Kickoff Week 2022

Welcome Back Breakfast with President Pink and Provost Fleischman

8:30 - 10 a.m.
David L. Eisler Center, Ballroom 202

Join President Pink and Provost Fleischman  for a welcome back breakfast in Eisler Center Ballroom 202. 

Ferris Faculty Association (FFA) Luncheon

11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m.
David L. Eisler Center, Ballroom 202

Join colleagues from across campus for a hosted luncheon. All University Employees Welcome

Academic Senate Retreat

9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Antler's Fireside Grill
10107 Buchanan Rd.,
Standwood, MI 49346

College Meetings

8 a.m. - 1 p.m.

 

Introduction to Navigate

1 - 2 p.m.
Virtual - Zoom Link
Meeting ID: 931 3768 5772

Navigate is Ferris’s new Student Success Management System (SSMS), the first enterprise-level technology for student success in higher education. Navigate, provided through partnership with EAB, brings together students, administrators, advisors, faculty, and other staff in a collaborative network to holistically support students across the college journey.

Through participation in this session, you will:

• Know what information available in Navigate
• Identify common use cases of Navigate for faculty
• Understand how Navigate can be used to support the advancement of educational equity

Facilitated by EAB's Kathryn Pham & Paige Hammond

More Than Just “Free Textbooks”: The Benefits & Challenges of Open Educational Resources

2 - 3 p.m.
Virtual - Zoom Link
Meeting ID: 981 2774 6711

Open education resources (OER) often equates to free textbooks, but OER is so much more given the increasing availability of materials like videos, models, presentation slides, and test banks. Use of OER materials allows for ease of use and updating, contributes to engaging pedagogy, and helps incorporate unique perspectives. OER may seem time consuming, but can be scaled from something quite small to large projects.

Join colleagues for this session and…

• Learn the benefits of OER for educators and students
• Identify ways OER may contribute to student success
• Relate the use of OER to themes of universal access and multiple perspectives
• Identify opportunities to scale OER use
• Know how FLITE and FCTL support faculty use of OER

Facilitated by Stacy Anderson

Moving Forward: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging

9:30 - 10:30 a.m.
Virtual - Zoom Link
Meeting ID: 982 7762 0578

As we sunset Ferris State University's current diversity plan, we reflect on our progress and the DEI opportunities and challenges in front of us.

Facilitated by David Pilgrim

Stay Responsive with MyDegree

11 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Virtual - Zoom Link
Meeting ID: 980 6355 5626

Learn how MyDegree allows you to stay responsive to student success through the new Responsive Dashboard. Recent upgrades to MyDegree replaced the Classic Dashboard with the Responsive Dashboard. Although the Responsive Dashboard has a completely different look and feel, all of the functionality remains, including worksheets, the what-if feature, and the ability to create academic plans while also allowing the ability to access MyDegree via mobile device.

Facilitated by Bob Griffith

Leveraging Academic Performance Solutions (APS) for Academic Planning

2 - 3 p.m.
Virtual - Zoom Link
Meeting ID: 913 8840 5098

APS is a data platform designed to give program coordinator, chairs and deans insight into how their departments use academic resources. Learn how to leverage APS to gain insight about key areas like course capacity utilization, course DFW rates, enrollment/demand trends and faculty workload.

Through participation in this session, you will:

• Know the types of data that can be accessed through APS
• Identify common decisions that can be informed by that data
• Understand how APS data can help support resource requests for an academic unit

Facilitated by Wesley Pendarvis

Fresh Starts: Using Knowledge About Students to Spark Engagement

10 - 11 a.m.
Virtual - Zoom Link
Meeting ID: 982 3197 0465

This session will help you jump-start the semester by enabling you to better identify reasons why students may not engage in learning and use strategies for igniting their interest. 

In this session, we’ll explore three questions

• What are some root causes underlying students’ engagement – or lack thereof – in classes?
• What do I need to better understand about Generation Z students in order to engage them in learning?
• What are some quick tips for sparking student engagement this semester?

Facilitated by Todd Stanislav and Julie Rowan

An Introduction to OneDrive Cloud Storage

11 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Virtual - Zoom Link
Meeting ID: 980 6517 7610

OneDrive is a cloud-based file storage system that provides space for you to store and share your personal files from devices with an Internet connection - laptops, PCs, tablets, and smart phones. All Ferris employees and students have access to OneDrive through their Microsoft 365 account. OneDrive provides the capability to share files with others and set custom security settings so only the intended audience can view or edit what is shared. 

During this session, you will learn how to: 

• Access your personal OneDrive storage space
• Upload files to OneDrive
• Edit Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files online
• Share files with others

Facilitated by Jody Gardei

Presenting Traumatic or Difficult Material in the Classroom

1 - 2:30 p.m.
Virtual - Zoom Link
Meeting ID: : 965 4298 0220

Do you share difficult or traumatic literature in the classroom? Would you like to learn how to do this in a responsible and supportive way? Students can experience distressing after-effects from the presentation of traumatic literature. This session provides a model for how to present traumatic or difficult material to your students.

As a result of engagement in this session, participants will:

• Learn a model that guides the use of traumatic material in the classroom.
• Learn the symptoms of secondary trauma and how that might affect their students.
• Be able to apply this to material from your own courses.

Facilitated by Kathryn Malone and Anne Donato