Greetings from the Director of Adjunct Relations

August 28, 2014 You are the backbone of this university In This Issue Greetings from the Director Adjunct Spotlight University News Events Share Your Knowledge Greetings from the Director of Adjunct Relations In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn. Phil Collins

Welcome to the Fall 2014. I am prayerful that you enjoyed your Summer and spent it well with your family and friends. Remember Adjunct Faculty Relations is here to assist and support you, please feel free to email me directly or send an email to adjunct.faculty.relations@saintleo.edu at any time. Just a little update Mr. Bobby Sullivan has successfully transitioned to the Virginia Region as a full-time Criminal Justice Professor/Regional Academic Director and I/we thank him for his continued service and leadership. So far my regional visits are going well, thank you for your warm receptions and speaking with me about what we are doing right and what we can improve upon. Remember we are building the vision of Community and One University across the Saint Leo University footprint and I look forward to our continued work TOGETHER! Previously we have used Newsletters and Lunch-N-Learns to engage Adjuncts. I would like to add the use of Social Media (LinkedIn) and various other training initiatives to have a more continuous and fruitful engagement. Below is our very own LinkedIn link for Adjunct Faculty Relations. I encourage everyone to request membership as it is a closed internal group so that we may share discussions without any student interaction. https://www.linkedin.com/groups/saint-leo-university-adjunct-faculty-6740162/about Thank you once again and I look forward to serving you in any way that I can. Duane Stephens Dr. Kirk's Community Day Address On August 19, 2014, Dr. Kirk addressed the university community, citing our growth as a university and announcing that he will retire at the end of the 2014-2015 academic year. To see this powerful address, please follow the link below. http://itod.saintleo.edu/mediasite/play/8747cf8133c147128f73a40700ec6ef61d?catalog=f82d74c7-880c-4757-bb30-6b20b193755e Annual Mandatory Training for all Saint Leo University Employees! All Saint Leo employees, including adjunct faculty, are required to complete a series of mandatory online trainings annually. Adjunct professors now have access to these courses through an online learning management system called the Performance and Development Center (PDC).

To access compliance training, simply follow these three easy steps: 1. Log in to the University portal at my.saintleo.edu using your Saint Leo user name and password. Click the link at the top of the homepage that says Performance and Development. 2. Once in the PDC, mouse over the Training tab, and click My Transcript. 3. From the transcript page, simply click the course titled 2015 Core Compliance Training to open the curriculum. Once open, click Activate for each course, then click Launch to start the course. If you experience technical difficulties launching our courses, please refer to the technical quick guides for assistance. Or, you can call our office directly and we be glad to assist you, professionaldev@saintleo.edu, or (352)588-7547. Hello all Saint Leo University faculty! The Center for Online Learning is seeking adjunct faculty for the following online course subject areas: Accounting Business Law Computer Science Criminal Justice Economics English Humanities Math Marketing Psychology Religion Sociology Social Sciences If you are interested in teaching online and have been cleared to teach Saint Leo University courses, please contact Carla Dorzweiler, Associate Director of Faculty Services Carla.dorzweiler@saintleo.edu.

Adjunct Spotlight Photo credit Andy Jones /Tampa Tribune Jesse Collins Click HERE for the full article on Master Deputy Collins. Time Off If you will not be teaching during Fall 1 or Fall II, but would still like to receive our emails, please send an email to Adjunct.Faculty.Relations@saintleo.edu. Library Information Click below to ensure you have the most up to date library information to share with your students! http://saintleolibrary.cloudaccess.net/general-help/93-help/258-faculty-syllabus-libraryinformation.html Check out our page! The Adjunct Faculty Relations page on the Saint Leo website has been updated. Please click the link below for quick access to news, events, frequently used documents and forms (tuition remission information), and of course for the current and previous issues of the newsletter! Please click HERE to visit the Adjunct Faculty Relations page!

