Your online presence is your key to opening or shutting the doors to positive student communication, conflict resolution, and learning. Join us and share ways of becoming visible to students while in your synchronous online classroom and while communicating asynchronously with your students whether through postings or e-mail. Choose to be a professor who is clearly seen and heard in the world of online learning.

This session is open to ALL faculty—whether you teach online or on-campus. Visit the Faculty Fellows Hub to get complete details on all the sessions being offered.

Interested in signing up for this session? RSVP today!

Student Support offices across the college have been hard at work on a new Simmons platform for student advising, and now Starfish is almost here! Starfish is a toolset for advisors and student support staff to better guide students in pursuit of their educational goals. We are preparing to launch Starfish for undergraduate students and our Nursing@Simmons and SocialWork@Simmons programs.

Starfish provides advisors with critical information about their advisees’ course of study and allows them to log notes, set up appointments, make referrals, and connect with the rest of a student’s support network in a single, easy-to-use platform.

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As advisors and instructors begin to use Starfish in the coming months, students can expect:

• Advisors will have access to more information about your courses, academic plans, and performance
• Communications from faculty and staff, including:
  • Academic Alerts from faculty – early warnings and guidance on how to address potential issues
  • Kudos for exceptional or improved performance
  • Referral notifications
• Faculty and staff will be better empowered to follow up on requests and help students identify and work through academic challenges
• Services Listing – find hours, location, and contact information for student support offices
• “Raise Your Hand” – when you have a specific question but aren’t sure where to turn, use this feature to ask for help by topic

Additional details and training materials about Starfish usage for faculty and staff are coming soon. To learn more about the project and its goals, please visit our project website.

It’s not easy being a faculty instructor. You are expected to know laws affecting you and those you teach, inside and outside of the classroom. If you have ever wondered what certain laws or Simmons policies really require, if you sometimes struggle to balance classroom rights and responsibilities, or if you want to have greater confidence about legal issues in higher education, we invite you to attend this program.

The instructor will answer commonly asked questions by faculty compiled through her more than 25 years of advising and representing colleges and universities, and their faculty, Deans, and Presidents. Attendees will be invited to submit questions prior to the program.

This session is open to ALL faculty—whether you teach online or on-campus. Visit the Faculty Fellows Hub to get complete details on all the sessions being offered.

Interested in signing up for this session? RSVP today!

Our Endpoint Systems team and Service Desk staff are keeping the computer replacement project on track, on time, and on budget.

During March, they completed the final round of department scheduling and moved forward with additional deployments to faculty and staff across campus.

Throughout the spring semester, our team will continue with computer replacements based on the planning we’ve done with each department. If you have questions about the project or your eligibility to receive a new computer, please visit our project website or contact the Service Desk.