Program for the 2023 PDI

Stephen Oglesby

Research

Monday, January 9^th 2023

9:00 AM

50 minutes

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Join us to learn more about the Alpine Computing system. We will help you quickly set up an account and get acquainted with the system in the high-level overview.

Students, Staff, and Faculty

Lauren Nagle

Safety and Health

Monday, January 9^th 2023

9:00 AM

90 minutes

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The Bicycle Friendly Driver program is an interactive class aimed at educating all drivers on the best and safest ways to share the road with people on bicycles. Developed by FC Bikes in collaboration with Bike Fort Collins the class addresses: -Why sharing the road is the safest alternative for both motorists and bicyclists -What's legal and what's not legal, for both motorists and bicyclists -Common crashes and how to avoid them -Why bicyclists "take the lane" and what motorists should do in response -How to navigate bicycle related infrastructure such as: sharrows, bike boxes, and green lanes.

The target audience for this course would be individuals interested in learning more about driving, or pedaling safely in their daily lives.

Carol Dollard,Stacey Baumgarn

Green Initiatives and Issues

Monday, January 9^th 2023

9:00 AM

50 minutes

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Colorado State University has made an ambitious carbon reduction goal - including a commitment to 100% renewable electricity by 2030. CSU has committed to reducing the total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of the university to zero by the year 2040. This session will provide an update on the strategies in place to achieve those goals and the progress made to date. Remember, the university's carbon / environmental footprint is actually made up of our individual contributions so we will also explore specific measures that each of us can embrace to reduce our individual and institutional impact. Please join us!

Any and all employees and students interested in how their work here at the university impacts the environment. The goal is to keep the university community informed on progress toward reducing GHG emissions, and how each of us can help.

Kevin Nolan,Katy Little

Instructional and Informational Technology

Monday, January 9^th 2023

9:00 AM

90 minutes

Morgan Library 173

New quizzes is the next generation of assessment that is available in Canvas. New quizzes will eventually become the only quiz tool available in Canvas. We encourage instructors to become familiar with this assessment tool. In this hands-on workshop, you will learn how to: • Learn the new question types and features in New Quizzes. • Learn how to apply settings on a New Quiz. Shuffle questions/answers, manage what students see when they complete the quiz. • Learn how to create questions in a New Quiz. • Preview how the quiz will look to students. • How to view a student’s submission in SpeedGrader. • How to moderate a quiz and add additional time or attempts for a student’s quiz. • Learn how to migrate an existing classic quiz, which does not rely on question banks, over to a New Quiz.

For instructors, TA's and staff who would like to learn how to use the New Quizzes tool in Canvas.

Alan R. Schenkel, Ph.D.,Traci Kinkel, Ph.D.

Curriculum Development

Monday, January 9^th 2023

9:00 AM

50 minutes

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Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences are highly engaging ways to give practical experience to STEM undergraduates, especially those who may have reasons why they were otherwise unable to obtain the more traditional one-on-one mentored research experience. Many CUREs focus on more basic skills and techniques. We developed a program to help faculty run more advanced types of experiences, aiming at transfer students and Year 3/4+ students who still needed and wanted research experiences. We will describe our program here in Microbiology, talk about DEI and mental health issues, and brainstorm with the session on ways they might develop their own.

1. Give an overview of an advanced CURE program 2. Discuss challenges with DEI and mental health 3. Help other faculty/staff, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and research scientist think about ways to develop their won CURE

Anne Mook,Jake Keyel

Research

Monday, January 9^th 2023

9:00 AM

2 hours

Eddy Room 117

In this session, we will introduce participants to social network analysis (SNA) in Visone. Visone is a social network analysis software, available for free and requires the latest version of Java. Participants can download Visone at https://visone.ethz.ch/html/download.html. In this training session, participants will be asked to draw a network they are familiar with. We learn about various ways to visualize a network including layouts, mapping by color, size, or shape, and making directed and undirected networks. We will also learn several social network statistics and how to generate them for example degree centrality and density. Finally, we will learn how to use social network analysis to detect new information in your network such as modularity, role equivalency, and clustering. After drawing a network of your own, we will test our skills and play with data collected by the Institute for Research in the Social Science (IRISS) to practice all the skills you learned to apply to your own network. PLEASE NOTE: Bring along your laptop or other devise.

Students, faculty, and staff interested in social network analysis

Michelle Wilde,Christine Pawliuk,Rachelle Ramer,Mara Sedlins,Khaleedah Thomas,Kevin Worthington

Research

Monday, January 9^th 2023

9:00 AM

50 minutes

Virtual Session

Learn how CSU Libraries’ resources and services support graduate students in the classroom and as they pursue research, scholarship, data exploration, and creative activities. Libraries faculty and staff offer consultations on a variety of topics and can create custom classroom presentations to support learning objectives. This session will uncover the Libraries’ research support services, including journal selection, copyright, articulating research impact, systematic review consultations, citation management tools, developing data management plans, identifying data repositories, research reproducibility, and the Libraries' data management and analysis workshops covering tools and languages such as OpenRefine, R, and Python. Discover how to save students money by using the Libraries’ ebook collections (Elsevier, Wiley, Springer, Cambridge, Sage, etc.) to provide free electronic access to scholarly monographs, take advantage of the Libraries open access agreements that allow CSU affiliates to publish open access articles at no cost, use tools to integrate CSU’s e-journals into research workflows, and more!

The goal of this session is to educate participants about the resources and services the CSU Libraries offers to support graduate students and researchers throughout the research lifecycle. This session will be of interest to those who support graduate education on campus and graduate students, as well as anyone who wants to learn more about the Libraries' services for researchers.

Hiba Abdeljalil,Rachel Wada

Diversity

Monday, January 9^th 2023

9:00 AM

90 minutes

Eddy Room 100

We have often wondered why so many students from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) are categorized as white in the census. When, this categorization wrongfully describes their lived experience. In this session, we will be learning about the history of MENA in the United States and how the White washing of MENA students has resulted in issues supporting them within Higher Education.

Professionals, Grad Student, Undergraduate

Leslie Davis

Instructional and Informational Technology

Monday, January 9^th 2023

9:00 AM

90 minutes

Morgan Library 174

In this session, we will discuss how to create, improve, and sustain community and engagement in an online course using the application Discord. Discord was originally created for gamers to communicate and cooperate during online gaming campaigns, but has quickly become a tool for other communities who want to be able to organize and interact. I will show how I organized a writing-intensive CO150 course in Fall 2022 to create discussion, facilitate small group work, engage in writing workshops, and allow students the ability to rely on one another for support. In addition to the practical aspects of relying on Discord as a supplement to Canvas, I will discuss the possibilities that Discord affords as a software application, integration of bots to assist organization and supervision, and how to assess participation in a class without using a specific number of word or post requirements. After giving an overview of how Discord can work to organize a class, I will invite participants to a Discord server to get hands-on experience using the application and start setting up their own class.

Goals: Discuss engagement in online courses Review capabilities of Discord for organizing a course and encouraging student participation Establish assessment practices for non-typical course engagement Workshop potential structures for organizing a Discord server Audience: This session is intended for any instructor who teaches online and wants student interaction and peer support to be a significant aspect of their class. This can serve as a planning session for anyone teaching online in spring 2023.

Danielle Patterson,Jason Russell,Helga Hizer,Greg Wells

Instructional and Informational Technology

Monday, January 9^th 2023

9:00 AM

50 minutes

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The use of video content in an online course continues to be a vital part of enhancing the online classroom. Producing video content is an option instructors have as part of the online course development process. CSU Online offers options for instructors to produce professional video content using best practices and professional state-of-the-art video equipment to enhance the learning experience for online students at CSU. Instructors work directly with both Instructional Designers, to determine the type of content that is best suited for video, and with professional videographers who produce high-quality, engaging, video content. The presentation will cover the process used by CSU Online, discuss best practices, and provide examples of the work accomplished by the video production team.

Targeted Audience: CSU Faculty and Administration personnel interested in using video as a content resource for an online course or training. The objectives (goals) for the presentation are as follows. 1. Examine the role of video in an online educational setting. 2. Discuss the use of video production best practices to enhance the delivery of video content. 3. Explore a variety of video examples from current and past online courses.

Kelly Poto

General Campus IT and Technology Tools

Monday, January 9^th 2023

9:00 AM

50 minutes

Virtual Session

Identity theft can be devastating to your personal and financial life. This session will cover the steps that you should take if you have suffered from identity theft. You will walk away from this session with a clear path forward and an understanding of what needs to be done to recover from identity theft.

Specific Topics Covered: • Reporting the incident • Documenting the process • Monitoring recovery

Emily Wilmsen,Russell Dickerson,Rich Young,Heather Hall

Personal/Professional Enrichment

Monday, January 9^th 2023

9:00 AM

50 minutes

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The old adage is that conflict is terrible and leads to battles. But conflict itself isn't a bad thing. Collaborative and respectful conflict can be healthy for a team, and lead to greater goals and more satisfying results. Join the Communications team of the Walter Scott, Jr. College of Engineering as we explain how we work together through healthy conflict to create opportunities for growth in the college. When to say no and accept it or not, how to approach differing ideas, and how to work respectfully together to move forward are all important aspects of a solid team. Whether you are a supervisor or a staff member, explore how healthy conflict can be best for everyone.

General audience, faculty and staff Our goal is to explore how our team has been successful, and to show others how we work. We hope our examples can be used to make work environments more open and accepting overall, particularly of new and often unexplored ideas. We hope both supervisors and staff will feel that open discussion leads to less stress and better communications.

Kirsten Slaughter-Rice

Personal/Professional Enrichment

Monday, January 9^th 2023

9:00 AM

80 minutes

Morgan Library 203

This gentle yoga class will explore yoga postures, breathing techniques, and meditation to help participants let go of stress, tension, and tightness, calm the mind, and settle the body. We will practice basic yoga poses and explore the openness and release that comes from combining breath and movement. Participants will learn techniques they may incorporate into their daily life to decrease stress and cultivate relaxation. Take a moment to move, find your breath, and surrender stress or tension. Recommended that participants have a yoga mat or towel; other props, including a blanket, towel, pillow or blocks are optional.

Goals: To take a break and practice yoga, breathing, and yoga! To practice yoga postures and breathing and meditation techniques to reduce stress and promote relaxation To learn poses and techniques that may be practiced throughout the day to reduce stress and cultivate relaxation Targeted Audience: Everyone is welcome. No previous yoga or meditation experience is required.

Kris King,Hayley Barnes

Campus Accounting Processes

Monday, January 9^th 2023

10:00 AM

2 hours

Eddy Room 116

This PDI session aims to provide important fundamentals of accounting as well as understanding the use of debits and credits, recording financial transactions accurately, and principles of accounting under Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP). This session will also provide an overview of Kuali Financial System (KFS) tailored to the non-accountant user. Discussion will include screen layout, document searches, available balances, responsibility roles in the system, and items to consider when approving documents.

This class is designed for those who access Kuali Financial System (KFS) and refer to basic accounting information infrequently.

Lisa Mason,Deryn Davidson,Jennifer Bousselot,Kyle Ruszkowski

Green Initiatives and Issues

Monday, January 9^th 2023

10:00 AM

2 hours

Virtual Session

What is all the BUZZ about pollinators? We depend on pollinators for about 1/3rd of our diet, and the most nutritious part of our diet including vegetables, fruits and nuts. In Colorado, we have over 900 species of bees, 250 butterflies, approximately 1,000 species of moths, and more! We have an amazing amount of pollinator biodiversity in Colorado. How can we best support them? This class will cover the basics on pollinators, habitat, wasp control, insect stings, and more! The panel of speakers will also talk about the myriad of pollinator plant research and educational projects happening at CSU including sustainable landscaping, native plants for storm water/rain gardens, green roof projects, the Native Bee Watch community science monitoring program, CSU’s Pollinator Friendly Campus Committee, and more!

