Live to Tell the Story
- Sep 25: Using Neuroscience to Understand Best Practices in Teaching
- Sep 22: AAAD/CFI Critical Perspectives & Pedagogies Institute
- Sep 20: The Many Kinds of Peer Mentoring
- Sep 20: Madison Fellowship: Developing and Evaluating Global Virtual Exchange Experiences
- Sep 12: In-Person Writing Studio
- Sep 8: Online Writing Studio
- Sep 8: Scholarship Retreats @ the Farm
- Sep 7: Developing Effective Mentoring Strategies
August 2023
- Aug 31: AI, Teaching, and Learning (Online Faculty Interest Group)
- Aug 17: 2023 Faculty Welcome — JMU Structure, Culture, and People
- Aug 14: 2023 JMU Community Welcome — A Networking and Faculty Support
June 2023
May 2023
- May 31: Summer Scholarship Retreats @ the Farm (Faculty Community)
- May 30: Prep Your Promotion (Online Institute)
- May 18: May Symposium: Scholarship Retreat (Faculty Community) Spring 2023
- May 17: May Symposium 2023
- May 5: Imagining Justice and Building Bridges Across Disciplines (Faculty Community)
April 2023
- Apr 26: Why Is It So Hard To Say No? Setting Boundaries to Reduce Faculty Burnout
- Apr 17: Creating Meaningful Access in our Classes
- Apr 13: Faculty Wellness and Wellbeing Week Faculty Lounge (Institute)
- Apr 10: Faculty Wellness and Wellbeing Week: College Partnerships
March 2023
- Mar 29: Preparing for Promotion on the Non-Tenure Track (Online Faculty Interest Group)
- Mar 29: Read and Dialogue: Course Correction: Balancing Structure and Flexibility in the Classroom (Reading Group)
- Mar 20: Call for Faculty Associate
- Mar 1: Engaged Teacher-Scholar Program Call for Applications
February 2023
- Feb 28: Faculty Writing Studio (In- Person Community)
- Feb 24: Using Reflection to Help Students Make Sense of STEM Content
- Feb 22: Reexamining Product-Oriented Academic Culture: Let’s Talk About The Process of Scholarship
- Feb 9: Read and Dialogue: Faculty burnout, or something else? (Reading Group)
- Feb 8: Inclusive Teaching Institute (Online)
- Feb 3: First Fridays at the Farm: A Monthly Scholarship Retreat (Faculty Community)
- Feb 1: Why is it Hard to Say No? Setting Boundaries to Reduce Faculty Burnout
- Feb 1: Let's Chat About ChatGPT
January 2023
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