Adjunct Faculty Program

Metropolitan

Westshore

Enhancing Our Community

to Promote Access, Learning and Success

Eastern

Western

Spring 2018

ADJUNCT FACULTY CONFERENCE SATURDAY, MARCH 3, 2018 8 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. • Western Campus

Agenda

8 a.m.

Registration and

Continental Breakfast

Theatre Lobby

8:30 a.m.

Welcome Theatre

Donna Imhoff

President, Western Campus

8:45 a.m.

College Welcome and

Presidential Remarks Theatre

Alex Johnson

President

8:55 a.m.

Keynote Address Theatre

Karen Miller

Provost & Executive Vice President

Access, Learning and Success

9:30-10 a.m.

Provost and Campus Presidents’ Panel Theatre

Donna Imhoff, Western

Terri Pope, Westshore

Michael Schoop, Metropolitan

Lisa Williams, Eastern (Interim)

Karen Miller

10-10:15 a.m.

Break

10:30-11:10 a.m.

Breakout Session One

11:20 a.m.-Noon

Breakout Session Two

Noon-12:45 p.m.

Lunch Gymnasium

Poster Session Gymnasium

ATC Open House

C111, C113, G223

1-1:40 p.m.

Breakout Session Three

1:50-2:30 p.m.

Academic Pathways Roundtables

Sponsored by your campus

divisions of Academic Affairs

Breakout Session - One 10:30-11:10 a.m.

Making a Syllabus or Course Guide Your Students Might Actually Read Room: WLA B120 Kristina Ambrosia-Conn, Senior Instructional Designer, Center for Learning Excellence, Eastern Campus Kevin Dranuski, Senior Instructional Designer, Center for Learning Excellence, Western Campus Lisa Friel, Adjunct Faculty, ESL, Eastern Campus The syllabus. How do we get students to read it? What should be in it? Discover best practices for creating a traditional syllabus or course guide — or a visual graphic!

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Technology Tools You Can Use Now in Your Class Room: WLA B209 Karen Gray, Instructional Technologist, Center for Learning Excellence, Western Campus Experience free technology tools that use learning strategies to enhance active engagement in face-to-face and online courses. Discover formative assessments that engage the whole class and make online lessons more interactive.

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Applying the Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education Room: WLA B124 Felisa Eafford, Associate Dean, Liberal Arts, Western Campus Stephanie Greer, Adjunct Faculty, English, Western Campus Rachel Rickel, Adjunct Faculty, English, Western Campus Review the seven principles for good practice in undergraduate education, defined

by Arthur Chickering in 1991 and still relevant today. In this session, we will take these seven principles and apply them specifically to teaching in a community college setting. We will also discuss how the principles relate to course outcomes and preparing students for the world of work.

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Enhancing Moral Reasoning in the Classroom Room: WLA B131 Robin Kelly, Assistant Professor, Business, Western Campus A discussion of community college students’ current level of moral reasoning and a simple exercise to analyze ethical development and alternative means of enhancing this development in the classroom.

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Cultivating Our Response to Student Writing Room: WLA B123 Mark Larsen, Adjunct Faculty, English, Western Campus Responding to student writing is serious business. Yet when our dinosaur brains interfere, we often dread it. Part of the problem is boundaries: What principles can drive us to approach our work constructively and provide techniques to guide our response? Nancy Sommers of Harvard University suggests an approach that sets the scene, engages students in a dialogue and manages the workload.

Breakout Session - One (Cont.)

10:30-11:10 a.m.

Challenging Traditional Notions of Why Students Persist: The Power of Personal Interactions Room: WLA B211 Holly Craider, Executive Director, Curriculum and Transfer, Jerry Sue Thornton Center Denise McCory, Dean, Academic Affairs, Eastern Campus This presentation will highlight the importance of non-cognitive factors in student persistence, based on qualitative research studies. Student narratives will demonstrate how personal interactions bolster students’ sense of belonging, self-efficacy, goal orientation and academic performance.

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College Pathway Programs: Connecting Youth and Adults to Tri-C Room: WLA B135 Andrew Cox, Director, Access and Community Engagement, Jerry Sue Thornton Center Learn more about College Pathway Programs at Tri-C, including information on current and future programming.