Goals: Provide participants with knowledge and resources to add pollinator-friendly plants and habitat in their own landscapes. Share CSU research with participants and how that is influencing current recommendations for pollinator conservation and sustainable landscaping practices. Dispel common myths around bees, wasps, and more. Target Audience: Anyone interested in learning more about pollinators, habitat, sustainable landscaping, and current research.

Steven Lovaas

General Campus IT and Technology Tools

Monday, January 9^th 2023

10:00 AM

50 minutes

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The first-ever campus-wide IT strategic plan is underway! The first initiative to get started is Cybersecurity. In this session, you'll learn about the multiple project tracks and goals for security improvements over the next three years. And if you have input into what you'd like to see us focus on within these projects, it's not to late to provide feedback... or even joint the project team!

Any user interested in CSU's approach to cybersecurity. Some IT knowledge will be helpful, but not required. The primary goal is to spread awareness of the Campus IT Strategic Plan, and the developing specifics of the IT Security portion being launched. Attendees will learn who they approach with questions, and how they can get involved if they're interested.

Kevin Worthington,Sarah Hettema

Research

Monday, January 9^th 2023

10:00 AM

2 hours

Virtual Session

Using version control software is a great way to keep track of your code and work collaboratively. This hands-on training will start from the command line demonstrating file system navigation and file creation. We’ll then initialize a local code repository and link it to GitHub. Each participant will be placed into pairs and we’ll walk-through the process of cloning another's repository, making edits, and sharing those files back through GitHub. The workflows practiced in this training can be applied to your existing and future research efforts to more efficiently and effectively work with your data. All participants should create a free GitHub account at https://github.com prior to this session. And if you're using a Windows computer, please install Git beforehand by going to https://gitforwindows.org/. At least two days before the workshop, all participants should attempt to set-up Secure SHell (SSH) on their computer so they can connect to their GitHub account through the command line. Instructions on how to do this can be found here https://librarycarpentry.org/lc-git/aio/index.html under the title 'SSH Background and Setup'. Please follow these instructions until you're requested to enter the command 'ssh -T git@github.com' We'll be opening the virtual space 30 minutes prior to the start of the workshop to go over setting-up SSH for GitHub and help troubleshoot any issues you might encounter. We strongly encourage you to attend this pre-workshop session. If you have any questions, feel free to reach-out to Kevin Worthington (kevin.worthington@colostate.edu) We hope to see you there!

Anyone working with or involved in the research process and looking to start using version control software.

Amy Guy,Brigid Hinterberger

HR & Employee Concerns

Monday, January 9^th 2023

10:00 AM

2 hours

Eddy Room 200

How can you create insightful interview questions that are tied to the knowledge, skills and abilities of a position? This session will provide guidance and practice on how to confidently do this. OEO and State Classified Recruitment have teamed up to create this interactive, insightful, and fun session where the audience will learn best practices in creating interview questions, and gain hands-on experience with creating and determining the effectiveness of the questions they create. Come ready to participate, contribute and have some fun!

Targeted Audience: All who participate in creating interview questions for positions on campus. Goals: - Learn about best practices in creating interview questions - Gain experience with using the position description to identify what questions are best to ask in the interview - Gain perspective of how interview questions come across to candidates - Understand acceptable vs not acceptable interview questions

Jackie Swaro,Brittny Phillips

HR & Employee Concerns

Monday, January 9^th 2023

10:00 AM

50 minutes

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This session will review the mandatory (PERA and DCP) and voluntary retirement plans offered by the University, what to consider as employees are considering retirement in the coming months or years. We will also cover the eligibility for retirement, post-retirement benefits and the retirement counseling process.

Faculty & Administrative Professional employees

Michael Childers,Roze Hentschell,Annie Krieg,Elinor Light,Rosa Mikeal Martey,Amanda Wright

General Teaching Topics

Monday, January 9^th 2023

10:00 AM

90 minutes

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We all know that class attendance is fundamental to our sense of community, effective pedagogy, and student success. But what are the best attendance policies and why? How can you ensure your policies accommodate students with a range of learning approaches and abilities, including mental and physical health? What are CSU’s policies around attendance, anyway? This panel discussion session by CLA faculty and administrators presents empirical research on the relationships between attendance policies and student success in order to foster a discussion about key challenges and considerations, best practices, and practical ideas for crafting attendance policies that promote engagement and belonging in your classes.

The session aims to provide faculty of all ranks, including graduate student instructors, with tools to develop thoughtful, effective approaches to fostering engagement and attendance in their classes.

Jennifer Todd,Tonya Buchan

General Teaching Topics

Monday, January 9^th 2023

10:00 AM

50 minutes

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Regarding the evaluation of teaching, the CSU faculty manual states, “Departments shall foster a culture that values and recognizes excellent teaching, and encourages reflective self-assessment…departmental codes must…(1) define effective teaching and (2) describe the process and criteria for evaluating teaching effectiveness…Evaluation of teaching shall involve multiple sources of information…” Department chairs, evaluation committees, P & T committees, and faculty are invited to join TILT for an introduction to the materials, programs, and professional development created to support growth and evaluation of teaching effectiveness at CSU including: -The Teaching Effectiveness Framework -Recommended goal-setting process for annual review -Recommended evaluation process for annual review -Professional development opportunities

Department Chairs, Teaching Evaluation Committees, P & T Committees, Faculty

Andrea Duffy,Daniela Castillo

Instructional and Informational Technology

Monday, January 9^th 2023

10:00 AM

50 minutes

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This session will introduce LinkedIn Learning, an expansion of LinkedIn that includes hundreds of applicable skills-based courses for all learners as well as features like Canvas course integration and badges of completion. CSU recently purchased a campus-wide license for this service, which we plan to launch at the beginning of Spring Semester 2023. The session will be aimed at LinkedIn Learning's applications and value as a professional development tool and for enriching students' experiences in the classroom. We will provide examples of top in-demand skills courses offered through the platform as well as how it has been applied in the Journalism Department.

Faculty, Admin Pro, Staff, Students

Stephen Oglesby

Research

Monday, January 9^th 2023

11:00 AM

50 minutes

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This continuation of our 101 seminar delves into job scheduling with hands-on activities.

Students, Staff, and Faculty

Frank Gonzales

Safety and Health

Monday, January 9^th 2023

11:00 AM

50 minutes

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An AED is a small, portable device that analyzes the heart’s rhythm and prompts the user to deliver a defibrillation shock if it determines one is needed. Once turned on, the AED guides the user through each step of the defibrillation process by providing voice and/or visual prompts. AEDs are specially designed for easy use by a first responder to aid an unconscious victim. Attend this training to get an overview of how this device works, where they are located on campus and what you can do to help in an emergency.

Debunk AED myths, provide hands on training and help to reduce or eliminate a lay person's hesitation to act in an emergency.

Shelly Ellerby,Erin Niswender

Curriculum Development

Monday, January 9^th 2023

11:00 AM

50 minutes

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Best practice tips on how to utilize information in the Curriculum Management (CIM) system to submit your curriculum proposals accurately and efficiently. Specific topics to be covered: how to utilize the CIM 'Ecosystem' field to identify affected departments and understand the scope of a curriculum proposal, how to find tips and policy information in CIM Help Bubbles, what to do if you are identified as an affected department, how to know when a course proposal necessitates that a program proposal(s) also be submitted, understanding curriculum deadlines and approval workflow, etc.

Goals: To provide a clear and accurate explanation of the Curriculum Management (CIM) system and answer any questions about the curriculum review process. Targeted Audience: Any faculty, advisors, and administrative staff involved or interested in the curriculum submission process at CSU.

Ellen Aster,Marta Rowh

Personal/Professional Enrichment

Monday, January 9^th 2023

11:00 AM

50 minutes

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In this session, we will explore what feedback is and offer some general strategies for providing effective feedback in the workplace. We will actively discuss effective feedback strategies by reviewing and revising examples of feedback and discussing strategies for responses via case scenarios.

Anyone interested in exploring and discussing strategies for communicating effective feedback in the workplace

Christine Pawliuk

General Teaching Topics

Monday, January 9^th 2023

11:00 AM

50 minutes

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This session will outline options available for faculty and graduate students interested in exploring no-cost to students course materials. You will learn about e-book collections, video collections, and other tools available through the CSU Libraries that can be used to enhance student learning. In addition, you will get an introduction to open educational resources (OER), free online teaching materials that are openly-licensed so you can revise and adapt them to fit your course needs.

Targeted audience: faculty and graduate students teaching courses at CSU Goal 1: Audience will understand e-resource options available through CSU Libraries. Goal 2: Audience will understand how to find and understand license restrictions for e-resources. Goal 3: Audience will be able to define OER and use and OER repository to search for OER in their discipline.

Aimée Kleisner Walker, PhD - she, her, hers,Katie Grest, PhD - she, her, hers

General Teaching Topics

Monday, January 9^th 2023

11:00 AM

50 minutes

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The session will be a Guided Participant Idea Exchange, we will provide a brief introduction that not only describes our implementation of inclusive teaching strategies, but also encourages the people attend to join in our discussion as active participants cultivating our understanding of inclusive and culturally sustaining pedagogy. We will present two strategies: Knowledges checks and Growth Mindset grading. These strategies critically enrich students strengths and provide developmentally meaningful learning opportunities that are accessible to ALL students. Participants will receive a digital handout via a QR code with basic definitions and critical thinking questions to explore the strengths and solutions of these methods. Ideally, this will stimulate discussion and encourage continued networking among the presenters and fellow participants after our exchange.

Target audience: Teachers Goals: Using a Guided Participant Idea Exchange to critically examine two teaching strategies that enrich students strengths and provide developmentally meaningful learning opportunities that are accessible to ALL students.

Jocelyn Boice,Randyn Heisserer-Miller

Personal/Professional Enrichment

Monday, January 9^th 2023

1:00 PM

50 minutes

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The way in which materials are chosen for addition to CSU Libraries has changed due to a recent organizational restructuring. Learn about the new selection model and how you can help to shape the Libraries’ collections to meet the information needs of the university community. Librarians from the Collection Strategies Unit will also introduce newly available information resources relevant to classroom instruction, research projects, and recreational pursuits.

Appropriate for staff, faculty, and graduate students in any discipline, attendees will become familiar with the ways to engage in CSU Libraries’ material selection process and will learn about new information resources available through the library.

Sarah Blessinger,Kinda Carpenter,Katherine Castañeda,Meghan King

HR & Employee Concerns

Monday, January 9^th 2023

1:00 PM

50 minutes

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Interpersonal conflict in the workplace may show up in many different forms. Who can I talk to? What informal and formal processes exist? Is this the appropriate process for my concerns? Join us in discussing the potential resources and pathways to assist you in addressing concerns you may experience as you navigate work.

Employees, Supervisors, and HR Practitioners

Lauren Nagle

Safety and Health

Monday, January 9^th 2023

1:00 PM

80 minutes

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Interested in riding year-round, but not sure how to prepare for the colder season? You'll learn tips and tricks to help you ride safely, confidently, and comfortably. We'll cover what to wear, what to ride, safe winter bike handling, route selection, and winter bike maintenance.

Participants in this course are likely cyclists who ride in warmer weather months and would like to expand the their riding into months when weather is colder and potentially wet or snowy. Participants will have ideas for incorporating into their own riding activities so they can continue to pedal year-round.

Jennifer Bousselot,Katie Knobloch,Noah Racey,Debbie Swann,Danielle Willis

General Teaching Topics

Monday, January 9^th 2023

1:00 PM

90 minutes

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Engaged teaching is an elusive concept that disguises itself by other names, until we see the results of our students' engagement with their own colleagues and broader communities. As a land grant institution, engagement with our communities is a central part of CSU’s mission to cultivate knowledge for the benefit of all. This panel features CSU faculty across the campus who are participating along the engagement continuum: informed consulting, community collaborations, and partnerships driven by community need. This panel is organized by the Education Subcommittee of the Provost’s Council for Engagement which is charged with promoting, supporting and rewarding engaged teaching and scholarship at CSU. Members of the subcommittee include Dana Gaines, Erik Johnson, Rachelle Ramer, Bill Shuster, and Alysha Tarantino.

