Spring 2016 Orientation Week
January 13, 14 & 15
RR-Registration Required –
See Course Description
Tuesday, January 12th
9:00 – Noon
Blackboard Bootcamp RR
F164a
Full Time and Adjunct Faculty
Noon – 1:00pm
Shared Governance Meeting w/ Administrative Staff
Administrative support staff working with Shared Governance
Lunch with vegetarian option will be available. RSVP to eseiler@harpercollege.edu by Jan 7th
W218
5:00-9:00pm
New Adjunct Faculty Orientation
All Newly-hired Adjunct Faculty
RSVP to http://bit.ly/Spring16_Orientation
Wednesday, January 13th
8:00-9:00am
F164D
Welcome Faculty!
Continental Breakfast
Performing Arts Center
All Faculty and Staff
9:00-11:30am
President's All Campus Meeting
Performing Arts Center
Mentor and Non-Tenured Faculty Pizza Party – By invitation Only
A238
All Faculty and Staff
11:45-12:30pm
12:30-1:00pm
*** Lunch On Your Own**
Mentors and Mentor Committee meeting
Current mentors and committee members
1:00-1:50PM
Harper’s New Strategic Plan
All Faculty and Staff
1:00-2:20pm
Students on the Autism Spectrum – breaking
down communication barriers
All Faculty and Staff
Z102
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A315bc
Z 117
You, Me and LC: Exploring collaborative
Teaching
Full Time and Adjunct Faculty
X210
Wednesday, January 13th continued
1:00-2:50pm
RR-Registration Required –
See Course Description
Fifth Annual Tech Fest Open House
Y203c,f,& g
Shared Governance Chairs meet with the Coordination and Review Committee X233
All Faculty and Staff
1:30-2:55pm
2:00-2:50pm
Harper Digital Classroom-HANDS ON RR
Full Time and Adjunct Faculty
A234A
2:00-3:20pm
A Walk Through Curriculand: Navigating the
Curriculum Process
All Faculty and Staff
X231
3:00-3:50pm
Shared Governance
Chair Training
All Faculty and Staff
3:15-4:30pm
Best Practices for Using Supplemental
Instruction in Your Course
Full Time and Adjunct Faculty
X212
Tweeting Our Way to Accreditation
All Faculty and Staff
Z119
A First Foray into FYS
X248
Full Time and Adjunct
Faculty
X210
Blackboard Grade Center RR
All Faculty and Staff
6:00-7:00pm
F164a
Harper Digital Classroom – HANDS ON RR
Full Time and Adjunct Faculty
6:00-9:00pm
Help! How Do I Teach Non-Native
English Speaking Students in My
Classroom?
Full Time and Adjunct Faculty
Y106
A234a
Blackboard Bootcamp RR
Full Time and Adjunct Faculty
F164a
Thursday, January 14th
8:00-8:30am
Coffee, Tea and Scones with the Provost
Full Time and Adjunct Faculty
8:30-10:00am
All Faculty Meet with the Provost
Full Time and Adjunct Faculty
10:15-11:15am
1:30-2:45pm
3:00-5:00pm
3:00-3:50pm
3:00-5:30pm
OPEN HOUSE
5:30-7:30pm
J143
Shared Governance Member Training
All Faculty and Staff
11:30-12:30pm
J143
Full Time Faculty Meet with the Faculty Senate
Full Time Faculty
11:00-11:50am
J133
Y106
Division Meetings
TBD
***Lunch On Your Own**
Department Meetings
TBD
BlackBoard Master Series: Inline Grading and Plagiarism Tool RR on SIS w/ CRN 50846
Full Time and Adjunct Faculty
F164a
Harper Digital Classroom – HANDS ON RR
Full Time and Adjunct Faculty
A234a
Academy for Teaching Excellence – OPEN HOUSE
All Faculty and Staff
F164d and Faculty Lounge
Insights from the Experts: Applying and Interviewing for a Full-time Faculty Position
RSVP at this link: http://bit.ly/1XCSgEx
Adjunct Faculty
F164d
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Friday, January 15TH
RR-Registration Required –
See Course Description
9:00-9:50am
Introduction to LaTeX
9:00-1:00pm
10:00-10:50am
10:00 – Noon
11-11:50am
Preventing and Responding
There’s an Interpreter Here
to Sexual Harassment – Our – Now What?
