Calls for Participation

Open Calls

• CLOSED CALLS

  Faculty Learning Community for Culturally Validated Pedagogy 

  This FLC will be devoted to developing culturally validating (CV) pedagogy for academic & curriculum enhancements related to Latina and Latino experiences, strengths, and voice that aims for the creation of more cultural relevant curriculum.

  Closed

  Faculty Learning Community for Reimagining Academic Labor 

  This FLC will run as a study forum that invites participants to critically reflect on their experiences as faculty laborers in the university and as members of their various communities.

  Closed

  Systemwide Faculty Learning Community for Climate Change and Resilience  

  In this FLC, participants are invited to think about teaching and learning with a focus on climate change and resilience. Our goal is to support teaching across the disciplines by creating a workshop that does not require you to leave your existing subject matter.

  Closed

  Peer Review of Online Course Grants (QLT)

  Do you teach online? Have you heard of the Quality Online Teaching and Learning (QLT) instrument? We have funds for 7 online courses for Fall 2021 and 7 for Spring 2022 to be peer reviewed by Quality Assurance Faculty Associates.

  Closed

  FLC for Culturally Validated Pedagogy

  This FLC will be devoted to developing culturally validating (CV) pedagogy for academic & curriculum enhancements related to Latina and Latino experiences, strengths, and voice that aims for the creation of more cultural relevant curriculum.

  Applications closed

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  FLC for Digital Storytelling for Educators: Creating Voices and Connections Inside and Outside the College Classroom

  Good story telling reaches down deeply into our minds, hearts, and spirits. Digital stories are both a process and a product designed to allow us to see each other’s humanity from a richer and more nuanced perspective.

   Applications closed

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  FLC for Faculty Writers

   

  This FLC follows best practices of both scholarly and creative writing groups, with a combination of support, coaching/practice, and accountability to the group and oneself as a writer.

  Applications closed

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  FLC for Contemplative Pedagogy for Social Justice

  In this FLC we will introduce a variety of contemplative practices designed to help us create more inclusive, identity-safe student learning communities that have the courage and resilience to deal with issues of social injustice. Some themes include developing the capacity to be vulnerable, self-aware and reflexive; valuing the struggle together; developing compassion, public love and resilience.  

  Applications closed

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  UC Berkeley’s Transforming STEM Teaching at CSUSM 

  Are you connecting with your students in your STEM courses? Join an institutional cohort of STEM faculty from CSUSM to enrich your courses, promote student engagement, and improve learning gains.

  Application closed

  Propose a New FLC AY 21-22

  Have you heard the buzz about Faculty Learning Communities? Have you thought about leading one? Because of increased interest in FLCs across campus, we want to provide a structured way for faculty/departments to propose ideas for FLCs. We are happy to continue to partner with other departments on campus!

  Application closed

   

  Summer Book Club

  The Faculty Center, Office of Inclusive Excellence and Office of Service Learning & Civic Engagement invite you to join us for a summer reading group discussing Dr. Bettina Love’s book, We Want to do More than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom. Dr. Love’s book was referred to during a recent presentation on Decolonizing Pedagogy and Praxis as a foundation for rethinking education in its current form.

  Application closed

  Black Minds Matter

  Black Minds Matter (BMM) is an online course that is developed and delivered by Dr. J. Luke Wood (San Diego State University) & Dr. Donna Y. Ford (Ohio state University). “The BMM is designed to raise the national consciousness about issues facing Black students in education. The series intentionally addresses the pervasive undervaluing and criminalization of Black minds. Tangible solutions for promoting the learning, development, and success of Black students are offered.”  

  This FLC will follow the course syllabus in order to cover the course material and have critical discussions on the lecture videos and required readings. These discussions will be guided by guests, who have related experience and/or expertise on the topics discussed, from and outside of CSUSM.

  Application closed

  Contemplative Pedagogy for Social Justice

  In the Contemplative Pedagogy FLC (CP-FLC) we will introduce you to contemplative practices that can be used in the classroom, have you try out these practices during the Spring semester, and then help you develop and implement a plan for systematically using and assessing selected practices in a class during the Fall semester.

  This FLC will engage participants in mindfulness practice and have critical discussions on the required readings. These discussions will be guided by FLC leaders with active participation from participants

  Application closed

  Online Teaching & Learning

  The purpose of this online faculty learning community will be to examine and discuss faculty, curriculum and student impact with the online learning experience. We will discuss the assumptions about online learning, challenges, why faculty may choose online learning or face to face, and opportunities online learning.