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What is Remind, and Why Should I Care?: The Advantages of Utilizing a Text Message Application to Support Student Learning Room: WLA B212 Kimberly McCoy, Adjunct Faculty, Business Technology, Metropolitan Campus Remind is a free text message application that instructors can use to communicate with their students in real time. Learn how one IT adjunct faculty member has successfully used the application in her classes since 2015.

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Treasure Hunting in my Tri-C space Room: WTLC GT208 Joanne Baranovic, Specialist, Training and Development, Jerry Sue Thornton Center Join me as we find some of the cool, less obvious treasures available to adjunct faculty members in my Tri-C space.

Breakout Session - Two 11:20 a.m.- noon Creating Dynamic Lecture Slides Using the Principles of Design Room: WTLC GT208 Rachel Clingman, Adjunct Faculty, Visual Communication and Design, Western Campus Discover how to apply basic graphic design to your lecture slides to improve student engagement and learning. Learn about the College’s curriculum development update process and the vital role adjunct faculty can play in promoting student success through collaboration with full-time faculty.

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The Vital Role of Adjunct Faculty Participation in the Curriculum Update Process Room: WLA B131 Natalie Belle, Associate Professor, Physician Assistant, Western Campus Learn about the College’s curriculum development update process and the vital role adjunct faculty can play in promoting student success through collaboration with full-time faculty.

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The What, Why and How of Inclusivity for Student Success Room: WLA B212 Priyanka Banerjie, Adjunct Faculty, Earth Science, Eastern Campus View and discuss inclusivity and the language around social and racial justice through different lenses, including socioeconomic limitations and gender differences, with the goal of creating a classroom environment in which all students are heard.

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Teaching Naked: Stripped of PowerPoint Room: WLA B209 Wendy Hall, Adjunct Faculty, Speech Communications, Western Campus Many instructors have come to rely on PowerPoint to teach. As a result, many students have come to rely on PowerPoint for note-taking. When we take the PowerPoint away, students are lost.

This will be a guided discussion to brainstorm and share ideas of how to create engaging learning environments that encourage active listening, critical thinking, and effective notetaking without relying on PowerPoint to guide us, and the students, through the process.

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Community Engagement: A Pilot Project With Developmental Students Room: WLA B124 Jennifer Hirz, Assistant Professor, Mathematics, Western Campus “Less anxiety.” “More confidence.” These are words used by students to describe their experience after completing a service learning tutoring project at a local elementary school. Learn how to integrate service learning into your course and hear about the successes and challenges experienced during this pilot project.

Breakout Session - Two (Cont.)

11:20 a.m.- noon The Upgraded Look of Blackboard Learn Room: WLA B123 Thomas Kemp, Executive Director, Online Learning and Academic Technology, Jerry Sue Thornton Center Cindy Potteiger, Director, Online Learning and Academic Technology, Jerry Sue Thornton Center The look and usability of Blackboard Learn will be improved for both faculty and students at the end of the summer semester. This presentation showcases Blackboard’s new look, functionality and adaptability for mobile users.

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Tutoring: Faculty Partnerships for Student Success Room: WLA B200 Sarah Szweda, Instructional Specialist, Learning Commons and Adjunct Faculty, Journalism and Mass Communications, Western Campus Learn how a partnership with the Tutoring Center can strengthen student success, and explore how a case-management approach to academic support services can help create a near-seamless system of feedback and faculty-student interaction.

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How Students Taught Me to Teach Room: WLA B120 Sheila Manley, Adjunct Faculty, First Year Experience, Eastern Campus Teaching any subject can be challenging! This presentation demonstrates teaching strategies that encourage student retention, participation and timely assignment completion.

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What I Know Now, That I Wish I Had Known Then: Learning and Reflecting Room: WTLC GT 215 Amelia Caldwell, Adjunct Faculty, Business Administration, Westshore Campus Sarah Greywitt, Senior Instructional Designer, Center for Learning Excellence, Westshore Campus Whether this is your first semester or you’ve spent years teaching, we all have things we wish we had learned sooner. Engage with fellow adjuncts and share insights in this interactive session.

Breakout Session - Three 1-1:40 p.m.

Teaching With Movies Room: WHCS A227 Wendy Hall, Adjunct Faculty, Speech Communications, Western Campus Movies have stories to tell, and these stories — whether true or fictional — expose underlying assumptions, traditions and expectations within our daily lives.

Learn how to connect these stories to a wide range of content areas!