responsibilities and
All Faculty and Staff Z119
resources
All Faculty and Staff
Z117
Cultural Competency and the Search Committee RR
F164a
Faculty, Administrators and Staff
W214
Community-Engaged Service Learning: A Continuum of Options for Connecting
Competencies to the Classroom
Black Board Master Series: Retention Center Tool RR on SIS w/ CRN 50847
Y106
Full Time and Adjunct Faculty
F164a
Funding Your Innovative Teaching Projects with Harper Grants and Awards
Full time Faculty
1:00-4:00pm
Full Time and Adjunct Faculty
***Lunch On Your Own**
Prep Time for Faculty
NOTES:
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SESSION DESCRIPTIONS IN ALPHABETCAL ORDER
A Walk through Curriculand: Navigating the Curriculum Process
Open to: All Faculty and Staff
Content: Ever been confused by the Curriculum Process? Who should you talk to first? Want to know
how to navigate Curricunet? Then come take a walk through “Curriculand” and learn about the process
first hand.
Facilitator: Keith Jensen, Kelly Taylor, and Darlene Niebuhr
Best Practices for Using Supplemental Instruction in your Courses
Open to: All full time and adjunct Faculty
Content: Participants will be engaged in a quick overview of the instructor's role in having a
Supplemental Instructor (SI) and the student achievement benefits. The session will focus on best
practices for faculty interested in using an SI. Learn how to lead your SI to match your teaching style in
best practices panel lead by four experienced accounting faculty and Ellen Fisher, who manages the
program. Utilizing an SI is not only beneficial for the students in the classroom but also a tremendous
leadership experience for the SI as well. Come learn from several semesters of experience on how to set
up your SI experience to maximize the benefits for your students!
Facilitator: Lisa Busto, Dominique Svarc, Dawn McKinley, Cammy Wayne & Ellen Fisher
Blackboard Bootcamp RR
Open to: All full time and adjunct Faculty
Content: This experience is designed for faculty members who have not used blackboard before, so only
keyboarding and email skills are needed. The designed for in-depth or advanced learning about a
specific tool. To register contact kherold@harpercollege.edu or x6586
Blackboard Grade Center Workshop RR
Open to: All Faculty and Staff
Content: The Grade Center in Blackboard Learn is more than just a way to record students' grades. It is a
dynamic and interactive tool, allowing you to record data, calculate grades, and monitor student
progress. In the Grade Center, you can provide and manage your students' grades for assignments,
tests, discussion posts, journals, blogs, and wikis, and for ungraded items, such as surveys or self-tests.
You can also create grade columns for any activities or requirements you want to grade, such as special
projects, participation, or attendance. You can determine which assigned grades to show to your
students in My Grades, including columns displaying performance results. To register contact
kherold@harpercollege.edu or x6586
Facilitator: Karen Herold, CII
Blackboard Master Series: Inline Grading and Plagiarism Tool RR LFD0650-001 .2 CEUs and Badges
Open to: All full time and adjunct Faculty
Content: This workshop will cover all facets of Blackboard's inline grading and plagiarism tools. During
this 2-hour workshop you will be actively participating in one of your own courses to set up a linked
assignment, and then use the inline and plagiarism grading tools as a method for timely feedback for
students. Experimental course materials necessary for this workshop will be provided for you.
Register on SIS > Term: Spring Non Credit CE >use CRN 50846. For help registering, contact CE at
847-925-6300.
Facilitator: Karen Herold, CII
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Blackboard Master Series: Retention Center Tool RR LFD0652-001 .2 CEUs and Badges
Open to: All full time and adjunct Faculty
Content: The Retention Center provides an easy way to discover which students in a course are “at risk”
academically. Based on preconfigured and instructor-defined rules, students’ engagement and
participation are visually displayed, quickly alerting you to potential risk. From the Retention Center, you
can communicate with struggling students and help them take immediate action for improvement. The
Retention Center will also assist faculty in completing Early Alert (Starfish) Reporting.
Register on SIS > Term: Spring Non Credit CE >use CRN 50847. For help registering, contact CE at
847-925-6300.
Community-Engaged Service Learning: A Continuum of Options for Connecting Competencies to the
Classroom
Open to: All Faculty and Staff and Student Development and Student Involvement Personnel
Content: Service learning is not new to Harper. Community-engaged Service Learning can take many
forms such as volunteer work, research for local organizations, community partner participation in the
classroom, teaching opportunities, policy-related work, community organizing activities, as well as other
forms of service activities. We have an opportunity to increase the competencies, career readiness and
marketability of our students by connecting them with our local and global community while they are
completing their educational goals at Harper. Students who have experience with community-based
organizations, professional networks, and volunteerism are more likely to be successfully with
employment and university transfers.
