Faculty Resources

Campus Resources

• Faculty Resource Room: (Adobe PDF Reader, 71KB) Malibu Hall, room 124. Contains books and publications on Faculty Development. For a recent listing of holdings, click on the Faculty Resource Room link.
• Classroom Videotaping: simultaneous digital video recording of instructor and student with optional consultation on classroom dynamics and teaching approaches.
• Academic Senate: Senate Policies, Resolutions, and committee membership and responsibilities.
• California Faculty Association: an invaluable source of information about CSU faculty collective bargaining.

CSU System Resources

• Institute for Teaching and Learning (ITL): A CSU organization that seeks to advance teaching and learning. ITL publishes the Exchanges on-line journal and is interested in the submission of manuscripts by faculty members and having faculty members serve as reviewers for manuscripts. ITL also sponsors a listserv that connects CSU colleagues interested in teaching and learning (ITLnet); instructions for subscribing to this listserv are provided on this webpage.
• Community Service Learning in the CSU (CSL): this organization provides valuable information about service learning in the CSU. Instructions for subscribing to their free monthly electronic newsletter CSU Impact are on this webpage.

Internet Resources

• Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT): MERLOT has discipline and topic-specific resources for teaching and is free to join.
• Professional and Organizational Development Network (POD Network): this international organization supports the development of individuals who value teaching and learning in higher education.
• Tomorrow’s Professor Listserv: Rick Reis at Stanford University maintains the Tomorrow’s Professor Listserv which provides regular extracts from books, articles, and talks related to issues in higher education. You can subscribe to this listserv by sending the message [subscribe tomorrows-professor] to: Majordomo@lists.stanford.edu.
• Association for the Advancement of Higher Education (AAHE): this organization has outstanding conferences and resources and sponsors an annual Faculty Roles and Rewards conference.
• American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U): the campus is a member of AAC&U and has a substantial collection of its reports and documents. One report that all faculty should read is Greater Expectations: A New Vision for Learning as a Nation Goes to College (available on-line: http://www.greaterexpectations.org/) which was the basis for the Characteristics of CSU Channel Islands Graduates document (SR 03-03) (PDF, 185KB)approved by the CSUCI Academic Senate.
• Campus Compact Reader: this free on-line journal is published three times a year. Subscription information is available on this webpage.
• Carnegie Foundation Perspectives: this is a series of on-line commentaries that examine educational issues.
• Resources for Educational Developers: A Baker’s Dozen by Professor Cynthia Desrochers (cdesrochers@csun.edu).
• A Baker’s Dozen Ideas to Foster Engagement (PDF 131 KB) by Professor Jim Cooper (jcooper@csudh.edu) -- Keynote Talk, 9th Annual CSU Symposium on University Teaching, Spring 2006 CSU Dominguez Hills.
• Riding the Bow Wave CSUCI's one-page faculty development newsletter begun in summer, 2007.

• National Teaching and Learning Forum Current issue and archives.