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Events

The Center for Integrated Professional Development events are free and open to all faculty and to AP, civil service, and graduate students on campus. Please note that non-faculty may be put on a wait list for some workshops until 1 business day before the event. To see what courses you've already signed up for, log in to the My.IllinoisState.edu Event Registration System.

If you have questions, or if you need a special accommodation to fully participate in an event, please email ProDev@ilstu.edu.

Workshops

Design and Implement a Faculty-Led Study Abroad Program 101

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Friday, November 10 • 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. 

In this session, participants will get an overview of the process and timeline of developing a faculty-led study abroad program. Participants will learn about the various options available for structuring a program as well as the responsibilities associated with being a faculty director. Participants will also learn about academics in a study abroad program; including course selection, instructional methods, out-of-class learning opportunities, and assessment. Registration is required.  

Location:
 Fell Hall 212

Facilitator:

Erin Mikulec, Teaching and Learning 
Alex Ratcliff-Hanger, Office of International Engagement 

Find Grant Funding: Get Started with Pivot

Synchronous session:
Monday, September 25 • 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. 
Friday, October 20 • 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.
Friday, November 10 • 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.
Online

Do you have projects that could appeal to funders, if only you could identify the right ones? This session is an introduction to the Pivot-RP platform. Learn how to build your profile, search for funding opportunities, and take the next steps with search results. Registration is required.

Facilitator:
Beverly Beyer, Research and Sponsored Program

Intro to Queer Allyship

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Friday, September 8 • 1:30 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Thursday, October 5 • 9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Wednesday, November 1 • 1 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.

LGBTQIA2S+ youth, including college students, are among the most at-risk groups for mental health challenges, housing and food insecurity, and domestic violence, because of how society’s support systems fail to see and value them. Formerly referred called Safe Zone, Intro to Queer Allyship is a knowledge-level workshop focusing on using terminology appropriately, understanding the relationship between sex, gender, and sexuality, and finding the resources available to support Queer Redbirds (faculty, staff, and students) at Illinois State University. This experience is tailored to faculty, staff, and graduate assistants, with either teaching responsibilities or other student-facing roles, particularly in Academic Affairs.

Location:
Williams 325

Facilitator:
David Giovagnoli, Center for Integrated Professional Development 

Rebuilding Assignments for the Age of AI

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Friday, September 29 • 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.  
Wednesday, October 18 • 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m.

Generative AI services such as Chat GPT have disrupted writing across higher education. This session is an opportunity for faculty members to work in small groups with facilitators to pull apart one of their existing writing assignments to redevelop it in one of two ways: to make it more resistant to students unauthorized use of AI, or to incorporate students’ critical use of AI into their writing process. We will give a brief overview of some of the common generative AI services in use, as well as some do’s and don’ts with identifying AI-written content, but will focus mostly on direct consultations on individual assignments. This experience is tailored to faculty, staff, and graduate assistants with teaching responsibilities. Registration is required.  

Location:
 Stevenson 401A

Facilitator:
Jennifer Friberg, Center for Integrated Professional Development  
David Giovagnoli, Center for Integrated Professional Development  
Dana Karraker, Center for Integrated Professional Development  
Mayuko Nakamura, Center for Integrated Professional Development  
Roy Magnusson, Office of the Provost  

 

Sharing Your Scholarly Work through Open Access Publishing

Synchronous session:
Friday, October 13 • 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. 
Online

Open access publishing is often presented as a monolith, but there are a variety of approaches to making your work available open access. Defined by Peter Suber as “digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions,” open access initiatives and models have emerged since the movement gained momentum at the beginning of the twenty-first century (Open Access, 2012, 4). 

Participants will explore open access publishing to better understand its principles and practices. Facilitators will share campus resources to support a variety of open access publishing models, including institutional funding for open access publishing charges, green open access via deposit in the institutional repository (ISU ReD), and transformative agreements offered by Milner Library. Finally, participants will engage in a discussion focused on ways to increase engagement with and impact of their scholarly work via open access. 

This workshop is designed for early career faculty members in their first four years at Illinois State, although others engaged in scholarly work at ISU are welcome. Registration is required.

Facilitator:
Colby Cilento, Milner Library
Rachel Scott, Milner Library

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