| Overall Rating | Gold - expired |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 66.26 |
| Liaison | Roxane Beigel-Coryell |
| Submission Date | May 1, 2015 |
| Executive Letter | Download |
California State University, Channel Islands
AC-7: Incentives for Developing Courses
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
|
2.00 / 2.00 |
Dan
Wakelee Assistant Provost Academic Affairs |
Does the institution have an ongoing incentives program or programs that meet the criteria for this credit?:
A brief description of the program(s), including positive outcomes during the previous three years:
Incentives for Developing Sustainability Courses
Faculty Development to Support Faculty in their Efforts to Provide Sustainability Course Offerings
Faculty Development is not an academic program that offers courses or degrees. Instead, it is a support office whose efforts are to help align faculty instructional effort in supporting students to succeed in achieving the larger learning goals and outcomes of the university.
(1) Travel Support for development of an interdisciplinary campus symposium.
(2) Annual winter writing retreat.
(3) Guest lectures involve conveying the kinds of student learning needed to do successful interdisciplinary high-level evaluative thinking that is required for understanding and applying concepts of sustainability.
(4) Funded projects that pay participating faculty small stipends ($500 per semester) include Faculty Learning Communities for "Design of Deep Learning Exercises" and an ongoing project to develop a Science Literacy Concept Inventory. A short Sustainability Literacy Concept Inventory is being developed as both a teaching aid and an assessment instrument.
(5) Faculty minigrants: These small grants average about $7000 per faculty and faculty receive support primarily in form of release time to pursue innovative scholarship and teaching innovation.
Additional information is available at http://facultydevelopment.csuci.edu/, especially the tab links: assessment of student learning (under construction), Mini-grant program, and Faculty Resources.
A brief description of the incentives that faculty members who participate in the program(s) receive:
General incentives include sponsorship of funding for professional development, training in demonstrating effective student learning (assessment), workshops in teaching and assessment, retreats, in-class guest lectures on learning, ethics and critical thinking. Specific examples are listed above.
The website URL where information about the incentive program(s) is available:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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