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Supporting New Faculty Success
A new distance-learning program for community college instructors who want to enhance their teaching skills to meet the changing dynamics of their students
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Responding to a new learner
For the first time in its 100-year history, the community college is seeing a new learner. These students are ethnically and linguistically more diverse, have more varied levels of skills and experience, often have many competing demands for their time, and have complex aspirations and goals. These new learners want to succeed, and their success is helped by instructors' abilities to adequately respond to their changing needs.
Instructors are now required to be equipped not only with expertise in their subject area, but armed with teaching skills, resources and support networks to train today's new breed of community college students. Seattle University offers an innovative new program that supports community college faculty success by helping instructors hone the skills required to teach these new learners. Let us help make this increasingly more complex teaching job one that will be enjoyable and rewarding for you and your students.
15-credit, yearlong program that offers:
- Five interactive and practical courses delivered throughout a calendar year to provide new faculty with the knowledge and support they need to succeed
- Courses developed and taught by experienced, expert community college instructors under the direction of Seattle University's Adult Education and Training Program
- Peer and expert support to ensure that new instructors have the tools they need when they need them
- A year of practical mentoring, support and feedback on instructional methods, course design, learner development and community college systems
- Course Assignments that participating new faculty will immediately apply to their teaching
- Online class sessions offered through Elluminate to provide access from anywhere
Program Highlights
- Access from anywhere
- Practical, real-time classroom activities
- Virtual, innovative technologies
- Interactive, practical courses
- Peer and expert support
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Who Should Enroll?
Any community college instructor within the first three years of employment who wants to succeed at the increasingly complex job of teaching. Eligible participants include any person employed as an instructor at a Washington state community college, either full-time or adjunct status, with access to a community college classroom where they can apply what they learn.
Cost
$1,800 for the complete, 15-credit Supporting New Faculty Success certificate (no individual courses offered). Participants will earn 15 quarter credits through the Office of Professional Development and Continuing Education at Seattle University's College of Education upon completion of the certificate. These credits cannot be applied to graduate degrees at Seattle University.
Enroll Now for 2013 Session
The 2013 program will begin in January 2013. For more information contact rhughes@seattleu.edu.
Our Faculty
Supporting New Faculty Success is a project of the Seattle University Adult Education and Training program which has been granting master's degrees in adult education and a certificate in community college instruction for over 20 years. SNFS courses are designed and taught by experienced Washington community college instructors who are chosen for their success in classrooms and experiences teaching other instructors. The program is coordinated by Dr. Bob Hughes who has 20 years experience as a community college instructor, administrator, professional development provider, and researcher in Washington state. >READ FACULTY BIOS
Contact
Dr. Bob Hughes, Associate Professor of Adult Education, Seattle University, can be reached at 206.296.6168 or by email. Registration questions can also be directed to our Office of Professional Development and Continuing Education at 206.296.2147.