FRCAE This Week (11/3-11/7)
This week, FRCAE has some great Professional Development opportunities on the schedule:
Monday, 11/3, 2:00pm–Microsoft Mondays
Join Fabio Escobar in the FRCAE Conference Room (D104) or in Teams to learn about Microsoft Teams.
Monday, 11/3, 2:00pm–SUNY New Faculty Open-Mic Check In
SUNY offers new faculty the opportunity to chat with each other and share experiences. This is not recorded, so you are able to speak freely. To Register.
Wednesday, 11/5, 10:00am–SUNY CPD Presents: Accessible Course Content Checklist
Are you an instructional designer, faculty member, or anyone involved in creating accessible course content? Join us for a webinar on how to use an optional accessibility checklist to help ensure your digital materials are accessible to all learners.
In this session, we will:
Introduce and review the optional Accessible Course Content Checklist
Demonstrate how it can be applied to a course or adapted to meet specific campus needs
Highlight important points and tips for creating accessible digital content
For Information and to Register.
Wednesday, 11/5, 12:00pm–SUNY CPD Presents: Access for All–Improving Accessibility in Audio & Video
SUNY Online is offering an Access for All Series this fall. Audio and video are powerful teaching resources, yet without accurate captions, transcripts, or thoughtful embedding, they may exclude some students. Media that is inclusive allows learners to review, revisit, and engage with material in multiple ways. Centered on accessible and inclusive practices, this session will show how to design course media so that it promotes broader access, supports varied learning preferences, and strengthens student engagement. To Register.
Wednesday, 11/5, 4:00pm–SUNY CPD Presents: Navigating Generative AI’s Ethical Challenges in Higher Education
Join AI Cross-Campus Communities of Practice, an initiative funded by SUNY IITG, for Navigating Generative AI’s Ethical Challenges in Higher Education, a talk by our keynote speaker, Marc Watkins. AI developments pose new ethical challenges with each new tool released. We now have agentic AI, multimodal tools, deep research systems, and reasoning models that perform a range of complex tasks. It can be challenging to keep track of generative AI’s capabilities from one week to the next. This session will help faculty navigate the ethical landscape with both curiosity and guarded skepticism and offer practical tips for helping students understand how AI impacts learning.
Marc Watkins is Assistant Director of Academic Innovation, Director of the Mississippi AI Institute, and Lecturer of Writing and Rhetoric at the University of Mississippi. He trains faculty in AI literacy.
For information & to Register.
Thursday, 11/6, 12:00pm–SUNY CPD Presents–Accessible Course Content Checklist (Session 2-This is a repeat of Wednesday’s session.)
Are you an instructional designer, faculty member, or anyone involved in creating accessible course content? Join us for a webinar on how to use an optional accessibility checklist to help ensure your digital materials are accessible to all learners.
In this session, we will:
Introduce and review the optional Accessible Course Content Checklist
Demonstrate how it can be applied to a course or adapted to meet specific campus needs
Highlight important points and tips for creating accessible digital content
For Information and to Register.
Thursday, 11/6, 12:30pm–Advising Workshop
Join us in the FRCAE Conference Room (D104) or in Teams as Emma Hawke & Nick Budniewski will be talking about SOTs and Academic Notice.
Thursday, 11/6, 2:00pm–Enrollment with Impact: Building Belonging and Lasting Student Success
FRCAE will host a webinar in the small FRCAE Conference Room (D106B) from The Chronicle of Higher Education about “setting students up for success from the very start.” Leaders from Wake Technical Community College, Penn State World Campus, and Jobs for the Future will be exploring best practices to ensure student success from enrollment to graduation.
Thursday, 11/6, 3:00pm–New Faculty Orientation Workshop
New Faculty should join us in the FRCAE Conference Room or in Teams for our final session. This session will cover all of the end-of-semester information that you need to know.
Have a great week!