Monday, November 11, 2024
News
Collaborative Teaching Opportunities and Curricular Innovation Grants
We once again have funding available for collaborative teaching opportunities and curricular innovation grants. Proposals for both are due January 31, 2025. Please note that we are requesting proposals earlier than usual this year. We’ve learned that it is helpful for departments and programs to know earlier in the academic year if collaborative teaching or curricular grant requests are approved so they can better complete class scheduling.
Collaborative Teaching
Collaborative teaching provides important faculty development opportunities and enriches the curriculum, especially in interdisciplinary fields.
Proposals for new projects in 2025-2026 should be submitted by January 31, 2025. Please complete the Propose a New Course or Revise a Course form (available on the Registrar’s website) and the Collaborative Teaching Proposal form.
The Faculty Curriculum Planning Committee (FCPC) will review the proposals and select those to be supported. Priority will be given to proposals that entail pedagogical benefits not otherwise available, e.g., especially in interdisciplinary work, and that offer significant faculty development potential.
Please note that Associate Provost David Liben-Nowell or Provost Michelle Mattson would be happy to consult with you at any time about collaborative teaching opportunities.
Curricular Grant Opportunities
We once again have available funds for curricular grant opportunities through several initiatives and programs. Proposals for curricular innovation grants are due January 31, 2025 (although please note that several internal grants have rolling deadlines). The full list of internal grant opportunities is available on the Provost’s Office website.
Feel free to contact the Provost’s Office with questions.
Student Course and Material Fees Reminder
As we’re thinking about textbook orders for winter term, it’s a good time for a reminder about our student course and material fees policy. As announced in the April 14, 2022 edition of Carleton Today, beginning with the fall term of 2022, Carleton has discontinued most student course and materials fees related to academic credit. Faculty, departments, and programs who would previously have charged students directly for course packets or other course materials now have two options. One is that the department or program can use their operating budget to cover the cost of the materials, and give them to the students free of charge. The other is that faculty can arrange for their materials or course packets to be sold at the Carleton bookstore. Course packets printed and bound by Print Services are easy to distribute this way, at a reasonable price to students. Please note that departments, programs, and faculty are not allowed to bill or collect payment from students, either directly or through the Business Office. If you have questions about this policy, please contact Eric Egge or Jane Rizzo.
End-of-Term Deadlines and Examinations Policy Clarifications
The Education and Curriculum Committee (ECC) recently enacted clarifying updates to two policies related to the end of the academic term, the End-of-Term Deadlines policy and the Examinations policy. These revisions resulted from requests for clarification from ECC in the context of classes with a variety of less traditional notions of deadline (e.g., suggested submission dates but no grading deduction for work submitted at any time during the term).
The enacted policy updates clarify that (1) only one thing — an exam, project, presentation, or other assignment — can be due in any course after the last day of classes, and that (2) students should be expected to complete all other work for a course (whether required or optional) by the last day of class. (The revised policy also now explicitly states the reason for this restriction: to preserve a sufficient amount of time for students to complete the final assignment/examination in each of their other classes, too.)
Fall Term Exam Reminders From the Registrar’s Office
Fall term exams are Saturday, November 23, Sunday, November 24, and Monday, November 25.
All examinations will be held in the same rooms in which classes have been held during the term unless the Registrar’s Office has assigned you to a different examination room. If you need a different room for exams, please call the Registrar’s Office (x4289). If it is possible, we will assign your class to a larger classroom. Reading day policies and extra exam time slots are available online.
Self-scheduled exams will be held in Olin 149. You should have notified the Registrar’s Office by now if you are planning to use the self-scheduled exam process.
- There is one additional exam slot for self-scheduled exams only from 12:00 to 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, November 24.
- For those of you using the self-scheduled exam process, your exams are due to the Registrar’s Office Thursday, November 21.
- If you are using the self-scheduled process, please remind your students that the exams will be administered in Olin 149 and they should arrive at the testing site 15 minutes prior to the start of the exam slot.
Grades are due Wednesday, December 4 at 8:30 a.m. More information about grading is available online.
Please contact the Registrar’s Office with any questions. Have a great break!
Advising
Liberal Arts Adviser Notes
If you are going on leave in the winter term, your sophomore advisees will be reassigned to a new adviser shortly following the end of the current term. These students will continue with their new advisers until the moment they declare their majors in the spring term. Since you will no longer have access to their files, consider setting aside some time at the end of this term to compose brief notes on these sophomores using Workday. These notes will be helpful to the new advisers. You can find instructions on how to enter student notes here. If you need any assistance with this, please contact me (yperez@, x4311). Please keep in mind that these notes become a part of the official student’s record and a student may request access.
Academic Integrity
As we approach the end of the term, some of your advisees might be feeling the crunch of our ten-week term. Please remind your advisees, especially first-year students, what constitutes academic misconduct. Excessive procrastination and poor time management are often the primary culprits that lead to academic integrity cases. The Academic Support Center maintains a time management coach who can help your advisees with time management skills. You can find more useful information in our Advising Handbook for your advisees, especially in the Academic Integrity/Academic Misconduct section.
Advising Quick Links
- Advising Handbook
- Forms and Decision Trees
- Advising Contacts
- Graduation & Major Requirements
- Academic Rules and Regulations
- Off-Campus Study Programs
- Career Center Resources for Faculty & Advisers
- Office of Student Fellowships ‘For Advisors’ Page
Grants and Fellowships
Apply for NSF’s IUSE program through January 15
The National Science Foundation is accepting proposals to its Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE) program through January 15, 2025. IUSE supports projects to improve STEM teaching and learning for undergraduate students, including studying what works and for whom and how to transform institutions to adopt successful practices in STEM education. For more information, contact Christopher Tassava in the Grants Office at ctassava@carleton.edu or x4047.
Apply now for Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad
The Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad program provides grants to support overseas projects in training, research, and curriculum development in modern foreign languages and area studies for teachers, students, and faculty engaged in a common endeavor. Projects may include short-term seminars, curriculum development, group research or study, or advanced intensive language programs. Projects must focus on the humanities, social sciences and languages, and cannot focus on Canada or Western Europe. Applications are due January 21, 2025. To learn more about this opportunity, contact Christopher Tassava in the Grants Office (@ctassava or x4047).
2027 Doshisha Visiting Fellowship
The Associated Kyoto Program (AKP) is now accepting applications for the 2027 Doshisha Visiting Fellowship, with a deadline of December 15. Faculty in any discipline are able to apply. Teaching for the Doshisha Visiting Fellowship is on the Japanese academic calendar, but Doshisha has been very flexible in allowing intensive courses over a shorter timeframe (less than the full Doshisha semester) to avoid conflict with the DVF’s home campus schedule. Further information can be found on the AKP website.
Workshops
Mental Health First Aid Training Opportunity
Want to feel more confident in supporting people who are experiencing mental health challenges? Get certified in Mental Health First Aid (MHFA)!
MHFA training is a full 8 hours in length, and there will be two training opportunities this term: Friday, November 22 and Sunday, November 24. This Mental Health First Aid training will be held at St. Olaf and is open to all faculty and staff at Carleton. Sign up via the Google Registration form. Questions? Contact the Office of Health Promotion via healthpromotion@carleton.edu.