Participants will leave this session with the language needed to discuss their own and others' engaged teaching, with an understanding of the many forms engaged teaching can take, with ideas to start new engaged teaching projects, and with connections to a community of engaged teachers. The target audience is any instructors who recognize the value of connecting their students with the community, of service learning and field experiences, and of real-world projects.

Kevin Nolan,Katy Little

Instructional and Informational Technology

Monday, January 9^th 2023

1:00 PM

2 hours

Morgan Library 173

Organized, easy to access content is one of the keys to successful online course. This workshop is designed for instructors / TA’s who are new to Canvas or who have not used Canvas in a while. In this hands on workshop you will learn: • How to design your course match your content structure. • Learn which file formats to use so students can access your content. • How to take mobile device needs into your course design. • Upload and organize files in your Canvas course • Create Pages and or Modules to present content to your students. • Manage when students can access certain content. • Add an image, formatting and color to a page • Utilize the built in dynamic Syllabus tool.

Instructors, TA's and staff who have not used Canvas before and would like tolearn how to create content and build a Canvas course.

Helen Holmquist-Johnson,Kate Miller

Personal/Professional Enrichment

Monday, January 9^th 2023

1:00 PM

90 minutes

Eddy Room 100

This session will begin with an explanation of the three different types of support animals. There is abounding confusion around the terms service animal, assistance animal, emotional support animal, and therapy animal. This session will describe the differences between these terms, explain how each type of animal adds benefits to people’s lives, and clarify the legal differences between each classification of animal. The second part of the session will be an overview of Human-Animal Bond in Colorado (HABIC), a center in the School of Social Work at CSU. HABIC trains and sponsors therapy animals to volunteer at schools, nursing homes, hospitals, and more. Participants will learn about HABIC and how to get involved – either with or without an animal. We will also share some of the most powerful moments we’ve experienced with HABIC therapy dogs – bring the tissues! If space allows, the third part of the session will be a chance for participants to interact with several HABIC therapy animals.

Goals: Participants will learn how to distinguish the difference between service animals, emotional support animals, and therapy animals. Participants will become aware that HABIC is a resource at CSU. Participants will understand how to become involved in HABIC, whether that’s volunteering with/without a dog or scheduling de-stress events for their colleagues, students, and other CSU organizations. Targeted Audience: Animal-lovers at CSU, people who are interested in potential volunteer or de-stress opportunities, and people who would benefit from clarity about the different types of support animals.

Jackie Swaro,Stacie Knutson

HR & Employee Concerns

Monday, January 9^th 2023

1:00 PM

50 minutes

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This session will review the mandatory (PERA) and voluntary retirement plans offered by the University, what to consider as employees are considering retirement in the coming months or years. We will also cover the eligibility for retirement and the retirement counseling process.

State Classified Employees

David Gust Anderson,Pam Smith,Crystal Strouse

Personal/Professional Enrichment

Monday, January 9^th 2023

1:00 PM

90 minutes

Eddy Room 117

In this session we will go on an adventure focusing on the rarest, weirdest, and most interesting plants of Colorado. We will explore our state through the lens of habitats for rare plants, and what the rare plants tell us about our natural history, cultural history, and landscapes. We will connect those stories with a few of Colorado's famous female natural historians.

Goals: Learn about Colorado's rare plants and their natural history, meet local botanists, and become aware of ways you can be involved. Target Audience: Anyone who is interested in plants, Colorado, natural history, and who enjoys a good yarn.

Maggie Hendrickson,Soleil Gonzalez

Diversity

Monday, January 9^th 2023

1:00 PM

Half Day

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The Pride Resource Center’s Safe Zone Training is a 3.5-hour training program with the objective of reducing homophobia, transphobia and cisheterosexism at CSU and in our surrounding community, thereby making CSU and Northern Colorado a safer environment for all members of our community across sexual and romantic orientations, gender identities and expressions, and intersections of identities. Through our Safe Zone program, we aim to create a network committed to ongoing education and advocacy in order to support LGBTQ communities at CSU and beyond.

The target audience of this session is anyone at the university who wants to develop skills to be an ally and advocate for LGBTQIA+ community members. No prior knowledge is needed - this is intended to be an introductory session. 1. Participants will gain increased knowledge about issues facing LGBTQIA+ students, faculty, staff and community members at CSU. 2. Participants will gain increased knowledge about resources to support LGBTQIA+ students, faculty, staff and community members at CSU. 3. Participants will develop skills to better support LGBTQIA+ community members at CSU. 4. Participants will develop skills to advocate for LGBTQIA+ community members at CSU.

Stacey Baumgarn

Green Initiatives and Issues

Monday, January 9^th 2023

1:00 PM

50 minutes

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CSU has received and achieved a lot of recognition in the category of sustainability. Remember, here at CSU, sustainability is about a holistic approach that recognizes the intersectionality of economics, social justice, and environmental justice. Sustainability 101 at CSU includes three parts. First, the session is designed to answer some FAQ’s: What do we do? How do we do it? Who is involved? Second, offer your suggestions and ask your questions: What should we do? Why do we or don’t we…? And third, we’ll talk about how everyone is a part of this effort and success.

Any and all CSU employees and students interested in how their work here at the university impacts our sustainability outcomes.

Jennifer Todd,Tonya Buchan,Katy Little,Justin Switzer

General Teaching Topics

Monday, January 9^th 2023

1:00 PM

50 minutes

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The TILT-sponsored Teaching Squares offers teaching faculty an opportunity to observe colleagues in action and reflect on their own teaching practices. A teaching square is a group of four instructors who agree to observe each other a few times during a semester, using an agreed upon set of observation norms. Participants are coached in setting a personal teaching goal ​using the Teaching Effectiveness Framework and then observe others to give feedback and reflect on their own practice. The program is designed to be a non-evaluative, supportive and growth-based process. Teaching Squares are available for faculty teaching residential, hybrid, and online courses. Attend this informational session to see if Teaching Squares is a good fit for you!

All instructors and GTAs welcome!

Stephen Oglesby

Research

Monday, January 9^th 2023

2:00 PM

50 minutes

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This continuation of our 101/201 seminar delves into job management and basic job troubleshooting with hands-on activities.

Students, Staff, and Faculty

Meggan Houlihan,Renae Watson

Curriculum Development

Monday, January 9^th 2023

2:00 PM

50 minutes

Virtual Session

This workshop will focus on developing assignments and other course elements to integrate and scaffold information literacy in your classes. Starting from the definition of information literacy and its connection with student success, we will look at several successful models and examples of integrating information literacy into class content. We will have dedicated Q&A time to address course- and discipline-specific concepts.

This workshop is designed for faculty and graduate students who are interested in incorporating information literacy into course content. Participants will leave with a basic understanding of information literacy and how these skills and concepts can be incorporated into syllabi, classroom activities, and homework assignments.

Chelsea Kline,Stephanie Seng

Personal/Professional Enrichment

Monday, January 9^th 2023

2:00 PM

80 minutes

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In recent years, self-care has become a popular topic of conversation and response to combat rising levels of overwhelm and burnout. It became even more relevant and widely discussed during the covid pandemic as stress and burnout levels rose to an all-time high for many people. Toxic stress and burnout are work hazards and need to be addressed to support human sustainability and wellbeing. While self-care is important and needed, it is not (and cannot be) the only answer to this collective societal issue. There is a critical need for community care and organizational/workplace policies and practices that support worker resilience and sustainability long-term. This training will help the audience build an understanding of community care, including what this looks like in their personal and professional lives. Participants will learn to identify the signs of overwhelm and burnout, the difference between self-care and community care, and the factors that support worker resilience and a resilient workplace/community.

Target Audience: Anyone employed by CSU (staff, faculty, admin pro, graduate students) Goals: Reduce worker burnout and increase sustainability by helping audience members identify signs of burnout, understand the difference between self-care and community care, and identify community care practices that can be applied to their personal and professional lives, as well as organizational/workplace policies and practices that support employee resilience.

Aaron Fodge,Jamie Gaskill

Other

Monday, January 9^th 2023

2:00 PM

90 minutes

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Parking and Transportation Services is undergoing a master plan update that will serve as the framework for the evolution of transportation on campus in the next 5-10 years. The updated plan will also influence the Campus Master Plan, a 10-year plan that will be updated in 2024. In this facilitated discussion, participants will provide input into how they would like to see campus transportation evolve. Information collected from participants will be incorporated into the final recommendations of the transportation master plan.

This aims to inform attendees about current efforts to update the transportation and overall master plans at CSU and gather their feedback and ideas about transportation at CSU.

Lacey Allor

Green Initiatives and Issues

Monday, January 9^th 2023

3:00 PM

50 minutes

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Talking about the basics of Electric vehicles: Types of EVs, types of chargers, benefits and considerations of purchasing them, environmental and economic impacts, financial incentives, Colorado's actions to promote EVs, etc.

My goal is to increase public awareness of EVs in order to promote the federal administrations goal of having 50% EV sales by 2030. I would like to target those with an interest in EVs and anyone that is looking to buy a car within the next few years

Kimberly Cox-York,Sue James,Meg Brown-Sica

Other

Monday, January 9^th 2023

3:00 PM

50 minutes

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Along with over 85 other institutions, Colorado State University has recently joined the Higher Education Leadership Initiative for Open Scholarship (HELIOS; heliosopen.org), a community of practice committed to addressing the challenges of advancing open scholarship. Membership requires a commitment of university presidents to support collective action in support of open scholarship. Come and see how you can be part of the process! Timely and open sharing of academic scholarship facilitates collaboration and innovation as well as transparency and equity. The need for open scholarship (OS) is becoming more apparent and therefore expected by the public and public-serving institutions. There are obvious challenges to operationalizing OS that must be addressed for it to be fully embraced and implemented. HELIOS brings academic institutions into conversation with federal agencies, sponsors and professional societies and associations to expand access to cutting edge research and speeding critical innovation. Local efforts, in collaboration with committed individuals in the Office of the Vice President for Research, Libraries, Provost, and Faculty Council, are synthesized with the larger HELIOS cross-sector goals. By joining this community, CSU affirms its commitment to open scholarship and the principles it is based on, including free access to educational resources and research outputs, research integrity and the right for anyone to freely contribute to and participate in the process.

Goals 1. Introduce the Higher Education Leadership Initiative in Open Scholarship (HELIOS) 2. Describe the interface of Open Scholarship and Equity/Justice 3. Explore the Open Scholarship landscape at CSU and identify key areas of engagement Targeted Audience - Researchers and Scholars of all levels

Meara Faw,Jen Dawrs,Emily Fischer

Diversity

Tuesday, January 10^th 2023

9:00 AM

90 minutes

Eddy Room 100

We will play a game that explores the challenges that can arise in academic careers. The game runs for approximately one hour, and after, we will discuss and debrief for the remainder of the time.

The goal of this session is to encourage understanding, reflection, and awareness of challenges that some faculty members face throughout their career among the broader CSU community. The target audience for this session includes any members of the CSU community who are interested in understanding challenges that faculty can face throughout their career. This can include faculty on the tenure track, CCA faculty, graduate students, or staff interested in better understanding faculty issues.

Stacey Baumgarn,Kimberly Cox-York

Green Initiatives and Issues

Tuesday, January 10^th 2023

9:00 AM

50 minutes

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Laboratories are resource intensive spaces. The practice and output of world-class, global-impact research is an expectation at Colorado State University. Concurrently, sustainability is at the core of CSU as an organization. Students and researchers learning and working in CSU labs desire integration of the two; both students and researchers have been asking for and actively seeking pathways to improve sustainability practices in the lab. From teaching labs to BSL-3 labs, every lab has a role to play and an opportunity to embed sustainability best practices into their day-to-day research. CSU Green Labs wants you involved - join us to learn about our current projects and initiatives!

