Spring Faculty Convening and PUP, Monday thru Thursday

January 5, 2024 / Faculty/Staff Highlights

Happy New Year and welcome back! Get ready for an enriching start to the semester with NOVA’s much-anticipated Spring Faculty Convening on Monday, January 8, 2024. This event promises to be a dynamic kick-off to the New Year, featuring presentations from NOVA Leadership and a keynote speech from the acclaimed co-author of “The Great Upheaval – Higher Education’s Past, Present, and Uncertain Future,” Scott Van Pelt.

Faculty and staff can look forward to thought-provoking presentations that resonate inside and outside of the classroom, invigorating each of our approaches to learning during these transformative times. Post-event, we encourage faculty to further their professional development at our 2024 Power Up Your Pedagogy (PUP) Conference.

Monday, January 8

View the Agenda here for both Monday events:

  • Spring Faculty Convening (9 a.m. until 11 a.m. via Zoom, Passcode 591955) featuring a keynote by Scott Van Pelt, Rethinking Higher Education Based on Economic and Technology Trends.
  • Power Up Your Pedagogy (PUP) (12 p.m. until 4 p.m. via Zoom, Passcode 591955) featuring a plenary session with Scott Van Pelt followed by presentations by the President’s Sabbatical Awardees and a panel on transfer.

Tuesday, January 9

  • Power Up Your Pedagogy (9 a.m. until 4 p.m. via Zoom) featuring concurrent sessions from NOVA faculty and staff.

Wednesday, January 10

  • Campus Convenings (Provosts and deans will send details).

Thursday, January 11

  • Academic Affairs Curricular Updates (9 a.m. until 10 a.m.). Click here for the Zoom link (Passcode:  225685
    Academic Affairs will kick off our spring semester with a brief webinar on key curricular updates where we will provide some additional clarification/information on some of the topics listed.
  • Discipline Group Meetings, scheduled by discipline group chairs (10 a.m. until 3:30 p.m.) (Discipline Group Chairs will send out information on time/location/modality).
    Click here for the Spring 2024 Discipline Group memo. Discipline Groups provide curricular coordination of each discipline of study at NOVA and consist of all full-time faculty within that specific discipline. At the start of each semester, the teaching faculty gather to address pressing curricular issues. Adjunct faculty are welcomed to attend and join the conversation. The memo contains information on some of the issues that need to be addressed this semester. Thank you in advance for your careful attention to the details within it. If you have questions about any of the topics, please contact us at academics@nvcc.edu. Most Discipline Groups (DG) will meet after this session. Your discipline group chair will send the room/zoom information. Your guidance and feedback are needed on various academic issues, so please attend your DG meetings and take an active role!

Keynote Speaker Scott Van Pelt is the co-author, along with Arthur Levine, of The Great Upheaval: Higher Education’s Past, Present, and Uncertain Future. Drawing on trends explored in the book, Scott has presented on the factors shaping the future of higher education to state education systems, faculty associations, and numerous institutions and organizations across North America, with a special focus on the implications that economic and technological changes hold for program design, pedagogy and credentialing.

Over the past 10 years, Scott has held a rich diversity of roles across higher education in areas such as academic advising, admissions, instructional technology and curriculum design. Currently, Scott is the Director of Research and Faculty Affairs at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education. In this role, Scott designs programs and initiatives to support faculty success at Penn GSE. 

Additional details, including schedules and links, can be found on NOVAnet’s Spring Faculty Convening and PUP page.

Submitted by:
Dr. Cynthia Pascal, AVP of NOVA Online, CPascal@nvcc.edu