The Toolkit for Conversations and Considerations about Faculty Evaluation – Provides resources for campuses of the Associated Colleges of the South (ACS) interested in revisiting their faculty evaluation processes with a particular lens toward realigning those processes, as needed, with the institution’s specific mission, strategic goals, values, and commitments.
2026 Reading Groups:
- Inclusive Conversations in Practice Final Report
- The Mentor Mindset: Motivating Undergraduates to Succeed Final Report
2026 Workshop Groups:
- Breaking Down the Walls: Faculty and Career Advisors Working Together to Improve Student Career Outcomes Final Report
- Enhancing Interdisciplinary Programs: Rural-Urban Experiences & Cultural Exchanges
- Writing Accountability Groups
2025 Podcast Episodes:
2025 Working Groups:
- Course Design Institute: Taking the Leap into Specifications Grading
- The First Two Weeks: Fostering Community for Meaningful Civil Discourse
2025 Workshop Groups:
- Developing Recruitment Strategies While Navigating the Anti-DEI Crusade
- PLAI-ing with CLAAI: Critical (and Fun!) Innovation
- Prompting Success with Generative AI in Teaching and Student Research
2024 Working Groups:
- A Generative AI Toolset for Student Centered Learning Resource Page
- Courageous Community Conversations Final Report
- Women’s Leadership Development Final Report
2024 Reading Groups:
- Spark of Learning Reading Guide
- Teach Students How to Learn Reading Guide
- Teaching Climate Change: Science, Stories, Justice Reading Guide
2024 Workshop Groups:
2023 Working Groups:
- Embracing the Prospects and Addressing the Challenges of Artificial Intelligence Represented by ChatGPT for the Teaching and Learning of Foreign Languages Final Report
Resource Links
Bibliography - Strengthening the Arts and Humanities across ACS Schools Final Report
- Synergies of Team Teaching Final Report
- Writing Accountability Group Final Report
2023 Reading Groups:
- Being Human in STEM: Partnering with Students to Shape Inclusive Practices and Communities Reading Guide
- Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities Reading Guide
- The Prepared Leader: Emerging from Any Crisis More Resilient than Before Reading Guide
- Universities on Fire: Higher Education in the Climate Crises Reading Guide
- Writing With Pleasure Reading Guide
2023 Workshop Groups:
- Applying Adaptive and Interactive Learning Practices in Undergraduate Statistics Courses Resource Page
- Bullying in the Academic Workplace: What is Looks Like, Why It’s More Harmful Than You Think, and What You Can Do to Combat It Resource Page
- Chocolate Covered Teaching Final Report
- Pathways to Diversity: Extending Our Reach Librarian Workbook
2023 Projects:
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Please contact Vanessa De Almeida Hook at vhook@acsouth.edu with questions regarding available reports.