NC State Conference on Faculty Excellence

2023 NC State Conference on Faculty Excellence

About the NC State Conference on Faculty Excellence

The NC State University Office for Faculty Excellence (OFE), Digital Education and Learning Technology Applications (DELTA), and the NC State University Libraries invite faculty, postdoctoral scholars and professional staff from all six member institutions of the Cooperating Raleigh Colleges (NC State, Meredith College, Saint Augustine’s University, Shaw University, Wake Tech Community College, William Peace University) to attend the 2023 NC State Conference on Faculty Excellence, which will be held March 9, 2023. This brand-new event replaces OFE’s long-running Teaching and Learning Symposium and DELTA’s Summer Shorts, and brings together campus partners with an investment in faculty excellence. Leading experts from NC State’s Office for Faculty Excellence, DELTA and University Libraries will offer workshops throughout the day focused on the following subjects:

• Mentoring and Career Mapping
• Creative and Critical Thinking
• Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
• Online and Hybrid Education
• Library Support of Teaching and Learning
• Poster Session

Location and Parking

The 2023 NC State Conference on Faculty Excellence will be held in the Duke Energy Hall on the second floor of the Hunt Library on NC State’s Centennial Campus, 1070 Partners Way, Raleigh, NC 27606. Directions and parking information can be found here.

Continental breakfast will be available from 8:30 – 9 a.m. with welcome remarks beginning at 8:55 a.m. The first workshop and interactive sessions will begin at 9:10 a.m. A complete schedule of the day can be found here.

Registration is now open!

Current NC State University faculty, staff and students can register for the conference now in REPORTER.

All non-NC State employees will need to create a Brickyard account before registering. Instructions for setting that up can be found here.

Members in the six member institutions of the Cooperating Raleigh Colleges (NC State, Meredith College, Saint Augustine’s University, Shaw University, Wake Tech Community College, William Peace University) can register here.

Registration is free for all NC State faculty, staff, and students. Registration for all other attendees will be $10.00 and must be paid for with a credit card at the time of registration. Questions? Email faculty-excellence@ncsu.edu.

Poster Session:

1. A Process Costing Simulation: Experiential Learning in the Introductory Managerial Accounting Course

2. Using LinkedIn to Connect Course Concepts to Career Plans

3. Doodl-Ed: Fast Drawing in Large- or Small-Scale Classes

4. What Really Gets You into Grad School? The Importance of Some (but not all) High-impact Practices (HIPs) for Graduate School Admission Success

5. Changing Course: Transforming Pre-Service Teachers’ Notions of Disability and Inclusion

6. Students’ Perceptions of Ungrading in an Applied Web Development Undergraduate Course

7. Promoting Faculty Inclusive Excellence in Practice and Pedagogy

8. Virtual Plant Anatomy Dissections Facilitate Remote and Asynchronous Experiential Learning

9. Blossoming with Activity Connected Learning Concepts

10. Multimodal Instruction to Support Multimodal Assignments

11. Post-Exam Self-Reflection Assignment for Intro Chemistry Students

12. Mindfully Weaving Critical and Creative Thinking into the Curriculum: Lessons Learned from the TH!NK Pilot Program

13. Post-Pandemic Study Abroad Education Review After Novel Two-Week Thailand Animal Science Course

14. Hating math a little less: Student attitudes towards math in a liberal arts mathematics course

15. Implementing automated individualized feedback in a large enrollment physics course

16. Student Reflections on Design Process Documentation

17. Examining Online Simulations and Roleplaying

18. Learning to Teach Effectively: Graduate Pedagogical Mentorship

19. Using Mathematics Tasks and Cultural Connections to Explore Preservice Teachers’ Multicultural Mathematics Dispositions and Self-Efficacy

21. Electronic Laboratory Notebook (ELN) Implementation Across Institutions: Student User Experience and Preferences

22. Fostering Critical and Creative Thinking in Undergraduate Engineering Students Using Formative Assessments

23. Adapting an in-person biotechnology course to the online environment

24. Wicked Problems, Wolfpack Solutions Open Course Library

25. Intergenerational Discussions in the Classroom

26. Workplace Communication Trends: A More Virtual World

27. Cooperative Teamwork Skill Building From Day 1: Developing Safer Space Guidelines in Ethical Topics in Biotechnology

28. Ethical Reasoning through Argumentation and Collaboration in a Course Based Undergraduate Research Experience

29. Paying Attention to Faculty: Redesigning a Professional Teaching Certification

30. Transformative teaching and learning through the Alt-Textbook Project

31. Influence of Student Evaluations of Teachers on College Instructors’ Professional Practice

32. Podcasting in the classroom: Beyond Passive Listening

33. Yoga Mudras for Well-Being

34. Supporting Faculty Excellence through the Open Pedagogy Incubator

35. “Weg mit Tests!” A Project-Based Learning and Assessment Approach

36. Let’s Kahoot! Learn More in Industrial and Systems Engineering

37. “Connecting with Multilingual, Immigrant, and Refugee Students”: Engaging Students with their Community

38. Integrating Flipped Learning and Self-Regulated Learning in an Introductory Computer Science Course

39. NC State TH!NK: Cultivating Critical and Creative Thinking Faculty Development Public Resources