Faculty Led Initiatives: Just AskLeague for Innovations Conference Wednesday March 5, 2014 9:15 – 10:15

• Founded 1967• Serving students in Orange, Osceola, and Seminole

counties• 5 campuses• 71,000 students• 22% of all UCF grads started at Valencia• Inaugural winner of the Aspen Prize for Community College

Excellence

Valencia College

• 22,543 - students– 13,429 college level– 9,114 developmental level

• 35 full-time faculty• 59 adjunct faculty• 911 courses offered

East Campus Mathematics Department

• Are you in a position where there is never enough time?• Do you have innovations you would like to implement?• Do you know if the folks in your division want the innovation

also?• If so, ask them to get involved.

Take just a minute and think of something you would like to implement in your division.

Introduction

• Created a structured hiring process– Interested persons were instructed to submit an

application and scheduled for an interview– Interviews were conducted on the first Wednesday of

every month before a committee of faculty and dean• Over ½ of full-time faculty volunteered to participate• Led to faculty support of adjunct faculty• No good deed goes unpunished…

Adjunct Hiring

• Supplied several articles I had collected• Asked for volunteers for a committee• Committee created; process, forms, and marketing• Dean’s only involvement is setting up the mentor/mentee

pairs• 95 faculty have participated in the program since 2009

– 33 mentors completed the program– 52 mentees completed the program– 4 mentees became mentors

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Mentoring Program

• Faculty asked about expectations• Led faculty in a rubric creation exercise

– Introduction to Rubrics by Stevens and Levi• Old Form• New From• Faculty overwhelmingly prefer the new form

Classroom Observation Rubric

• 25 pens and cameras purchased for participating faculty• 22 faculty contributors to date• 577 videos• Usage report

MathHelp 24/7

Started in 2007Room for 12 studentsGrew to 2 rooms that summerFound space – Last year fall-summer 21,659 student visits

Math SPA – Specialized Preparatory Area

• To share best practices across campuses• Faculty presenters• Held twice: 2012 and 2014• Approximately 125 participants both times• After the conference course

Intersections & Unions Conference

• Remember the initiative you thought of at the beginning of this session

• Discuss with the person sitting next to you how you might be able to get faculty to help with this initiative– Where can you find fertile ground?

• Is there a faculty member who has mentioned an initiative you could help support?– How can you help get this off the ground

• If it is worth doing the faculty will join in if invited. If they don’t join in, maybe it’s not worth doing – or at least not in your department.

What’s Next?

Questions?

Mentoring InvitationOutline of ProgramMentee FormsMentor Forms