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Welcome to our March Faculty Success Newsletter!
 
In honor of Womxn’s History Month,* the Office for Faculty Success would like to give a big shout-out to womxn faculty at SJSU, who make up more than half of current tenure-line and lecturer faculty.

An internet search for “women faculty” or “women in academia” will yield any number of disconcerting facts, such as:

  • “Women make up the majority of non-tenure-track lecturers and instructors across institutions, but only 44% of tenure-track faculty and 36% of full professors.”**
  • Around 30% of college presidents are women—and just 5% are from historically underrepresented groups.**
  • Studies show that “women are disproportionately published less, receive less credit than male authors.”**
  • “Salaries for full-time women faculty members are approximately 81.2 percent of men’s, with women earning $79,368 and men earning $97,738, on average.”***

Yet, as the saying goes, “Nevertheless, she persisted.
” What can you do to support womxn colleagues and help to push back against the findings listed above?
  1. Learn the numbers and bring an intersectional lens. What are the gender demographics within your department, college, CSU system, and academic field? And how do womxn from different historically underrepresented groups figure into those statistics?
  1. Be mindful of unconscious gender bias, which shapes everyday interactions and choices, particularly when it comes to hiring and promotion. While there are many important initiatives that aim to increase representation of womxn faculty–for example, SJSU’s participation in the Kindling Inter-University Networks for Diverse Engineering Faculty Advancement–we will continue to lose promising female-identified researchers over the long term if we do not also address organizational cultures and structures. 
  1. Reconsider faculty service workloads, which have been proven to be disproportionately placed on the shoulders of womxn faculty. What is the distribution of service within your department and college? What can be done to assign work more equitably and to recognize and document the unseen and emotional labor performed by womxn faculty?
Take time this month to reflect on the womxn mentors and professors who have provided critical guidance as you have navigated to this point in your career, and honor their legacy by doing what you can to support your current womxn colleagues and students as we work together to transform academia for the better.

One way SJSU enacts the commitment to amplifying the voices and expertise of womxn and underrepresented faculty is through the Public Voices Fellowship . This week we celebrate the accomplishments of our second cohort , where womxn colleagues have written about the effects of the pandemic on children, online education, first-generation professionals, climate change, the criminal justice system, collective healing among Asian women, and so much more. We hope you will consider attending our upcoming information session about what it means to participate in the fellowship and how to join our third cohort.

* Many scholars use “x” in womxn to demonstrate an intentional effort to recognize feminine-identifying non-binary and genderqueer people that experience the effects of sexism and genderism.
 
 
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Center for Faculty Development News and Updates
 
The deadline for course materials orders will soon be upon us (4/15), and we’d like to take this occasion to reflect upon accessibility--in the design of our courses and in the materials we select, develop and use, but also in our mission and philosophy. At its most fundamental, striving for accessibility in instruction entails removing barriers to learning. And, though we often discuss accessibility in the context of ability, we may find that removing barriers to learning may be helpful for all students. This is the promise and challenge of Universal Design for Learning (UDL).  As educators, we can remove barriers via course materials selection by choosing works by diverse authors, by attempting to find low or no-cost options, and by submitting our choices in a timely manner.  We can remove barriers for students who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing, or who are learning next to their sleeping children, or who must learn in a noisy environment by adding captions to videos or by using the live transcription feature in Zoom

We are here to support you as you plan summer and fall courses that are inclusive, equitable, accessible, and nurture a sense of belonging. Join us for one of our upcoming UDL Best Practices for Access and Inclusion workshops where you can learn more about the objectives and principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL), how UDL supports inclusion and anti-racist pedagogy, and apply UDL to course outcomes, presentation of material, student engagement, and assessment. Or, if you’re not ready to think beyond this semester, come to one of our workshops on providing meaningful feedback, where you’ll learn more about evidence-based best practices for responding to student writing and how to enact them using Canvas SpeedGrader. Finally, through our IDEAS program, you can request a conversation or observation about any aspect of your courses, including the design, syllabus, lessons/modules, oral and/or written interaction with students, and more. If you’d like us to bring one of these workshops to your department, please reach out to Deanna Fassett, Assistant Vice Provost for Faculty Development; we’d also be glad to develop custom programming for you and your colleagues’ needs.  
 
 
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eCampus News and Updates
 
 
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Whether looking for additional video resources for your course or enhancing your own professional development, you and your students have access to LinkedIn Learning. The LinkedIn Learning library offers 12,000+ short video clips on a wide range of topics (Business, Creative, and Technical). For example, you might be interested in resources on critical thinking or digital literacy, so we have curated a list of LinkedIn Learning resources on these topics that you can add into your courses. Learn more by visiting the eCampus LinkedIn Learning webpage.
Quality Assurance Training
CSU Online Course Services offers quality assurance courses as a professional development opportunity for any CSU faculty and lecturers developing blended, online, or flipped courses. Taking place during March 28 - April 17, the training course options include: Introduction to Teaching Online Using QLT, Advanced QLT Course in Teaching Online, Reviewing Courses Using the QLT Rubric, Applying the Quality Matters Rubric (APPQMR), Designing Your Online Course (DYOC), and Improving Your Online Course (IYOC). All courses are taught by Certified CSU Facilitators, who are faculty and/or instructional designers with extensive experience and training in teaching and evaluating online courses. Visit the program website for additional information and to register .
 
 
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In case you missed the SJSU Adobe Digital Literacy Day, recordings of the sessions are now available. Session topics focused on how to engage students in high impact practices via Adobe Creative Cloud. Please visit the SJSU Adobe Digital Literacy Day webpage to learn more. 
 
