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The Office of Faculty Development invites faculty members to attend the Annual New Faculty Picnic to help welcome new faculty to the community. Hosted for 22 years by the Newcomers Committee, the annual picnic is now a program of the Office of Faculty Development. The Newcomers is a volunteer group...

Faculty members are encouraged to participate in fall convocation academic procession, Wednesday, Aug. 27 at 4:30 p.m. at Severance Hall. To participate, faculty members must register by Aug. 25 at case.edu/events/convocation/procession/registration.html. Registrants must indicate whether they are ...

The Center for International Affairs’ 2014-2015 Global Talk Series will begin Thursday, Aug. 21, from noon to 1 p.m., with a talk on “Say My Name Workshop + Supporting Chinese Students in the Classroom.” The workshop is designed to provide faculty with tips on Chinese name pronunciation and tools t...

Blackboard has been updated for the fall 2014 semester to enhance the learning management system. The new version improves the usefulness of Blackboard tests, notifications and groups. At the next University Center for Innovation in Teaching and Education (UCITE) session, Katie Skapin, an instructi...

The Freedman Center for Digital Scholarship at Kelvin Smith Library will host its annual Digital Scholarship Colloquium Nov. 6-7. This year’s colloquium will focus on digital research pedagogy and practices in the humanities, sciences and social sciences. Proposals by faculty and graduate students ...

The ability to make an effective presentation is an important skill. Apart from simply a way to influence how others view you, preparing a good presentation helps sharpen an idea, deliver a more concise and pointed message and improve awareness of the power of language to persuade. Whether teaching...

In spring 2014, the Faculty Climate Survey was administered to faculty members at the rank of instructor and above. The survey questions covered a range of topics, including the quality of faculty life, satisfaction, workload, sources of stress, work environment, leadership, mentoring, promotion and...

Faculty members are invited to apply for the University Center for Innovation in Teaching and Education’s sixth Mentor Fellows program during the Fall 2014 semester. The series of seminars is designed to engage faculty members from across the university in thoughtful discussions and explore ideas o...

The Case Western Reserve University Newcomers Group offers events and resources to welcome new faculty members and their families to the CWRU community. The Newcomers Group hosts wine tastings, a welcome picnic, brown bag lunches, dinner with friends and many other events to help ease the transitio...

For the second year in a row, Case Western Reserve Tuesday set all-time records for both total donors and amount raised in a single 24-hour period. The university’s 2014 Day of Giving attracted 869 contributors, a figure 9 percent higher than last year. They gave $264,203—35 percent and $68,458 hig...