Faculty Success Newsletter

Welcome to our July Faculty Success Newsletter!

Bellamy, Vice Canine for Faculty Success, refuses to accept that we are halfway through July.

The Dog Days of Summer

The Faculty Success team is keeping this July edition of Faculty Friday short and sweet. Consider it a midsummer check in to keep you in the loop if you want to be in the loop鈥nd if you鈥檇 rather hit snooze, by all means go ahead!

The dog days of summer are busy around here, as the Faculty Success team is working to update RTP support for candidates (with new materials available August 1), the RTP evaluator training, and faculty search committee training. We鈥檝e also got some exciting projects in the works and updates for accessibility and the Accessible Technology Initiative, as well as support for professional development and grant proposals related to 91猎奇鈥檚 Hispanic Serving Institution status.

We鈥檒l save all that news for when things really kick into high gear in August. In the meantime, we hope you are enjoying all the fun things that summer brings!

Center for Faculty Development News and Updates

We hope you鈥檙e having a relaxing (or adventuresome--to each their own) summer. And we鈥檙e ready to support you, whether you鈥檙e someone who likes to work on your Fall courses here and there during the break, or if you prefer to keep that work to instructional activity days. We鈥檇 love to see you at our upcoming but we also wanted to share a few on demand resources you may find helpful, and also provide updates on resources that will soon be available to you (spoiler alert!).

Equitable and inclusive pedagogy is also fundamentally accessible. This academic year our university will be improving our legacy accessible syllabus template with a new online version. Instead of an individual document download, this new accessible syllabus tool is an integration with Canvas, allowing departments to leverage layered templates to preserve both accuracy and academic freedom for individual faculty. Some departments will be adopting the new template for Fall 2022, while others will adopt the new template for Spring 2023. Your chair or director will let you know when it鈥檚 your turn; until then, we encourage you to continue using the Microsoft Word version of the syllabus template. You can learn more about the new online accessible syllabus template on our eCampus website .

We are also excited to announce that Ally will be available for all 91猎奇 Canvas courses, Fall 2022 and beyond. Ally is a tool within Canvas that will provide you with feedback to help you enhance the usability and accessibility of your course materials.

Below is an example of an Ally Course Accessibility Report:

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It also generates alternative formats of course content, providing your students access to a greater and more effective variety of resources for learning. You can learn more about Ally in our Refining Course Materials: A UDL Experience course. Until we call for applications, we invite you to explore the . Contact <cfd@sjsu.edu> for more information or with any questions.

Recommended resources for creating inclusive syllabi:

Association of College and University Educators (ACUE)'s online

University of Southern California's

You may find it helpful to review principles and best practices associated with Accessibility and Universal Design for Learning from 91猎奇's Center for Faculty Development website.

eCampus News and Updates

Beginning Fall 2022, Ally will be integrated in all Canvas courses! Ally assists faculty in creating fully accessible Canvas courses and automatically provides alternative formats of course content for students.

The 91猎奇 2-Hour Course Accessibility Challenge starts on August 1st! Complete the challenge to earn an Ally Course Accessibility Groundbreaker Certificate and Badge! All participants will get entered into a Gold Point Card drawing ranging from $25 to $100.

Camtasia 2022 is here! See below to request your free license for all 91猎奇 faculty and staff!

Camtasia is a robust video recording and editing tool. Its newest features include:

A huge library expansion with more than 1,000 assets to add to your videos
New video templates
Many options for cursor editing and replacing
New visual effects (especially for those using Windows)

To learn more, see

To get your free license, see the eCampus Camtasia Webpage.

To register for upcoming workshops, see the .

July

20: Jump Start New Tenure Track Faculty Onboarding begins with asynchronous online programming

26-28:

27: , 10 am

28: , 1 pm

August

1: AY 2022-23 Revision goes live

1: 91猎奇 2 Hour Course Accessibility Challenge Begins

1: , 3 pm

2: , 10 am

3: Department Chairs & Directors Training/Welcome Back

3: , 9:30 am

3: , 2 pm

4: , 11 am

8: Jump Start New Faculty Orientation on campus programming begins (through 8/12)

9: , 12 pm

10: Course Prep Marathon, 9 am - 2 pm, in WSQ 207 and Zoom ()

10: , 3 pm

11: , 10 am

12: , 2:30 pm

17-18: Faculty Pre-Instruction Activities

17: New(er) Lecturer Welcome, 1-4 pm, on campus location TBD and in Zoom ()

19: First day of Instruction for Fall 2022

September

1: , 12:00 pm

2: , 11:00 am

6: Labor Day (campus closed)

12: Sabbatical applications due

16: Deadline for pre-tenure faculty to request Extension of Probationary Period due to COVID-19

22: Range Elevation applications due

29: RTP dossiers due

30: concludes

Got five minutes before your next meeting, while waiting in line, or taking a break from work? Check out these short pieces related to different aspects of faculty life.

: 鈥淎fter losing my ability to read for nearly five years, I needed a way to ease back into books.鈥�

: Commentary by 91猎奇 Professor Claudio Vera S谩nchez (Justice Studies) on the underrepresentation of Latinx faculty in the CSU system.

: Conversation with Angela Garbes, author of Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change. 鈥淲hen you see a book with a subtitle like 鈥榤othering as social change鈥� 鈥� and you鈥檙e not a mother 鈥� you might think that this is not a book for you. You are wrong.鈥�

Do you have a story, highlight, reading, or tip that you would like to share in this newsletter? Please reach out anytime to faculty-success@sjsu.edu .

Contact Us

Magdalena L. Barrera, Ph.D.

Vice Provost for Faculty Success

faculty-success@sjsu.edu | 408-924-2405

Deanna Fassett, Ph.D.

Assistant Vice Provost for Faculty Development

cfd@sjsu.edu | 408-924-2600

Jennifer Redd, Ph.D.

Senior Director, eCampus

ecampus@sjsu.edu | (408) 924-2337

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