 
 
 
 
Upcoming Events
 
 
 
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You are invited to SJSU's virtual Annual Author & Artist Celebration honoring faculty and staff who have published a book or exhibited a significant work of art in the 2020 and 2021 calendar years.

Hear from a distinguished speaker lineup including Interim President Steve Perez, Associate Vice President for Research Richard Mocarski, and Vice Provost for Faculty Success Magdalena Barrera who will join other speakers in honoring the diversity of scholarship of our impressive faculty and staff.

We look forward to virtually celebrating this year’s honorees with the campus and community at large.

 
 
 
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Congratulations to Dr. Yolanda Wiggins, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, recipient of a RSF-Gates Foundation Pipeline Grant for Emerging Scholars . This grant initiative is designed to support early- and mid-career tenure-track scholars who are underrepresented in the social sciences and to promote diversity broadly. 

This funding will allow Dr. Wiggins to conduct a follow-up study of intergenerational exchanges between Black young adults and their families and explore the ways in which post-college life coupled with drastic social change restructures Black family life.

The Office for Faculty Success applauds Dr. Wiggin’s achievement!


 
 
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March

18: Mid-Career Faculty Workshop: Innovation in Academic Assignment @ 12:00pm

18: Gradescope for Assessments and Feedback @ 2:00 pm

21: LEAD meeting for Chairs and Directors @ 12:00 pm

21: Canvas I: Getting Started with Canvas for Beginners @ 1:00 pm

21: Remote Teaching Series: Zoom 20 Minute Workshop @ 2:00 pm

22: UDL Best Practices for Access and Inclusion @ 2:00 pm

22: Adobe Premiere Rush QuickStart @ 3:00 pm

23: Faculty Start-Up Funds Q&A, hosted by the Office of Research & Innovation and the Office of Academic Business and Strategic Operations (registration link)

23: Strategies for Academic Writing Project Management @ 12:00 pm

23: Document Camera QuickStart Workshop @ 1:00 pm

23: Adobe After Effects @ 3:00 pm

23: Remote Teaching Series: Using Jamboard for Student Engagement - 20 Minute Workshop @ 3:30 pm

24: Remote Teaching Series: Securing Your Zoom Session 20 Minute Workshop @ 11:00 am

24: Providing Feedback on Student Writing @ 3:00 pm in IRC 306

25: Creating an Inclusive Climate: Queering our Classrooms and our Campus @ 10:00 am

25: Mid-Career Faculty Workshop: Managing Leadership @ 12:00 pm

25: iClicker QuickStart @ 12:30 pm

29: Qualtrics Advanced @ 10:15 am


April

4: Camtasia II: Create a Talking Head Video! @ 12:00 pm

4: Adobe Premiere Rush QuickStart 2022 @ 1:00 pm

5: Getting Started with Qualtrics @ 10:00 am

5: Canvas Studio Workshop @ 11:00 am

5: Getting Started with Adobe InDesign @ 12:00 pm

5: Canvas II: Creating and Organizing Content with Modules, Pages, and Files @ 1:00 pm

5: SJSU Author and Artist Celebration @ 4:00 pm

6: Learning Something New Through LinkedIn Learning @ 3:00 pm

8: Workshop: ArsGIS Intro @ 2:00 pm

11: Clickers and Polling @ 9:00 am

11: Public Voices Fellowship Information Session @ 11:00 am

13: Faculty Start-Up Funds Q&A, hosted by the Office of Research & Innovation and the Office of Academic Business and Strategic Operations (registration link)

13: UDL Best Practices for Access and Inclusion @ 10:00 am

13: Gradescope for Assessments and Feedback @ 1:00 pm

13: Gathering of Social Justice-Oriented Researchers @ 12:00 pm

13: Providing Feedback on Student Writing @ 3:00 pm in IRC 306 

15: Summer and Fall 2022 Course Materials Order Deadline

18: LEAD meeting for Chairs and Directors @ 12:00 pm

19: Faculty Writing Retreat @ 9:00 am

20: Faculty Writing Retreat @ 9:00 am


May

16: LEAD meeting for Chairs and Directors @ 12:00 pm

 
 
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Got five minutes before your next meeting, while waiting in line, or taking a break from work? Check out these short pieces related to different aspects of faculty life.

What Women Faculty Want in Allied Men: Actions exceptional male allies take—beyond just being decent and reasonable colleagues—that women find most valuable.


What Does a Scientist Look Like? Children are drawing women more than ever before.


How to Make the Most of an Academic Conference: Advice on navigating professional meetings in all formats — in person, virtual, and hybrid.


How ‘Bad’ Is Multitasking At Work, Really? “To be entirely focused on one thing at all times feels impossible; many of us are beholden to other forces and deadlines that shape our work and social lives.”

 
 
 
 
 
Do you have a story, highlight, reading, or tip that you would like to share in this newsletter?
Please reach out anytime to faculty-success@sjsu.edu.
 
 
 
 
 
Contact Us

Magdalena L. Barrera, Ph.D.
Vice Provost for Faculty Success
faculty-success@sjsu.edu | 408-924-2405

Deanna Fassett, Ph.D.
Assistant Vice Provost for Faculty Development
cfd@sjsu.edu | 408-924-2600

Jennifer Redd, Ph.D.
Senior Director, eCampus
ecampus@sjsu.edu | (408) 924-2337

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Last Updated May 16, 2024