This is a great time for HHD Faculty who want to connect with undergraduates for research can post research opportunities online. If you have already created a research opportunities account, you can post those opportunities here: https://undergradresearch.psu.edu/resources/opportunities
If you have not yet created a research opportunities account, apply for an account here: https://undergradresearch.psu.edu/form/apply-account
For more info and resources on guiding undergraduate research: https://undergradresearch.psu.edu/resources/faculty
HHD Endowment Funding for Undergraduate and Outreach Programs: The College of Health and Human Development will again be offering funds for support of undergraduate education and outreach programs through its endowments. Details on each of the endowments is attached. For funding in 2019-20, the College is especially interested in projects that emphasize the following:
- Proposals that develop new courses, enhance existing courses, and otherwise advance elements our new minor in Diversity and Inclusion
We are also interested in the following:
- outreach programs that connect college majors, faculty, and students to students in high school and middle school
- Proposals that develop new or improve existing outreach programs or undergraduate education through hybrid approaches, online World Campus courses, or innovative teaching technologies
- Proposals that develop new Honors courses, including courses that might target incoming students or Honors courses that would appeal to students in multiple HHD programs
- Proposals that target emerging areas of undergraduate education and outreach programs, including entrepreneurship, sustainability, public health, health disparities, global health, social media, data analytics, teamwork, improving management and policy in the service industries, impacts of demographic change (aging, diversity, immigration, family change, etc.) on health, hospitality, tourism, recreation, education and human services
Common criteria across all the endowment funds, beyond those listed for individual endowments, include support from department heads and program PICs, collaboration among faculty within and/or across departments, involvement of both tenure-track and fixed-term faculty, involvement of both senior and junior faculty, and connection to the College and/or department strategic plans. While none of these elements are required, all will be considered in identifying the best applications. Interested faculty should contact Heather Zimmerman hdh3@psu.edu for proposal information.
Five Things I’m Reading
- Tools for Learning Science from Carnegie Mellon: https://www.insidehighered.com/digital-learning/article/2019/04/03/carnegie-mellon-releases-treasure-trove-learning-science-tools
- How Test Review Can Improve Student Learning https://www.chronicle.com/article/How-Test-Review-Can-Improve/246569?cid=cp170
- Special Issue on Students as Agents of Change: http://portal.criticalimpact.com/vm2/f76570ac40934479/25043/2146b76a530314983947229f28c3afba
- Did you miss out on the popcorn at the Teaching and Learning with Technology Carnival?
- The Atlantic on Higher Education Deserts: https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2019/07/education-deserts-across-rural-america/593071/
Have a reading suggestion? Let me know!
Open Education Resources: Opportunity for university presses publishing Penn State faculty books to get funding to make them open access. Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem (TOME) is a collaborative effort between the Association of American Universities, the Association of Research Libraries, and the Association of University Presses. Penn State’s Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost has committed to funding $45,000 to be split among up to three subvention grants to support publishing open access monographs each year for five years (2018-2023). Each grant will be contributed directly to a press participating in the program for an open access publication of an eligible Penn State faculty-authored work.
- Two updates on NIH R25 funding that can support programs for undergraduates or K-12. Great opportunities to develop undergraduate research, connect with diverse underrepresented students for graduate recruitment, or let middle school or high school students know about your field
Professional Development for Teaching and Learning
Penn State Events
- IT Learning and Development Workshops(including Canvas and other teaching seminars): https://itld.psu.edu/find-training
- World Campus Faculty Development: Courses and certificates to improve your online/hybrid teaching: https://wcfd.psu.edu/
- Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence— Great programs on challenging class situations and efficient grading coming up. See all upcoming seminars
- New information on embedded global travel programs–With the support and input of several colleagues and faculty leaders, Global Programs has developed a more detailed “how to” online guide for faculty-led embedded course development.