This session provides an overview of the pedagogy of community-engaged service learning, so that
colleagues in faculty and student involvement roles can consider options for integrating service learning
into our curriculum and activities. Harper has recently formed a Service Learning Advisory to explore
best practices and increase faculty resources to make Service Learning more accessible to faculty across
disciplines and divisions. Join Colleagues, who have used Service Learning in their curriculum and
student activities, for resource-sharing and discussion.
Facilitator: Valerie Walker and Colleagues
Cultural Competency and the Search Committee RSVP
Open to: Faculty, Administrators and staff
Content: Designed for anyone who plans to be a search committee member, this workshop discusses
cultural competency and includes an interactive exercise focused on what makes interview questions
effective. A second exercise more deeply explores cultural competency and the search committees.
This is a required workshop for anyone who is or plans to be a search committee member and who has
not attended this workshop in the last two years.
The session is from 9am – 1pm and will include a boxed lunch. Please RSVP to psaltzma@harpercollege.edu
Facilitator: Dr. Christine Cullinan
Fifth Annual Spring Technology Fest – OPEN HOUSE
Open To: All full time and adjunct Faculty and staff
Content: Interact with faculty as they share instructional technology projects in an e-poster session
format. See demonstrations and ask faculty questions.
Facilitators: Faculty Development Committee, Technology Committee, and CII
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A First Foray into FYS
Open to: All full time Faculty
Content: First-Year Seminars (FYS) offer students and faculty the opportunity to discover and explore
new ideas together. As an FYS instructor, you can: teach small, seminar-based classes; introduce new
students to the research interests and questions that drive your teaching and scholarship; have an
important impact on our first-year students, helping them transition effectively from high school to
college; talk with colleagues about teaching and other areas of interest and research.
This session will explain how to become an FYS instructor.
Facilitator: Brett Fulkerson-Smith
Funding Your Innovative Teaching Projects with Harper Grants and Awards
Open to: All full time Faculty
Content: Are you aware that full-time faculty can apply for grants and fellowships to help fund your
professional development projects? Have you been thinking about applying for a Teaching and Learning
Mini-grant or a Technology grant? Would you like to learn how to qualify and apply for these as well as
the Glenn Reich Award and Multicultural Fellowships? This session will help you navigate through this
process by explaining the criteria for these grants and awards and help you secure the necessary forms
and procedures needed.
Facilitator: Karen Chandra, Jeanne Leifheit
Harper Digital Classroom – HANDS ON “RR”
Open to: All full time and adjunct Faculty
Content: You Spoke, We Listened! Based on feedback from Harper’s faculty, we are replacing our
traditional SMART Classrooms with the new and improved Harper Digital Classroom. Attend this session
to experience first-hand the new features including a digital document camera, a high definition Blu-Ray
player, annotation LCD, and a high definition projector.
To register contact etstraining@harpercollege.edu or x6277
Facilitator: Information Technology Team
Harper’s New Strategic Plan
Open to: All Faculty and Staff
Content: Are you interested in working on one of the new strategic planning teams? Not sure? Come
and learn more about the new strategic plan before you decide. This session will review the major
elements of the plan and how you can get involved.
Facilitator: Maria Coons
Help! How Do I Teach Non-Native English Speaking Students in My Classroom?
Open to: All Faculty and Staff
Content: In light of recent immigration issues happening in the world, it is easy to form assumptions
that may merely be myths about non-native speakers of English. This can be confusing when trying to
best facilitate a class discussion or grading an assignment. This session will de-mystify certain
assumptions and educate attendees on who these students really are. The session will also give very
practical suggestions on how to best foster learning with this unique population. You will learn not only
from ESL instructors, but also from a panel of students whose first language is not English.
Facilitators: Joyce Wisniewski, Leah Kang & Kathleen Reynolds
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Insights from the Experts: Applying and interviewing for a full-time Faculty position RSVP
Open to: Adjunct Faculty
Content: This event will provide adjunct faculty with insights into the full-time faculty application and
interview process. A facilitated panel discussion will include the Provost, Chief Human Resources
Officer, a division dean, department chair, and two full-time faculty who have made the transition from
adjunct to full-time faculty at Harper. Adjunct faculty who may be interested in applying for a position
at Harper or any other college will benefit from attending. Light appetizers and drinks will be served and
there will be time for networking after the panel. RSVP at this link: http://bit.ly/1XCSgEx
Facilitators: Michael Bates and Jack Henderson
Introduction to LaTeX
Open to: All full time and adjunct Faculty
Content: This session provides an introduction to the LaTeX document processing language. LaTeX is a
tool for creating readable—sometimes beautiful—documents that use special characters and, especially,
mathematics. It is also often used to provide shortcuts to including math in online applications. (For
example, Blackboard provides an option to use LaTeX for math.) If you find yourself sometimes
frustrated with Word’s equation editor or special characters, this is for you! This session is targeted at a
STEM audience, and will consist of a brief introduction to the tool, followed by a lab period for guided
practice. Feel free to bring a document you’d like to create. Instructions for setting up appropriate
software on your own computer will be included, or bring along your Windows laptop or tablet and get
set up during the session.
