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Reimagining Syllabus Day 

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Reimagining the traditional “syllabus day” to an engaged “preview day” provides an opportunity to set a desired tone for the semester. In the final 20 minutes of class, I tend to shift focus to the syllabus. Since I reimagined “syllabus day” to “preview day,” I have seen some positive outcomes.

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Reimagining Syllabus Day 

Faculty Focus

Reimagining the traditional “syllabus day” to an engaged “preview day” provides an opportunity to set a desired tone for the semester. In the final 20 minutes of class, I tend to shift focus to the syllabus. Since I reimagined “syllabus day” to “preview day,” I have seen some positive outcomes.

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Ace Your Semester: Harnessing AI for a Head Start

Faculty Focus

Whether it’s whipping up dazzling PowerPoint slides, rewording a syllabus, or designing a new and exciting lesson, AI has you covered. It is all about the prompt – this can support English Language Learners or students who may learn differently. As you gear up for the new semester, why not let AI do some of the heavy lifting?

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Co-Creating the Classroom: Collaborative Ground Rules for Engaged Learning

Faculty Focus

The instructor typically arrives, distributes a syllabus outlining course policies and expectations, explains assignments and grading criteria, and may include a brief activity or icebreaker. It reframes the syllabus not as a fixed legal document, but as a living agreement shaped by both instructor expertise and student input.

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Ace Your Semester: Harnessing AI for a Head Start

Faculty Focus

Whether it’s whipping up dazzling PowerPoint slides, rewording a syllabus, or designing a new and exciting lesson, AI has you covered. It is all about the prompt – this can support English Language Learners or students who may learn differently. As you gear up for the new semester, why not let AI do some of the heavy lifting?

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Co-Creating the Classroom: Collaborative Ground Rules for Engaged Learning

Faculty Focus

The instructor typically arrives, distributes a syllabus outlining course policies and expectations, explains assignments and grading criteria, and may include a brief activity or icebreaker. It reframes the syllabus not as a fixed legal document, but as a living agreement shaped by both instructor expertise and student input.

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Designing College Curricula for Student Success

Faculty Focus

The second type of curriculum consists of the set of plans made for guiding learning, which includes the learning experiences and interactions that students have with the content, materials, resources and the process for evaluating mastery of the objectives (Glatthorn, Boschee, Whitehead & Boschee, 2019).