  Application closed

  Trauma-Informed Pedagogy

  A trauma-informed pedagogy enables faculty to increase their awareness of the complexities of trauma and the impact past life experiences have on student learning and student well-being. This series introduces concepts that help participants recognize how institutions and university structure may unintentionally replicate student trauma, thus triggering emotions, cognitions, and behavior associated with the original traumatic experience.

  This FLC will cover relevant scholarship on trauma-informed teaching, and engage participants in critical discussions of the required readings. These discussions will be guided by FLC leaders and guests that have related experience and/or expertise on the topics discussed, from inside and outside of CSUSM.

  Application closed 

   

  Peer Review of Online Course Grants (QLT)

  Do you teach online? Have you heard of the Quality Online Teaching and Learning (QLT) instrument? We have funds for 7 online courses for Fall 2020 and 7 for Spring 2021 to be peer reviewed by Quality Assurance Faculty Associates.

  Application closed  

  FLC Trauma-Informed Teaching

  As educators, we care deeply about the environment we create in the classroom, and have a responsibility to make sure that our course content and pedagogy facilitate maximum engagement.  In the wake of movements like #MeToo and #Time'sUp, our collective awareness of the persistence and effects of sexual harassment, misconduct, and assault has risen, which is a good thing. Of late, more and more students are being forthcoming with their experiences of hostile sexism and many are dealing with being survivors of sexual assault.  While we are fortunate to have a sexual assault advocate on our campus, the environment in our classrooms can be traumatizing for students who are survivors. This FLC will examine classroom dynamics from a trauma-informed perspective and will offer faculty the tools they need to create the safest classroom possible. We will have reading materials to increase our understanding of trauma-informed methods and will work on specific courses that faculty want to examine for triggering content. 

  Application Closed 

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  FLC Toward Collaborative Climate Change Problem-Solving Curriculum

  In partnership with the nascent Climate Change Faculty Working Group (CCFWG), we propose an FLC which allows interested faculty within each college an opportunity to collaborate across campus in the creation of new, or refinement of existing, climate change problem-solving based curriculum.  CCFWG’s mission is to foster CSUSM as a primary actor in regional climate change problem-solving and towards this goal we propose a collaborative and interdisciplinary approach to curriculum development, aimed at preparing our graduates to actively participate in and address local climate change issues upon graduation.

  Application Closed 

  Hispanic Serving Institution/PASO FLC

  The main goal is for participants to enhance one or more courses to include more Latinx related content and assignments. Participants will also learn about pedagogical strategies that are proven to be successful for students of color, the 1.5 generation, and first-generation college students.

  Application closed

  Faculty Fellow for the Faculty Mentoring Program 

   

  The Faculty Mentoring Program Faculty Fellow (FMP-FF) works with the Faculty Center Director to sustain and develop the Faculty Mentoring Program. In the Faculty Mentoring Program, tenure-track and lecturer faculty volunteers are matched with first generation and/or economically disadvantaged students who are juniors or seniors. Each mentor-protégé pair establishes a constructive relationship that encourages student progress, college retention, degree completion, exploration of graduate school and career options. The goal of the program is to foster student success by reducing social estrangement and creating a university culture of positive participation and support.

  Application Closed

  Faculty Fellow for Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

  The Faculty Fellow will work with the Faculty Center Director to sustain and provide leadership in developing and implementing diversity and multicultural training workshops and opportunities for faculty.

  Application Closed

  Lecturer Faculty Fellow/Liaison

  The Lecturer Faculty Fellow/Liaison will work with the Faculty Center Director and the Associate Vice President of Faculty Affairs to increase communications to lecturer faculty and to enhance professional development opportunities for lecturers.

  Application Closed

  Propose a New FLC

  Have you heard the buzz about Faculty Learning Communities? Have you thought about leading one? Because of increased interest in FLCs across campus, we want to provide a structured way for faculty/departments to propose ideas for FLCs. We are happy to continue to partner with other departments on campus!

  Application Closed

  Peer Review of Online Course Grants (QLT)

  Do you teach online? Have you heard of the Quality Online Teaching and Learning (QLT) instrument? We have funds for 7 online courses for Fall 2019 and 7 for Spring 2020 to be peer reviewed by Quality Assurance Faculty Associates.