Facilitators: America Masaros
Preventing and Responding to Sexual Harassment-Our responsibilities and resources
Open to: All Faculty and staff
Content: Did you know that one faculty member can be the reason a student reports a sexual assault?
Would you know what to do if you think sexual harassment is occurring in your class? Do you know your
obligations if a student reports that they are experiencing sexual harassment? As colleges around the
country continue to face lawsuits and come under scrutiny by the Office for Civil Rights for not
complying with Title IX, Harper College is putting a variety of measures in place to improve the safety of
our campus community. One important aspect of that is education for all faculty and staff about their
responsibilities to report and respond to sexual harassment. In this session, you’ll learn about the
College’s policies and what your obligations are, as well as ideas for how to incorporate this into your
classroom and curriculum. Case studies will provide insight into how faculty should respond when
students disclose sexual harassment or sexual assault. Staff and administration can also benefit from
this session as it provides an overview of the College policy and the reporting obligations of all
employees.
Facilitator: Laura Bennett & Beverly Riley, Title IX Co-Coordinators
Shared Governance Chair Training
Open to: All Faculty and staff wishing to serve as shared governance chair or wanting to learn more
about shared governance at Harper College.
Content: Anyone who is currently serving as a shared governance chair and has not already completed
the required training must attend this seminar. This training is also an excellent professional
development activity, so, even if you don’t serve as a current chair or don’t plan to in the immediate
future, you will learn about shared governance at Harper College.
Facilitator: Maria Coons, Sr. Executive to the President
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Shared Governance Member Training
Open to: All Faculty and staff wishing to serve on a governance chair committee
Content: Anyone wishing to serve on a shared governance committee and has not already completed
the required training, must do so during Spring 2016 Orientation Week. Even if you have participated in
shared governance in the past, you are required to complete this training. Taking the training does not
ensure that you will be placed on a committee, but it qualifies you to serve. This training class is also an
excellent professional development activity and provides you with the opportunity to learn how shared
governance works at Harper College.
Facilitator: Maria Coons, Sr. Executive to the President
Students on the Autism Spectrum – breaking down communication barriers.
Open to: All full time and adjunct Faculty and staff
Content: This highly informative session will arm Faculty and College Personnel with strategies to
effectively work with students on the autism spectrum both inside and outside of the classroom. Time
will be allowed for open Q & A in the session. Case studies will be provided. Successful collaborations
between ADS and other departments that demonstrate positive results will be highlighted.
Facilitator: Michele De Canio and Stacey Watson
There’s an Interpreter Here – Now What??
Open to: All faculty and staff
Content: Harper College has a strong reputation in providing access to a large number of Deaf and Hard
of Hearing students, faculty, staff, and administrators. One example of such access is through the use of
American Sign Language Interpreters. This workshop will answer all the questions you’ve ever had
about working with an interpreter.
Facilitator: Susan Teplinsky, Sara Lucas, other staff interpreters from Access and Disabilities
Tweeting Our Way to Accreditation
Open to: All Faculty and Staff
Content: Fulfilling the college’s mission requires resources; money, buildings, and technology. This
discussion will focus on how we use these resources to support our reason for being; that is to provide
high quality and affordable education to our students. What will you get from the session? An
opportunity to contribute to the reaccreditation of the College! And, if that is not enough, you will gain
new insight into the wondrous ways in which accreditation works. And if that’s not enough, come for
the cookies and door prizes! This is part of the HLC steering committees Campus Conversation series on
the reaccreditation process.
Facilitators: Michael Babb and Kelly Page
You, Me and LC – exploring collaborative teaching
Open to: All full time and adjunct faculty
Content: “I have been in education for nearly 30 years, and my involvement in teaching & learning
communities has been the most rewarding experience of my career.” Tom DePalma, History
Fall in love with teaching all over again at this “speed dating” event! After exploring why Learning
Communities are a high-impact educational practice, participating faculty will have the opportunity to
explore possible collaborations with peers.
Facilitator: Brett Fulkerson-Smith
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