Any and all employees and students interested in how their work in the lab impacts the environment - and how it can be minimized. The goal is to engage the university community informed on the CSU Green Labs programs, and how each of us can get involved and help.

Khaleedah Thomas

Research

Tuesday, January 10^th 2023

9:00 AM

50 minutes

Virtual Session

Are you interested in publishing in open access (OA) journals but don’t know where to begin? Do you struggle with journal selection or understanding the fees associated with OA publishing? This session will provide an overview of how to navigate the nuances of open access publishing by providing practical advice on evaluating open access journals, where to seek funding support to publish OA, and how to determine the appropriate open license to select for your work.

This session will be of interest to researchers, faculty, postdocs, graduate, and undergraduate students who engage in scholarly publishing. At the end of this session attendees will: (1) Discover tools to help you identify and evaluate OA journals; (2) learn how to take advantage of discounts and funding offered through one of CSU Libraries' open access publishing agreements, and (3) understand Creative Commons licenses and selection tools.

Rachel Lahoff,Jeni Cross,Kate Oviatt

Research

Tuesday, January 10^th 2023

9:00 AM

80 minutes

Eddy Room 117

This session will discuss best practices in survey development and question design, recruitment and data collection strategies, and a overview on how to access and program your survey into Qualtrics.

This session is appropriate for a general audience with a focus on those having to generate surveys for assessments or evaluations. This session is also relevant to those generating surveys for research purposes.

Heather Reimer,Joy Childress,Jamie Gaskill

Safety and Health

Tuesday, January 10^th 2023

9:00 AM

2 hours

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Want to learn to maintain your own bicycle? Curious about what is legal or not in terms of biking? Not sure the best route to get to CSU on your bike? Join The Spoke, CSU Police Department and Parking & Transportation Services to learn about this and more. In this introductory class staff from the Spoke will cover basic bicycle maintenance including bike anatomy, lubing your chain, changing a flat, and the elements of an ABC Quick Check. The CSU Police Department staff will discuss bicycle safety, laws & common crashes. Parking and Transportation Services staff will introduce how Parking & Transportation Services can help you plan your commute, reduce your transportation costs, design your route to campus, and will introduce you to additional educational opportunities.

Our goal is for each participant to be able to change a flat tire, and properly lube their chain, while also learning how to safely navigate the CSU campus by bike. In addition they will be able to use the ABC Quick Check guidelines prior to each ride to better ensure a safe ride. Our target audience is any person who rides a bike either intermittently or routinely and wants to be able to sustain themselves when out riding. We are actively seeking out Faculty and Staff who commute by bike to campus or have interest in exploring this transportation model.

Stacey Clark, Learning Assistant Program Coordinator,Jennifer Roche, Learning Assistant Program Coordinator

General Teaching Topics

Tuesday, January 10^th 2023

9:00 AM

50 minutes

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Join us for an overview of the Learning Assistant (LA) model of peer academic support. Learn more about the essential elements of the LA model and how instructors can implement these with fidelity in their courses to increase active learning, student engagement & sense of belonging.

This session will focus on guiding course instructors through the essential elements of the LA model & exploring how to successfully implement these to support student learning & success in specific courses.

Anna Fontana,Claudia Hernandez ,Kelsey Stamm,Anne Van Arsdall ,Patricia Vigil

Outreach

Tuesday, January 10^th 2023

9:00 AM

50 minutes

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Learn how the Office of Admissions and the CSU Summer Programs Committee partner to support youth and pre-college summer offerings. We will explore the process of requesting support, setting up applications, registration forms, and communications using Slate Customer Relations Management tool (CRM). Summer program coordinators will share tips for a smooth recruitment and registration process with time for questions and answers.

This session is geared toward CSU faculty and staff who are interested in and/or currently involved with summer programming. Slate CRM is intended to be a helpful resource for those offering summer programs while also building CSU’s contact base of prospective students and program participants.

Viviane Ephraimson-Abt,Monica Keele,Janelle Patrias

Safety and Health

Tuesday, January 10^th 2023

9:00 AM

90 minutes

Eddy Room 200

We will review the most recent 2021 student mental health and well-being data from the National College Health Assessment (NCHA). The group will explore and discuss what's currently working well to support student well-being and areas where there may be gaps and opportunities. Updates on campus resources will be shared. Join peers in a discussion of what student health and well-being needs look like in and out of the classrooms - supported by data and shared experiences.

Target Audience: Faculty, Advisors, student-facing professionals. Goals: Learn about data trends in college mental health. Identify available resources to support well-being. Learn from colleagues and peers about shared experiences supporting student well-being in and out of the classroom.

Matt Camper,Stephen Coleman,Crystal Cooke,Stephan Kroll,Andrew Norton,Allen Sneesby

General Teaching Topics

Tuesday, January 10^th 2023

9:00 AM

50 minutes

Nutrien Ag Science Bldg - Room 140

This session will meet in room 140 of the Nutrien Agricultural Sciences Building. Room 140 is one of very few fully round classrooms in the United States and the first at Colorado State University. In this session attendees will get an introduction to the Geometry of Learning and to data that links increased student success and engagement to a round classroom design. Next, classroom services will demonstrate some of the technology in the space. Later in the session there will be a facilitated panel-style discussion with representation from classroom services, current/former instructors, and students that have used the room for different purposes since it opened in the spring of 2022.

Target audience: Students, staff, instructors, administrators, anyone with an interest in classroom design and pedagogy innovation A primary goal for this session is to increase awareness of this new classroom design space on campus. We hope that there is a robust discussion generated in the room and then out into various units on campus around opportunities to include the geometry of learning both in current spaces and in spaces “on the drawing board” for new builds on/around campus

Missy Ferland (she/her)

Management/Supervisory Skills

Tuesday, January 10^th 2023

9:00 AM

50 minutes

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As instructors in higher education, part of our job involves leading by example to ensure a classroom climate that is in line with CSU’s principles of community and supports an optimal and inclusive learning environment. The manner in which we communicate with students, both in front of the classroom and behind closed doors or computer screens, has a tremendous impact on the effectiveness of our leadership and on our ability to foster relationships with students. During this workshop, we will learn basic counseling skills and apply them to the context of communicating effectively with our students, especially in emotionally-charged interactions. We will clarify our pedagogical values as leaders in the classroom as use these as foundational principles through which to guide our interactions with students. We will discuss principles like checking in with the self, self-compassion, other-compassion, empathy, the alliance, identifying and reflecting feelings, and unconditional positive regard and how these apply to our relationships and interactions with students. We will discuss boundary setting, including practical strategies for communicating the rules and expectations of your course without rupturing your alliance with your students. And finally, we will work with an “effective communication template”, a document which can be altered to fit any situation with a student that follows a step-by-step procedure for using counseling skills to effectively communicate with students. Imagine the following scenario: you receive an e-mail from a student that you perceive to be hostile, accusatory, and unfair. Rather than instantly clicking “reply”, wielding the shield of power that academic freedom grants us, and quickly responding in a self-righteous or dismissive manner, how can we reframe this interaction so as to communicate responsibly, compassionately, and effectively with our students? It is easy to forget that both instructors and students are human— we experience frustration, fatigue, and can have our feelings hurt in the context of our courses’ demands and procedures. By using the skills and the “effective communication template” from this workshop, you may experience an increase in the rate of optimal outcomes that arise from your complex interactions with students.

Goals for this workshop are to explore pedagogical values, learn how to apply basic counseling skills in interactions with students, and utilize templates for effective communication with students. The target audience includes instructors, aspiring instructors, teaching assistants, and persons in leadership positions.

Stephen Oglesby

Instructional and Informational Technology

Tuesday, January 10^th 2023

10:00 AM

50 minutes

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Did you know our high performance computing allows access to resources for instruction? Jupyternotebooks, Matlab, and much more can be utilized to instruct students in a consistent software environment. Join us as we overview relevant tools and help you try them out!

Staff and Faculty

Carol WIlusz,Mark Zabel

Management/Supervisory Skills

Tuesday, January 10^th 2023

10:00 AM

90 minutes

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In 2016 CSU adopted the Priniciples of Community as a means to express what our community stands for and guide our expectations for one another. Smaller communities including research labs, administrative offices, conferences, and departments can also benefit from clearly defining their own culture and how it supports their shared mission and goals. Participants will be guided through the process of developing a code of conduct and CSU specific resources will be provided. Teams of coworkers are encouraged and welcome to join.

Anyone working in a team Creation of inclusive and welcoming work environments.

Bill Gargan,Derek Molnar

Instructional and Informational Technology

Tuesday, January 10^th 2023

10:00 AM

50 minutes

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We’ll cover the basics of project management, including what defines a project and the phases of a project. We will also discuss project management tools and documents: e.g. Gantt Chart, Project Charter, software used, e.g., SmartSheets, TeamDynamix and the difference between popular methodologies: Agile vs Waterfall. Project management in the Division of IT will also be briefly covered, including the project intake process and a few current high-profile projects. Lastly, we’ll talk about where to go for more information about project management, both in and outside of CSU. We’ll answer your questions throughout the presentation.

Introduce interested CSU employees on the basic principles of Project Management

Tonya Buchan,Jennifer Todd,Katy Little ,Karen Falkenberg

General Teaching Topics

Tuesday, January 10^th 2023

10:00 AM

50 minutes

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The Teaching Effective Initiative (TEI) is a voluntary professional development program that provides recognition to instructors invested in growing their teaching practice. Since the TEI’s inception in Fall 2021, CSU instructors have earned over 15 domain certificates of achievement across all seven domains of the CSU Teaching Effectiveness Framework. In this session, you will hear from faculty who have earned a domain certificate of achievement as they discuss how: -professional development has influenced their use of evidence-based teaching practices, -professional development has impacted student learning, and -materials and outcomes from the TEI can be used as evidence of teaching success. Faculty presenters include: Kimberly Jeckel (Biology), Joshua Keller (Statistics), Annie Krieg (Art), Blythe LaGassee (Music), Shari Lanning (VMBS), Kristy Nowak (Libraries), and Julie Taylor-Massey (HDFS)

Target Audience: Faculty and Instructors

Ana Cloeter

Safety and Health

Tuesday, January 10^th 2023

10:00 AM

50 minutes

Virtual Session

Tell Someone is a CSU service where anyone can report concerns about a student or employee who may be struggling with issues such as mental health, stress management, and safety, as well as share concerns about threats of violence (against themselves or others). This presentation will discuss warning signs someone might be experiencing a difficult situation, when and how to support, and what you can expect in filing a Tell Someone report.

Our target audience includes Students, Staff, Faculty, Community Members. We would love for as many people on campus as possible to know about and use this resource so that everyone can get the support they need on campus.

Kimberlea Smarr, ERYT 500, YACEP, AAC2

Personal/Professional Enrichment

Tuesday, January 10^th 2023

10:00 AM

2 hours

Morgan Library 203

Rewire your nervous system through simple yet profound practices that tap into your superpower as a human being which is self-awareness. Just knowing about selfawareness it’s not the same as creating embodied practices. You need to move this knowledge in and through your body in order for it to truly have an impact in regulating and rewiring your nervous system. When you use your mind and body to hone your human superpower you become powerful mediators in the way that you experience your life.

The goal of this session is to educate and inspire individuals to create simple but profound daily practices that can help regulate their nervous system and manage stress more efficiently so they can find more meaning and joy every day.

Anita Pattison,Steve Benoit,Will Bromley

Advising Issues

Tuesday, January 10^th 2023

10:00 AM

50 minutes

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For many on campus, the math placement process at CSU is an enigma. Questions such as "How is the Math Placement Tool graded?" and "What happens if I perform poorly the placement tool?" are commonly asked. There have been a quite a few changes over the past couple of years. Let us clear the fog and reveal for you the ins-and-outs of the math placement process.