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Developing the New Community College Student Room: WHCS A128 Victoria Berry, Program Manager, Adult Diploma Program, Metropolitan Campus As institutions struggle to find new pools of future students, the Adult Diploma Program is providing access to those without a high school diploma and creating a pipeline for the “new” community college student.

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Conscious Discipline in the College Classroom Room: WHCS A131 Megan Lubbers, Adjunct Faculty, English, Eastern Campus The theory of conscious discipline focuses on self-regulation of emotions by students and teachers for more positive relationships. This session will help you create an engaged classroom that empowers students to achieve their goals.

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Treasure Hunting in my Tri-C space Room: WTLC GT215 Joanne Baranovic, Specialist, Training and Development, Jerry Sue Thornton Center Join me as we find some of the cool, less obvious treasures available to adjunct faculty members in my Tri-C space.

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Early Alerts: Discover How Early Alerts Have Worked to Enhance Student Success Room: WTLC GT214 Terri Hradek, Director, Brunswick University Center Kevin Kondik, Assistant Professor, Philosophy, Western Campus Marcos Rivera, Assistant Dean, Counseling, Western Campus Damian Thorkelson, Student Success Specialist, Western Campus The Early Alert tool allows faculty to identify student issues that require support and direction from campus CARE Teams.

NOTE: This presentation is specifically geared toward Western Campus faculty

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The Science of Coherence and Today’s Student Room: WHCS A232 Brad Hilliard, Adjunct Faculty, Health and Human Services, Metropolitan Campus Students face many stressors in their everyday lives, and school is one of them.

Gain insight on how to help students of all ages lower their stress, positively engage in academics and find alternate coping strategies.

Breakout Session - Three (Cont.)

1-1:40 p.m.

Understanding the Opioid Epidemic: Helping Faculty With Knowledge and Resources Room: WHCS A231 Kevin Berg, Assistant Professor, Counseling, Western Campus David Nardecchia, Assistant Professor, Counseling, Western Campus Discover available resources, learn about opiates and discuss with fellow faculty members what we can do here at Tri-C to help disrupt the opioid epidemic.

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Implementing Small Teaching Techniques With Big Results Room: WHCS A234 Toni Nicoletti, Lecturer, Philosophy, Western Campus Learn several techniques from James Lang’s book, Small Teaching, which do not require an inordinate amount of class time or instructor labor but can greatly impact student learning and exam performance.

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Improve Your Students’ Mobile Learning Experience Room: WHCS A130 Sarah Goode, Specialist, Online Learning and Academic Technology, Jerry Sue Thornton Center Kari Vara, Specialist, Online Learning and Academic Technology, Jerry Sue Thornton Center Ready or not, students are using their phones for learning. Let’s discuss mobile learning best practices. Learn to use Qwickly within Blackboard. Discover benefits of the Blackboard app for students and learn how to design mobile-friendly course content.

Poster Sessions Snap Your Story: Using Snapchat to Enhance Communication Skills of ESL Students Jennie Kaffen, Adjunct Faculty, ESL, Metropolitan Campus Snapchat is a free app that is familiar to many students and provides an engaging way for students to build and present material to a group. Its story feature encourages succinct, efficient communication of main ideas and allows those with limited communication skills to participate in class activities through its mainly visual displays.

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Two-Part Thesis Mark Larsen, Adjunct Faculty, English, Western Campus When a student writes a thesis without listing its causes, reasons or factors, they often lose research focus and essay organization. A two-part thesis can correct these weaknesses.

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Project GO! Adam Dilulio, Campus Director, Financial Aid and Scholarships, Western Campus Mike Halter, Manager, Financial Aid and Scholarships, Western Campus Tri-C is dedicated to increasing the awareness of community resources available to our student population. Join the Student Financial Aid & Scholarships Office to learn about Project GO!, a free program that assists students with applying for public benefits such as food, utilities, child care and health care needs. We will discuss student eligibility, Project GO! awareness in the classroom and how to request Project GO! appointments for your students.

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Enhance Your Students’ Learning Experience With the Common Reading Program John Rasel, Assistant Professor, Library, Eastern Campus Coleen Roy, Assistant Professor, Library, Western Campus The Common Reading Program at Tri-C presents a unique opportunity for adjunct faculty to enhance the student learning experience. By reading portions of a shared book across multiple disciplines, students are able to examine common concepts through different lenses. This insightful learning experience is complemented by a number of cocurricular events and ready-to-use modules, lessons and assignments.

