Month: January 2017

SPACE – Symposium for Part-Time, Adjunct and Contingent Educators

The Symposium for Part-time, Adjunct, and Contingent Educators (SPACE) is a conference where part-time, adjunct, and contingent faculty can present their original scholarship in a peer-reviewed, professional setting. SPACE also provides a venue for contingent faculty members to share what they are doing in the classroom and to connect with their contingent colleagues.  This year’s …

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First Year Faculty Thoughts

Over the next few months, we will be posting thoughts from first year faculty on the experiences of their first semester at Belmont.  We hope it will bring back fond memories of your early weeks on campus.   Patrick Morse, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Psychological Science BS Psychology, Elon University (2008) MS General Experimental Psychology, Villanova …

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Teaching Center Writing Groups

In the summer of 2015, the Teaching Center initiated Summer Writing Groups as a way to support faculty in their Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL). It was clear that many faculty members were doing SoTL, but some needed the structure and accountability of a group to help their work progress to a presentation or publication.  …

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