Faculty exchanges are an opportunity for faculty to get together and exchange ideas about various class-related topics ranging from assessment practices to promoting inclusivity with anti-racist curriculum.
Faculty can attend any and all Faculty Exchanges without RSVPing. Attendance is completely voluntary. Pets and children are welcome to interrupt. The purpose is simply to provide an informal space for faculty to exchange ideas about curriculum and teaching.
To suggest a topic for a Faculty Exchange or offer to facilitate please fill out a Request for Faculty Exchange form. Facilitators simply help manage the conversation and need not be experts or leaders!
Upcoming Faculty Exchanges
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Tuesday, April 25th @ 12-12:50 PM - Enhancing the First-Year Learning Course with Co-Curricular Experiences. Join current FLC (first year learning courses) instructors to discuss how to integrate co-curricular experiences into first-year pedagogy and how the array of these co-curricular opportunities gives first-year students a unique experience as they begin their educational journey at SSU. We welcome anyone who would like to contribute to this dialogue. This faculty exchange will be facilitated by Hillary Homzie from the Communication & Media Studies department and who currently teaches COMS 160 FLC. This event will be hi-flex in Salazar 1061. (Add Event to Google Calendar)
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Tuesday, May 2nd @ 12 - 1 PM - ChatGPT and Academic Integrity: Is it Cheating, Plagiarism, Both, or Neither? An Open Dialogue with Faculty. In this first of a three-part faculty exchange, we invite faculty to discuss how we should think about ChatGPT and AI text generators in light of other pre-existing cheating and plagiarism: is ChatGPT cheating? Plagiarism? Both? Neither? Or more nuanced? Sakina Bryant (Writing Center/English) and Loriann Negri (LARC) will share various threads of the current conversation about ChatGPT and Academic Integrity running throughout Higher Ed. The facilitators will approach this from the perspective of experts in writing – who have a bird’s eye view into student compositional processes – but we are curious and eager to begin a discussion about ChatGPT that includes faculty from across disciplines. Over the three-part faculty exchange, we will consider several framing questions: 1) Is ChatGPT different from other forms of plagiarism or cheating?, 2) What are the implications for students and learning?, 3) How do disciplinarity and pedagogical beliefs or values inform individual faculty attitudes towards ChatGPT?, 4) Does ChatGPT present opportunities for faculty and students, as well as what risks it may court? Our hope is to create a robust dialogue that carves out space for SSU faculty to come together and share in the current national ChatGPT discussion, as we are a COPLAC and HSI campus that has unique insights… and which is already encountering AI text.
This faculty exchange will be via Zoom. (Add event to Google Calendar)
- Wednesday, May 10th @ 3 - 5 PM - Celebrating equity focused curriculum redesign . In this faculty exchange, there will be an opportunity for faculty to talk with one another about curriculum revisions and other efforts they have made to increase student success in their courses and programs. Faculty participants from the Spring 2023 Faculty Learning Community for Student Success, course redesigns, and semester book clubs on equitable teaching and education will be present. This event will be in-person in the Art Gallery. Please join us to highlight this work so we may continue to strengthen our efforts to support students. (Add Event to Google Calendar)
Contact academic@sonoma.edu for Zoom Link!