To provide information for advisors and others about the math placement process. We will go over what the students sees when they go through the process to complete the Math Placement Tool. Explain the ELM Tutorial, the Precalculus Tutorial, and the Challenge Exams. Discuss how to understand placement results under "Test Scores".

Stephanie Zakis ,Jamie Gaskill

Other

Tuesday, January 10^th 2023

11:00 AM

50 minutes

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Join staff from Parking and Transportation Services for a discussion about the various transportation options available to support employees that work a hybrid schedule that incorporates telework and office time. Information presented will include flexible options such as partial week and remote permits. Additionally, participants will learn about active transportation options that can complete their commuting plan in a hybrid work environment.

This session will inform individuals interested in teleworking or modifying an existing teleworking setup about potential transportation methods that can be integrated into personal or team hybrid working arrangements.

Shannon Lavey

General Campus IT and Technology Tools

Tuesday, January 10^th 2023

11:00 AM

50 minutes

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In collaboration with the Assistive Technology Resource Center, Student Disability Center, and the University’s IT department, CSU is piloting ReadSpeaker, a campus-wide online text-to-speech tool built directly into Canvas. ReadSpeaker’s TextAid tool and web extension read other websites, PDFs, and other documents aloud. It is mobile browser compatible, so users can listen on the go. ReadSpeaker allows streaming to mp3, extracting highlights, visual adjustments, and much more. This session will provide more information about the ReadSpeaker suite and feature demonstrations of the tools and hands-on opportunities. The presenters will highlight how the tools can support all CSU students, faculty, and staff to help create a more inclusive, accessible experience for all.

Presenters will provide more information and demos of the ReadSpeaker suite, which includes three products: • ReadSpeaker webReader (Canvas content) • TextAid (Documents in Canvas, and other documents) • TextAid Extension (Other browser content, including OER textbooks) The popular features that will be highlighted include: • Online text to speech (TTS) for listening to text • Converting text to mp3 • Highlighting words and sentences as it reads the text • Voice adjustments (speed, voice, language) • Visual adjustments (fonts, sizes, background colors) • Annotation features (collecting highlights for studying) The targeted audience is any CSU student, staff, and faculty who would like to learn about ReadSpeaker and how the tool is helping create a more accessible and inclusive campus. Attendees will have the opportunity to try the features during the session and are encouraged to bring their own device! We will discuss how the features of ReadSpeaker can benefit CSU students, staff, and faculty.

Ron Charkowski,Sarah Robinson,Kirk Wilkinson

Personal/Professional Enrichment

Tuesday, January 10^th 2023

11:00 AM

50 minutes

Virtual Session

The digital world is becoming a more complex and intricate place. Companies rely on you providing personal information to streamline their processes, and in some cases your personal data is the business. In this session we will talk through how many places your data goes in a day, how it is used, and what the biggest pitfalls are to watch out for. Learning about data privacy will help you become more aware of when you are giving data away and help you to protect yourself and the university online.

Our goals for this session are twofold. First we want the audience members to walk away with the vocabulary of data privacy and a basic understanding of how online companies utilize their data. Next we want attendees to know one or two steps they can take to protect their privacy online and/or limit their data that is available online.

Sarah Blessinger,Kinda Carpenter

HR & Employee Concerns

Tuesday, January 10^th 2023

11:00 AM

50 minutes

Eddy Room 200

Addressing concerns, behaviors, and misaligned performance is a skill that can be daunting for many employees and supervisors. CSU supports supervisors in coaching employees to support employee growth and development, as well as ensuring department objectives. This requires continuous communication and feedback between managers and employees. This session aims to share approaches for beginning conversations that may be difficult and sensitive in a variety of relationships: colleague to colleague, manager to employee, employee to manager, etc.

Supervisors and HR Practitioners

Michelle Foster,Andrea Duffy

Curriculum Development

Tuesday, January 10^th 2023

11:00 AM

50 minutes

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This session will be led by the AUCC 1C Guidance Committee, which is developing a systematic process for reviewing course proposals for CSU's new AUCC 1C category, focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion. The committee is also charged with supporting and advising faculty and shepherding proposals through the AUCC 1C course development process. In this session, committee members will summarize AUCC 1C criteria and the course proposal process, and provide resources for faculty interested in teaching in category 1C. This presentation is particularly timely, as the new category AUCC 1C went into effect in FA22, and we are currently working to expand course capacity in this category in order to meet enrollment needs by all students. Yet faculty have been hesitant to develop courses for this category due to inconsistent understanding and a lack of clarity around the criteria and process. This session aims to clarify these key components of AUCC 1C in order to promote effective DEI curriculum for all students.

Faculty, Academic Administrators

Nicole Kelp

Curriculum Development

Tuesday, January 10^th 2023

11:00 AM

50 minutes

Virtual Session

In this session, Dr. Kelp will discuss the difference between summative and formative assessment and present data from her own work and the literature on evidence-based strategies for helping students learn and grow from formative assessments. We will focus on both the curriculum development aspect of formative assessments including in-class active learning activities as well as exams. We will also consider student cognitive interactions with formative assessment, such as anxiety, metacognition, growth mindset, and teamwork/collaboration. Session participants will then work in teams to develop a formative assessment strategy to implement in the coming semester. This session correlates with the TILT TEI domain of Feedback and Assessment. In accordance with the PDI 2023 theme of "Together We Can", this session will focus on peer-learning strategies in which students work together to learn and grow from formative assessment. Additionally, the session will provide opportunities for session participants to co-develop formative assessment activities.

At the conclusion of the session, participants will be able to: -Define summative and formative assessment -List a repertoire of formative assessment strategies -Develop a formative assessment strategy to implement in their own courses -Receive feedback on their formative assessment strategy from other participants Dr. Kelp will present examples from her teaching and the literature in both biomedical sciences (undergraduate and medical students) as well as science communication and writing (undergraduate, MPH, and graduate students), making this session relevant to instructors in diverse disciplines.

Brett Eppich Beal,Angelica Hernandez

Advising Issues

Tuesday, January 10^th 2023

11:00 AM

50 minutes

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Thirty minutes just isn’t enough, usually, to have a meaningful conversation AND help students with their academic plans, right? Well, let us share a method that can help jump-start conversations, deepen your advising sessions with students and STILL provide you time to talk about classes! Biomedical and Mechanical Engineering advisers have developed Pre-Advising assessment that students complete before their advising sessions. For this assessment, students share information about their activities in and out of the classroom, give feedback on current courses, indicate future plans, and can share not only their successes, but concerns and resources they need. By having this information at the start of an appointment, advisers can focus in on main points more quickly, congratulate successes effectively, and connect academic dots, while affirming students’ agency in their journeys. This small process can help build large bridges for students’ sense of belonging, academic efficacy, motivation, and enhance culturally engaged advising through relationship building, cultural familiarity, knowledge, validation and engagement, in addition to the humanized environments and holistic support we strive to provide. We’ll share what we’ve learned and leave time to brainstorm how this concept could work for your office!

Academic Advisers and others who see students in time-limited settings and have flexibility to have students complete a form prior to coming to the appointment.

Emily Wilmsen,Research Associate Dean Ken Reardon,Professor Stu Tobet

Outreach

Tuesday, January 10^th 2023

11:00 AM

50 minutes

Eddy Room 100

It’s more important than ever for CSU to help the public understand the importance of research. At this session, you’ll learn how to work diplomatically and collaboratively within your college or division with faculty, researchers, and others to help persuasively communicate to a broader audience. The Walter Scott, Jr. College of Engineering worked with researchers at Homecoming, for example, to help relate very technical information to families with small children, alumni, and prospective students, and many other audiences. Learn how this was successful and why.

Help others communicate effectively Help bridge gap between faculty and staff Learn about persuasive communication tools Understand how to communicate to multiple audiences at one time

Kris King,Hayley Barnes

Campus Accounting Processes

Tuesday, January 10^th 2023

1:00 PM

2 hours

Eddy Room 117

This PDI session aims to provide information that is important for people who are responsible for performing accounting functions related to the many Special Course Fee (SCF) accounts at CSU. We will discuss: the SCF New/Change/Cancel Request Form and how to complete it, the Types of Fees, the SCF Annual Review and proper completion, student refunds, and SCF Resources. The facilitators will walk through the completion of an SCF Annual Review that has multiple Types of Fees and includes refunds.

GOALS: To increase knowledge of: Special Course Fee accounts, Types of Fees, proper completion of the SCF Request Form and the SCF Annual Review form, and improve the overall accounting for these fees. TARGETED AUDIENCE: This PDI session is designed for those who have any level of responsibility in accounting for Special Course Fee accounts.

Tonya Buchan,Jennifer Todd

General Teaching Topics

Tuesday, January 10^th 2023

1:00 PM

50 minutes

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Curious to learn about alternative grading practices some of your colleagues are using at CSU? Have you been exploring alternative grading that you’d be willing to share with colleagues? Join this community of practice to explore and share different types of assessments and how to make your grading practices more equitable. Topics will include student-generated rubrics, mastery grading, and standards-based grading. The Community of Practice will meet three times over the semester and dates will be discussed during this introductory session. CoP leaders include: Annie Krieg (Art), Aramati Casper (Engineering), Derek Schutt (Geosciences), and Blythe LaGasse (Music)

Targeted Audience: Faculty, Instructors, Graduate Teaching Assistants

Nick Leinen,Justin Shaffer

General Campus IT and Technology Tools

Tuesday, January 10^th 2023

1:00 PM

50 minutes

Morgan Library 173

iClickers are a fantastic and evidence-based way to get students engaged in the learning process during class, from asking multiple choice questions to using more interactive question types such as multiple select, ranking, matching, numeric, and click-on-target. In addition, the educational literature strongly supports using iClickers to facilitate peer instruction which improve student outcomes. This workshop will provide participants with an engaging opportunity to apply modern iClicker questions and peer instruction techniques to their own courses. By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to… • Describe the variety of modern question types available with iClickers • Design questions using these modern question types for their own specific courses • Explain the value of using iClickers for peer instruction • Identify ways to incorporate peer instruction using iClickers into their own specific courses

Instructors

Colleen Webb

Management/Supervisory Skills

Tuesday, January 10^th 2023

1:00 PM

90 minutes

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This session will introduce best-practices tips for mentoring students and postdocs with a focus on equity and inclusion. These best-practices should be considered when mentoring all types of mentees regardless of background or experience of the mentee. However, mentors should be culturally responsive and mentor through a lens of equity and inclusion to best support the success of mentees, including those groups that have been traditionally underserved. In addition to introducing best-practices for mentoring, we will cover brief, applied examples and the resources available at CSU to support mentoring, including the Graduate Center for Inclusive Mentoring.

Goals: 1. Introduce best-practices for mentoring graduate students and postdocs illustrated with brief examples 2. Encourage lens of equity and inclusion when mentoring 3. Familiarize audience with resources at CSU to support best-practices mentoring Primary Audience: Faculty who mentor graduate students and postdocs Other groups that this information may be relevant for: 1. Postdocs who mentor graduate and undergraduate students 2. Graduate students who mentor undergraduate students 3. Other mentors of undergraduate students 4. Graduate program coordinators

Joe Tiner,Justin Dove

General Teaching Topics

Tuesday, January 10^th 2023

1:00 PM

90 minutes

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This presentation is intended for Faculty and staff. The Student Disability Center understand that sometimes the accommodations process may appear intimidating to students and depending on what is determined, confusing on how to implement accommodations for your course or program. Come to this session to understand more about the accommodations process and how you can ensure you are doing your part in meeting your responsibility for accommodations, access, and inclusion.

Goals By the end of this session participants should be able to: Understand the accommodations process and their role in it. Understand their responsibilities for providing accommodation Identify resources for support with providing accommodations Engage in the fundamental alteration process Targeted Audience Faculty

Stephen Oglesby

Research

Tuesday, January 10^th 2023

1:00 PM

50 minutes

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Join us for a brief presentation on Research Storage options at CSU, overview of globus, and open discussion about research storage across our campuses.

