Welcome to MnSCU! New Faculty Orientation

Welcome to MnSCU Center for Teaching and Learning Realizing Student Potential · ITeach Minneapolis Community & Technical College February 28, 2009 Slide 1 The Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system is an Equal Opportunity employer and educator.

Overview Slide 2

Welcome, introductions

MnSCU overview

CTL resources

System-level

Campus

Teaching and learning challenges / solutions

Career development

What is MnSCU? Slide 3

5 th -largest state higher ed system

Created in 1995 by state law

Merged state university & CC systems

Incorporated former voc-ed system

Find all the facts at:

About the System

Find faculty experts at:

Faculty Experts & Media Guide

What is MnSCU (part 2)? Slide 4

54 campuses, 46 communities

250,000 credit students

34,000 grads each year

151,000 customized training clients

70,000+ online students

87% of grads get jobs in their fields

82% of grads stay in Minnesota

What is MnSCU? We educate, every year: Slide 5

50% of Minnesota’s teachers.

82 % of new nursing graduates.

89 % of law enforcement officers.

89 % of new graduates in the construction trades.

92 % of new mechanics graduates.

41 % of new business graduates.

9,000 firefighters and emergency first responders

Technical Colleges Slide 7

7 institutions

917 F/T Faculty

Technical colleges offer vocational training and education to prepare students for skilled occupations that do not require a baccalaureate degree

Community Colleges Slide 8

5 institutions

1,255 F/T Faculty

Lower division instruction in academic programs, occupational programs in which all credits earned will be accepted for transfer to a baccalaureate degree in the same field of study, and remedial studies, for students transferring to baccalaureate institutions and for those seeking associate degrees

Consolidated C/T Colleges Slide 9

13 institutions

2997 F/T Faculty

The same types of instruction, programs, certificates, diplomas, and degrees as the technical colleges and community colleges offer

State Universities Slide 10

7 institutions

2,559 F/T Faculty

Undergraduate and graduate instruction through the master's degree [and now applied doctorates], including specialist certificates, in the liberal arts and sciences and professional education

Office of the Chancellor

Office of the Chancellor What goes on there? Slide 12

Direct services to campuses

Common IT services

D2L, ISRS, others

Teaching and learning support

Credit transfer coordination

Labor contracts

Presidential searches, reviews

Policy

Institutional research & data collection

Interaction with legislature

MnSCU for You: Resources for Faculty Slide 13

Academic Affairs

DARS/u-select Degree Audit/Transfer System

CAS Course Applicability System

EFolio Minnesota

ISEEK

College Faculty Credentialing

http://tinyurl.com/credentialing

Center for Teaching & Learning Slide 14

Mission : To provide systemwide leadership to promote and support collaborative professional development for all system faculty

Purpose: To improve student learning and teaching effectiveness by serving as a catalyst for faculty collaboration and institutional improvement.

CTL’s Program Areas Slide 15

Leadership development

Develop and support campus leadership in faculty development

Instructional development

Grant funds for innovation

Discipline workshops on curriculum, instruction

Web resources on teaching

Professional development

Provide learning opportunities online and in-person that serve faculty’s common needs

Conferences for presentation of best practices, SoTL outcomes

Who’s Who at CTL Slide 16

Martin Springborg

Fine Arts

Yvonne Shafer

Information Management Systems

Zala Fashant

Education, Math

Thomas Wortman

Higher Education, Communications

Lynda Milne

Higher Education, Psychology, English

CTL Campus Leaders Slide 17

CTL Grants Slide 18

Promote change, encourage resource development, affect student learning

Amounts vary by year

Instructional development

Individual projects, teams preferred

Coordination with institutional goals

Peer-reviewed

CTL Educational Opportunities Slide 19

One annual conference

Realizing Student Potential· ITeach

Discipline/program workshops

12+ per year: transfer, teaching themes, faculty-proposed

PKAL-MnSCU Partnership workshops

4 to 6 per year: pedagogy-focused, intensive day-long workshops in STEM

New faculty orientation

Orientation to system, faculty roles and responsibilities

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Enough about us… Slide 20

Teaching and Learning Challenges & Solutions Slide 21 Come up with one to three creative strategies that have helped you and/or could help you to adjust and develop in teaching and classroom life.

Here are your strategies! Slide 22

Teaching Slide 23