The Office of Faculty ADVANCEment (OFA) hosted its inaugural Faculty Grow Workshop on April 9 th, 2024. With approximately 50 faculty participants, and through the lens of a “charette-style” workshop, we began to create a shared vision of the future of faculty success at Clemson. With speakers, a faculty panel, and active engagement and conversation, […]
2024 Faculty Climate Survey In 2017, with support from the National Science Foundation’s ADVANCE program, Clemson University’s Advance grant team and Dr. Patrick Rosopa, the team’s Social Science Research Lead, developed and distributed a faculty survey to better understand Clemson’s institutional culture and climate for all faculty. Post COVID-19 and with the 2023 launch of […]
This month, we are featuring Dr. Thao Tran, assistant professor of chemistry. Tran holds a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Vietnam National University, earned her Ph.D. at the University of Houston, and completed a postdoctoral visit at the Johns Hopkins University Institute of Quantum Matter. Her current team applies chemical logic and unmatched tunability innate to extended solids […]
As you (faculty) matriculate through your career, you will need to continually increase your knowledge, evolve your skills, and perhaps even shift your focus areas. To help you, the Clemson Libraries now offers a guide that highlights faculty resources (click here). This makes it easier for you to locate books that provide productivity tips for […]
Although the idea of team-based learning (TBL) originated back in the 70s, many faculty members are now recognizing the educational importance of transforming small groups of students into formal teams. The difference between the two being the commitment of the members to advance the learning process beyond individual capabilities and the opportunity to fully take advantage of […]
It is widely documented that student surveys (or student evaluations of teaching, SET) are one of the simplest and most widely used tools to evaluate teaching performance in higher education. Among the reasons behind the wide use of these surveys are cost, the ability to easily obtain feedback from stakeholders, and the assumption that students […]
We welcome you to join the ADVANCEment team in open discussions about ideas that are important to you. Please drop in and have a conversation over a cup of coffee with these months’ featured speakers, and learn about initiatives that are institutional practice today and priorities moving forward. Mon, January 29th – Meet Angie Leidinger, Senior Vice President […]
The Office of Faculty ADVANCEment is delighted to announce that the application portal is now open for the Clemson Mid-Career Faculty Coaching Program. In Spring 2024, up to 13 midcareer faculty members will be selected to participate, and each will receive six (6) individual coaching sessions with the staff at Academic Impressions. Academic Impressions has […]
Kudos to all of you on successfully completing yet another semester at Clemson! As you already know, every faculty member fills a unique and vital role at Clemson University. Your teaching, research and service transforms lives, impacts the citizens of South Carolina and the nation and generates new knowledge. Know that your hard work continues to […]
Dr. Elliot Ennis (Chemistry) teaches his Creative Inquiry class on pseudoscience. What is a teaching philosophy statement and how it can be evaluated? If you have ever asked yourself these questions, it would be important to point out that teaching philosophy statements are ideally not just a few paragraphs describing existential issues linked to the classroom or […]
