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<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px">Welcome back to a new semester! Faculty Development is ready to launch for the fall semester and we need your help! There are a few topics that will be delivered university
wide, but spaces are still available to faculty to present. This semester faculty development has been opened to include all faculty, staff, and administrators. </span></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px">For any of our new faculty, staff or administrators, faculty development was created at LU as a way to fulfill the HLC requirements related to Assumed Practices (Teaching and Learning: Quality, Resources,
and Support. Faculty development is a series of professional development presentations that
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<li><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-size:16px">Inform and influence </span><font face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px">pedagogical practices</span></font></li><li><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-size:16px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; text-decoration:none">Improve instructional delivery</span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-size:16px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; text-decoration:none">Innovate course delivery</span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-size:16px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; text-decoration:none">Streamline or assist in focusing assessment efforts</span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-size:16px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; text-decoration:none">Increase grant writing capacity and efforts, and</span></li><li><font face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px">Provide knowledge of Langton University’s functions</span></font></li></ol>
<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px">Faculty development is open to anyone who wishes to submit a proposal during the open call for presentations or anyone who indicates their willingness to present on the end of year survey. All
presentations must align with the topics above, but can cover content of the presenter’s choosing. </span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px">Sessions are presented in three ways: 1) in person (using the Gandy Hall facilities), 2) through Adobe connect (to attend remotely), and 3) using archived links on the CTI webpage or D2L Faculty
Development page. <br>
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<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px">Library Resources and Updates – LU Library</span></font><br>
Professional Learning Communities - Marsha Herrron<br>
Grants and Sponsored Programs - Ardenna Harris<br>
Tenure and Promotion - Committee Representative<br>
<font color="FF0000">Your Topic and Your Name</font><br>
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<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px">If you, or a colleague wish to present your knowledge/expertise about a particular topic to the university, please submit a proposal for this semester. Once your proposal is accepted, further
instructions will follow. <b>Please contact Dr. Marsha Herron @ 466-3267 or mdherron@langston.edu for any questions or submissions.</b></span></font></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:16px"><b>We must increase our efforts to attend, present, and evaluate faculty development presentations. Faculty development plays a role in our continued commitment to meeting HLC requirements.</b></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:16px">Thank you for your time and I look forward to receiving your proposals. </span></div>
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<div>"Remember our fight should never be about race or socioeconomic status, but about opportunities for access to high quality education for all” - Dr. Marsha Herron (If I don’t quote me, who will lol)</div>
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<div><font style="font-family:Tahoma" color="000080">Respectfully,</font><br style="font-family:Tahoma">
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<div style="font-family:Tahoma; margin:0px"><font color="#22346B"><b>Marsha D. Herron, Ph.D. </b> / Chair / Department of Education and Professional Programs<br>
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<div style="font-family:Tahoma; margin:0px"><font color="#22346B">Office: 405-466-3267 / Fax: 405-466-3209 </font></div>
<div style="font-family:Tahoma; margin:0px"><font color="#F26722"><a href="mailto:lsmith@langston.edu" tabindex="0" target="_blank">mdherron@langston.edu</a></font></div>
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<div style="font-family:Tahoma; margin:0px"><font color="#22346B"><b>Langston University</b> 1-877-466-2231 </font></div>
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<div style="font-family:Tahoma; margin:0px"><font color="#F26722"><a href="http://www.langston.edu/" tabindex="0" target="_blank">www.langston.edu</a></font></div>
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