Teaching & Learning Institute
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The Teaching & Learning Institute’s mission is to support faculty in cultivating inclusive, engaging learning environments that prepare all members of the Hartwick Community to thrive in the rapidly changing and interdependent world of the future. To achieve this, the Teaching & Learning Institute facilitates programs and services that allow faculty to exchange ideas and techniques for teaching; collaborates with campus partners to advance shared educational goals; shares guidance on emerging needs and methods related to teaching and learning; and provides opportunities for leadership-development and community-building around teaching and learning.
Resources
The 2024-2025 syllabus template is available here.
The Office of Academic Affairs provides this syllabus template to make it easier for faculty to provide clear, consistent information to students no matter which class the students are taking.
Resources for faculty on teaching writing include classroom visits by consultants on writing strategies, and workshops that can be designed according to an instructor’s specific needs for a course.
This is a Shared Google Drive where faculty can share their course syllabi and course schedule to arrange to observe each other’s classes. It is a helpful resource for pre-tenure faculty in preparing for mid-probationary revue and tenure, and for all faculty in sharing teaching techniques with each other. This resource is maintained by Dr. Cheryl Johnson, Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice. If you have questions, please contact Dr. Johnson at [email protected].
Peer Teaching Drive
This is a Shared Google Drive on Teaching and Technology where you can find 30-minute or 60-minute virtual, faculty- and academic staff-led workshops on leveraging different platforms and teaching techniques to foster active student engagement in an online learning environment; neurodiversity and the learning experience; financial aid and academic progress; and other topics.
Among the workshops in this archive are:
Accessible Course Content (Lara Sanford)
Executive Function Skills and Student Success (Lara Sanford)
Using Breakout Rooms in Online Teaching (Carli Ficano)
Using Perusall to Do Group Annotation of Readings (Karina Walker)
Online Discussions (Mark Wolff)
Financial Aid and Satisfactory Academic Progress (Brian Birch)
Using Video (Faculty and Staff Panel)
Members of the Hartwick College community – faculty, staff, students, alumni, and retired employees – are invited to contribute information on people, groups, and resources that have influenced their teaching. There is much collective wisdom among our community and this has inspired the creation of a collaborative space for sharing ideas. To take a look or share an inspiration, please click one of the links below and log into the shared document with your Hartwick network credentials.
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging
Generative AI
Online Teaching & Learning
This document is a list of people in our Hartwick community that are willing to give guest lectures to other classes, or for events. It is open to anyone on campus to add their names to the list, or to consult. This is meant for internal use only and is not to be used as an expert list for outside inquiries. This resource is maintained by Dr. Kevin Schultz, Associate Professor of Physics. If you have questions, please contact Dr. Schultz at [email protected].
Events
Grants & Funding
Teamworking Your Grant
Wednesday, Oct. 16, 12:20-1:15 PM
Larsen Lounge (Bresee Hall, 1st Floor)
A hybrid workshop with Stacey Grady on the institutional partners who will be important for a successful grant submission.
Generative AI
Rethinking What You Want Students to Know
Thursday, Oct. 24, 4:00-5:00 PM
A virtual workshop with Joe von Stengel on how generative AI is already transforming teaching and has made it important for instructors to rethink what they want students to learn in their courses.
Online Teaching & Learning
Pedagogy of Online Learning
Monday, Nov. 4 – 4:30-5:00 PM
A virtual workshop with Laurel Bongiorno on how to create a sense of community and foster active student engagement in an online learning environment.
Generative AI
Designing Generative AI Prompts
Thursday, Nov. 7, 4:00-5:00 PM
A virtual workshop with Joe von Stengel on designing and refining prompts for generative AI to yield more effective and useful results. How to use AI as a tool for teaching and learning.
College Catalog & Policies
The Hartwick College Catalog for the current academic year is your best source of information on academic policies relevant to your teaching, including: FERPA, Grading, the Missed Class Policy, Pass-No Pass, Student Grievance Procedures, and the SUNY-Oneonta Exchange Program.
