• faculty rewards and incentives
• faculty development
• faculty evaluation
• new-faculty orientation
• recruitment and selection of new faculty
Participants will learn how to promote the extrinsic and intrinsic motivation for participating in student retention programs, and how to enlist the support of high-level administrators and department chairs.
Who Should Attend?
Anyone interested in increasing faculty involvement and commitment to promoting student success inside and outside the classroom, including academic and student affairs administrators, faculty development specialists, department chairs, and professionals working in the areas of student retention, enrollment management, student development, and the first-year experience.
Who is the Speaker?
Joe Cuseo holds a doctoral degree in Educational Psychology and Assessment from the University of Iowa. Currently, he is a Professor of Psychology at Marymount College (California) where for 25 years he has directed the first-year seminar, a course required of all new students. He is a columnist for a bimonthly newsletter published by the National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition, and has received the Resource Center’s “outstanding first-year advocate award.” He is also a 13-time recipient of the “faculty member of the year award” on his home campus, a student-driven award based on effective teaching and academic advising. He has authored numerous articles and chapters on faculty development, student retention, and the first-year experience, the most recent of which is a textbook for first-year seminars or student success courses, titled: Thriving in College and Beyond: Research-Based Strategies for Academic Success & Personal Development. He is currently working on three writing projects that will be published in 2009:
- The First-Year Seminar: Research-Based Guidelines for Course Design, Delivery,
& Assessment (monograph)
- Diversity & the College Experience:Research-Based Strategies for Valuing the
Varieties of Human Experience (textbook)
- Humanity, Diversity, & the Liberal Arts: The Foundation of a College Education
(summer reading)