- What the heck are Open Educational Resources? http://oer.psu.edu/getting-started-with-oer/
- Kaltura is now available for the University community to store, create and stream media to individual devices and through links embedded in Canvas. Kaltura will work with Zoom, Penn State’s conferencing system, to provide a complete conferencing and streaming solution to replace Adobe Connect. Training resources including a quick-start guide for students and Learning Paths for faculty, instructional content creators and non-instructional staff, are available on the Kaltura website,
Funding
- Faculty Academy for Engaged Scholarship: Faculty Fellows: The Faculty Academy is intended to deepen the University-wide discourse, practice, and recognition of engaged scholarship at Penn State. More info: https://www.engage.psu.edu/faculty-academy/
- Global Programs Faculty Travel Grants: Global Programs maintains a fund to support faculty travel related to developing global awareness, global literacy and global competency among our undergraduate population. The Faculty Travel Grant (up to a maximum of $3,000 per project) supports faculty members traveling abroad for a short-term stay (1-4 weeks). Transformational Travel Grants are awarded twice annually, with applications due by 5:00 p.m. (prevailing Eastern Time) on the following dates: September 15 by 5:00 P.M. (EDT) for travel to take place on or after November 1 of that year and February 15 by 5:00 P.M. (EST) for travel to take place on or after April 1 of that year. More info and applications: https://global.psu.edu/article/global-programs-faculty-travel-grants·
- Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence: Teaching Transformation & Innovation grants: The Teaching Project Grants program is designed to provide support for Penn State faculty, departments, and degree-granting programs to engage in projects that support teaching and learning endeavors in undergraduate education. Support for these projects includes consultations with Institute faculty, as well as funding. Funding will be available each Spring semester for successful proposals during the next fiscal year.
- Honors Course Development/Enhancement Awards: The Schreyer Honors College offers Course Development/Enhancement Awards to support the design, development and improvement of honors courses for our Schreyer Scholars. Faculty members seeking to develop new honors courses or enhance existing honors courses are encouraged to submit a proposal. These awards may be used to develop or enhance a course, secure course materials, support the involvement of special guest speakers, to fund related travel or research costs, to assist students, or some combination thereof. The award must contribute directly to the development and implementation of an approved honors course to be offered in the upcoming year. Open submission dates. More information: https://www.shc.psu.edu/faculty/course-awards.cfm
EXTERNAL PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES·
- Online Learning Consortium: OLC is a great organization for anyone interested in online education. Penn State is an OLC Member and may enable us to help you get a lower cost registration for their programs. Contact Dennis Shea or Susan LeWay if you are interested in something. Upcoming Programs:
- OLC Ongoing Professional Development Opportunities:https://onlinelearningconsortium.org/learn/olc-institute-professional-development/
- American Association of Colleges and Universities conferences and meetings: AACU focuses on connections to liberal arts, general education, and diversity, equity and inclusion, and Penn State faculty have access to their many programs and resources through our institutional membership. See upcoming programs below. Contact Dennis Shea if interested in any of their activities: https://www.aacu.org/events
- The 2019 AAC&U Transforming STEM Higher Education Network Conference will be held November 7–9, 2019 in Chicago, Illinois. They encourage the submission of “late-breaking” proposals that examine the range of opportunities for—and challenges to—STEM higher education
- The Carnegie Foundation is the largest convening of pre-K-12 and postsecondary leaders and innovators committed to transformative change in education through continuous improvement approaches. These hands-on learning opportunities will equip you with proven strategies and tools, and will introduce you to colleagues working to solve similar problems.
- Showcase the work you are doing to transform teaching and learning at the seventh annual Carnegie Foundation Summit on Improvement in Education. https://www.carnegiefoundation.org/engage-with-us/events/summit-improvement-education/request-for-proposals/
- Interested in Adult Learners? Check out the Council on Adult and Experiential Learning upcoming conference: https://www.cael.org/conference
- Campus Community Partnerships for Health conference on Dismantling Structural Inequalities: Infusing the Arts in Our Work https://www.ccphealth.org/events/structural-inequality-intensive/