Staff and Faculty

Jamie Gaskill,Marsha Benedetti

Other

Tuesday, January 10^th 2023

1:00 PM

80 minutes

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Join this session to hear from a panel of employees from different areas of the University as they share lessons learned and what has worked well when integrating teleworking into their departmental operations. Panel members represent departments that utilize a variety of teleworking arrangements from having a fully remote team to a hybrid setup with office sharing. Participants will also learn about CSU’s teleworking policy and the steps to set up teleworking agreements.

This session will inform individuals interested in teleworking or modifying an existing teleworking setup about potential models to use for their personal or team telework arrangements.

Shari Lanning

Diversity

Tuesday, January 10^th 2023

1:00 PM

90 minutes

Eddy Room 200

Faculty are voicing concerns for the increase in the number of students requesting accommodations and burnout related to providing all requirements related to these accommodations. I constantly hear faculty comments such as "are we preparing students for the real world by allowing all the accommodations listed?" We know that we are required to provide them, but are we actually helping students by JUST providing them? Most faculty don't even know how a student receives accommodations and the process behind the letter from SDC they receive. I'd like to present on common diagnoses/ disorders seen in higher education students today, accommodations related to these, how disorders affect the brain and learning, and ways we can best support students in the classroom to overcome their challenges. Faculty can then better understand the need for certain accommodations, how they can better support those students in their classroom (Face- to- Face or online), and lead a discussion with students about strategies and support at CSU that could help set them up for success. I believe a short presentation followed by group work and then a full room discussion/ sharing would be the best approach to get faculty thinking about positive changes they can make in the classroom. I have delivered a TILT Workshop in September on a related subject "Teaching to the Neurodiverse Student: Improve Neurotypical Outcomes Along the Way"

Faculty, Administration, Graduate TAs

Kathryn O'Hayre,Shannon Irey

Administrative Topics

Tuesday, January 10^th 2023

1:00 PM

50 minutes

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Investment in an onboarding program is important to achieve early connection between new employees and their team. This session will go over best practices to provide new employees with resources for success in a hybrid workforce and integrating them into your office. Blending training, shadowing, computing needs, self-paced learning, and customized check-ins to lay the tracks for long-term retainment.

General Audience - staff involved in onboarding or wanting to build an onboarding program for new employees in their unit. Specific Audience - staff onboarding or looking to build an onboarding program for Research Administrators in their units. Goals Demonstrate successful onboarding framework Utilize available resources Identify issues and solutions for hybrid employee onboarding

Jan Pierce,Bridgette Johnson

Diversity

Tuesday, January 10^th 2023

2:00 PM

80 minutes

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CSU's Bias Assessment Team has been hard at work tracking incidents of bias, linking those who have been impacted by an incident of bias to supports, and providing education to departments and units across the university when an incident of bias has occurred in their area. In this session, the participants will learn about CSU's Bias Assessment Team, its mission, the Bias Reporting System, and what happens after an incident of bias has been reported. Participants in this session will learn the definition of a bias incident, the difference between an incident of bias and a hate crime, and how we can all help to create a more inclusive and thoughtful community.

Learn the following: What a bias incident is What is the difference between a hate crime and a bias incident How does the university deal with bias incidents? What is the process/procedure and response when a bias incident has been reported? Share data from bias reports from 2022

Zach Campain,Kelly Poto

General Campus IT and Technology Tools

Tuesday, January 10^th 2023

2:00 PM

50 minutes

Virtual Session

A session targeted to campus Merchant providers and administrators. Learn about the different merchant options available to campus providers. The session will cover examples of storefronts, mobile payments, Wisepad, BlueFin, as well as Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS).

Specific Topics Covered: • Third party vendor solutions • Secure hosting options • Basics of PCI compliance • Training requirements • Frequently asked questions

Monica Keele ,Danielle Willis,Leah Winningham,Sammy Quarm,Wes MacLean

Other

Tuesday, January 10^th 2023

2:00 PM

2 hours

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The overdose prevention and recovery ally training is an interactive lecture format delivered in two distinct, 45-minute portions. The first portion is dedicated to discussion and information about collegiate recovery, including information about what recovery is, how to support and include those in recovery, and how CSU is aiding and growing Ram Recovery to support more students in recovery across campus. This portion entails audience interaction to open the conversation about recovery, stigma, and biases. The second portion is dedicated to harm reduction strategies, comprehensive prevention education regarding the opiate crisis, information around the influx of Fentanyl, and how to prevent accidental overdose using Narcan nasal spray. Audience engagement includes discussion about types of opioids and examples of harm reduction. The overall goals of the presentation are to inform audience members about harm reduction measures, recovery allyship, and showcase how CSU is dedicated to including and supporting students in recovery.

-To educate participants on ways to reduce stigma around substance use, recovery, and the community this stigma can affect. To educate participants on how to recognize of potential opioid overdose and how to safely administer naloxone(Narcan). -To educate participants on what active allyship means and provide tools for them to be an active ally.

Kimberly Cox-York,Mara Sedlins,Sara Robinson,Stephen Oglesby ,Bill Mosely

Other

Tuesday, January 10^th 2023

2:00 PM

80 minutes

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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Policy for Data Management and Sharing issued in October, 2020, will go into effect on January 25, 2023. The policy requires the submission of Data Management and Sharing Plans (DMSP) at the time of proposal for all new submissions on or after 1/25/23. The DMSP Policy applies to all research that generates scientific data. This policy is in alignment with CSU’s land-grant mission and values and other recent memos and initiatives aimed at maximizing the appropriate sharing of scientific information generated with federal dollars, including the Nelson Memo from the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), the National Academies Roundtable on Aligning Incentives for Open Science, and the Higher Education Leadership Initiative for Open Scholarship (HELIOS). We anticipate that other agencies will have similar policies forthcoming as well. We understand that new requirements can create unease and we have taken steps to prepare for this change. CSU has established a working group composed of professionals across the Office of the Vice President for Research, Libraries and Division of IT to help address the implementation of and compliance with the NIH policy, including provisions for intellectual property and secure data. Several resources for researchers have been identified and created. Please join us to learn about the new policy and how CSU is supporting its implementation and compliance. We will work through the DMSP template together – a draft template is here https://grants.nih.gov/sites/default/files/DMS-Plan-blank-format-page.pdf. If you have a data management plan already, please bring your questions.

Goals 1. Introduce the NIH Data Management and Sharing Plan Policy and Requirements 2. Discuss resources available at CSU and elsewhere for creating a DMSP 3. Work through the DMSP to provide guidance and examples Target audience – Researchers, specifically NIH-funded researchers, but we anticipate other agencies to follow suit, so all are encouraged to attend.

Sally Alexander,Derek Smallwood ,Teri Bedan

Safety and Health

Tuesday, January 10^th 2023

3:00 PM

50 minutes

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Join this panel discussion with representatives from Risk Management & Insurance, International Programs and the Travel Desk to discuss CSU International Travel, procedures and risk management.

Goals: 1. International travel risk management 2. CSU procedures Audience: Travel arrangers, and any staff tasked for arranging CSU international travel.

Dave Hoffman

General Campus IT and Technology Tools

Tuesday, January 10^th 2023

3:00 PM

50 minutes

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Smartsheet is an easy-to-use tool that can help you manage projects that may or may not require a formal project plan. This session will cover the strengths and weaknesses of this tool, examine several use cases, and show some of the new features for automating communications and workflow. If you are looking for a cost-effective tool that will help your project stay on track, improve collaboration with your team and stakeholders, this session will show you how Smartsheet can help.

Goals: Discover the advantages of using Smartsheet to keep your project on track. examine how to use automations, workflow, and dashboarding to keep your project moving and your stakeholders informed. Target Audience: This session is for people that manage more complex projects on campus and are looking for a tool to help collaborate with the team, keep the project on track, and their stakeholders informed.

Don Hillger, PhD

Personal/Professional Enrichment

Tuesday, January 10^th 2023

3:00 PM

50 minutes

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Even though the United States has resisted the worldwide change to the metric system, its adoption is inevitable for Americans! History tells us that countries have only switched to metric, none the other way (except for temporary reversions). The US remains in the midst of its metric transition as measurements change in various aspects of business and life. This information is especially important for teachers/instructors, who should also know the history and current status of the metric system in the US. The US “missed the boat” in the 1970s when the rest of the English-speaking world converted to metric. That was a time when the metric system was being taught in schools, and metric was intended to replace our former units in most aspects of daily life. However, the lack of a firm deadline and the voluntary nature of our metric transition has hindered progress towards metric. Therefore, the US in effect remains the only major industrial nation not using metric as our primary measurement system. The slow (voluntary) path that the US chose to follow is why we are still struggling with metric transition. Most people are surprised when they learn of the large number of consumer products, services, and standards that already use metric units, most of which are hidden to the average/casual observer.

This lecture presents the history and current status of the metric system adoption by the US, where the change is currently taking place, and what will likely take place in the future. Most Americans do not realize the extent of metric usage in the world, nor how widely metric is already used here, and that metric is inevitable for the US. Faculty and staff - as teachers, instructors, and leaders - should be knowledgeable of the history and status of the US transition to metric. This PowerPoint lecture, with imbedded humor, explains what resources are available to help them, and it encourages participants to not be apathetic, but to support the metric transition of the US.

Ron Charkowski,Sarah Robinson

General Technology Issues

Wednesday, January 11^th 2023

9:00 AM

50 minutes

Virtual Session

Software developers play a key role in securing the software they develop, the development environment, and the end user, but software development lifecycles often do not explicitly address security. Learn about the Secure Software Development Framework and what you can do to integrate security best practices into your code from development to production in order to protect your software, your code and your users.

The goals of this session are to share awareness of security best practices and discuss what developers can do to integrate security into each stage of the software development lifecycle. The targeted audience is software developers, anyone interested in coding and/or data security

Frank Gonzales

Safety and Health

Wednesday, January 11^th 2023

9:00 AM

90 minutes

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Ergonomics ideally involves fitting the job to the person, not the person to the job. As you begin working, the slight posture changes you may make to accommodate the workstation you are given can lead to more serious problems. This course will cover basic ergonomic principles that can be implemented in office spaces anywhere, by anyone. It aims to help reduce and prevent ergonomic related pain and discomfort associated with working in the office environment. We'll cover how to setup your chair, table/desk, keyboard and mouse options, monitor positioning and more.

Prevent, reduce and/or eliminate pain, discomfort and risk for greater injury. Provide education and training on correct ergonomic set up and implementation.

Stephen Oglesby

Research

Wednesday, January 11^th 2023

9:00 AM

50 minutes

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In this session we will explore methods to collaborate within CSU and with external parties with version-controlled documents and shared directories. Key takeaways include: How to reduce duplicate work and re-transcription? How to safely share and revoke privileges?

Graduate students, Staff, and Faculty

Jamie Gaskill

Safety and Health

Wednesday, January 11^th 2023

9:00 AM

Half Day

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Certified instructors will lead the class through an interactive and in-depth discussion of the following principles, while applying them to CSU and the Fort Collins area: 1.The Basics: Choosing a bike, maintenance, clothing/equipment, helmet, bike handling, shifting gears 2. Principles of Bicycling: Riding in a group, sharing paths/trails, inclement weather, night riding, long distances 3. Principles of Traffic Law: where to ride on the road, navigating intersections, rural roads 4. Bike Infrastructure 5. Hazards: Crashes and how to avoid them, five layers of safety.

This session will help build an understanding of traffic laws as they apply to bicyclists, and provide strategies to increase safety and confidence while riding on campus and throughout the community. The target audience ranges from current bicycle commuters to people who are interested but concerned about using a bicycle for transportation. Smart Cycling Part 1 is a prerequisite to Smart Cycling Part 2: Road Skills (on bike).

