Our first meeting of the Academic Year is set for Sep 11, from 2 to 3pm. It is a Teams meeting. The meeting is public so if you want to attend but did not get an invitation, click here for the URL to join the meeting. Make sure to have Microsoft Teams installed properly.
Agenda (*)
- Call to order
- Resurrected Senate IT website (WordPress Site: easy to maintain, “good enough” look, functional) (Bert Wachsmuth)
- Expansion of the TLTC; renovation of ground floor of library; what can we do to ensure this new tool is a success? (Mike Soupios)
- MISO Faculty survey: Preview for next meeting (Mike Soupios)
- Online courses: What’s new about online courses; Seton Hall’s official policy; our competitor research project from last year; any updates? (Bert Wachsmuth)
- Quality Control/best practices for online courses.; best practices document or criteria to evaluate ongoing online courses.(Leslie Rippon)
- AI as a tool (talks, conferences, workshops, best practices, paid versions, research versions, etc); paid access. The policies on the use of generative AI technologies and the strategies for integrating these technologies to support effective student learning. The use of AI for instruction. Which AI platform should we institutionally adapt if any? Should there be limited use of it? Or widespread usage for instruction and research (Bert Wachsmuth)
- HPC (High Performance Computing) facility on location/access to off-site facility? (Jose Lopez)
- Odds & Ends (Jason Hemann)
- Email policies: Can we drop the email policy of not allowing any ZIP file attachments?
- Same with emails w/o subject are not delvered (insert a defaut header and deliver it)
- Properly configuring the university’s PageUp hiring portal. Right now, when we put out an ad for a candidate, our system has no way of automatically requesting letters of recommendation from candidates and routing them to the hiring committee
- New business
- Adjournment
(*) This meeting will be record and posted. Paul Fisher, who was invited as always, can not attend. His planed presentation about the renovation of the library will given by Mike Soupios instead.
See y’all on Teams. on 9/11
Thanks for reading! Hope this guide helps you on your journey. son4d
Hello All, It was a great meeting today.
I’d like to take this opportunity to share with you that SHU’s Digital Humanities Faculty Learning Community will host Dr. Miao-fen Tseng from the University of Virginia on Sept. 26. Dr. Tseng will talk about the transformative potential of AI-driven experiments in language teaching and learning across a variety of world languages. If you are interested, please contact Dr. Chen for more information, including a Teams link, or use the Teams Meeting ID below.
Speaker: Dr. Miao-fen Tseng 曾妙芬, Professor of Chinese, University of Virginia
Title: AI at your service: revolutionizing language teaching and learning
Date: Friday, September 26
Time: 10:00-11:00AM
Meeting ID: 275 598 056 811 0
Passcode: T7aw6nF6