The Office of Faculty Development and Academic Support and Center for Teaching Excellence are offering the Mid-semester Diagnostic Instructional Feedback Service throughout the spring semester. The service is particularly helpful for junior faculty or graduate teaching assistants who are new to college teaching, senior faculty interested in reexamining and revitalizing their teaching strategies, instructors who are teaching a course for the first time or who have just created or revised a course, and faculty and teaching assistants who are building a record of teaching development, which can be used in personnel actions such as promotion and tenure decisions or contract renewal. The service includes small group instructional diagnosis, paper and pencil assessment, videotape assessment and classroom observation. The service is conducted at the request of the instructor and treated confidentially by CTE consultants. East West Toastmasters Toastmasters, a nonprofit educational organization focusing on public speaking, provides faculty, staff and students opportunities to improve their presentation skills.
Meetings are on campus at lunch time.
For more information, call Beth Ruze at 734-2481. The Access to College Excellence program in UHM Colleges of Arts and Sciences is recruiting peer mentors for fall 1999. Peer mentors provide Arts and Sciences first-year students friendship and support and encourage them to be actively involved in the University community. In addition to the feeling of satisfaction that comes from helping others, useful communication and leadership skills are gained through course work and practical experience. Peer mentors must be juniors by fall, in good academic standing and enthusiastic about helping their fellow students.