The Deep Dive

This Deep Dive presentation will explore the resources and tools available to you on MyPark, and will also provide a more in-depth explanation of the unique advising system here at the university.

Amanda Bryant, Coordinator for Student Advocacy, discussed what to do when you are concerned about a student.

Types of concerns that were addressed included, but were not limited to:

• personal issues affecting school (illness, homelessness, family concerns)
• financial concerns (can’t afford textbooks, financial aid issues, military benefits)
• academic struggles (academic integrity, disability services)

 
Participants learned how to respond to these issues and what resources are already in place, including forms Park has for some of the processes. In addition, participants understood why it’s important to be “involved” in what’s going on in a student’s personal life.

Faculty180 is an online platform that will house faculty profiles, vita, and accomplishments in teaching, scholarship, and service. In addition to helping facilitate institutional reporting on faculty credentials and accomplishments, Faculty180 will also support a fully online workflow for annual performance review (beginning with AY18-19) and tenure and promotion applications. This session was to learn more about Faculty180 features, such as verifying your profile, adding activities, vitas, and biosketches – and to help inform Park’s rollout of this new tool.

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International students sometimes struggle to work with the feedback provided by their instructors on their writing, and the conventional advice about effective commenting sometimes doesn’t work for students from other language and cultural backgrounds. During this workshop, facilitators discussed effective strategies for commenting on international student writing, and demonstrated effective commentary by practicing with a student paper.

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Participants were able to write more accessible prompts for non-native English speakers. Many native speakers of English are unaware of how particular sentence structures, words, or document design choices make prompts harder to read and understand for ESL students. During this workshop, participants demonstrated some easy changes you can make to assignments and gave feedback on each of the participant's prompts brought to the workshop.

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Understanding how privilege shapes our experiences and possibilities is an essential component of diversity and inclusion, but privilege takes multiple forms, including race, class, gender, ability, and sexuality. How do you engage students in such a complex conversation? How do you encourage them to see their own position in relation to other groups and within the structure of opportunities and barriers? This workshop offered some ideas for exercises to teach about privilege and how to facilitate a productive classroom experience on this topic in any discipline, ultimately offering students a lens for understanding diverse groups in any future career field.

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