Integrating Your New Faculty to Reinforce a Liberal Education

Authors

  • Abigail Ruby Crew Colorado Mountain College
  • Kathryn Regjo Colorado Mountain College
  • Karla Hardesty Colorado Mountain College
  • Beez Schell Colorado Mountain College

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33423/jhetp.v23i14.6398

Keywords:

higher education, new faculty orientation, professional development, faculty communities

Abstract

Recognizing a need to pivot new faculty onboarding from a two-day “information download” to a more meaningful and pedagogically sound delivery of information, the provost invited the Academic Support Division to reimagine new faculty orientation for 2022. Through collaboration, an asynchronous Learning Management System course shell was quickly created to “flip the classroom” to deliver best-practice content to new faculty in a space where they were able to interact with their LMS teaching technology (Canvas) as a student and establish relationships with their new faculty cohort while discussing teaching philosophies, DEI pedagogical practices, and authentic assessment. This prioritized faculty connection and a sense of belonging for the in-person orientation and ensured the notion of liberal education was woven into all our various programs as a dual mission, Hispanic Serving Institution. This new structure afforded new faculty across all disciplines and modalities to receive consistent onboarding to foster student success.

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Published

2023-09-18

How to Cite

Crew, A. R., Regjo, K., Hardesty, K., & Schell, B. (2023). Integrating Your New Faculty to Reinforce a Liberal Education. Journal of Higher Education Theory and Practice, 23(14). https://doi.org/10.33423/jhetp.v23i14.6398

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