The Existential Crisis and Equity Imperative Facing Higher Education: ASHE 2020 Presidential Webinar Series Higher education is facing an existential crisis like we have never known before. The global pandemic and the accompanying financial fall-out have questioned long held assumptions about the value and values of higher education, who it serves, and who it excludes… Read More »
Events
Event: Fem Fest 2020
Fem Fest is a celebration of feminism in the arts, brought to MSU by Women*s Student Services and Womxn’s Council. Fem Fest is an opportunity for incoming and current Spartans to celebrate feminism in visual arts, poetry/spoken word, and music. Fem Fest considers feminism to be expansive, not exclusionary. By this, we consider feminism to… Read More »
Event: Workshops sponsored by MSU Outreach and Engagement on Running Effective Online Meetings
Attention: Faculty, Academic Staff, and Graduate Students EFFECTIVE ONLINE MEETINGS Wednesday, July 29, 2020Wednesday, August 5, 2020Wednesday, August 12, 2020 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Please note: Webinar is free if you select the University Outreach and Engagement option when you register Meeting online may seem efficient, but are your meetings still effective? MSU Extension and… Read More »
International Virtual Exchange Conference
You’re invited to the second annual International Virtual Exchange Conference! IVEC is the largest and most prominent event on virtual exchange, providing a forum for an audience of practitioners, professionals, students and policy makers from institutions around the world interested in technology, international education, and new pedagogies including Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL). This year’s virtual… Read More »
Event: Together We Breathe, MSU Center for Survivors
The MSU Center for Survivors is hosting a upportive space for all Black, Indigenous, and People of Color who are MSU students, staff, and faculty. It is intended to be a space for people to share the impacts of their direct and collective experiences. This will be held for the next three Tuesdays from 1:00-2:30.… Read More »
ACE Let’s Talk About Race Interview Series
Let’s Talk About Race interview series, from ACE’s Race and Ethnicity in Higher Education project, captures the voices of higher education scholars and leaders as they share their perspectives and experiences on race and ethnicity in higher education.
Event: An Introduction to Evidenced-Based STEM Teaching (CIRTL MOOCs)
An Introduction to Evidenced-Based STEM Teaching (CIRTL MOOCs) Weekly asynchronous modules from 6/22 through 8/16Learn about STEM teaching at your own pace through online video modules and discussion boards in this 8-week MOOC developed by CIRTL Network faculty. CIRTL MOOCs take place on the EdX platform and use video-based modules, discussion boards, and peer-reviewed assignments… Read More »
Event: National Education Policy Center (NEPC) Webinars
During this unique time, NEPC will be co-sponsoring some upcoming webinars. Information on two others will be forthcoming, but I wanted to let you know about the first one, which will be on Thursday, June 11th, at 3pm EST. The webinar is titled, “Getting Back to School: Is There Peril or Promise in Online Learning?”,… Read More »
Events: Centre for Global Higher Education Webinars
Zoom panel discussions on the impact of the pandemic on global highereducation Free to join, all welcome HE in the Plague Year: The transformative effects of the COVID-19 pandemicThursday, 21 May 2020, 14:00-15:00 (GMT)Nick Hillman, HEPIKa Ho Mok, Lingnan UniversitySusan Robertson, University of CambridgeCHAIR: Simon Marginson, CGHE Director & University of Oxford Does COVID-19 Mean… Read More »
Fitness Programs Available
Keep up with your fitness routine – or even start a new one! Rec Sports is offering all students, faculty and staff FREE virtual fitness classes. Fitness On Demand FLEX lets you access the 400+ workouts from your phone or laptop. Please send a request to Rebecca Kegler kegler@msu.edu with FOD Online in the subject line and include your name and email.… Read More »