Get the most out of your course evaluation reports. The Office of Institutional Assessment, Research, & Effectiveness (IARE) will be hosting a session on interpreting your IDEA course evaluation reports. This session will review the components for the IDEA report and the types of scores and comparisons provided in the report. Instructors will gain a greater understanding of how the SLOs selected for their courses impact the summary evaluation score and the five key questions that IDEA course evaluations seek to answer. Join us for this online training session on Friday, February 2nd at 12PM.
Category: Academics
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Deadline Extended to Feb 9, 2024, for QEP Topic Mini-Proposals
Due to the recent university closure, we’re extending the call for QEP topic mini-proposals to February 9. Proposals should align with Tech’s vision, mission, and strategic plan, Tech Tomorrow, integrate current institutional data, and address the QEP topic survey results.
All proposals will be assessed by the QEP Topic Selection Committee using the rubric in the announcement. The top three proposals will be selected for potential further development. Authors of selected proposals receive monetary honoraria, as detailed in the announcement.
For more information and submission details, please click here.
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History Professors and Their Undergraduate Student Publish Article
History faculty members, Dr. Allen Driggers and Dr. Laura Smith and their student, Cheyenne Douthitt, recently had their research, “History, politics, and variolation vaccination hesitancy in the American South during the American Civil War,” published in Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings.
In their article, the researchers examine how the history of vaccination in the Civil War reveals lessons about why citizens resisted vaccination and how physicians tried to respond to the problems associated with combating epidemic diseases like smallpox.
Congratulations to all, especially undergraduate Cheyenne Douthitt – what a wonderful accomplishment!
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Arts and Sciences Open Educational Resources Program Awardees
The Open Educational Resources Program (OER), made available by Academic Affairs, is designed to save students money on textbooks. OER supports faculty to transition courses from traditional textbooks to zero-cost course materials. Students have saved students over $320,000 since OERs inception in Fall 2021.
Arts and Sciences faculty who received the award for Spring 2024 are Lori Maxwell (Chair, Sociology & Political Science), Jennifer Gray (Assistant Professor, English), Clark Carlton (Associate Professor, Sociology & Political Science), Andrew Hetzel (Associate Professor, Math) and Troy Brachey (Senior Instructor, Math).
Congratulations and a big thanks to faculty who have applied this program to their courses!
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Tennessee Tech Physics Students Win National Recognition
The Tennessee Tech chapter of the Society of Physics Students (SPS) has won an Outstanding Chapter Award from the SPS National Office. The chapter has been recognized for its excellence as a top-tier student-led physical sciences organization, a designation given to fewer than 10 percent of all SPS chapters at colleges and universities in the world.
Tennessee Tech’s SPS chapter is advised by Professor Adam Holley and is led by student officers. The 2022-2023 officers are Mateo Cacheiro, Ethan White and Michael Potts (physics majors), and Emma Krebs (math major).
Dr. Holley stated, “This recognition is a high honor for Tennessee Tech University and for science achievement at the higher education level in Tennessee!”
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Non-Instructional Faculty Assignment Submission 2023-2024
Proposals from faculty are now being accepted for the 2023-2024 academic year for the Non-Instructional Faculty Assignments. The purposes of the non-instructional assignments are: to contribute to the professional growth of the faculty; to improve the teaching and the curriculum across the University; and/or to enhance the scholarship and academic excellence of the University in ways that cannot be accomplished under the constraints of the regular workload assignments. Submission deadlines: January 16, 2024 – Suggested deadline for proposals to department chairs; January 26, 2024 – Deadline for proposals to Academic Affairs. Recipients will be announced after February 22, 2024. Click the link to visit the website for the eligibility requirements, application guidelines and additional timeline dates.
https://www.tntech.edu/provost/noninstructionalassignments.php
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Rented books due back by Thursday, Dec. 7th!
Did you rent a textbook for the fall semester? Don’t forget that the return deadline is the last day of finals, Thursday, December 7th. Are you done with your book now? No need to wait, your book can be returned early.
Finals Week Store Hours Dec. 4th – 9th
Monday – Wednesday 7:30 am – 6:00 pm
Thursday 7:30 am – 7:00 pm
Friday 7:30 am – 5:00 pm
Saturday 10:00 am – 2:00pm
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Tech Nursing Students Travel to Belize in December
Professor Melissa Geist has led more than 10 nursing-training outreach visits to Belize, a country on Central America’s northeast coast. Next month she and Associate Professor Jennifer Mabry will lead a group of graduate and undergraduate students to the village of Punta Gorda continuing these valuable hands-on clinical experiences.
In partnership with the local hospital, students will work in the areas of emergency medicine, surgery, and obstetrics. Undergraduates will be paired with grad students as they interact with the staff and patients. The group will also visit an orphanage providing wellness checks, hearing/vision screenings, and vaccinations for the children.
This clinical outreach trip includes assistance from a Cookeville-based firm, START CPR (safety techniques and response training), offering Advanced Cardiac Life Support training for 20 of the local healthcare providers.
For more info, see https://www.tntech.edu/nursing/estar/news.php or email behealthy@tntech.edu.
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2026-2031 QEP Topic Selection Survey Results
As a key step in shaping our 2026-2031 Quality Enhancement Plan, we recently carried out a survey with faculty, staff, and students. The survey featured twelve potential topics, inviting participants to choose and rank their top eight in order of importance. You can now access the findings of the survey at Tennessee Tech’s QEP Topic Selection Survey Results.
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PAID Summer Internships Available with the Elinor Ross CDF Freedom School
The annual Elinor Ross CDF Freedom School (ERFS) is a FREE, six-week literacy and cultural enrichment program (June 5 – July 12, 2024), that is age-appropriate for children in grades 1st-5th. Participating students’ families qualify for free/reduced lunch programs.
We are accepting applications for this summer’s internship program, which is a unique, experiential (paid) opportunity for university students of all majors.
The program engages local children and their families in a variety of interactive learning projects and activities, events, field trips, and more while providing daily healthy meals and snacks throughout the summer.
Applications Due: MARCH 1
Interviews: MARCH 19
Notification of Hire: MARCH 26Link to Internship Application: https://tinyurl.com/24ERFS
For more info, visit https://www.tntech.edu/education/freedomschool/index.php or email freedomschool@tntech.edu.