  Application Closed

  The 22nd Annual CSU Symposium on Teaching and Learning

  Are you interested in attending the 22nd Annual CSU Symposium on Teaching and Learning? The Faculty Center has a grant opportunity of up to $250 to help four faculty with the travel expenses. Please fill

   Applications Closed

  UC Berkeley’s Transforming STEM Teaching FLC at CSUSM 

  The Departments of Biological Sciences and Physics were awarded a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Inclusive Excellence grant. One of the goals of the grant is to offer a STEM Faculty Learning Community (FLC) focused on providing professional learning for current faculty across the science curriculum in research based instructional strategies (RBIS) and cultural competency to increase student interest and engagement. We will be using curriculum that was developed at UC Berkeley’s Center for Teaching and Learning and the Lawrence Hall of Science through funding from the National Science Foundation to support instructors of STEM courses to enhance teaching practices and improve student learning gains.

  Application Closed

  FC Connections Mentoring Interest Groups

  FC Connections Mentoring Interest Groups are new this year, and will allow for mentors to submit a topic around which a mentoring group will be formed. In addition, we will continue with small group, and one-on-one mentoring relationships. If you are interested in being a mentor, please complete the application.

  Application Closed 

  2nd Annual Faculty Center Teaching Academy 

  The Faculty Center has partnered with the Office of Undergraduate Studies to create a year-long series of teaching workshop to aid faculty in designing a dynamic new course or redesigning a current course. The workshops will take faculty through the steps of creating a course from early decisions about teaching philosophy and design, to innovative techniques and assessment. The Teaching Academy will be able to serve both newer faculty who are designing courses, as well as veteran faculty looking to redesign, rethink, or add innovative pedagogy to a course they have taught for years.

  Application Closed

  Diversity & Equity Graduation Requirement FLC 

  Need a little more time to consider changes to your course? This FLC will provide an opportunity for faculty to work on either modifying existing courses or developing new ones with the  specific intent of meeting the requirements in the diversity and equity graduation requirement policy

  Application Closed

  FLC Online Learning

  The purpose of this online faculty learning community will be to examine and discuss faculty, curriculum and student impact with the online learning experience. We will discuss the assumptions about online learning, challenges, why faculty may choose online learning or face to face, and opportunities online learning.

  Application Closed

  The Faculty Book Club

  Join your CSUSM colleagues as we read and discuss The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt. We will discuss the book and the dynamic notions of free speech and safe spaces in 2019. 

  Application Closed

   

  Building and Strengthening Faculty Relationships FLC

  This FLC will explore ways that faculty can increase and build solidarity with each other during what promises to be a very challenging period in higher education. The FLC was inspired by data collected in the Halualani Associates Report and the Great Colleges to Work Survey. In both these reports, a significant number of faculty at CSUSM expressed a strong desire to improve communication and create a more collegial campus climate.

  Application Closed

  FLC Course Redesign

  How often have you planned to make changes to a course only to delay it because you do not have the time? Join the Faculty Center for professional development opportunity that will provide a structured environment for you to rethink your pedagogy with like-minded colleagues.

  Application Closed

  Peer Review of Online Course Grants (QLT)

  Do you teach online? Have you heard of the Quality Online Teaching and Learning (QLT) instrument? We have funds for 7 online courses for Fall 2019 and 7 for Spring 2020 to be peer reviewed by Quality Assurance Faculty Associates.

  Application Closed

  Mental Health First Aid Training for Faculty; Promoting Student Success

  The core of this Faculty Learning Community will be the 8-hour curriculum designed by the National Council for Behavioral Health, and required for certification as a Mental Health First Aid provider. Faculty who successfully participate in this FLC can expect to receive their MHFA Certificate at the conclusion. Beyond this standardized 8-hour curriculum, faculty will explore with fellow FLC participants issues of particular relevance to our own campus community, and share strategies for supporting CSUSM students effectively, without judgment or stigma.

  Application Closed

  FLC Writing Community

  This FLC provides a structured time to discuss writing and get writing done! All participants will get an opportunity to have their writing workshopped to help facilitate revision and submission for peer-review.

  Faculty who complete the Faculty Writers FLC will be awarded $250 for professional development or a stipend. This will be distributed at the completion of project activities. Missing two or more meetings will result in losing your place in the group as well as the professional development funds. 

