Topics of interest
One way we offer support to faculty is through curation of resources. This page offers you with a mix of resources we created for you, our previous workshop recordings, and a few external gems.
Faculty Success
- Inside Higher Ed
- The Chronicle of Higher Education
- Diversity Matters from Inside Higher Ed
- Seeking Tenure from Inside Higher Ed
- Pomodoro Technique
- Technology Services
- Webinar: Do More Than Store Files with Google Drive
- VCU Black Education Association
- Workshop - Tips for Faculty Success and Having a Life
- Workshop - Preserving Time and Peace: Patterns and Paths in Google Products
General teaching and learning
- Workshop - Community, Engagement, and Feedback in Online Learning Environments
- Workshop - Neuromyths: What Are They and Why Do They Matter?
- Workshop - Contract Grading: Boring Name and Transformative Practice
- VCU Guide to Rethinking Online Exams
- VCU Guide to Gathering Student Feedback Early and Often
- Creating your Teaching Reflection Plan
Inclusion: diversity, equity, social justice
Inclusive Syllabus:
- Workshop - Personalize Your Inclusive Teaching Statement and Humanize Your Syllabus
- Syllabus Challenge Toolkit: Infusing Inclusive Practices
Course design for inclusion:
- Workshop - Writing Inclusive Questions that Elicit Teamwork and Critical Thinking
- Workshop - What Makes Teaching Inclusive to Student Learning?
- Workshop - Walk the Talk: Design (and Teach) an Equitable, Diverse, and Inclusive Course
- Workshop - Decolonize Your Classroom: A Case Study for Inclusive Teaching
- Workshop - Detox Your Textbook with Open Educational Resources
Anti-racist pedagogy and allies:
- VCU Guide to Writing Anti-Racism Syllabus Statements
- Workshop - Beyond Tolerance: Strengthening White Allyship in Education
- Workshop - Inclusion (and “diversity”) vs. anti-racist pedagogy: Not Another “Diversity” Talk
Student accessibility and wellness:
- Workshop - Designing Equitable and Inclusive Clinical Case Studies
- Workshop - Inclusive Zoom Practices
- Workshop - Creating an Accessible and Inclusive Virtual Classroom
- Workshop - Faculty First Responders: Supporting Student Wellness
- Faculty Guide to VCU Student Support Resources
Inclusive engagement and community:
- Workshop - Student Engagement and Full Participation for an Inclusive Classroom
- Workshop - Structuring your class to create inclusion, community and connection: Lessons learned through online teaching
- Workshop - Inclusive Teaching Practices to Build a Learning Community
Responding to difficult moments:
Identity and supporting marginalized students:
- Workshop - Privilege and Interactive Pedagogy: Centering Students' Ways of Being and Knowing with Peggy McIntosh
- Workshop - Seeing the Invisible: Supporting Students of Color in Times of Instability and Crisis
- Workshop - Creating Identity Safe (virtual) Learning Spaces
- Workshop - Supporting International Student Success
- Workshop - Supporting Students with Diverse Language Backgrounds
More resources:
Faculty well-being
Recorded Sessions:
- Re-member Who You Are. Remain True to Who You Are Becoming
- Appreciative Inquiry - A Way of Being and Doing
- Making Invisible Work Visible in the Academy - A Wellness Imperative
- The Ripple Effect of Mindfulness
- BIPOC Faculty Building a Mentoring Community
- Aligning Faculty Time and Priorities with Dr. KerryAnn O'Meara
- Wellness in Real Time
- Conflicts are boiling over: Can we lower the temperature?
