Endeavor Foundation Center for Faculty Development
Campus Partners in Faculty Development
In the spirit of Rollins College's integrated approach to educating students, the Endeavor Foundation Center for Faculty Development partners with its campus colleagues to support all faculty in the development of the inextricably interwoven aspects of teaching, scholarship, and service at a liberal arts college.
Jenny Queen, Professor of Psychology, is the the Diane and Michael Maher Chair of Distinguished Teaching.
This chair, a gift from Rollins alumnus Michael Maher and the Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation, was established to honor and further the College’s reputation and efforts in the art of teaching.
Instructional Design & Technology at Rollins College is a dynamic group of instructional technologists who specialize in helping our faculty with the use of technology in your face-to-face, web-enhanced, and blended classroom.
They are committed to provide the following support:
- Collaborate with faculty to design course content and courses.
- Develop training materials to assist with the use of media and technologies into the face-to-face, web-enhanced, and blended classroom.
- Facilitate professional development on a variety of topics from blogs and wikis to creating eBooks and the use of multimedia.
- Foster a community of technological innovation through faculty presentations and grant opportunities.
- Recommend technology solutions for desired learning outcomes.
- Train faculty, staff, and students to use Blackboard and other academic technologies.
The Social Impact Hub supports addressing local and global social issues through hands-on learning and purposeful dialogue based on human-centered design thinking methodology. The Hub is also a space for students and faculty to gather and innovate for social change.
For faculty, Dan Chong offers training opportunities as well as social innovation research and resources.
The Office of Grants & Sponsored Research assists faculty with finding, securing, and managing external grants for student-faculty collaborative research, interdisciplinary faculty development projects, service-learning initiatives, and curriculum development projects--to name a few. Specifically, the office helps in identifying funding opportunities, developing and reviewing proposals and project budgets, completing standard applications forms, assuring compliance with federal regulations, negotiating grant awards and contracts, and managing post-award procedures and reporting.
Bill Rodriguez is the Senior IT Security Engineer for Rollins College. His mission is to protect Rollins College from cyber threats and educate the Rollins community on how to use technology safely and securely.
Bill supports faculty in their work with documents and data -- such as research data, manuscript drafts, past student work, etc. -- by helping faculty store and/or share them safely, securely, and intentionally. As part of this concern for safe, secure storage and sharing, he can help faculty develop (and not forget) secure passwords and reduce the threat of dangerous phishing messages aimed at obtaining private information.
Bill Rodriguez is available at wrodriguez@rollins.edu or 407-628-6311.
The Student-Faculty Collaborative Scholarship Program supports faculty-student partnerships in original research projects. Both the faculty and student partners receive stipends for eight weeks in the summer. Each project should result in a co-authored peer-reviewed publication.
Learn more about the Student-Faculty Collaborative Scholarship Program.
Olin Library is an integral part of the instructional, intellectual, and cultural life of Rollins College, and they support and contribute to the work of faculty in a variety of ways.
Olin librarians liaise with faculty members in all academic departments at the college. For instance, they do the following:
- Help in developing syllabi and scaffolding assignments for courses with research components,
- Add rigor to assignments and develop critical thinking skills by mapping outcomes to the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy,
- Provide instruction sessions and co-teaching partnerships in the classroom to support information literacy for students,
- Meet in groups or one-on-one with students doing major research projects or have remedial research needs, and
- Assist faculty with their own research questions, including topics such as literature reviews, publication insight, citation analysis, and calculating scholarship impact factors. ·
The Olin Library also collects resources in print and online to support the curriculum, and provides interlibrary loans free of charge. Purchase recommendations are always welcome.
The Olin Library also supports two internal grant opportunities for faculty: the Open Educational Resources (OER) Grants and the Faculty Instructional Technology Integration (FITI) Grants.
Olin also supports the College’s official institutional repository, Rollins Scholarship Online (RSO), wherein faculty authors can make their work accessible to scholars and researchers worldwide.
The Tutoring and Writing Center at Olin Library is a free service for all students for help with course material and/or papers. Peer tutors and writing consultants regularly meet with students and soon will be available to read assignment instructions and give feedback to faculty.
The Center for Inclusion & Campus Involvement collaborates with faculty in fostering learning environments for students to gain awareness of self and others and in planning programs that advance issues of diversity in campus and community. For instance, they host Safe Zone training, Tar Talks, diversity training, and more.
Learn more about the Center for Inclusion & Campus Involvement.
The Center for Career & Life Planning supports Rollins faculty in engaging students in meaningful conversations about and preparing for life after college (e.g., students’ career development, academic internships, post-graduation success, LinkedIn, resume development, mock interviews).
For instance, CCLP staff are able to give presentations tailored to your specific classes or contexts via the Outreach Request Form. They can partner with faculty in designing assignments that reinforce the personal, social, and intellectual development fostered by a liberal arts education. For other ways to integrate career and life planning content, reach out to Tricia Zelaya-Leon.