  Application Closed

  Contemplative Pedagogy FLC

  In the Contemplative Pedagogy FLC (CP-FLC) we will introduce you to contemplative practices that can be used in the classroom, have you try out these practices during the fall semester, and then help you develop and implement a plan for systematically using and assessing selected practices in a class during the spring semester.

  Application Closed

   

  Faculty Fellow for Research, Scholarly & Creative Activity

  The Faculty Fellow will work with the Faculty Center Director to provide leadership in building a community around research, scholarly and creative activity.

  Appication Closed

  Faculty Fellow for Online Teaching

  The Faculty Fellow will work closely with the Associate Director for Teaching and Learning and the IITS Instructional Development (IDS) team to oversee the quality online teaching project.

  Appication Closed

  Peer Review of Online Course Grants (QLT)

  Do you teach online? Have you heard of the Quality Online Teaching and Learning (QLT) instrument? We have funds for 7 online courses for Fall 2019 and 7 for Spring 2020 to be peer reviewed by Quality Assurance Faculty Associates.

  Appication Closed

  Call for Associate Director

  The Associate Director for Teaching and Learning will work with the Faculty Center Director and the Faculty Center Advisory Council to provide opportunities for faculty to develop a wider repertoire of abilities and strategies related to effective teaching and learning.

  Appication Closed

  Power Writers FLC 

  This FLC provides a structured time to discuss writing and get writing done! All participants will get an opportunity to have their writing workshopped to help facilitate revision and submission for peer-review.

  Faculty who complete the Power Writers FLC will be awarded $250 for professional development or a stipend. This will be distributed at the completion of project activities. Missing two or more meetings will result in losing your place in the group as well as the professional development funds. 

  Appication Closed

  Faculty Learning Community for Diversity Requirement Coaches

  The Faculty Center invites applications from faculty to become coaches for the new diversity requirement. We are seeking individuals who are interested in learning more about the new Diversity and Equity Domestic/Global Graduation Requirements and becoming coaches to assist faculty through the process of (re)developing their courses to meet the requirement.

  Appication Closed

  Faculty Associates for Quality Online Teaching

  If you have taught a class online at least one time at CSUSM, you can receive peer review feedback on your online course from a knowledgeable and trained team. This feedback is helpful for providing new resources and revisions that enhance a course beyond student evaluations Application Closed

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  The Faculty Book Club

  Join your CSUSM colleagues as we read and discuss Jean Twenge’s book, iGen: Why Today's Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy--and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood--and What That Means for the Rest of Us. We will discuss the book as well and what it may mean for our classrooms in the future. Application Closed

  The Faculty Learning Community on Gamification in the Classroom

  Are you interested in learning about gamifying your classroom? Redesign a course that can benefit from more student engagement? Perhaps, you just would like to borrow a few gaming elements to motivate your students and to build a positive class culture that focuses on powerful relationships …  The Gamification in the Classroom FLC offers avenues for incorporating gaming principles and techniques in the learning process, proposing methods for building social skills, teamwork, and motivation, and sharing experiences along the way with fellow faculty members. Application Closed

  Faculty Learning Community: Palliative Care and Family Caregiving

  Palliative care improves quality of life for patients and families facing serious or chronic illness, whatever the diagnosis or prognosis. It prevents and relieves suffering by addressing pain as well as the physical, emotional, psycho-social and spiritual problems associated with serious and chronic conditions. The demand for palliative care is growing as we all need to learn how to respond to the challenges of caring about and for loved ones suffering from serious and chronic illnesses.Application Closed

  FLC Online Learning

  The purpose of this online faculty learning community will be to examine and discuss faculty, curriculum and student impact with the online learning experience. We will discuss the assumptions about online learning, challenges, why faculty may choose online learning or face to face, and opportunities online learning.Application Closed

  The Faculty Learning Community on Gamification in the Classroom

  Are you interested in learning about gamifying your classroom? Redesign a course that can benefit from more student engagement? Perhaps, you just would like to borrow a few gaming elements to motivate your students and to build a positive class culture that focuses on powerful relationships …  The Gamification in the Classroom FLC offers avenues for incorporating gaming principles and techniques in the learning process, proposing methods for building social skills, teamwork, and motivation, and sharing experiences along the way with fellow faculty members.Application Closed

