Academic Affairs Brief 02.10.22
Faculty + academic staff weekly updates
Important Upcoming Dates
Admissions Winter Open House Feb. 12 Week 4 Early Alert Survey Deadline Feb. 13 Provost's Forum Feb. 16 (8:30 a.m. - 10 a.m.) Virtual Faculty Senate Feb. 16 (10:15 a.m. - noon) Virtual
Week 4 Early Alert Survey
Week 4 Early Alert - On Mon, Feb. 7, faculty received a brief survey, per section they teach, asking about any academic concerns of students. Please submit these surveys even if you have no students with academic concerns. The due date for the Week 4 Early Alert Survey is Sun, Feb. 13. A big thank you to those who have submitted the Early Alert Survey.
During week 5, identified students will receive a message about these concerns from Academic Affairs. The message will include a form with information about academic support services and ask students to identify which services they intend to access.
This Brief Includes:
COVID-19 Updates
Events + Special Programs
Blind Date With A Book
Social Impact Scholars Virtual Panel: Fair Trade
First To Fall Book Reading
Annual Elevator Pitch Competition
Canvas + Academic Technology
Canvas Gradebook Quick Tip
An Introduction to Canvas Blueprints
Curriculum + Assessment Info
New Deadlines For Course Proposals
Professional Development Opportunities
CLT Upcoming Events
Academic Support for Students
SMART Space Is Open
Champlain In The News
COVID-19 Updates
The Student Health Center now has a supply of vaccines on campus and can administer initial series or booster doses to any student as they become eligible.
Check your email for a message from Sentry MD (champlaincollege@sentrymd.com). This is the service we are using to collect employee vaccination and booster documentation from employees. Please submit your (1) SentryMD Authorization Form and (2) vaccination/booster documentation ASAP (deadline was Fri, Jan. 21).
Click on the blue Covid-19 Dashboard bar above to see updated information.
Blind Date With A Book
The Library’s popular Blind Date with a Book is back. Stop by the library from February 11 - 21, and go on a blind date with one of our eligible books. You might just fall in love.
Social Impact Scholars Virtual Panel: Fair Trade
The Social Impact Scholars Spring 2022 Intersections Series invites the Champlain community to a virtual panel discussion: Social Impact and Business: Fair Trade: Philosophy and Practice. The second half of the online event will be open to questions from the audience. Please invite your students to attend! This free event is Fri, Feb. 18, 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Our panelists will be:
Holly Francis, Eastern Regional Fellow for Fair Trade Campaigns and a 2020 Champlain graduate in Environmental Studies & Policy
Billy Linstead Goldsmith, Director of Communications & Fair Trade Campaigns at Fair Trade USA
Dr. Pat Patel, Associate Professor in the Stiller School of Business at Champlain College
Rick Peyser, Sr. Relationship Manager, Coffee & Cocoa, Lutheran World Relief
John Jensen, Manager of Ten Thousand Villages, Burlington location
Cheryl Pinto, Global Values Led Sourcing Manager, Ben & Jerry's
Contact: Eric Ronis or Christina Erickson with any questions.
First to Fall Book Reading
On Tue, Feb. 22 at 7 p.m., journalist and author Ken Ellingwood will discuss his 2021 publication, First to Fall: Elijah Lovejoy and his Fight for a Free Press in the Age of Slavery, a biography of American abolitionist journalist and newspaper editor Elijah Lovejoy. Full event details on The View. Please consider attending and invite your class to this event. Listen here for a previous interview with author Ellingwood on NPR's Morning Edition.
Annual Elevator Pitch Competition
Champlain College's Career Collaborative, Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship, and the Office of Institutional Advancement, will present the Annual Elevator Pitch Competition to be held during spring semester. Faculty are asked to encourage students to sign up for a chance to give their 90-second "pitch" to an executive (dubbed the "suit") as they ride together in a fictional elevator. The competition is open to all years and majors and qualifies as InSight Career a la carte milestone for first-years and juniors.
Canvas Gradebook Quick Tip
Quickly message your students who haven’t completed an assignment. Canvas’s “Message students who…” feature lets you quickly send direct messages to students. If you haven’t used this feature, watch a quick video to learn how. Want to learn more gradebook tricks? Here are 6 tips every faculty should know about the Canvas gradebook.
An Introduction to Canvas Blueprints
Wed, Feb. 16, 1-2 p.m. via Google Meet: meet.google.com/kdc-xgja-owe
Are you running many sections of a given course? Do you want to reduce the Faculty workload and better coordinate courses? Do you want to foster collaboration with your peer Faculty teaching other sections of the same course? Have you ever wanted to update all of the Canvas shells of a course in the midst of a semester? Jonathan Ferguson, assistant professor for Game Design, will present a Canvas Blueprints session highlighting how Canvas Blueprints facilitate in-flight changes to a course. The session will show faculty how to set up a Canvas Blueprint course shell, and the best way to work with them. Ferguson also will share some lessons learned in using Canvas Blueprints such as: appointing a Lead Faculty (content owner) for a given course, establishing a "spine" of common content, handling-in-flight updates of content, content locking, and publishing.
New Deadlines for Course Proposals
The February Curriculum Committee meeting, which took place this week, was the deadline for new course proposals intended for a fall 2022 start. Going forward, new course proposals will have a spring or fall 2023 start date. The deadline for course modifications or eliminations intended for fall 2022 is the March meeting, so those proposals need approval at the Wed, March 9 Division meetings.
CLT Upcoming Events
Please join us for CLT events! These events are open to all Champlain College faculty (full- and part-time) and academic staff. See your Champlain calendar for invites with joining information.
Tue, Feb. 15, 5 - 6 p.m. Adjunct Open Consultation Hours with CLT Staff
Wed, Feb. 16, 2 - 3:30 p.m. Faculty Writing Group with Miriam Horne
- Come as a regular or a drop-in. Get quiet time in a quiet space dedicated to writing your dissertation or other scholarly pieces for publication or presentation. Get feedback from peers, and as much of an accountability check-in as you may or may not want.
SMART Space Is Open!
SMART Space is open for tutoring in person!
Interested in Social Wellbeing for your students? Encourage them to join the Stern Center Social Cognition student group starting on Wed, Feb. 16.
For more information on all upcoming SMART Space space support services available, please check out our latest SMART Space newsletter.
WCAX featured Champlain's Director of Esports Christian Konczal discussing the launch of varsity esports at Champlain and giving anchor Cat Viglienzoni an esports 101.
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03/14-03/18 - Spring Break
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04/27 - Deadline for incomplete grade requests
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