{"id":93605,"date":"2023-08-17T09:02:42","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T14:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/?p=93605"},"modified":"2023-08-17T09:02:42","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T14:02:42","slug":"dsu-faculty-meets-for-development-day-ahead-of-new-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2023\/08\/dsu-faculty-meets-for-development-day-ahead-of-new-term\/","title":{"rendered":"DSU Faculty Meets for Development Day Ahead of New Term"},"content":{"rendered":"[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_spacing=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]CLEVELAND, Miss. \u2014<\/strong> The faculty of Delta State University met Thursday, August 10 for a morning of development activities and discussion as they prepare to welcome students back to classes next week. Dr. Jon Westfall, Associate Professor of Psychology, moderated the event. The organizing committee consisted of Westfall, Assistant Professor of Psychology Dr. Andrea Kunze, and Assistant Professor of English Dr. Valarie Morgan. They were assisted by Assistant Professor of Health, Physical Education and Recreation Dr. Todd Davis and Associate Professor of Biology Dr. Severine Groh, as well as Hayley Murrell and Cheryl Ballard from the Provost\u2019s office.<\/p>\n

Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Dr. Andy Novobilski said, \u201cDuring the semester, we don\u2019t have a lot of time to come together as a faculty. This kind of event strengthens us as a community and as an academy of scholars with a common goal of lifting up our students and our university.\u201d<\/p>\n

Westfall said, \u201cReally, the idea is \u2018what do the faculty need?\u2019 Every faculty member was invited to do a survey at the beginning of the year identifying what they thought would be useful in this endeavor then we put together a program that addresses those things.\u201d<\/p>\n

Westfall explained that Faculty Development Day is an opportunity for the faculty to identify different areas where they would like to have professional development \u2013 things they want to do better, things they want to be able to do in their classes or in their scholarship or with their students. The organizers then put together a series of interactive and engaging programming to address those issues.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt isn\u2019t just someone telling them what to do,\u201d Westfall said, \u201cbut more what can we all do and how can we all improve our game.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sessions addressed topics such as setting ambitious goals for the year and how to network all of their various aims into major goals. \u201cFaculty members have to engage in service, scholarship and teaching, so how can we do all those things under the umbrella of what\u2019s best for the students and what\u2019s best for the institution,\u201d said Westfall. Other sessions were devoted to emerging technologies and how to assess technologies impact on students.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are looking at things like AI and machine learning and how that helps our students, versus how it hurts them in the long run, and we\u2019ll talk about unorthodox things people are doing \u2013 one of my colleagues had students write a textbook last semester, and the idea is that you wouldn\u2019t think of that being a regular classroom activity but it gives back to the community and now there is an open-sourced textbook on that subject that her next semester class will be editing.\u201d[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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