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Part-time Faculty Newsletter | December 2024

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        A focused newsletter for UNO 

Part-time Faculty

This Center for Faculty Excellence (CFE) newsletter includes:

  • Upcoming Opportunities – a curated list of professional development for part-time faculty
  • Teaching Tips – resources to help you in the classroom
  • Student Services Spotlight – information to help you support students
  • UNO: Did You Know – an interesting tidbit about UNO
2022-c-schaffer

Dr. Connie Schaffer

Director, UNO Center for Faculty Excellence
Professor, Teacher Education Department
Upcoming opportunities
A woman in a pink jacket kneels on the floor next to a white long haired dog with black and tan spots. There are white cabinets behind them.

Doggone Fantastic Faculty

December 11, 12:00 to 2:00, Criss Library, 2nd floor

Destress with cute pups. Take photos. Enjoy snacks. Prizes for unit representation and best faculty photo. Sponsored by Faculty Senate, Center for Faculty Excellence, and UNO Libraries.

 

UNO’s Office Digital Learning has an array of upcoming training sessions and on-demand resources. Review the opportunities and offerings via Future-Focused EDU.
Teaching Tips

Student feedback is important. As you wrap up the semester, consider the following ways to get input on your teaching and course content.

  1. Ask students to identify the most/least favorite assignment and have them explain their choice.
  2. Have students reflect on the content they are most likely to apply or remember in the next year, five years, and ten years and then share this with you as the final assignment/task for the course.
  3. Encourage students to participate in end-of-course evaluations. Remind them. Give them class time to complete the evaluation. Tell them how you used feedback in the past. Set a response rate goal. Gamify this by monitoring response rates and offering a few extra credit points or other small reward when the response rates exceed your benchmark.
      Student Services Spotlight
      wellness-center

      Students can get support through UNO’s Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS). Located in H&K (with appointments available on South Campus), CAPS offers free and confidential services including individual, relationship, and drug/alcohol counseling as well as crisis services with in-person and telehealth options. Students should call 402-554-2409 (including after hours) if they are in crisis or if they wish to schedule an appointment.
        UNO- Did You Know

        You can nominate a colleague for the UNO Trailblazer award. Learn more on the Trailblazer website. And, save the date for the Inaugural Maverick Trailblazer Lecture – April 15, 4:00-7:00.

        University of Nebraska at Omaha, Center for Faculty Excellence, 6401 University Dr, Criss Library 320, Omaha, NE 68132, unocfe@unomaha.edu

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