Teaching, Learning & Assessment

Fall 2024 Support for Faculty during Planning Week

The Center for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment and the Center for Academic Technologies are fully invested in and committed to faculty growth, development, and success.  We are proud to announce the TLA/CAT New Faculty Orientation (NFO) during Planning Week August 19-20, 2024. This experience will position you for success as we orient you to campus resources and technology, connect with colleagues and the campus community, and innovate teaching pedagogy with information about AI. The purpose of NFO is to jumpstart your educational journey with our incredible, diverse students!

We welcome all incoming professors, associate professors, assistant professors, lecturers, coaches, assistant coaches, counselors, librarians and all returning faculty. We will support you with a wide variety of TLA professional development, tools, strategies, and approaches for student success. We look forward to working closely with you to support your teaching, learning, assessment, and instructional technology needs throughout the fall semester and beyond. To prepare yourself for a smooth start-up of the fall semester, please review this CAT checklist.

Here are some upcoming professional development opportunities:

  • Transparent Assignment Design Workshop: Friday, September 6th, 1-3:00 PM on Zoom
  • Introduction to Reading Apprenticeship Workshop: Coming soon! Scheduling TBD
  • Mindful Mondays and Friday Drop-in Meditations: Mondays and Fridays during the semester, 4:00-4:45 PM on Zoom

Additional workshops and events to come from TLA and CAT faculty support teams

More Faculty Resources:

Syllabus guidelines

CENTER FOR ACADEMIC TECHNOLOGIES (CAT)

Jeff McCall, Associate Director, Center for Academic Technologies

 The CAT Team

FOUNDATIONS

The CSUMB vision & educational model

Vivian Waldrup-Patterson, Center for Teaching, Learning & Assessment

Vacant, Director, General Education & Coordinator, First Year Seminar

The Otter Promise, re-accreditation & institutional research

Dale Grubb, Associate Vice President for Academic Planning and Institutional Effectiveness, Academic Affairs

CSUMB Holistic Wellness & Learning Paradigm

CAREER & CIVIC ENGAGEMENT

Service learning and civic engagement

Vacant, Director, Service Learning Institute (SLI)

Undergraduate research

John ("Buck") Banks, Director, Undergraduate Research Opportunities Center (UROC)

Advising, career, and student success

Rhonda Mercadal-Evans, Associate Director, Center for Advising, Career, and Student Success

CSUMB Holistic Wellness & Integrative Learning Pardigm

LEARNING

Reading Apprenticeship workshop

Vacant, Director, Communications Across the Disciplines (CAD)

Rebecca Kersnar, Teaching & Learning Specialist, Center for Teaching, Learning & Assessment (TLA)

CSUMB Library

Ryne Leuzinger, Sr. Assistant Librarian, CSUMB Library

Cooperative Learning Center

Elise Dixon, Director, Cooperative Learning Center

CSUMB Holistic Wellness & Integrative Learning Paradigm

COMMUNITY, BELONGING & EQUITY

Creating and fostering community workshop

Nizhoni Chow-Garcia, Associate Vice President for Inclusive Excellence and Chief Diversity Officer, Office for Inclusive Excellence

Vivian Waldrup-Patterson, Assessment & Inclusion Analyst, Center for Teaching, Learning, & Assessment

CSUMB Holistic Wellness & Integrative Learning Paradigm

WELLNESS

Supporting wellness workshop

Jessica Lopez, Counselor Faculty, Personal Growth & Counseling Center (PGCC)

Lindsay Wetzel Polin, Health Educator, Campus Health Center

Care Team & Basic Needs

Joanna Snawder-Manzo, Care Team Manager

CALIFORNIA FACULTY ASSOCIATION

Presenters: CFA representatives

  • CFA@CSUMB

TITLE IX, BEHAVIORAL INTERVENTION TEAM & ACADEMIC PERSONNEL

Raquel Bonilla, Director, Title IX, Discrimination, Harassment, and Retaliation (DHR) Prevention

Title IX

Behavioral Intervention Team (BIT)

Human Resources