Dear Colleagues,
Save the date for two events coming in the winter term from Faculty Development, each focused on how to get your groove back with scholarship!
January 9 (Thursday) Common Lunch, KARP 005
Faculty Research Network Experiences
Jenny Fredricks, Jennifer Bishop, Erika Nelson Mukherjee, Jenelle Troxell, and Deidre Hill Butler will share recent experiences with New York University’s Faculty Research Network. FRN offers week-long summer courses (with housing, breakfast, and lunch provided), semester-long housing and mentoring in Washington Square Village, and more. Learn how you can apply for these opportunities and how they can provide new inspiration both for research and teaching. Lunch is provided for those who get there early.
February 13 (Thursday) Common Lunch, KARP 005
Keeping the Love Alive
The Union ideal is the “teacher-scholar,” but how exactly does this "marriage" of teaching and scholarship stay fresh over time? Come to a pre- Valentine’s Day event to hear how some colleagues have managed to keep their research love and passion alive through the years. Carol Weisse, Claire Bracken, Zoe Oxley, and Becky Cortez will share some ideas, but we will leave plenty of time for discussion too. And maybe there will be Valentine cookies!
And as always . . .
Our institutional membership to NCFDD can be accessed through the following steps:
1) Go to http://www.ncfdd.org/join
2) Choose your Union College from the drop-down menu.
3) Select “Activate my Membership”
4) Complete the registration form using your institutional email address (i.e., @union.edu)
5) Check your email to find a confirmation/welcome email. Click “Activate Account” in the email.
Future editions of the newsletter will include timely reminders of upcoming events related to Faculty Development. As always, if you have ideas for events, or ones you would like to publicize, share them with facdev@union.edu. To keep track of these you can sync up the Google calendar feature which will allow you to see Faculty Development events (including General Faculty Meetings, and Faculty Fora) right in your Google calendar.
Have wonderful holidays, Lori
