Faculty Helping Faculty

FSU is fortunate to have faculty with decades of experience designing and teaching online classes. FSU is also fortunate to have faculty willing to help each other. Recently, faculty from the College of Communication and Information and from the College of Education offered their expertise to FSU colleagues, K-12 colleagues, and teachers from across the state and country.

To assist FSU in thinking about short-term solutions and possible long-term approaches for remote teaching and online pedagogy, ten CCI faculty members kindly agreed to share best practices, lessons learned, and practical solutions in two Zoom panels about online teaching in April, 2020. 

The panel for April 17 included Jane Barrager(School of Information), Gary Burnett (School of Information), Kaity Lansford (School of Communication Science & Disorders), Tricia Montgomery (School of Communication Science & Disorders), and Michelle Kazmer. (CCI).

The panel for April 24 included Toby Graves (School of Communication), Shannon Hall-Mills (School of Communication Science & Disorders), Don Latham (School of Information), Lorri Mon (School of Information), and Carla Wood (School of Communication Science & Disorders).

These CCI faculty warmly welcomed faculty, adjuncts, and graduate student instructors from all over campus to the panels. Each faculty member shared their own experiences and techniques, and answered questions from the attendees at the panels.

Detailed notes from the panel presentations are available on request from Michelle Kazmer via email (mkazmer@fsu.edu), and a one-page executive summary of the content shared during the panel is online here: One Page Summary.

Also in April, Professor Vanessa Dennen of the College of Education, led a webinar on “Creating Community in an Online Learning Setting.” This webinar is now posted on the College of Education’s Blog

Dr. Dennen focused on Identity, Presence, and Community in an online learning setting and helped teachers new to online pedagogy see how priorities could and should remain “People first. Content second. Technology third.”

Summer Writing Opportunities

At faculty request last summer, we began daily writing sessions to provide accountability for each other and to create a community of solidarity. We will continue this new tradition this summer virtually. Four times a week you may join your colleagues and write. You may write with us for some of the time or all of the time, each day or once a month; set the schedule that best serves you. Our purpose is to offer a supportive community of writers that will hold each other accountable, so please join with video to tell us your daily goals or write your daily goals in the Chat whenever you arrive. Before you leave, please report to your colleagues via Chat whatever you accomplished or confronted during the session. No registration required.

Summer Zoom Writing Sessions:

• Mondays, 12:30 – 5:00: Zoom link
• Tuesdays, 12:30 – 5:00: Zoom link
• Wednesdays, 8:30 – noon: Zoom link
• Thursdays, 8:30 – noon: Zoom link

Tips to secure your Zoom meetings

Zoom has been an instrumental tool in recent weeks as classes and meetings around the world move online. To help secure your Zoom lectures and meetings, Information Technology Services (ITS) has prepared recommendations for how to secure Zoom class sessions and other meetings at Florida State University. FSU uses a special Zoom for Education product that provides enhanced security and privacy. As such, instead of using a free account, always sign in to your FSU Zoom account.

Once signed in, there are numerous security settings to consider when scheduling and running your meetings. Below are our top three tips to follow to help ensure FSU has a safe and welcoming learning and gathering space. To see an expanded list of Zoom security tips, see the 10 Ways to Secure Zoom Meetings Infographic.

• Never share links publicly
  Send meeting links directly to attendees; never share meeting links over social media or public websites. For course meetings, use the Canvas Integration to schedule your meetings.
• Require meeting password
  Require meeting participants to enter a password before joining the meeting. The password will be automatically included in the meeting invite or embedded in the course link if using the Canvas Integration.
• Limit screen sharing
  Prevent participants from sharing their screens during the Zoom meeting by limiting screen sharing to the host only.

Social Media Focused on Faculty

Did you know the Office of Faculty Development and Advancement has three social media platforms dedicated to faculty? Our Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter accounts celebrate faculty accomplishments, spread the word about events and deadlines of interest to faculty, and extend the welcoming and diverse community we experience on campus. Instagram, new to us this year, serves as a platform to tell students more about the faculty who mentor and teach them. Facebook celebrates faculty accomplishments large and small and Twitter serves as a quick, highly monitored news feed, exchanging news about faculty life, campus life, and conversations of interest happening at the state and global levels.

The content for these three platforms is created by three outstanding student interns, two from the InternFSU program: Chloe Bogdajewicz, Antonio Ortiz, and Zuzanna Szulc, all introduced to you in our last newsletter. They interview faculty, design graphics, design our YouTube page, and edit videos and texts. Additionally, they track and analyze media growth and engagement. Follow our social media posts and consider building your own InternFSU internship.

FSU FDA Social Media:

  Interview with Dr. Yolanda Rankin

  Instagram Connects Faculty and Students

  FSU Faculty Poets Celebrate National Poetry Month

Congratulations to FSU External Award Winners

Congratulations to the following FSU faculty who garnered external recognition of their teaching and research this year. Though not all 2020-21 award announcements have been made, we are excited about the ones that have.

