Slide 1The Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system is an Equal Opportunity employer and educator.

Welcome to MnSCU

Center for Teaching and Learning

Realizing Student Potential · ITeachMinneapolis Community & Technical CollegeFebruary 28, 2009

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Overview

• Welcome, introductions• MnSCU overview• CTL resources

o System-levelo Campus

• Teaching and learning challenges / solutions

• Career development

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What is MnSCU?

• 5th-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

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What is MnSCU (part 2)?

• 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

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What is MnSCU?We educate, every year:

• 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

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Technical Colleges

• 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

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Community Colleges

• 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

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Consolidated C/T Colleges

• 13 institutions• 2997 F/T Faculty

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

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State Universities

• 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

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Office of the ChancellorWhat goes on there?

• Direct services to campuses Common IT services

D2L, ISRS, otherso Teaching and learning supporto Credit transfer coordinationo Labor contractso Presidential searches, reviewso Policyo Institutional research & data collectiono Interaction with legislature

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MnSCU for You: Resources for Faculty

• Academic Affairs• DARS/u-select Degree

Audit/Transfer System• CAS Course Applicability System• EFolio Minnesota• ISEEK• College Faculty Credentialing

http://tinyurl.com/credentialing

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Center for Teaching & Learning

• 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.

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CTL’s Program Areas

• Leadership developmento Develop and support campus leadership in

faculty development• Instructional development

o Grant funds for innovationo Discipline workshops on curriculum,

instructiono Web resources on teaching

• Professional developmento Provide learning opportunities online and in-

person that serve faculty’s common needso Conferences for presentation of best

practices, SoTL outcomes

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Who’s Who at CTL

• Martin Springborgo Fine Arts

• Yvonne Shafero Information Management Systems

• Zala Fashanto Education, Math

• Thomas Wortmano Higher Education, Communications

• Lynda Milneo Higher Education, Psychology, English

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CTL Campus Leaders

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CTL Grants

• Promote change, encourage resource development, affect student learning

• Amounts vary by year• Instructional development• Individual projects, teams preferred• Coordination with institutional goals• Peer-reviewed

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CTL Educational Opportunities

• One annual conferenceo Realizing Student Potential· ITeach

• Discipline/program workshopso 12+ per year: transfer, teaching themes, faculty-

proposed

• PKAL-MnSCU Partnership workshopso 4 to 6 per year: pedagogy-focused,

intensive day-long workshops in STEM

• New faculty orientationo Orientation to system, faculty

roles and responsibilitieso Login: ctlguest Password: ctlguest

• ITeach Center Onlineo Teaching Resource Center

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Enough about us…

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Teaching and Learning Challenges & Solutions

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.

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Here are your strategies!

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Teaching

• Course planning• Classroom teaching• Advising

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Teaching

• Course planning• Classroom teaching• Advising• Curriculum development• Class schedules • Assessment• Quality reviews /accreditation• Field placements /internships

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Scholarship

• Read• Confer with colleagues• Conduct research

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Scholarship

• Read• Confer with colleagues• Conduct research• Departmental colloquia• Teaching/disciplinary workshop• Occupational workshop/employment• Editing professional journal• Ongoing education

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Service

• Community service • Campus service• Professional service• Service to students

o helping graduates with employment, etc.

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How Should Your “Pie” Look?

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How Does Your Time Look?

Boice (1992), confirmed by Rice et al.

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How Has Your Week Looked?

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Random Cartoons

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We’re here for you

CTL http://www.ctl.mnscu.edu 651-649-5741