CPPSET Newsletter

Greetings from King Hall! It has been a wonderful year working with faculty and staff on their projects and ideas. It's a privileged place I sit in as I get to learn about the challenges and potential of so much of the work everyone at Guilford does. Both Mark and I are here to talk about anything that is on your mind and support you in your work.

Please do not hesitate to reach out to me if you have any questions, suggestions, or concerns. All things CPPSET may be found on our Google Site and I can be reached by phone at x2853 or at my individual email (jwl@gmail.com) or via the center's email address (cppset@guilford.edu).

Joe

• Call for Proposals (May 6th, Upcoming Deadline)
  
• Upcoming Events
• Updates
• People, Friends, and Partners
• About CPPSET
  

Internal grants for educational development are available for all teaching faculty. A complete list of the funding sources and their respective application criteria can be found here. The online application can be found here.

Applications are accepted on a continuing basis but are evaluated and funded following four submission deadlines: Sept 30th, November 30th, March 30th, and April 30th. For Spring 2022, we are extending the April 30th deadline to May 6th. We will send out reminders closer to the deadlines but please keep these dates in mind as you plan your work for the year.

We are fortunate to have the continuing financial support from our PPS Endowment and our Mellon Grant for Edge related faculty development. These $1,000 grants are available to support projects in four areas as described in this document.

The PPS Endowment continues to offer educational development grants for faculty and staff for work that advances values-based teaching and learning. Support for individuals, departments, or programs are described on the Center's Grant Applications page.

Note: The range of grants and those eligible to receive them has expanded and the term "Educational Development Grants" is now being used in place of "Faculty Development Grants".

Part of Guilford's Edge is to support students develop ethical leadership skills and knowledge. CPPSET and the Faculty Development and Excellence in Teaching and Learning Technologies Advisory Committees offer funding for individuals to draft white papers to explore
- how the history, method, content, or problems of your particular discipline might enhance Guilford students' understanding, goals, and practices related to ethical leadership, and
- how a more intentional focus on ethical leadership in your discipline might inform and advance the work of the discipline itself.

Any faculty member can write a white paper for their department or for an academic program they are affiliated with (including interdisciplinary majors, as well as minors). The award will be a stipend of $1000 to the individual applicant. If there is a team of authors for a white paper, awardees will be able to share the stipend. The paper should be around 10 pages long, though it can be longer.

We are aiming for white paper final drafts to be done by beginning of classes, Fall 2022, but there is wiggle room if needed.

The combined Faculty Development and Excellence in Teaching and Learning Technologies Advisory Committees and CPPSET staff will evaluate all applications and respond with an explanation of any approved funding. Please note that decisions are based on the specifics of each project, as well as the overall budget situation of the funds we manage. In an effort to spread funding to more individuals, we take into account how much each individual has received in the past couple of years.

Recipients of are required to submit the final white paper to CPPSET (cppset@guilford.edu). It is recommended that recipients also share the white paper with their department.

We have work we need to do together to rebalance workload given our small faculty and staff. If you have any ideas about potential collaborations, cross-trainings, consolidations, or anything along those lines that will help us meet our educational mission more effectively, please get together with a small group of people and write a couple of paragraphs about your goals for a retreat.

If your retreat proposal has a clear educational outcome, the FDET committee can fund food for your retreat (up to $25 per person), and can pay a modest stipend of $150 for a day’s work.

Departments or programs (such as an interdisciplinary major) can apply. This includes staff departmental retreats with clear pedagogical goals and educational outcomes.

The combined Faculty Development and Excellence in Teaching and Learning Technologies Advisory Committees and CPPSET staff will evaluate all applications and respond with an explanation of any approved funding. Please note that decisions are based on the specifics of each project, as well as the overall budget situation of the funds we manage. In an effort to spread funding to more individuals, we take into account how much each individual has received in the past couple of years.

How much we are able to fund depends on how many eligible applications we receive. So we may be able to fund a particular type of cost one year, and not the next.

Recipients of Educational Development Grants are required to complete a post-project survey. Providing us with detailed responses helps us to make decisions in the future and also helps us make the case to donors and potential donors for the value of educational development funds for the work of the college.

Those receiving grant funds will receive instructions for documentation requirements related to purchasing and reimbursement.

Please email Joe Wiinikka-Lydon at cppset@guilford.edu if you have any questions.

After the March 30th deadline, the FDET/LTAC committee awarded 6 proposals drawing from Mellon funds, Keiser-Stoneburner Endwoment Funds, and grants from the Kenan Fund for Improvement of Teaching. Grants totaled nearly $4,715 in support. They included:

• 2 awards for departmental retreats
• 2 awards for individual staff and faculty members to attend professional conferences
• 1 award for research
• 1 award to support a small faculty research support group
• Funds for departmental retreats made up over half of the funds awarded this round and were paid for by the college's Mellon funding.
  

The week of May 16th, which falls in between the end of the spring semesters and the beginning of summer session, is host to a number of workshops of interest to teaching staff and faculty:

May 16th: Folio and Reflective Writing Workshop.

• Sponsored by CPPSET and the Provost's Office.

• The workshop will run from 9am to approximately 3:30-4pm on Monday, May 16th, in the Collaboratory.

• The workshop will focus on using reflective writing in your classroom, introducing teaching faculty to Portfolium software, and focusing on ways to help students progress meaningfully through the MYCQ.

• A stipend of $200 is available for all who attend in person.

• If you cannot attend in person, you will be able to engage the workshop asynchronously, though you will not be eligible for a stipend. Lunch and snacks are included.

• Email Kathryn Shields with any questions.
  