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East Math Success Seminar Bonita Galosi, Adjunct Faculty, Mathematics, Eastern Campus Mirela Pashaj, Adjunct Faculty, Mathematics, Eastern Campus East Math Success Seminar (ZBMT-1033) is a mandatory addition to MATH-0910.

Students learn various problem-solving methods and techniques to assist in independent homework completion. The seminar’s main focus is to clarify concepts and guide students through MATH-0910 assignments. Staff do not give out homework answers; rather, techniques for solving problems are modeled using problems similar to those found in online homework tool WebAssign.

Poster Sessions (Cont.)

Using SoftChalk to Engage Students in Subject Review and Class Preparation Jacquelyn Tamerlano, Lecturer, Mathematics, Western Campus Discover the value of SoftChalk as a container for a variety of media — including textbook content, resources, YouTube videos, text poppers and quizzes — that address prerequisite and adjoining topics, resulting in a higher level of class preparedness.

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The Center for Learning Excellence (CLE) Kristina Ambrosia-Conn, Sr. Instructional Designer, Eastern Campus Kevin Dranuski, Sr. Instructional Designer, Western Campus Karen Gray, Instructional Technologist, Western Campus Sarah Greywitt, Sr. Instructional Designer, Westshore Campus Kessandra Jackson, Instructional Technologist, Metropolitan Campus Pamela Regrut, Sr. Instructional Designer, Metropolitan Campus The four Center for Learning Excellences (CLEs) at Cuyahoga Community College are campus-based hubs to support full-time and adjunct faculty.

Our mission is to provide timely instructional support and resources to enhance teaching and learning at Tri-C. Come visit our table to meet the staff and discuss ways the CLE can help you.

Academic Pathways Roundtables Business – WLA – B135 Creative Arts – WLA – B200 Health Careers – WLA – B120 Hospitality – WLA – B124 Humanities, Liberal Arts, Social & Behavioral Sciences – WLA – B211 Information Technology – WLA – B123 Public Safety – WLA – B134 Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics / Industrial Manufacturing and Construction – WLA – B209

BOARD OF TRUSTEES Victor A. Ruiz, Chair Andrew E. Randall, Vice Chair The Rev. Cory C. Jenkins Jerry L. Kelsheimer Geralyn Presti Helen Forbes Fields Rachel Von Hendrix J. David Heller

PRESIDENT’S CABINET Alex Johnson President Karen Miller Provost & Executive Vice President, Access, Learning and Success David Kuntz Executive Vice President, Administration & Finance William H. Gary, Sr. Executive Vice President, Workforce, Community and Economic Development Donna Imhoff President, Western Campus

Terri Pope President, Westshore Campus

Michael Schoop President, Metropolitan Campus

Lisa Williams Interim President, Eastern Campus

Ronna McNair Chief of Staff and Executive Assistant

Megan O’Bryan Vice President, Development and Tri-C Foundation

Judith McMullen Vice President, Human Resources Claire Rosacco Vice President, Government Affairs and Community Outreach

Renee Tramble Richard Vice President, Legal Services David Hoovler Vice President, Integrated Communications

ADJUNCT FACULTY CONFERENCE COMMITTEE Miria Batig, Chair Connie Burnley, Co-Chair Daniel Bassett Viviane Buchanan Karen Cross-Hatten Lucy Czaplenski Kara DePaul Anthony DiGiandomenico Abby Dohanos

Shelly Dooley Kevin Dranuski Tim Elsey Karen Gray Leslie Kane Dwayne Keeney Sandra McKnight

Claire McMahon Brittany McPeek Tammy Merrell Mirela Pashaj Barb Pitrone Richard Simna

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1. In your APP store search for ‘Tri-C Employee Events’ or go to www.attendify.com/app/02oma1/ 2. Download app and click ‘open’ 3. Click ‘allow’ to receive notifications 4. Click on the ‘Spring 2018 Adjunct Faculty Conference’ Icon under Upcoming 5. Click ‘Join’ and then ‘Continue’ 6. Enter your Tri-C email and create a password 7. Click ‘sign up’ 8. Complete your profile 9. Enter the event code: faculty 10. Click on the menu tab in top left corner to view app features Please note once you have completed sign-up steps, the app will appear on your screen just like other apps.

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