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Volunteers sought for Innovation in Teaching and Learning Conference

Posted by on February 21, 2022

The Center for Advancing Faculty Excellence (CAFE) needs volunteers to help with set up and tear down, registration, parking and room moderation at the Innovation in Teaching and Learning Conference on Thursday, March 17.

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Applications for Faculty Success Program due March 4

Posted by on February 17, 2022

The Faculty Success Program through the National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity (NCFDD) is a 12-week online program that helps tenure-track and tenured faculty develop research and writing skills while maintaining a healthy work-life balance. Mid-career faculty are encouraged to apply.

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CAFE offers mid-semester student surveys

Posted by on February 9, 2022

The Center for Advancing Faculty Excellence (CAFE) is offering instructors the opportunity to receive mid-semester feedback by surveying their students. Feedback will be anonymous and confidential.

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Ivliyeva to step down as CAFE chair

Posted by on February 3, 2022

Dr. Irina Ivliyeva, chair of the Center for Advancing Faculty Excellence (CAFE) at Missouri S&T since June 2019, has announced that she will return to full-time teaching and scholarship when her term concludes June 30. Ivliyeva is a professor of Russian in the department of arts, languages and philosophy and serves as the department’s coordinator for the Russian minor.

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Sign up for CAFE forum on successful promotion and tenure

Posted by on February 3, 2022

The Center for Advancing Faculty Excellence (CAFE) will host the tenth in its series of early career faculty forums 4-5 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 9, on Zoom. The session, “Successful Promotion and Tenure: A Peer Perspective” will feature three award-winning faculty, who will share their experience and knowledge on successful promotion and tenure.

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Sign up for CAFE forum on student learning and the Writing Center

Posted by on January 19, 2022

The Center for Advancing Faculty Excellence (CAFE) will host the ninth in its series of early career faculty forums 4-5 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 26, on Zoom. The session, “How do Students Learn? and Information About the Writing Center” will be presented by Dr. Merilee Krueger, teaching professor of psychological science, and Phillip Bode, program manager of student support services in the Writing Center.

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Registration open for teaching and learning conference March 17

Posted by on December 6, 2021

Registration is now open for the Innovation in Teaching and Learning Conference 2022, which will be held 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Thursday, March 17, in Butler-Carlton Hall, with a virtual option available to those who wish to attend online. Author and educator Flower Darby will deliver the keynote. 

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Promote academic integrity, student engagement with your course design

Posted by on October 11, 2021

The Center for Advancing Faculty Excellence (CAFE) is hosting “Promoting Academic Integrity through High Impact Classroom Practices and Course Design” tomorrow, 3:30-5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 12, on Zoom.

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VIDEO: Are students cheating in my class?

Posted by on October 11, 2021

Since the start of the pandemic last year, academic dishonesty cases have risen nationally, but what’s going on at S&T? Is cheating something that happens often in face-to-face environments? Questions like these are covered in the third episode of a series on academic dishonesty created by the Center for Advancing Faculty Excellence (CAFE). Watch the video.

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CAFE to host forum on scholarship of teaching and learning

Posted by on October 11, 2021

The Center for Advanced Faculty Excellence (CAFE) will hold the fifth session in its series of early career faculty forums 4-5 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 20, in Room 202 of the Curtis Laws Wilson Library.

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