Spring 2025 Faculty Development Series
Below are the professional development opportunities available for Spring 2025. Preregistration is required to allow presenters to plan accordingly. Please click on the appropriate link for the session you wish to attend. Upon registration, you will receive an invitation email with the Zoom link for the session.
Presenter: Milad Malakooti, Learning Technology Specialist, ITS-Digital Learning
Description: This training empowers faculty to efficiently use Canvas tools, allowing them to focus on teaching and the subject. Participants will learn to streamline course setup, organize content, and manage communication, grading, and assignments with ease. The session will highlight features like the gradebook, quizzes, and available third-party tools designed to save time while maintaining accessibility and engagement. By mastering these tools, faculty can simplify administrative tasks and create a more effective, student-centered learning environment.
Virtual Zoom Sessions (Click on link for details)
Presenter: Dr. Shanshan Ma, Instructional Designer, ITS-Digital Learning
Description:This training is designed to support faculty in two key areas of course design: writing clear and effective learning objectives and choosing proper assessments that align with those objectives. While the writing of learning objectives will focus on clarity, measurability, and alignment with intended learning outcomes, the choice of assessments will incorporate considerations of students’ potential use of generative AI tools such as ChatGPT. An AI-driven tool for revising objectives and aligning assessments will be introduced during the session.
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Presenter: David J. Ruda, PhD, Post-Doctoral Fellow, CAPS
Anna K. Guerin, Psy.D. Director of Counseling and Psychological Services, CAPS
Description: This session is designed to empower you with tools to show students they are not alone and that their well-being matters. We will explore practical and compassionate ways to support students who may be in distress or coping with trauma. We’ll discuss how to recognize signs that a student might be struggling, and when to connect them with additional resources.
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Presenter: Erika Jackson, Psy.D. Staff Psychologist CAPS
Ricardo Cornejo, Psy.D. Staff Clinician, CAPS
Description: This session is designed to empower you with tools to show students they are not alone and that their well-being matters. We will explore practical and compassionate ways to support students who may be in distress or coping with trauma. We’ll discuss how to recognize signs that a student might be struggling, and when to connect them with additional resources.
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Presenter: Melinda Medlen, Ed.D. Senior Institutional Research Analyst, EEIR
Description: Course evaluations are a valuable tool for improving teaching and learning, however, low response rates and vague feedback can leave faculty guessing. In this one-hour session, we’ll share practical strategies to encourage more students to participate and offer thoughtful feedback. We’ll discuss how to communicate the importance of evaluations and how to frame questions for better insights.
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Presenter: Rachel Smiley, M.S.L.I.S., M.M. Director, Pearson Library
Leanna (Garcia '13) Pagano, M.L.I.S. Librarian, Head of Collection Management Services
Description: OERs are teaching, learning, and research resources that are free of cost and access barriers and carry legal permission for open use. With the high costs of higher education a top concern of students, OERs provide a foundational strategy for improving student equity and access to education materials. This session will provide a comprehensive introduction to open education, and attendees will learn effective searching techniques for locating OERs, with discussion of how subject matter expertise plays a crucial role in selecting and adapting materials to meet specific course learning objectives.
Virtual Zoom Sessions (Click on link for details)
Presenter:
Erik Hagen, Director of Marketing - Creative & Digital Strategy
Eric Wilder, Web Content Manager
Description: Your academic program website is often the first impression prospective students have—and a key resource for current students. Is your website doing everything it can to inform, engage, and inspire? In this one-hour session, we’ll explore ways to enhance your program’s online presence to attract new students, and keep current students connected.
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Presenter: Steven A. Hawkins, Ph.D. Director, Center for Academic Service Learning
Description:Designing a Service Learning Course
Attendees will learn how to design courses that combine academic objectives with real-world
community engagement. You’ll learn how to create service projects that match your
course learning objectives, inspire students to get involved in their communities,
and build strong partnerships with local organizations.
Virtual Zoom Sessions (Click on link for details)
Presenter: Rachel Smiley, M.S.L.I.S., M.M. Director, Pearson Library
Leanna (Garcia '13) Pagano, M.L.I.S. Librarian, Head of Collection Management Services
Description: Copyright presents complex situations for educators in creating and sharing course materials. With digital resources transforming academic content delivery, understanding copyright is crucial for ethical and legal teaching practices. This session will provide an introduction to copyright, and attendees will navigate copyright considerations concerning in-person and online learning environments along with library-licensed content and the impact of the Annual Copyright License for Higher Education. Please note: This workshop offers guidance and best practices, and does not constitute legal advice.
