JSU Essentials

Faculty Commons joins forces with important services, programs, and departments that positively impact the university learning environment to highlight the wealth of beneficial resources that faculty have access to at Jacksonville State University. Strengthening the partnerships between JSU faculty and various divisions across campus will directly impact how engaged faculty feel in the campus community and will provide them with the support to reach our students, retain them, and ultimately, impact their long-term success.  We hope you will join us as we explore the multitude of services and programs JSU has to offer.     

 

Support for JSU's Strategic Plan, including these goals and objectives

This series supports the commitment of JSU's Strategic Plan including the following strategic goal(s) and objectives:

1. Engage (Commitment 2)

Create symbiotic partnerships that impact the university learning environment, providing additional opportunities for the exchange of ideas, experiential learning, and community engagement, while allowing university members to give back to the community.  

Goals: 

  1. Benefit of Belonging: Improve the accessibility of a safe, equitable, diverse campus supportive of all campus and community members.  
    • Objective 2: Create environments to encourage campus and community members to connect and learn from each other. 
Work with multiple departments across colleges to develop interdisciplinary opportunities that will enable faculty to learn about, from, and with different programs.  

2. Discover (Commitment 3):

In an age of rapid educational change and innovation, we will continue to advance our capacity for creating diverse, meaningful, and accessible learning opportunities that prepare all learners (faculty included).  

Goals: 

  1. Experiences: Provide learning experiences that connect learners with real-world knowledge, skills, and opportunities.  
    • Objective 2: Expand the utilization of technology to support students, faculty, and staff. 
    • Provide professional development and training opportunities for faculty. 
  1. Environments: Create and provide new learning environments characterized by modern facilities, technological enhancements, active learning, and engaging instruction 
    • Objective 3: Provide learners access to active learning opportunities, engaging instruction, sustainable training, and professional development. 
    • Provide inclusive training and professional development opportunities to staff across disciplines 

  • To learn about JSU centric programs and services that offer support to JSU faculty
  • To strengthen academic collegiality and collaboration
  • To engage faculty in various academic faculty and student related issues outside of their disciplines
  • To enhance student support through faculty development and growth
  • To educate faculty on best practices in supporting students with diverse needs

Lynn Garner 

Lynn Garner

Office of Sponsored Programs

Date: September 26th, 2023 

Location: 208 Self Hall 

Time: 12:00-1:30, Brown Bag Lunch 

Title: Grant Opportunities and Faculty Research Grants with OSP  

 

Description: Join the Office of Sponsored Programs as they discuss grant support available to faculty, including the Faculty Research Grant opportunity. 

Ingrid Galinat

Ingrid Galinat
Director, PDSO

Javier Burrows

Javier Burrows Coordinator, IH and Study Abroad

Date: October 24th, 2023 

Location: International House (IH) 

Time: 11:30-1:30 International House Lunch and Learn 

Title: Teaching Abroad with the International House  

 

Description: Don’t miss this chance to visit JSU’s beautiful International House to enjoy a delicious lunch while learning about the IH programs, including teaching abroad opportunities available to faculty and why teaching abroad is beneficial.  

Register

Upon registration for a workshop session, you will receive a calendar invite at your JSU Outlook email. Calendar invites are manually sent by Brandy Roberts. Please allow up to two hours to receive the invitation during regular business hours. After accepting the invitation, the event will appear on your Outlook Calendar. If you cannot see it, please contact Brandy Roberts at broberts@jsu.edu