2024-2025Academic Policies & Procedures
The College Catalog should be the first source you consult for academic policies and procedures. In addition. these policies are also of interest to teaching & learning.
Students are not obligated to self-disclose a disability. However, self-disclosure is required when the student anticipates a need for adjustments, modifications, or services relating to the disability. For more information on how academic accommodations work at Hartwick, click here.
The college supports a restorative justice paradigm that seeks to educate students about integrity as part of their learning process. Click here for full details on Hartwick’s Academic Integrity Policy and Procedures.
As a residential liberal arts college, Hartwick operates on a “24/7” schedule during academic terms when the College is in session. Therefore, even with inclement weather, the College typically does not close. However, guidelines for instructors on how to proceed in the event of inclement weather, or the rare occasion when the College closes for safety, are available here.
The Library Request Forms page provides resources to enable faculty to request that books or DVDs be purchased for the collections, order materials through Interlibrary Loan, as well as to place books, DVDs and other materials on reserve for a course.
Students must make satisfactory academic progress toward their degree in order to continue receiving financial aid. Because the withdrawal of financial aid can have a serious impact on a student’s ability to attend college, it can be useful for faculty to be aware of how satisfactory academic progress is defined and measured. The policy and procedures can be found here.
Hartwick has a variety of resources to support student-faculty collaboration on research, as well as faculty-mentored student projects. These include:
The Cyrus Mehri Fellowship to support a faculty-mentored, student-led activities to bring more pluralistic and global perspectives to campus (award of $2,000 for programming).
Duffy Scholarships to support an international independent study project, or participation in a short-term study abroad program (individual awards up to $7,000).
Emerson Scholarships to support an international internship experience (individual awards up to $7,000).
The Freedman Prize to support a student-faculty collaboration on original research (individual awards up to $2,000).
The Grow America Internship in Economic Development Finance to support a mentored, paid, virtual, four-week professional paid internship in economic development finance. Open to all Hartwick sophomores (some juniors and first-year students may be considered).
The Research in Science & Health Fund to support student conference fees, research supplies, travel expenses, etc. for a research project in the sciences, mathematics, or health-related field.
Assessment
Assessment is an essential part of teaching and assessing the FlightPath General Education Outcomes is required for any course that has one or more of the GEO tags. This is how we know that our curriculum is effectively teaching students what we say we think they should know.
The guidelines and tools you will need for assessment are all located in a Shared Google Drive to which all faculty have access (remember to log into your Google account with your Hartwick network login, not a personal account). Look in your Shared Drives for the 'Hartwick College Assessment Resources' Drive. And below are a few direct links to key resources, for your convenience.
FlightPath General Education Curriculum: This is the curriculum as passed by the Faculty on April 27, 2020. It is the general education curriculum that all Hartwick students are required to complete -- and, therefore, it is the curriculum that the faculty have committed to delivering.
FlightPath GEO Rubrics: This folder contains the rubrics you should use to assess General Education Outcomes 1-7.
For Department Chairs
This manual will be updated on an ongoing basis, and includes information about hiring, mentoring, and evaluating faculty; course scheduling; curriculum; and budgeting. It will be expanded to provide more information on the chair’s role in advancing Hartwick’s goals for diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging.
Please submit requests for an adjunct appointment letter via this online form.
Full-time faculty must request authorization in advance if their teaching load, combined with any administrative releases, will exceed 20 credits for the academic year. Please submit requests via this online form.
If you are going to observe someone’s class and would like a form for organizing your observations of their teaching, here is a sample prepared by the Office of Academic Affairs in collaboration with the Education Program.
If your department has been approved to advertise and conduct a search for a full-time faculty position, please follow these guidelines for the search process and work closely with Academic Affairs.
GUIDELINES FOR FULL-TIME FACULTY SEARCHES
Office of Academic Affairs
Bresee Hall Room 205
Monday to Friday
9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
607-431-4400
[email protected]
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