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Presenter: Rachel Smiley, M.S.L.I.S., M.M. Director, Pearson Library
Lala Badal, M.A.Ed. Librarian - Head of Electronic Resources and Digital Content
Description: Transformative agreements (TAs) are contracts negotiated between libraries and publishers allowing institutions to access scholarly content through subscriptions while supporting the transition to open access publishing by their institution-affiliated researchers. Current agreements in place at CLU enable university researchers to publish with select publishers without paying article processing charges (APCs). This session will provide an introduction to transformative agreements, and attendees will explore the institutional benefits of these agreements, discussing how they support scholarly communication through advocacy for author rights, financial sustainability, and principles of inclusion, equity, and accessibility.
Virtual Zoom Sessions (Click on link for details)
Presenter: Lala Badal, M.A.Ed. Librarian - Head of Electronic Resources and Digital Content
Erin Sommers, M.L.I.S. Librarian - Reference and Outreach
Description: Pearson Library has over 96,000 items in the print collection along with access to over 530,000 books and journals in the digital collection (2023 reporting to the Association of College and Research Libraries). These resources are complemented by robust interlibrary loan services and librarian-guided research and reference support. This session will provide a comprehensive introduction to library resources, and attendees will navigate the library's digital ecosystem using myCLU as a launch point, exploring key resources such as the A-Z Database list, the Catalog, and essential research services that support academic discovery and scholarly work.
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Presenter: Jana Parizer, M.S.L.I.S. Sr. Customer Success Specialist , APA
Description: Academic Writer is APA's platform designed to support scholarly research and writing, helping users learn about the research process, create formatted reference collections, write papers, and cite sources in APA style according to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed.). By providing comprehensive tools for academic writing, the platform offers valuable support for both instructors and students. Join this session to explore the features of Academic Writer and discover how it can enhance scholarly writing and research instruction.
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Presenter: Jill Brown, LMFT, LPCC Director, Sales, Psychotheraphy.net
Description: Psychotherapy.net produces high-quality videos, articles, interviews, and additional resources in the field of psychotherapy for training students and therapists. Unlike other professions, psychotherapy students rarely have the opportunity to observe their mentors conducting actual therapy sessions, making video demonstrations an invaluable learning tool. Join this session to explore the resources available from Psychotherapy.net and discover effective strategies for integrating these videos into your instruction.
Virtual Zoom Sessions (Click on link for details)
Presenters: Diana Hernandez, Director of Undergraduate Admission
Cynthia Duarte, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Sociology
Description: This one-hour Zoom session will equip faculty with critical updates and resources related to immigration policies affecting higher education. Presenters will share virtual tools, key information, and links to help faculty stay informed, support students effectively, and foster a calm, safe learning environment.
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Presenters: DEIJB at Cal Lu Sponsored NetVUE CIC Guest Presenters (TBA)
Description: Grab a colleague and come and learn from NetVUE’s finest professional developers on ways in which faculty and staff can better serve our students through mentoring toward their purpose in life. This is first session of a 2 part incentivized retreat made possible by a grant awarded through NetVUE. Breakfast will be served and materials, including a common read, will be provided. The first 15 people to sign-up will receive $200. Participants can receive this incentive twice.
Virtual Zoom Session (Click on link for details)
Presenters: DEIJB at Cal Lu Sponsored NetVUE CIC Guest Presenters (TBA)
Description: Complete your retreat experience from Part I by continuing to learn from NetVUE’s finest professional developers. We are exploring ways in which faculty and staff can better serve our students through mentoring toward their purpose in life. Please note this is part 2 of an incentivized 2 part retreat made possible by a grant awarded through NetVUE. Dinner will be served and materials, including a common read, will be provided. The first 15 people to sign-up will receive $200. Participants can receive this incentive twice.
Virtual Zoom Session (Click on link for details)
Presenters: Lorena Muñoz, PhD Associate Dean of Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging — Academic Affairs
Lorri J. Santamaría, PhD AVP, Strategy
Description: How does Culturally Responsible Pedagogy differ at in HSI/MSI when it comes to STEM? In this workshop for which you will receive a video to preview, you will be reminded of what it means to be an HSI/MSI. The workshop will be framed by video clips Dr. Anne-Marie Nuñez (via the UNLV HSI Resource Hub webinar series). Presenters will address the importance of servingness in becoming a more culturally affirming Hispanic-Minority Serving Institution and ways in which our curriculum can change in response to the information provided.
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Presenters: Invited Faculty and ART
Description: This is an all day retreat designed to provide comprehensive support and guidance for faculty at 2-year, 4-year and 6-year milestones. Attendees will gain clarity on ART process, receive guidance on dossier preparations and connect with peers during the retreat. Lunch and snacks will be served.
Date: Monday March 10, 2025, at 10:00-4:00PM
Venue: Ullman 101