Challenge
The USG will value and reward excellence in teaching.
Action
Develop a more intentional approach to recruiting, developing, and rewarding
faculty for excellence in teaching.
Activities for Implementation
- Develop BOR policies that reward student advising, experiential learning,
mentoring, instructional innovation, scholarship of teaching and learning,
scholarship of engagement, and collaborative institutional planning to
improve student learning.
- Create Regents’ Distinguished Faculty title in recognition of outstanding
undergraduate instruction.
- Provide System-level professional development opportunities in the area
of teaching.
- Continue providing awards each year for excellence in teaching; expand
number of awards as funding allows.
Baseline Measure
Little System-wide activity specifically focused on providing incentives for excellence in teaching, providing professional development opportunities related to teaching, and/or providing rewards for excellence in teaching.
| 2009 Target | 2009 Actual |
| Review USG policies related to teaching and revise as needed to focus on incentives and rewards. | Section 4 (Academic Personnel) of the Academic Affairs Handbook revised and updated |
| Develop and conduct at least three additional workshops for professional development for faculty (fall 08). | Conducted 8 workshops in 2008-2009. Nearly 300 faculty attended on-site and over 5,000 visited recorded sessions on website. |
| Offer one departmental award and five individual faculty awards for excellence in teaching. | All FY2009 award winners were selected and honored at March 2009 USG Gala. |
| Establish a Regents' Distinguished Teaching Faculty title in recognition of outstanding teaching. | Funding not available beyond 6 awards given annually. |
| Continue to offer annual Academic Administrators Workshop. | Due to budget constraints, planning is underway to offer professional training for academic administrators in the form of campus-based and virtual workshops. |
| 2010 Target | 2010 Actual |
| Recommend policy changes identified through review. | Policy change recommendations currently being developed in the areas of faculty development and work in the schools/scholarship of teaching and learning. |
| Develop and conduct at least six professional development workshops. | Conducted 7 workshops in 2009-2010 USG Faculty Development Monthly Series. Location of the workshop moved to OIIT Athens for a budget savings of over $25,000. Attended on-site by 150 faculty and all sessions were recorded and archived on the USG iTunes site. |
| Offer one departmental award and five individual faculty awards for excellence in teaching. | All FY2010 award winners were selected and honored at the March 2010 USG Gala. |
| Establish process and criteria for selection of a Regents' Distinguished Teaching Faculty award. | Funding not available beyond 6 awards given annually. |
| Identify experts across the System in the scholarship of teaching and learning who can serve as resources. | Expertise database from USG experts developed by the Office of Faculty Development. March 2010 workshop was offered by Georgia Southern faculty on the scholarship of teaching and learning. |
| Support and co-sponsor existing annual teaching conferences sponsored by KSU, GSOU, GSC. | Staff from the Office of Faculty Development attended and participated in all USG teaching conferences this past year. |
| Continue to offer annual Academic Administrators Workshop. | Multiple professional development campus workshops and Wimba sessions delivered to department chairs and deans |
| 2011 Target | 2011 Actual |
| Implement any new policy changes that are approved. | |
| Develop and conduct at least six professional development workshops during the year. | |
| Offer one departmental award and five individual faculty awards for excellence in teaching. | |
| Select faculty member for Regents' Distinguished Teaching Faculty award. | |
| Support and co-sponsor existing annual teaching conferences sponsored by KSU, GSOU, GSC. | |
| Continue to offer annual Academic Administrators Workshop. | |
| 2012 Target | 2012 Actual |
| Develop and conduct at least six professional development workshops during the year. | |
| Offer one departmental award and five individual faculty awards for excellence in teaching. | |
| Select faculty member for Regents Distinguished Teaching Faculty award. | |
| Support and co-sponsor existing annual teaching conferences sponsored by KSU, GSOU, GSC. | |
| Continue to offer annual Academic Administrators Workshop | |
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