- Gratitude and Positivity: Informal Student Feedback and Classroom Climate
- Caring for Self While Caring for Family
- Relearn to Relax
- Better Nights Ahead
- Mindfulness in the Classroom
Career planning
- Workshop - Promotion & Tenure
- Workshop - Career Goals and Building Your Network
- Workshop - Navigating Promotion Series: Writing a Compelling Scholarship Narrative
- Workshop - External Reviewers for Promotion: How to Cultivate Your List
- Workshop - Documenting COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts on Diverse Faculty Careers
- Workshop - Making Invisible Work Visible in Academia
- Workshop - Navigating Promotion Series: Writing a Compelling Service Narrative
- Workshop - Navigating Promotion and Tenure as a Community-Engaged Scholar
- Workshop - Navigating Promotion Series: Writing a Compelling Teaching Narrative
- Workshop - Term Faculty Panel of Full Professors: Experiences Navigating Promotion to Full
- Workshop - Promotion to Full Professor: Making The Case for National Prominence
- Workshop - Mid-Career Term Faculty: Let's Talk Promotion
- Sample teaching statements and promotion materials
The Write Track
- Workshop - Get Priorganized Part II: Mapping A Realistic Summer Schedule
- Workshop - Get Priorganized Part I: Planning a Realistic Summer Schedule
- Workshop - Embracing the Writing Feedback Process
- Workshop - Build Your Village: Finding Social Support for Your Writing
- Workshop - Fearless Writing: Strategies for Building Confidence
- Workshop - Writing Productivity Strategies & Planning
- Workshop - Authorship and Collaborative Research (Hosted by Wilder School)
- Workshop - Planning for a Productive Break: Strategies and Tips for Success with Katie Linder
- Workshop - Individual Development Plan with Sharon Zumbrunn
- Workshop - Stop It - You're Not Actually an Imposter
- Workshop - with Sharon Zumbrunn
- Workshop - Establishing Your Publishing Pipeline with Keynote Katie Linder
- Guidebook - Stop It - You're Not Actually an Imposter
- Guidebook - Writing Wellness and Self-Care
- Guidebook- Getting PriOrganized for Writing
Experiential learning
- Workshop - Design Thinking: Engaging Students Through Team-based, Project-based Learning
- Workshop - Peer Evaluation in Team-Based Learning
- Workshop - Writing Inclusive Questions that Elicit Teamwork and Critical Thinking
- Workshop - Engaging Students with Nearpod
- Workshop - Using Gamification to Improve Student Engagement
- Workshop - Photovoice and Participatory Learning
- Workshop -Improv for Wellness and Joy
- Workshop - Critical Reflection Strategies for Experiential Learning
- Workshop - Tips for Faculty to Support Career Readiness in Students
- Workshop - Be Yourself!: The Importance of Social Presence in Online/Remote Teaching
- Workshop - Awake and Feeling Included: Teaching to Promote Student Engagement
- Workshop - Glocal and Virtual Global Opportunities for Faculty
- Workshop - Building Community in Virtual Learning Spaces
- Workshop - Introduction to Perusall as a Way to Encourage Student Interaction and Collaboration
- Workshop - Make online learning RIF: Relevant, Interesting, Fun
- Active Learning Quick Guide
- Active Learning Activities
- VCU Service Learning
- VCU REAL
Technology for teaching
- Workshop - Jammin' with Jamboard
- Workshop - Designing and Assigning Digital Media Projects
- Workshop - Getting Creative with Canvas
- Workshop - Engaging Students with Nearpod
- Workshop - Using Gamification to Improve Student Engagement
- Workshop - Inclusive Zoom Practices
- Workshop - Enhancing Understanding of Mathematical and Scientific Concepts with Jupyter Notebooks
- Workshop - Canvas Gradebook Basics
- Workshop - TakeBreakMake VoiceThread!
- Workshop - TakeBreakMake Canvas!
- Workshop - Why and How ePortfolios Work
- Workshop - TakeBreakMake Google Suite!
- Workshop - Exploring Kaltura Advanced Features
- Workshop - Humanize Your Online Course with VoiceThread
- Workshop - TakeBreakMake Zoom!
- Workshop - Spring 2021 Introduction to Kaltura
- Workshop - Fall 2020 Introduction to Kaltura
- Workshop - Engaging Students Intellectually, Socially, Emotionally: Pear Deck and Safe Learning Opportunities
- Workshop - Designing Equitable Multimedia Projects For Remote Instruction
- Pear Deck
- Perusall
- The Workshop from VCU Libraries
- VCU ALT Lab
- Faculty Resources from ALT Lab
- VCU Academic Technologies
- Canvas
- Adobe Creative Cloud
- Zoom
- Kaltura
- Top Hat Active Learning Platform
- VoiceThread
- VCU Rampages
Scholarship of teaching and learning (SOTL)
- Workshop -Let’s get SoTLing! An introduction to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
- Workshop - How to get started: A panel discussion on the scholarship of teaching and learning (SOTL)
- Workshop - How to make the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Count for Your Tenure and Promotion
- Workshop - SOTL 102: Focused Questions and Study Design for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
- Workshop - SOTL 101: What is the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning?
- Panel Discussion: How can I do that? Getting Involved With the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
- Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SOTL) from Elon University
- SOTL from Vanderbilt University
- SOTL from University of Washington
- Free e-book: Writing about Teaching and Learning
VCU Friends and Collaborators in Faculty Support
- VCU Libraries
- Inclusive Excellence
- Office of Multicultural Student Affairs
- ALT Lab
- Academic Technologies
- Office of Research and Innovation
- Student Accessibility and Educational Opportunity (SAEO)
- Center for Community Engagement and Impact
- Relevant, Experiential and Applied Learning (REAL)
- Undergraduate Research and Creative Inquiry
- Student Success
- School of Medicine Faculty Development
- Health Promotion and Well-Being Center (The Well)
- Global Education Office
VCU faculty support units
Our friends around campus created videos to introduce themselves to VCU faculty. Please visit the faculty support units video page to learn more!