Fulbright Scholars in 2020-21. Though their plans have necessarily been changed, all are holding to the hope that it will be full steam ahead in January of 2021.

Antonio Terracciano, College of Medicine, Fulbright to Finland
Jessica Muhamad, College of Communication and Information, Fulbright to Colombia
David Johnson, College of Arts and Sciences, Fulbright to Belgium
Patricia Villeneuve, College of Fine Art, Fulbright to Belgium
Lori Gooding, College of Music, Fulbright to Malaysia
Marci Mardis, College of Communication and Information, Fulbright Research Chair to Canada

NSFCAREER grant awardees:

Kourosh Shoele, College of Engineering
Hadi Mohammadigoushki, College of Engineering
Miranda Waggoner, College of Social Sciences and Public Policy
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Congratulations to Jeremy Owens, Assistant Professor of Geology, for being awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship for 2020-21.
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Congratulations to Nathanael Stein, Associate Professor of Philosophy, for being awarded an NEH Fellowship for 2020-21.
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Congratulations to Martin Munro, Eminent Scholar and Winthrop-King Professor of French and Francophone Studies, for being awarded a National Humanities Center Residential Fellowship for 2020-21.
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Congratulations to Liz Cecil, Assistant Professor of Religion, for being awarded an NEH-sponsored fellowship for $25,000 from the Council of American Overseas Research Centres (CAORC). Dr. Cecil will be affiliated with the Center for Khmer Studies in Siem Reap, Cambodia and focus on fieldwork there and in Java in service of her current book project.

Congratulations to FSU Internal Award Winners

Oft awarded faculty member Allan Marshall told me years ago two truths about faculty awards: 1. The hardest award to get was the first; 2. As a committee member considering award nominations, he found it difficult to award someone never recognized by their own University. FSU finds great value in recognizing the extraordinary work in teaching, research, and service accomplished by its faculty. Whether a first award for the faculty member, a new award for the university, or an award crowning a career of achievements, FSU internal awards hold the special honor of being peers recognizing peers. Congratulations to all the FSU internal award winners for 2019-20.

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A Word from the ICAI

FSU has been part of a longitudinal study with the International Center for Academic Integrity (ICAI). The research is especially important in today’s climate, because FSU students self-report that they are 65% more likely to use unauthorized material while taking a quiz or exam online. (They self-report cheating 2% in a face-to-face format.) We know that our faculty do their best to minimize academic dishonesty, but the reality is that unauthorized collaboration is happening and is more likely to happen in a remote environment.

Here are things to think about as we move to another semester online:

1. Make your academic integrity expectations clear in your course syllabus and in your announcements - not just on Day One, but throughout the semester! Be clear about your expectations on collaboration vs. individual work. You can add more than just standard syllabus statement about academic integrity! List specific charges, found in your course syllabus.
2. Go ahead and Google: Spinbot.com , Paraphrasetool.com , GroupMe , Quizlet , Course Hero and Chegg.com to get a sense of the myriad of applications students use to plagiarize and collaborate. (This is only a sample of what is available to students.)
3. Use HonorLock or other appropriate proctoring services to administer exams.
4. Randomize your exams and update assignments each semester.
5. Follow-through with Step 1 Agreements. The Academic Honor Policy process is educational in nature; we want students to learn and earn their grades and degree with integrity!

For any questions about academic integrity, please contact our office at 850/644-6876 or Ms. Ann DelRossi

New Faculty Orientation

FSU will welcome new faculty in August with New Faculty Orientation. Please stay tuned for more information and consider ways you can make plans to help welcome our new colleagues to Tallahassee and to campus.

Sabbatical Leave

The University Committee on Faculty Sabbaticals will invite applications for one-semester sabbaticals at full pay and two-semester sabbaticals at one-half pay for the academic year 2021-2022 in early September 2020. An informational memorandum and the applicable forms will be available on the Office of Faculty Development and Advancement website no later than Tuesday, September 8, 2020. The deadline for deans' offices to submit electronic applications will be Friday, October 2, 2020. Please note that there may be earlier deadlines at the department and/or college level. Please contact Melissa Crawford if you have questions.

Robert B. Bradley Library Research Grants

Application Deadline October 9, 2020

Faculty are invited to apply for the annual Robert B. Bradley Library Research Grants, which support the research and creative endeavors of our faculty while developing our library’s world class collections. Bob Bradley (retired VP for Planning and Programs at FSU) has been a longtime supporter of the University Libraries, and he has advocated consistently for resources to support the centrality of the libraries that play such an important role in the scholarly work of our faculty.

In 2020-2021 the Faculty Senate Library Committee will have a total of $100,000 to support the research and creative work of faculty with new library acquisitions accessible for the whole FSU community. Please consider preparing your brief mini-grant application over the summer, as all application materials are due in October.

