CIRTL Network Administrative Meeting Wednesday, January 6, :00-1:00 ET/ 11:00-12:00 CT /10:00-11:00 MT/ 9:00-10:00PT Back-up Telephone Bridge Call-in num.: 1 (571) Passcode: # This meeting will be recorded Agenda Announcements: ●Cross-Network spring courses ●CIRTL Network Commons - Event Type Feedback ●Expansion Update Topic 1: Onboarding Update (Wendi) Topic 2: Spring Planning (Bob)

CNC Event Types

Non-Course Local Event Types for CNC Local Events ●Network Exchange Event ●Colloquium ●Community Building ●Journal Club ●Open Houses ●Seminar ●Workshop ●Other Institutional Portrait Categories Course A one-time, short duration event (e.g.90 minute workshop) A repeating, short duration event (e.g. workshop series) A one-time, long duration event (e.g. multi- day teaching academy) A cohort-based, semester or academic year program (e.g. monthly journal club) TAR seminar / internship / experience Other

cross-Network Update

Cross Network Spring Courses Course registration closes January 19 The College Classroom a seminar style course focusing on evidenced-based teaching practices that support student learning Instructors: Peter Newbury (UCSD) and Tom Holmes (ISU) Research Mentor Training Learn new tools for being an effective, insightful mentor for STEM students Instructors: Colleen McLinn (CU) and Bennett Goldberg (BU) Teaching-as-Research Develop a full Teaching-as-Research Project and proposal, ready for implementation in summer or fall 2016 Instructors: Nicholas Gross (BU) and Bhavna Sharma (ISU) MOOC: Advancing Learning Through Evidence-Based STEM Teaching Learn about effective teaching strategies and how to collect, analyze, and act upon evidence of student learning.

CIRTLCast series resumes Assessing What Students are Learning Jan 13: Facilitating Cooperative Work: How to Assess Active Learning Experiences Speaker: Rique Campa (MSU) Jan 20: Formative Assessment as a Means of Gauging Student Understanding Speaker: Barbara Masi (Rochester) Jan 27: Effectively Assessing (and Developing) Your Students' Problem-Solving Skills Speakers: Amy Godert (CU), Jared Danielson (ISU)

Expansion Update

CIRTL Network (Pending acceptance)

Our New Partners (pending acceptance) Auburn University Columbia University Drexel University Emory University Florida International University Georgia Institute of Technology Indiana U - Bloomington & Indianapolis Louisiana State University North Carolina State University Oregon State University Rice University Tufts University University at Buffalo (SUNY) University of British Columbia University of California-Irvine University of California-Los Angeles University of Delaware University of Iowa University of Maryland, Baltimore County University of Missouri at Columbia University of Nebraska-Lincoln University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University of Tennessee University of Texas El Paso Yale University

Onboarding Update

Onboarding ▪ Goals: ▪ Teach new institutions about CIRTL mission and core ideas ▪ Help new institutions set up CIRTL for success on their campuses ▪ Incorporate new institutions into CIRTL Network ▪ How to accomplish these goals ▪ Provide curated materials ▪ On-line sessions for presentation of material and discussion of different topics ▪ Mentoring: one-on-one and group sessions

Onboarding: Content Timeline ▪ Jan: Invitations sent and new institutions matched with mentor groups and primary mentors ▪ Feb: CIRTL 101– CIRTL Mission and Setting up CIRTL on Your Campus ▪ March: CIRTL Core Ideas: TAR, LtD and LCs ▪ April: Learning outcomes and pathways to different levels ▪ May: Contributing to the cross-network learning community (CNLC) ▪ June: In-person Meeting ▪ Sessions led by members of Onboarding Committee and other volunteers– if you would like to help create/lead one of these sessions, please let me know!

Onboarding: Mentoring ▪ Thank you for completing the current member survey! ▪ Currently using the results of this survey combined with new member applications to set up mentoring groups ▪ Each new institution will be part of a group with 4 existing institutions and 5 new institutions ▪ Will have one “primary” mentor ▪ Mentoring groups will have a “lead” institution ▪ Mentor group on-line discussions will begin after the first onboarding on-line meeting

Spring Planning

Looking Ahead to Spring 2016 Major Themes 1)Onboarding of new partners a)Monthly on-boarding sessions b)Data sharing agreement c)MOUs d)June in-person meeting planning e)Setting up and planning mentoring 2) Resources for CIRTL Network partners 3) CIRTL Network Commons (CNC) implementation Admin Meetings Network Meetings

Looking Ahead to Spring 2016 Major Themes 4) Governance 5) Summative Evaluation 6) Developing next round of funding NSF (IUSE, January 11, 2017) Foundations Admin Meetings Network Meetings

Looking Ahead Beyond Spring 2016 Timelines New Partners Funding Proposals January 2016July 2016 January 2017July 2017 Virtual Sessions Mentoring January 2018 In-Kind In-Kind Lite NSF + GLHEC GLHEC NSF IUSE ($3M) Foundation Proposals MOUs Two-Pagers NB: NSF IUSE ($3M) likely to be support of Network, not local institutions Current Partners Summative Evaluation Practitioners Explore Foundations