  Writing Faculty Learning Community

  This FLC provides a structured time to discuss writing and get writing done! All participants will get an opportunity to have their writing workshopped to help facilitate revision and submission for peer-review.Faculty who complete the Faculty Writing Community FLC will be awarded $250 for professional development or a stipend from the Office of Graduate Studies and Research.  This will be distributed at the completion of project activities. Missing two or more meetings will result in losing your place in the group as well as the professional development funds.Application Closed

  Community Engaged Scholarship Faculty Learning Community

  Community Engaged Scholarship (CES) is centered on a mutually-beneficial collaboration between the university and a community partner outside the academy. The purpose of the collaboration is to bring together the specialized knowledge of the university with the specialized knowledge of the community to generate new knowledge that is applied to solve critical issues of interest to both. CES meets the needs of the community partner as defined and expressed by the partner, with measurable outcomes. The collaborative work is characterized by robust participation by both the university and community partners and results are disseminated to all partners and beyond.Application Closed

  Propose a New FLC

  Have you heard the buzz about Faculty Learning Communities? Have you thought about leading one? Because of increased interest in FLCs across campus, we want to provide a structured way for faculty/departments to propose ideas for FLCs. We are happy to continue to partner with other departments on campus!Application Closed 

  Lecturer Faculty Fellow/Liaison

  The Lecturer Faculty Fellow/Liaison will work with the Faculty Center Director and the Associate Vice President of Faculty Affairs to increase communications to lecturer faculty and to enhance professional development opportunities for lecturers.Application Closed

  Faculty Fellow for the Faculty Mentoring Program 

  The Faculty Mentoring Program Faculty Fellow (FMP-FF) works with the Faculty Center Director to sustain and develop the Faculty Mentoring Program. In the Faculty Mentoring Program, tenure-track and lecturer faculty volunteers are matched with first generation and/or economically disadvantaged students who are juniors or seniors. Each mentor-protégé pair establishes a constructive relationship that encourages student progress, college retention, degree completion, exploration of graduate school and career options. The goal of the program is to foster student success by reducing social estrangement and creating a university culture of positive participation and support.Application Closed

  Faculty Fellow for Diversity, Inclusion, and Social Justice

  The Faculty Fellow will work with the Faculty Center Director to sustain and provide leadership in developing and implementing diversity and multicultural training workshops and opportunities for faculty.Application Closed

  Peer Review Online Course Grant for QOLT

  Do you teach online? Have you heard of the Quality Online Teaching and Learning (QOLT) instrument? We are in need of 7 online courses for fall 2017 and 7 others for spring 2018 to be peer reviewed by Quality Assurance Faculty Associate.Application Closed

  Designing Successful Outcomes FLC

   This FLC will investigate ways to improve how we can all facilitate learning in our teaching. We can come together as faculty and actively investigate ways to change the focus away from using only an accountability lens to talk about outcomes or assessment and instead begin to view our pedagogy under a learning-centered lens that makes the best use of outcomes and assessment information.Application Closed

  Career Readiness FLC

  This FLC will help you to develop, refine, and share specific faculty practices (assignments, readings, course-based projects) that foster students' development of these competencies. Furthermore, it will help to focus attention on developing and/or refining pedagogical strategies, as well as to connect one or more of these to one or more of your course or program student learning outcomes.Application Closed

  Sustainability Transforming Academics and Research (STAR) FLC

  The STAR (Sustainability Transforming Academics and Research) FLC offers avenues for sharing, connecting and building upon sustainability endeavors on campus, as well as growing new ones. Application Closed

  Building and Strengthening Faculty Relationships FLC

  This FLC will explore ways that faculty can increase and build solidarity with each other during what promises to be a very challenging period in higher education. The FLC was inspired by data collected in the Halualani Associates Report and the Great Colleges to Work Survey. In both these reports, a significant number of faculty at CSUSM expressed a strong desire to improve communication and create a more collegial campus climate.Application Closed

  Peer Review Mini Grant QOLT

  Do you teach online? Have you heard of the Quality Online Teaching and Learning (QOLT) instrument? We are in need of 7 online courses for fall 2016 and 7 others for spring 2017 to be peer reviewed by Quality Assurance Faculty Associate.Application Closed

  UC Berkeley’s Transforming STEM Teaching at CSUSM Math Summer Institute 2018

  CSUSM is partnering with UC Berkeley’s Center for Teaching and Learning through a program designed as part of an NSF-WIDER Grant, and now being broadly implemented as part of an NSF-Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE) Grant to support instructors of STEM courses to enhance teaching practices and improve student learning gains.  Application Closed