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The Small-group Instructional Diagnosis' goal is to provide faculty with important feedback that helps them adjust their teaching and improve student learning outcomes. It also allows faculty to reflect on and document critical teaching behaviors. This process, vetted in research, supports the continuous quality improvement of teaching and learning and shows our continued commitment to creating innovative learning environments, high-impact pedagogies and meaningful student-faculty...

Your feedback matters! We value your feedback and invite you to complete your Fall Term 2025 course evaluations. The survey period opens Nov. 20 and closes Dec. 8. Every survey is confidential, and your thoughtful responses regarding the instructional aspects of the course provide faculty with insights about course effectiveness and give insight into future improvements for the course and programs.Your instructor may set aside time in class to complete the surveys. Any device with...

Now is a great time to consider ways to build on your strengths as an instructor! The goal of Peer Feedback on Teaching is to provide support to help you improve the quality of learning in your classroom. Deliberate, continuous improvement of one's teaching is one of the great joys of being a professor. Our trained observers enjoy working with you as you develop and continuously improve your teaching skills. This process takes a cross-disciplinary approach, pairing you with one (1)...

Now is a great time to consider ways to build on your strengths as an instructor! The goal of Peer Feedback on Teaching is to provide support to help you improve the quality of learning in your classroom. Deliberate, continuous improvement of one's teaching is one of the great joys of being a professor. Our trained observers enjoy working with you as you develop and continuously improve your teaching skills. This process takes a cross-disciplinary approach, pairing you with one (1)...

The Objective Selection Form opens on Oct. 16 for the fall 2025 semester through Dec. 7. The OSF allows faculty to identify targeted learning objectives to measure teaching effectiveness and faculty response to the OSF drives summative results on the Student Rating of Instruction Survey. The primary indicator of teaching effectiveness is how well students rate their progress on learning objectives that faculty mark as important or essential on the OSF. Since every course is different,...

A summary of the recent University Senate Governance Retreat is attached.

As we start the semester, we want to remind employees that you can easily go in and update your own information to display on the online campus directory. Simply log in to MyGCSU, hover over your name in the upper right corner and choose personal settings. From there, you can update your information. You may view complete instructions here.Departments can also designate an employee as a directory editor for their department. Directory editors can update their department’s information,...

Thank you for encouraging students to complete the Student Rating of Instruction Survey. We want to provide you with a few suggestions to consider to increase response rates with your students: Research and best practice consistently show that the most significant factor in increasing participation in online student rating surveys is for faculty to express and demonstrate how the results are essential and used in making meaningful course change(s).The next most influential factor is...

The call for research grant proposals for 2026 Round I opens Sept. 1, 2025, with a deadline of Sept. 15, 2025, at 5 p.m (EST). Once the applicant has their materials ready to submit, please log into GeorgiaVIEW, click on the Self-Registration menu option to find the CbEL Grants Program course.  Be sure to complete the self-registration for the course. Submission instructions and forms to upload your materials are in the course announcements. For more information, please see the Program...

The call for research grant proposals for 2026-2027 Round I opens Sept. 1, 2025, with a deadline of Sept. 15, 2025, at 5 p.m. Applicants should read the guidance provided by Academic Affairs. Once the applicant has their materials ready to submit, please log into GeorgiaVIEW/D2L, click on the Self-Registration menu option and find the Academic Affairs Small Grant Application course.  Be sure to complete self-registration for the course. Submission instructions and forms to upload your...