Faculty & Staff
General Information
- Banner system for faculty -- enter course grades, check course enrollments, change employee info, & more
- Faculty Assistance Center for Teaching (FACT) -- Blackboard Vista & teaching technology
- USU Office of Human Resources -- employee information
- USU Vice President for Research -- research & grants support
- USU Registrar's Office -- course information & online forms
- Distance Education Library Services
- Copyright Information
Policies and Procedures
Open Content Resources
Video Training
- HR Flu Shot Presentation
- Violence In the Workplace Wimba Training
- Sexual Harassment Prevention Workshop
- HR Training WIMBA
- Retirement and Savings Workshops
Teaching
- Best Practices Teaching Series
- Academic policies of USU
- Check course schedules
- Official academic calendar
- Student code of conduct
- Online forms from the USU registrar-- add/drop, change grades, hold privacy, etc.
- Course incomplete agreement form
- USU Quality Course Standards
- Department approval of courses
- Summer Credit Workshops
RCDE Teaching Seminar & Special Presentations
- 2009 Schedule
- Provost's Professional Development Site (Link to Matthew Ouellett Presentation)
- Provost's Lecture Series - Experiences at USU Multicultural Student Panel
- Provost's Lecture Series - Instructional Excellence with Dr. Brenda Allen
- 2011 RCDE Faculty Retreat - Carol Rosenthal's Presentation
- Reaching Our Students - powerpoint
- Reading - powerpoint
- Success Survey - powerpoint
- Teaching Diverse Learners - powerpoint
- Pam Perlich's Presentation: RCDE Data - pdf
- Recording of Thursday night's Presentation: Thursday Night - video
Tips on Pedagogy & Excellence in Teaching
- Links to Centers for Teaching advancement from colleges and universities throughout the country
- Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (CASTL) - national higher ed. program for advancement of teaching
- Achieve better student learning outcomes - USU Academic Resource Center
- Assessment and evidence of excellent teaching
- Excellent collection of teaching tips from Honolulu Community College
- Improve student writing in your courses - help from the USU On-line Writing Center
- Handouts for students to learn writing & research skills
- Motivate your students
- Principles of teaching adult students
- Effective questioning techniques
- Different teaching methods
- Use of problem-based learning to promote critical thinking
- Just-in-time-teaching -- spend more time teaching what students don't understand vs. what they do understand
- Engage your students by use of active learning techniques
- Cooperative/collaborative learning workshop -- what is it? why is it useful? how to use it in your class?
USU Emergency Response
Research
Library Resources
- Library Interactive Broadcast Sessions
- USU Library
- Search USU electronic journals
- RCDE Faculty Library Site
- Distance Education Library Services
- Subject Librarians
- LIbGuides
Research & Policy
- USU Center for Methodological & Data Sciences - provides " faculty supervised research design and quantitative analysis services to the university research community..."
- USU Vice President for Research
- USU Office of Sponsored Programs
- Research Policies
- Conflict of Interest Policy
Grants
- USU Banner System - used for administration of grant monies
- Innovation Grant Proposal Information
- Publication opportunities
- National Council of English Teachers' Teaching English in the Two-Year College
- National Council of Mathematics Teachers' publications