The Center for Faculty Excellence (CFE)
Staff
Shelley Rose, Director
Campus Location: RT1323
shelley.rose@csuohio.edu
Molly Buckley-Marudas, Director
Campus Location: JH327
m.buckley67@csuohio.edu
Hyah Herbawi, Coordinator
Campus Location: AC 223
Cleveland, OH 44115
cfe@csuohio.edu
Workshops
2025-2026 AY
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Spring 2026 Workshops
Workshop Categories: AI: Get in the Know | We are CSU | Cultivate Career | Teaching: Create and Learn
All workshops are Tuesdays or Thursdays, 11:30am-12:20pm, unless otherwise noted.
| Title (click title to register) | Presenter | Description |
|---|---|---|
Using the Ally Accessibility Report in Your Blackboard Course Jan (20, 27,29) | CSU Online | This webinar will cover guiding principles for accessibility, workflow for getting your course ready for accessibility and using the Accessibility check tool on your Blackboard course. |
Generative AI Workshop I Introduction Feb 3 | Chris Rennison | This workshop offers a beginner-friendly introduction to generative AI tools, focusing on ChatGPT and Microsoft CoPilot. Tailored for higher education faculty and staff with little to no experience with AI, this session will demystify how these tools work and demonstrate practical applications in teaching, research, and administrative tasks. By the end of the workshop, you’ll gain the confidence to start experimenting with AI tools and discover how they can make your academic and administrative processes more efficient and effective. |
Collaboration in a “small” class. Feb 5 In Person Session Location: BH 444 | Michael Wiitala | Wondering how to work more collaboration into your courses? This workshop will focus on how to bring collaboration into quizzes, tests, or exams using immediate feedback assessment techniques. During this interactive workshop you'll learn how to implement immediate feedback assessment techniques into your courses. The workshop will begin with a short, five-question quiz on this article: Using the Immediate Feedback Assessment You can either read or not read the article in advance. Our students often don’t do reading assignments, and experiencing how test taking feels for them can be instructive. After the quiz, which will include a collaborative element, we'll discuss the advantages and potential disadvantages to collaboration in quizzes, tests, and exams, and brainstorm easy ways you could implement immediate feedback assessment techniques in your courses. |
Feb 10 | CSU Online and the Office of Disability Services | |
Accessible PowerPoint Presentations Feb 12 | CSU Online and the Office of Disability Services | |
Feb 17 | CSU Online and the Office of Disability Services | |
CARE: Managing School/Work/Life Balance Feb 26 | Care Team, Reinhild Boehme | An open and frank discussion with the CARE team for faculty, students and staff. Learn about signs, support, resources and limits. |
Generative AI Workshop II Integration March 3 | Chris Rennison | This session introduces faculty and staff to the core principles of writing effective prompts for generative AI tools, with a focus on clarity, structure, and intent. Participants will learn practical prompting strategies that reduce iteration time, improve output quality, and support responsible academic use of AI. Through guided examples and hands-on practice, attendees will leave with techniques they can apply immediately in their teaching, service, and daily workflows. |
Collaboration in an online class March 4 (Wednesday) | Tatiana Gracyk | |
Collaboration in a “large” class. March 24 In-Person Session. Location TBA | Erin Avram | In this interactive workshop, faculty will explore evidence‑informed, scalable strategies for fostering meaningful collaboration in high‑enrollment courses across disciplines. Participants will experience several collaborative structures firsthand, then analyze how these approaches can be adapted for their own teaching contexts. Be sure to bring a laptop or tablet to this workshop. |
March 26 | Antonio Medina-Rivera | This workshop will provide some helpful insights to those faculty members who are planning to present their 3rd or 5th Year Review Dossier during the next two academic years. We will go over guidelines and documents that can help with the preparation, and specific ideas on how to prepare your teaching, service, and scholarship portfolios. The presenters will share their experiences as previous chairs and will be open to answer questions from the audience. |
HELP! My student doesn’t Read! Forum March 31 | Care team, Reinhild Boehme | Faculty are welcome to join us for a discussion about online teaching concerns. Providing support to students (how to write a proper email, is your course set up for online/ hybrid courses) |
April 14 | Antonio Medina-Rivera | A web-based database for faculty to record their work output (eFAAR) and submit dossiers for review (eDossier) eFAAR is based on data management. eDossier is based on document management. Now owned by Interfolio, previously Data 180Your data, you input, you delete, you maintain |
Generative AI Workshop III Implementation April 28 | Chris Rennison | This session introduces faculty and staff to the core principles of writing effective prompts for generative AI tools, with a focus on clarity, structure, and intent. Participants will learn practical prompting strategies that reduce iteration time, improve output quality, and support responsible academic use of AI. Through guided examples and hands-on practice, attendees will leave with techniques they can apply immediately in their teaching, service, and daily workflows. |
April 30 |
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Staff
Shelley Rose, Director
Campus Location: RT1323
shelley.rose@csuohio.edu
Molly Buckley-Marudas, Director
Campus Location: JH327
m.buckley67@csuohio.edu
Hyah Herbawi, Coordinator
Campus Location: AC 223
Cleveland, OH 44115
cfe@csuohio.edu