The deadline to submit applications for 2019-2020 Bradley grants is Friday, October 9, 2020.

For more information, including further details about eligible items and application instructions, please see the materials posted to the Bradley Grant webpage.

Questions? Please contact Bradley Grant sub-committee co-chair, Barry Faulk.

UROP

We encourage you to learn more about UROP and to view the UROP Research Mentors Handbook.

This summer, the CRE is hosting monthly UROP Research Mentor Information Sessions through zoom. Below are the dates and zoom links:

• Thursday, May 21 - 2:00-3:00 PM - Zoom link
• Wednesday, June 17 - 2:00-3:00 PM - Zoom link
• Thursday, July 9 - 3:00-4:00 PM - Zoom link
• Wednesday, August 12 - 3:00-4:00 PM - Zoom link

When you are ready to upload a research or creative project to request research assistants, make sure to submit your project by August 17th to the database using FluidReview.

Learn more about UROP

Adjustments to FEAS+ due to the COVID-19 Pandemic

A new option has been added for presentation, performance, and exhibition entry forms. Events that have been accepted or contracted and later cancelled may be flagged as such on the entry form. Generated CVs and reports will append "(Cancelled due to COVID-19)" to citations.

For more information:
Adjustments to faculty evaluations and tenure timelines due to the COVID-19 pandemic

Search for Experts in FEAS+

A new feature has been added to FEAS+! The Areas of Expertise as well as the Program of Research will now display on Faculty Profiles. Once you search for a faculty member’s name, click on the “Profile” button, and you will see a section you may expand to see this information.

To add your Areas of Expertise and Program of Research: go directly into the CV Builder. Areas of Expertise is under the General tab; Program of Research is under the Research tab.

To access the Areas of Expertise and Program of Research of others at FSU: in the Faculty Search page, once you search for a faculty member’s name, click on the “Profile” button, and you will see a section you may expand to see this information.

FEAS+ and ORCID

The Office of Faculty Development and Advancement has developed an integration between ORCID and FSU’s Faculty Expertise and Advancement System (FEAS) . This integration streamlines the process of importing information about your research contributions into FEAS. More information about this integration is available here .

Faculty who wish to benefit from this integration are encouraged to register and/or connect their ORCID profiles and then begin importing works to their profiles following these instructions . Watch a short video tutorial on the process of importing works.

New Master’s Degree in Entrepreneurship

The Jim Moran College of Entrepreneurship will establish a new master’s degree in Entrepreneurship in the fall of 2020. Two majors, Hospitality Entrepreneurship and Product Development, will provide distinct options for the career advancement of its graduates. If you would like more information or would like to get involved in the College’s efforts, please contact Dean Susan Fiorito or her partner in this enterprise, Dr. Don Farr , Director of the Dedman School of Hospitality.

A Word from the Faculty Senate President

This has been a remarkable semester. Converting thousands of courses from face-to-face into remotely delivered has been a tremendous undertaking. I believe that the majority of faculty have never taught online courses before this spring. Despite that, we were able to convert in one week to remote courses for the second part of the spring term. I can't overstate the level of difficulty and the size of the effort on the part of the faculty this was, and the tremendous amount of support provided by FSU administration and staff. And it's not just been coursework: we've had to convert all individual student advising and student research direction to remote learning. And all the usual non-teaching academic work has gone online as well – course development, grant proposals, research, degree program creation, admissions, and updating or creating policies to deal with the unique situation we're in. It's been a tough semester, but I think we were successful. The upcoming academic year will be uncertain, but the faculty performance this spring assures me that we will be ready for it.

The Faculty Senate next meets on September 16, 2020. Like the last few meetings this spring, it will probably be held on Zoom. Our meetings are open and all are welcome to attend. Details can be found at the Faculty Senate web page.

Stay healthy,

Eric Chicken
Department of Statistics
Faculty Senate President

Congratulations to the 2020-21 Faculty Senate Steering Committee

Eric Chicken
FSSC President and Professor
850-644-3218 / chicken@stat.fsu.edu
Statistics

Dr. Erin Ryan
FSSC Vice Chair and Professor
850-645-0072 / eryan@law.fsu.edu
Law

Dr. Todd Adams
Professor
850-644-7159 / tadams@hep.fsu.edu
Physics

Dr. Enrique Alvarez
Professor
850-644-8188 / ealvarez@fsu.edu
Modern Languages

Ms. Bridgett Birmingham
Head, Learning Commons
850-644-6810 / bbirmingham@fsu.edu
University Libraries

Dr. Petra Doan
Professor
850-644-8521 / pdoan@fsu.edu
Urban and Regional Planning

Dr. Nancy Rogers
Professor
850-644-4142 / nancy.rogers@fsu.edu
Music Theory and Composition

Dr. Gary Tyson
Professor
850-644-3088/ tyson@cs.fsu.edu
Computer Science