Jason Huitt

General Campus IT and Technology Tools

Wednesday, January 11^th 2023

9:00 AM

50 minutes

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Spend 50 minutes with the Teams Voice project team, where they will be available in an open forum to answer questions from the campus IT community about how to convert their users and phone lines to Teams for Voice. The team stands ready to address specific use cases, transition strategies, and to provide general updates about our overall progress on converting the campus to our new Microsoft Teams phone system. This session is specifically intended for the campus IT community.

The campus IT community is the intended audience for this session.

Maggie Hendrickson,Soleil Gonzalez

Diversity

Wednesday, January 11^th 2023

9:00 AM

90 minutes

Eddy Room 100

According to CSU's National College Health Assessment data, CSU LGBTQIA+ students experience significantly higher rates of depression, anxiety, suicide ideation, and suicide risk and significantly lower sense of belonging as compared to their peers. This session will provide an overview of strategies and factors that are correlated with lowering the risk of suicide for LGBTQIA+ young people and how members of CSU can implement these in their scope of work. We recommend attendees to have a basic understanding of LGBTQIA+ related terminology and experiences or to have previously attended a Safe Zone training.

Faculty, staff and grad students who have a basic understanding of LGBTQIA+ related terminology and experiences or to have previously attended a Safe Zone training.

Audrey Swenson,Victoria Benjamin,Meghan King

Safety and Health

Wednesday, January 11^th 2023

9:00 AM

2 hours

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Staff and faculty at Colorado State University who work closely with students are uniquely positioned to support those in our community who may have been impacted by instances of sexual misconduct and/or interpersonal violence (IPV). They don't have to do it alone though! Certain employees are required to report any instances of IPV disclosed to them to the Office of Title IX Programs and Gender Equity. Do you know if you’re a Responsible Employee or what that entails? How can you best be supporting students impacted by instances of IPV, or who are navigating reporting processes related to IPV and sexual misconduct? Take this opportunity lean on your campus partners and have your questions answered. If you've attended a similar session previously, this session will include information from the Office of Equal Opportunity on CSU's Consensual Relationships Policy, updated information on reporting requirements to the Title IX Office, and guidance from professional staff in the Women and Gender Advocacy Center on responding in a trauma-informed way.

This session is open to all employees of the University, including faculty, staff, volunteers, and student employees. This session may be of particular interest though for Deans or Department Heads who often field questions related to disclosures of sexual misconduct brought to the attention or faculty and staff. This session will include learning about CSU's consensual relationships policy, employees' obligation to report incidents related to sexual misconduct and/or interpersonal violence, learning about the University response to reports, and the BEST and most effective ways to support survivors throughout this process.

Ashley Mehaffie,Leslie Peterson,Jackie Swaro

Personal/Professional Enrichment

Wednesday, January 11^th 2023

9:00 AM

50 minutes

Virtual Session

Considering pursuing a graduate degree or certificate with your Employee Study Privilege (ESP)? Come learn from two College of Business Enrollment Counselors how to navigate and apply for a program while utilizing ESP, focusing on two of our most popular programs, the Online and Evening MBAs. We will touch on how to find a program that's right for you, typical application materials needed, an overview of ESP, and tips and tricks for your application. While we will focus on College of Business programs, the information covered can be used to apply to the graduate program of your choice! HR representatives will join us to answer your questions related to utilizing ESP. Please Note: This session will be geared towards those who already have a bachelor’s degree.

CSU employees with a bachelor’s degree, wanting to learn more about how to utilize their study privilege for graduate education. Goals: Identify personal goals. Learn how to navigate a graduate application. Understand "where to go from here," and who to contact on your academic journey.

Ameila Pape

Other

Wednesday, January 11^th 2023

10:00 AM

50 minutes

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The human body is comprised of trillions of microorganisms that outnumber our human cells 10 to 1. One of the most underappreciated organs in our body, the gut microbiome, contains an estimated 500-1000 species and 100 trillion organisms. So, you may begin to wonder are we more human or bacteria? And how vital is the health of our gut microbiome when it comes to our overall health? Does nutrition or how we live have any influence on our gut microbiome? Although researchers have been aware of the vital role the gut microbiome has on our overall health, it has in recent years gained more attention from the general population. In this session we will explore what the gut microbiome is, how the health/diversity of our gut microbiome affects our overall health, learn about the gut brain connection, and discover what factors influence our gut microbiome specifically focusing on nutrition’s role.

Goals: 1. Learn what the gut microbiome is 2. Understand what factors affect the health and diversity of the gut microbiome 3. Understand what role the gut microbiome plays in overall health (immune, brain, inflammation, etc) 4. Discuss recommendations for improving your gut microbiome through nutrition Target Audience: 1. Individuals interested in learning what the gut microbiome is 2. Individuals interested in learning about the role the gut microbiome plays in our overall health 3. Individuals interested in learning how nutrition effects the gut microbiome and ways to improve the health/diversity of the gut microbiome

Kevin Nolan,Katy Little

Instructional and Informational Technology

Wednesday, January 11^th 2023

10:00 AM

90 minutes

Morgan Library 173

Effective use of Canvas involves creating assignments, grading submissions and entering grades Which allows students to see their assignment grades, instructor feedback and overall course grade. This workshop is designed for instructors / TA’s who are new to Canvas or who have not used Canvas in a while. In this hands on workshop you will learn • The relationship between assignments and the Canvas grade book. • How to create a column in the grade book. • The options that are available when you create an assignment. • Use assignment groups to weight assignments. Perform subtotal calculations by assignment groups. • Enter grades for your students. • Download a copy of your Canvas grade book.

For instructors, TA's and staff who would like to learn how to use assignments and the gradebook in Canvas.

Jeff Dodge,Nik Olsen

Other

Wednesday, January 11^th 2023

10:00 AM

50 minutes

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This is a presentation about writing for The Conversation, an independent nonprofit media outlet that publishes articles written by faculty about topics in the news or of interest to the general public. Many of these articles are republished by larger media outlets — including Popular Science, Salon and Scientific American — resulting in broad reach and significant exposure for CSU and the faculty member’s expertise. Views on The Conversation’s site have surpassed 25 million per month, and the site gained more readers due to the pandemic. In addition to providing a brief overview of how the pitching and writing process works, we will share some recent examples of faculty who had their articles published.

The goals include raising awareness among CSU faculty about this opportunity to reach new audiences and showcase their expertise broadly, providing information about how the process works and giving tips on what makes for a good pitch. The target audience is CSU faculty and doctoral students.

Nancy Levinger,Mary Swanson

Writing and WAC

Wednesday, January 11^th 2023

10:00 AM

90 minutes

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Writing letters of recommendation can be a daunting task. How do I write the best possible letter, especially for a person I barely know? How can I recommend a really great candidate who has some flaws in their past? Where do I to begin? What do I include to best represent the candidate? How can I ensure that my letter does not contain implicit bias? These types of issues can challenge even the most seasoned letter writer. This activity-based workshop aims to increase faculty and staff comfort, confidence and effectiveness when writing letters of recommendation. Other topics covered in this session will include: the job of the recommender, the job of the applicant, how to say "no", and best practices for letter writing. Come prepared to interact and learn from your colleagues across campus.

This workshop aims to give participants guidance in recommendation letter writing including how to avoid bias, how to get information about the candidate and how and when to say "no". It is targeted at faculty and staff.

Dave Hoffman

Other

Wednesday, January 11^th 2023

11:00 AM

50 minutes

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With all the changes happening on campus, how can a person, team, or division ensure that they are getting the value and outcomes they are wanting from the effort. Come learn about the Prosci ADKAR model and how it helps with the people side of change and what we can do to help our people through the many change initiatives.

Goals: Provide an introduction to the Prosci ADKAR model for managing change Audience: Project Managers, Managers, Supervisors, and others that are creating change in their organization.

Kelly Poto

General Campus IT and Technology Tools

Wednesday, January 11^th 2023

11:00 AM

50 minutes

Virtual Session

January is privacy awareness month. In honor, this session will cover the basics of proper cybersecurity hygiene. You'll walk away from this session having a better understanding of best practices when it comes to password security, recognizing social engineering, and protecting your data and privacy.

Specific topics covered: • Password creation and protection strategies • Multi-Factor Authentication • Updates • Antivirus/Antimalware • Email protection tips • Identify and avoid spam and phishing attempts • Social engineering • VPNs for security and privacy

Hannah Finch

General Teaching Topics

Wednesday, January 11^th 2023

11:00 AM

50 minutes

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As we are still recovering from an unusual few years during a pandemic, it can feel as though expectations from both students and instructors about academic support are out of sync. Many students may feel that the university is replacing their parents' role, also known as "in loco parentis," and expect instructors to provide more leniency and support than instructors may feel is necessary. In this session, we will discuss psychological best practices to help recognize and bridge the gap between student and instructor expectations and foster a more cohesive environment in the classroom. This session is designed to be interactive and allow teams to brainstorm practical solutions to implement in their courses.

The goals are to learn about "in loco parentis" and how this construct can inform us about the differences in expectations as students enter the university setting for the first time. We will then discuss best practices from a psychological standpoint to help mitigate conflict that may arise between instructors and students. This session is targeted to all instructors but may be most beneficial for those teaching general courses that have a high level of freshmen attendees.

Pinar Omur-Ozbek

Wednesday, January 11^th 2023

11:00 AM

50 minutes

Eddy Room 200

Discuss tools to infuse courses with social and environmental justice concepts as well as (environmental) ethics. Discuss ways to foster discussion and awareness of the students. The session will have a conversational way of delivery, between the presenter and the participants.

Faculty who would like to infuse their courses with EJ, SJ and ethics concepts. The main goal is to disseminate the tools for these topics and to foster awareness.

Sarah Blessinger,Kinda Carpenter

HR & Employee Concerns

Wednesday, January 11^th 2023

11:00 AM

50 minutes

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Join us to talk about changes to the State Classified Performance Management Program and other performance management opportunities. We will discuss strategies to stay engaged with those we supervise during this extended performance cycle and share tips with each other on what is working in different areas of the university.

Supervisors and HR Practitioners

Jennifer Todd,Tonya Buchan,Katy Little,Justin Switzer

General Teaching Topics

Wednesday, January 11^th 2023

11:45 AM

2 hours

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Teaching Squares is a semester-long (~16 hour) program that offers teaching faculty an opportunity to observe colleagues in action and reflect on their own teaching practices based on the Teaching Effectiveness Framework. Cohorts are available for face-to-face and online faculty. In this two hour required session (includes lunch), participants will form observation “squares,” set norms for collaboration and practice observation skills.

Any CSU instructor, including GTAs.

Dr. Carolina Mehaffy,Dr. Grace Borlee

Curriculum Development

Wednesday, January 11^th 2023

1:00 PM

90 minutes

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Course-based undergraduate research experiences are courses that engages a class of students in addressing and authentic and relevant research questions. CUREs increase the opportunities for UG students to gain research experience. In this session we will cover the following: 1. What is a CURE? 2. What are the key requirements for a course to be classified as a CURE 3. Introduction to curriculum design for a CURE 4. Tips to implementing a successful CURE The session will be interactive and attendees will be expected to participate in activities and discussion. No previous experience with CURE labs is needed.

The targeted audience are Graduate students, Postdoctoral Fellows, Research Scientist and Faculty interested in undergraduate education and particularly those interested in engaging undergraduate students in research. After the session, attendees are expected to: a. Describe the definition and benefits of a CURE b. Identify a research question suitable for a CURE c. Drafting learning objectives for a potential CURE d. Collaborate with other scientists to identify potential interdisciplinary CUREs e. Illustrate the potential structure and identify possible challenges of a future CURE

Stephen Oglesby

Research

Wednesday, January 11^th 2023

1:00 PM

50 minutes

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A brief look at the various methods of file transfers from your local systems to the HPC or vice versa which are supported and can be performed using web-based applications or command-line tools. Also includes short tutorials to practice and familiarize yourself with these tools.

