Pre-Semester Workshops
January 7-9: Ed Tech, Writing Center, Educational Assessment Workshops
Various campus offices are providing workshops on AI, Learning Goals, and more!
January 9: Career Everywhere Workshop: (Re)connecting with Purpose
The workshop will feature Dr. Meghan Sullivan, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame and founding director of Notre Dame’s Institute for Ethics and the Common Good. Professor Sullivan’s work explores the ways philosophy contributes to the good life and is co-author of The Good Life Method, based on her popular introductory philosophy course. We hope to give you time to reflect on your purpose and vocation in higher education and provide resources to integrate this reflection into work with students as they explore what comes next after Wooster. Please register to reserve your spot.
January 13: Heal to Learn + Learn to Heal: Strategies to Support Faculty & Staff Resilience
Facilitated by Dr. Jennifer King, MSW, DSW, Co-Director of Case Western Reserve University’s Center on Trauma and Adversity
The higher education workforce is experiencing elevated levels of exhaustion from cumulative, repeated, pervasive, and long-term stress, which can increase the risk for indirect trauma, secondary traumatic stress, and burnout. This workshop is an opportunity to learn foundational knowledge about the neurobiology of trauma and healing, explore trauma-organized vs. trauma-informed organizations/systems, and strategies for sustainable, intentional, self-care. Register by January 6 at 5pm.
Professional Development Lunches
Thursdays, 12-12:45pm in the Tartan Room (Lunch Tickets @ 11:45am)
All Faculty & Staff are invited!
Resources for each event will be available in the Academic Professional Development (APD) Microsoft Team. You can also use the APD Team Calendar tab to see future event topics and add individual events to your calendar (or the full series).
January 16: Time Management & Making Time for Scholarship
January 23: No Professional Development Lunch
January 30: Building Welcoming & Inclusive Spaces
February 6: Video in the Classroom
Celebration of Scholarship Series – Faculty Research Gatherings
Select Fridays, 4-6pm, Kauke 305
Spring 2025 Schedule
February 7: Beth Muellner (German Studies)
On the Possibility of Sympathetic Collaboration at Court: Carmen Sylva and Mite Kremnitz
March 7: Erum Haider (Political Science & Environmental Studies) Rewiring Citizenship: Public Goods and Privatization in South Asia
April 4: TBD
May 2: Senior Research Symposium (all day)
* All faculty, and staff in APEX, CDI, Academic Affairs, Student Affairs, Educational Technology, and the Wellness Center receive announcements about professional development events in the DFD Digest newsletter. If you are a staff member outside of these offices & would like to receive more information, we’re happy to add you! Please let the DFD know, and we’ll add you to our Professional Development list.