May 19th: Creating Equity-Based Digital Learning Environments for Student Success

in All Course Formats

• Sponsored by Hege and CPPSET
  
• Day long workshop with Kevin Kelly, EdD, who works with colleges and universities in an advisory capacity to address distance education, educational technology, and organizational challenges. He teaches online courses as a Lecturer in the Department of Equity, Leadership Studies, and Instructional Technologies at San Francisco State University, where he previously served for 13 years as the Online Teaching and Learning Manager.
• The workshop will invite participants to consider teaching and learning using three lenses (access, connection, and belonging) to look at assessment, engagement, and content review.
• His workshop will also include a breakout session for us to plan strategies we want to implement, and to get and give feedback with colleagues.
• Beginning of a three-part series Hege will be hosting over the summer.
• Email Suzanne Bartels with any questions.
  

May 20th: Initiate

• Sponsored by the Provost's Office and CPPSET
• Session to workshop ideas for Initiate.
  
• Will include session on the Common Read program that is part of Initiate this coming year.
• Email Stephanie Hudson with any questions.
  

The PPS Experience Minor guided by Professor Diya Abdo will resume in the fall of 2022. A two-year course of study with volunteer and project-based components, this minor collaborates closely with the ECAR program on campus and beyond. Look for PPS 151 on course schedule in the fall both in 2022 and 2023.

Through Guilford's Edge, the college committed itself to developing students into ethical leaders. Through a new coordinator of ethical leadership, Amanda Szabo-Huff, and the faculty-staff Ethical Leadership Council, and CPPSET, the college is developing concrete resources for ethical leadership on campus.

This past year, CPPSET added ethical leadership to its mission, allowing it to better support related initiatives at Guilford:

• There will soon be a MY CQ where students will be able to engage ethical leadership
• A new student fellowship program will be starting next year. The Council is currently reviewing 15 applications for the program and organizing second-round interviews. Fellows will be selected from this year's pool of accepted, incoming students.
  
• The fellowship program is funded by a generous commitment from the Mosca Family. Already, their leadership is inspiring others to give as well, as another donor has recently committed to fund an additional three Ethical Leadership fellows starting next fall.
• A separate committee is reviewing 23 applicants for a Visiting Assistant Professor who will provide courses in both Ethical Leadership and Philosophy.
  

PPS is offering a new course, Profiles in Ethical Leadership. What should I do and how should I be are not only central questions in ethics but also questions we all ask ourselves daily. But how do I know how to be? And how do I know what to do? To understand these questions, and leadership that’s based in one’s values, it can be helpful to study the lives of persons one admires, and of leaders who have managed to change the lives of those around them for the better. This class examines ethics and ethical leadership by engaging changemakers who have been driven by their values to better their communities and others. This includes local leaders and others that we will invite into the classroom to learn from them first hand.

Educational Development awards are reviewed and decided on by the joint Faculty Development and Excellence in Teaching (FDET) committee and the Learning Technology Advisory Committee (LTAC). Members include:

• Suzanne Bartels (Hege), LTAC co-chair
• Chad Phillips (Theater), LTAC co-chair
  
• Michele Malotky (Biology), FDET co-chair
• Joe Wiinikka-Lydon (CPPSET), FDET co-chair
• Gloria Thornton (IT&S), LTAC
  
• Garrett Collins (Hege), LTAC
  
• Michael Dutch (Business), LTAC
• Cynthia Nearman (English), FDET
• Sarah Thuesen (History), FDET
• Timothy Kircher (History), FDET
  
• Mark Justad (CPPSET), FDET ex officio
  

2021-2022 CPPSET Faculty Fellows

This year's CPPSET Faculty Fellows are Eric Mortensen in Religious Studies, Jill Peterfeso, also in Religious Studies, and Julie Winterich in Sociology and Anthropology. Please keep your eyes out for an announcement of an afternoon Tea and Talk with this year's fellows where they will share their projects with us. The CPPSET Faculty Fellowship program is supported by the PPS Endowment.

CPPSET Student Fellows for 2021-2022

We are delighted to welcome Diyaa Kaufman and Alina Santos to the Center for student fellowships with us. Student Fellows support the on-going work of the Center and use their creative energy to shape new efforts as well. This year's fellows will be supporting the development and launch of the CPPSET PPS/Ethical Leadership Innovation Lab. Alina, a graduate of the PPS Scholars Program and a former PPSSP Student Mentor, is a senior majoring in Sports & Exercise Sciences and Health Sciences. Diyaa, who is also a graduate of the PPS Scholars Program, is a junior majoring in International Studies (Asian Studies) and Economics.

PPS Scholars Program

The 2021-2022 PPS Scholars are finishing their small group projects and preparing for summer PPS internships. A comprehensive list of the internships completed by previous PPS Scholars across the years can be found here.

The PPS Scholars Program is guided by CPPSET Director Mark Justad.

The Guilford College CPPSET houses the Principled Problem Solving and the Excellence in Teaching programs. PPS includes a focus on both problem solving and ethical leadership. A unique academic center with a engaged teaching and learning focus, CPPSET develops and supports innovative programming for students as they seek to apply the practical liberal arts to real world problems. The Center also partners with Guilford faculty and staff in developing and supporting innovative educational development programs. To find out more, visit our website linked below or email us at cppset@guilford.edu.

Email: cppset@guilford.edu
Website: https://sites.google.com/guilford.edu/cppset/home?authuser=0
Location: 5800 West Friendly Avenue, Greensboro, NC, USA
Phone: (336) 316-2853
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cppsatguilfordcollege