Students, Staff, and Faculty

Gemma Jiang,Anne Mook

Management/Supervisory Skills

Wednesday, January 11^th 2023

1:00 PM

2 hours

Virtual Session

We spend a lot of time in meetings, but not all meetings are effective. Some meetings could be over controlled with one to two people taking up most of the time. Others could be under controlled with everyone talking but nobody listening. During this session, we will learn and practice tools for “everyday facilitation” that enhance meeting effectiveness. These tools are widely applicable to all collaborative endeavors. The tools we will learn include 1) Chatter-fall: a quick way to take the pulse of the room with check-in questions such as “what do you hope to learn from this session?” Participants are invited to type in their answers in chats and send when everybody is ready, creating a dramatic waterfall effect. 2) 1-2-4-all: to conduct “brainstorming” that starts with individual reflection, then goes to the safe and intimate spaces of a pair, and then to two pairs, and then back to the whole group for collective harvesting of ideas. 3) Conversation Café: a way to involve a group of 4-6 people in a topic of common interest, and ensures equal opportunity for participation and space for listening and feedback through its four-step process. 4) Open Space Technology: a way to distribute leadership in team meetings, crowdsource ideas from everybody, and allow most relevant ideas to take center stages. The four principles and one law define the open and fluid nature of open spaces. This could be used in combination of 1-2-4-all and Conversation Café. 5) Impromptu Networking: a way to rapidly share insights and takeaways while building new connections in several rounds of pairs.

The overarching goal of the workshop is to share tools and practices for effective meetings practiced in team science contexts. The specific objectives include: 1) To engage participants in topics related to effective meetings facilitated by a series of the most commonly used facilitation methods; 2) To enable participants to apply these tools after the workshop. Targeted audience: higher education professionals who are developing and applying methods and tools to facilitate the collaborative process and team dynamics. This workshop is especially for those who are looking for innovatively engaging classroom and/or cross-disciplinary collaboration experiences.

Elizabeth Sink,Jody Donovan

Diversity

Wednesday, January 11^th 2023

1:00 PM

90 minutes

Eddy Room 200

At a public university, even broaching spiritual, secular and religious beliefs as intersections of diverse identities is fraught with the common dialogue shutdown of “church vs state,” landmines of increased polarization, and encounters with very real harm. However, great potential exists when humans positively encounter others with differing beliefs and provides a prime opportunity to shift attitudes of extremism to more of a pluralistic perspective. Colorado State University is exploring the development of a program that focuses greater attention on religious, spiritual and secular (non-religious) belief diversity. Some examples of potential focus areas include: increased educational opportunities to learn more about minoritized beliefs and traditions such as Holi, Ramadan, “Ask an Atheist” day, etc.; holding solicitation-free spaces where students can explore their own belief identities; exploring faith and belief identity from an intersectional approach, and facilitation of cooperative dialogue and engagement across belief differences.

Session goal: This session will be both an informative and listening/feedback opportunity. We will start by informing participants how we, as a public institution, are exploring ways to: 1) better share CSU’s current resources relating to belief-diversity inclusion, 2) pay greater attention to the complexities of religious, spiritual and secular belief diversity, and 3) develop further resources to positively engage across these identities. Targeted Audience: Anyone in the CSU-community interested in learning and giving feedback related to this initiative.

Mara Sedlins

Research

Wednesday, January 11^th 2023

1:00 PM

50 minutes

Virtual Session

Do you need to publish research data to comply with journal or funder requirements for data sharing? CSU Libraries now offers an institutional membership with Dryad, an international open-access repository of research data that offers data curation and publishing services (see: https://lib.colostate.edu/services/data-management/dryad/). In this session, you will learn about the benefits of sharing your data in Dryad, such as making your data discoverable, citable, and reusable. You will also learn best practices for preparing your data for submission to Dryad, what types of data are appropriate, and how to include Dryad in a data management plan.

Attendees will learn about the Dryad data publishing service and will be able to determine: whether Dryad is right home for their data, how to submit data to Dryad and what to expect in the curation process, and how to get help with data publishing. The targeted audience is researchers who are working with data.

Jamie Gaskill

Safety and Health

Wednesday, January 11^th 2023

1:00 PM

Half Day

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Smart Cycling Part 2 (Road Skills) will be held outdoors with your bike! The session begins with a set of drills to practice crash-avoidance techniques and hone your bike handling skills. Participants will also learn how to perform a safety check on their bike and to properly fit a helmet. After the drills, the group will set out on a ride through campus and into the surrounding community to practice a variety of scenarios, such as positioning at intersections, group riding and using special infrastructure. Each participant should arrive with their own bike in working order and helmet, and be dressed to ride outdoors. To borrow a bike and/or helmet for the session, please contact Jamie Gaskill at jamie.gaskill@colostate.edu or 970-491-2492 at least one week prior to the session.

This session will help build an understanding of traffic laws as they apply to bicyclists, and provide strategies, including bike handling, to increase safety and confidence while riding on campus and throughout the community. The target audience ranges from current bicycle commuters to people who are interested but concerned about using a bicycle for transportation. Smart Cycling Part 1 is a prerequisite to Smart Cycling Part 2: Road Skills (on bike).

John Hildebrand

Personal/Professional Enrichment

Wednesday, January 11^th 2023

1:00 PM

80 minutes

Eddy Room 100

Description: The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics recently published a report indicating that Americans’ work productivity is the lowest it’s been since 1947. In the post-COVID workplace, leaders are grappling with challenges presented by an increasingly mobile workforce, workers’ preference for flexible work arrangements, and a decline in employee engagement - illustrated by the trend of “quiet quitting”. These workspace trends are concerning and pervasive. To find lasting solutions, leaders must adopt an approach that will create an organization where people want to be, and want to be their best. Strengths-based principles and practices present leaders with a remarkably simple approach that holds tremendous potential for re-instilling energy, engagement, and productivity in the post-pandemic workspace. In this session, John will: • introduce strengths-based principles and how they lead to increased engagement, satisfaction, and productivity in the workspace • teach all attendees (team members and leaders) how to identify, develop, and utilize their strengths in the workspace • argue for leaders to adopt these principles and practices and incorporate them into their leadership approach

Goals: • participants will understand and experienced strengths-based practices and their positive impacts on workspace engagement, satisfaction, and productivity • participants will identify action steps toward identifying, developing, and utilizing their strengths in the workspace • participants will incorporate strengths-based principles and practices in their units Targeted Audience: Unit leaders, managers, and team members interested in inspiring positive change in their units

Chris Chagnon

General Campus IT and Technology Tools

Wednesday, January 11^th 2023

1:00 PM

50 minutes

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The Teams Voice project team will present at this 50 minute session for general users and the campus IT community on how to deploy Teams Voice in your environment for shared-line use cases such as front desks, reception environment, and shared spaces. The team will stand ready to answer your questions as well as provide updates on shared line functionality, devices that are appropriate for a front desk environment, and advanced use cases that will help your users be successful conducting business operations using our new Microsoft Teams phone system.

General users with a specific interest in Teams Voice, as well as the campus IT community, are the intended audience for this session.

Alicia Armentrout

Administrative Topics

Wednesday, January 11^th 2023

1:00 PM

50 minutes

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Procurement Services will share some best practices to ensure an efficient procurement process. We will also discuss our collective role in utilizing a diversity of vendors in our spend, as well as sharing best practices and tips and tricks to implement inclusive spend in one's day-to-day choices.

All faculty and admin pro/staff, especially those making procurement decisions and interfacing with the procurement department. The goal is to help people understand the procurement process and what they can do to make it more efficient. The goal is also to make campus constituents more mindful of their spend choices, and consider utilizing small, local, and diverse businesses.

Kirsten Slaughter-Rice

Personal/Professional Enrichment

Wednesday, January 11^th 2023

1:00 PM

50 minutes

Morgan Library 203

Yoga Nidra is a form of guided deep relaxation done in a relaxed yoga posture that brings about “conscious sleep” through a guided meditation. The class will explore techniques to help participants release stress, settle the body, and encourage better sleep. Take a moment to move, find your breath, and find release. Recommended that participants have a yoga mat or towel and a blanket, towel, or pillow.

Goal: To take a break and practice breathing and meditation techniques to reduce stress and promote relaxation Targeted Audience: Everyone is welcome. No previous yoga or meditation experience is required.

Stacey Baumgarn,Kimberly Cox-York

Green Initiatives and Issues

Wednesday, January 11^th 2023

2:00 PM

90 minutes

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All We Can Save is an opportunity to come together to share, discuss, learn, reflect, and motivate ourselves "To nurture the leaderful climate community we need for a life-giving future. Addressing the climate crisis will take everyone. We’re glad you’re here." All We Can Save is a book, a perspective, and a movement. The climate crisis affects all of us - and some more than others. Solutions and the voices participating are often too narrow - we are calling in All voices - to join, share, co-create, and inspire one another for All We Can Save. This sessions will be a facilitated dialog - yet proposes that YOU, the participants, bring, share, and create the content, the stories, and inspiration for our shared future (you are welcome to bring pictures, poems, songs, etc.). We do hope to focus our conversation and examples on CSU and our northern Colorado communities. Join us. Share your voice. No experience or prior knowledge needed. With luck, this session will result in the formation of an All We Can Save Circle - an ongoing group intended to expand the 'who' in the 'we' of climate action and All We Can Save.

Any and all CSU employee interested in imagining the future - those seeking and offering inspiration to solve the climate crisis and act with optimism in the place of fear or being overwhelmed. All voices matter for All We Can Save.

Viviane Ephraimson-Abt,Stephanie Zee

Personal/Professional Enrichment

Wednesday, January 11^th 2023

2:00 PM

90 minutes

Virtual Session

Learn about the Community Resilience Model and 6 practices for helping to support yourself and those in your life with high stress and trauma. In this introductory session you will learn basics about your nervous system, and some of the skills that can support your wellbeing. We will also discuss a recently funded grant project that will enable us to offer trainings at CSU, where you can learn these skills in more depth.

This session is for faculty and staff and we hope the skills that are learned can be shared with colleagues and students

Brigid Hinterberger,Emily Rogers

HR & Employee Concerns

Wednesday, January 11^th 2023

2:00 PM

50 minutes

Virtual Session

Agility is a key factor in successful recruiting and hiring, but currently, only 24 % of all eligible searches at CSU use the accelerated search model. This session will focus on resources and strategies, such as the accelerated search model, that you can use to improve your department's time-to-hire metric.

The targeted audience is anyone who is involved in the search and hiring processes. Attendees will learn about the accelerated search model and other tools and resources that can speed up and streamline the search process timeline.

Jackie Swaro

HR & Employee Concerns

Wednesday, January 11^th 2023

2:00 PM

50 minutes

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A review of various leave and benefit programs available to Academic Faculty / Administrative Professionals (AF/AP) and State Classified staff. This will include sick and annual leave, Family Medical Leave, Short and Long Term Disability and Parental Leave.

After attending the PDI, employees should be able to identify employee leave and benefit programs available to both AF/AP and State Classified employees, as well as understand how the various leaves coordinate with each other.

Jeannine Riess ,Joyce Pratt,Sally Alexander,Liz Luna,Jason Meisner,Lori Barker

Safety and Health

Wednesday, January 11^th 2023

2:00 PM

80 minutes

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Join a panel with representatives from EHS, RMI, Facilities and CSUPD to discuss CSU's policies and procedures for approving special events requests, and to ensure that the event is a safe and successful one. The panelists will be available to answer questions regarding approval of food vendors, serving of alcohol, presence of minors, space reservation, security and other planning items to make your event successful.

Goals: Attendees will learn: - what is a "Special Event"? - What CSU policies are applicable to planning special events - What are the procedures for having a special event on campus. Target Audience: Those individuals tasked with coordinating and organizing special events on campus.

Stephen Oglesby

Research

Wednesday, January 11^th 2023

3:00 PM

50 minutes

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A brief introduction to the spack package management system.

Students, Staff and Faculty