Faculty Support

Faculty are supported in a number of ways. First, all faculty complete a New Faculty Orientation (NFO) training upon initial hire. Then, they participate in advanced student engagement training where they learn to use Web 2.0 tools through a hands-on course. Adjunct training stipends will be awarded for completing these faculty trainings:

New Faculty Orientation $75
Web 2.0 $100
Dissertation Training $50

After these initial trainings, faculty are assigned courses and monitored by the Director of Academic Support, who spot-checks their initial courses and guides them towards the participation expectations of the University. These spot-checks use the Classroom Evaluation Rubric/CER (see Appendix), where faculty are provided feedback on their pedagogical performance in the classroom. These academic conversations or “coaching sessions,” involve the Dean of the respective school and/or the Director of Academic Support. Depending on the faculty member’s performance, spot-checks in classrooms can be more or less frequent, but all new faculty are spot-checked with the CER during their first course of teaching at Aspen. Finally, faculty have support for any questions they might have by contacting Faculty Services at facultyservices@aspen.edu.

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