Success Alert (SALERT) is a Datatel delivered retention alert system used to track and record classroom management issues. The data entered into SALERT can be used to track student retention, to determine correlations between retention and case types, and to identify patterns of behavior. SALERT helps retain students by maintaining a historical record on students. This record benefits students and instructors. A historical record can be used to provide evidence of instructors personal contact, emails, and other communications to students regarding concerns. It can also be used to identify student behaviors that could benefit from intervention. To request training or for questions, contact Amanda Wright, retention specialist, at 352-588-8602 or Amanda.wright@saintleo.edu. Try these Quick Clicks Resources for Faculty Faculty Handbook Adjunct Faculty Handbook Writing Across the Curriculum Resource Page Teaching Resources Library Orientation for Faculty Click Here to access the 2014-2015 academic catalogs, schedules, and calendars. Of course, the most important link is this one. It will take you to the University website s site map! Note from the Office of Disability Services To all Adjunct Professors:

The Office of Disability Services sends letters of accommodations to you in the beginning of each term. Along with this, for those on the main campus, we ask for the exams to be sent to our office either in person or through email so the students are able to take their exams with the allotted extended time. Having the student pick up the exams in front of the class only makes public the disability and cuts the time off from their exams. Please read your emails for the notifications of the tests and send the exams to the ds-proctoring@saintleo.edu email address. This is VERY important! Thank you for your support of our students, Chris Georgallis Assistant Director of Disability Services Continuing Education Resources To access Continuing Education manuals and resources, go to the SLU Intranet, select Continuing Education at the top, and then select Continuing Education Resources in the left column navigator. A number of documents are posted in folders. For example, in the Academic Advising Tools folder, you will find the Academic Advising Handbook as well as a New Student Checklist to use when advising students. You will also want to review the other documents posted in this folder. The Continuing Education Operations Manual is also available in another folder. If you have any questions about any of the resources or need additional resources, please email Beth Carter. University News Saint Leo University named a 2014 Great College to Work For Saint Leo was named 2014 Great College to Work For and also received honors in 10 categories ranging from benefits to confidence in senior leadership. Due to being rated highly in 10 out of 12 categories, Saint Leo was also named a 2014 Honor Roll institution. This is based on a survey of more than 43,500 employees at 278 colleges and universities. To see the 10 categories Saint Leo achieved honors in and the full story click HERE.

Tedd "Gunny" Weiser, Interim Director of Veteran Student Services, came to visit the Eglin Center! He will be Interim Director while Dr. Jose Coll completes his ACE fellowship. Look out for some great events from the Office of Veteran Student Services! Veteran Student Services Introduces New Program Read below for a message from the Office of Veteran Student Affairs. The Office of Veteran Student Services rolled out its Kognito program to all student veterans and faculty and staff the first week of August. The necessary keys to access the courseware will be sent out to center directors and staff, as well as the student veteran population, via email. For more information, please contact the Veteran Student Services Office at (352) 588-8234 or via email at vss@saintleo.edu. Veteran Student Services Introduces OKTOBERVETS OKTOBERVETS will be the first event of the year that the Office of Veteran Student Services puts on. This will be a dinner held October 2, 2014 in the Greenfelder-Delinger Boardrooms on University Campus. The Veteran Student Services Office is asking that all veteran faculty and staff please send their name and branch of service to vss@saintleo.edu so that you may made aware of events such as this and more. Fort Lee Education Center Students, Faculty, and Staff Participated in 3rd Annual Peanut Butter, Jelly, and Graham Crackers Drive

The drive made it possible for six boxes to be taken to a local food bank in the area. Congratulations to the Fort Lee Center and supporters for exercising the value of Community. You are Saint Leo! Sports News The Lions will be back in action August 19 th! During the post season the Lions have been racking up academic accolades across all sports. The National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) announced the 2013-14 NABC Honors Court, recognizing collegiate men's basketball student-athletes who excelled academically during the past season. Honoring teams with a cumulative grade point average (GPA) of 3.0 or better for the 2013-14 season as well as individuals. The Saint Leo men's basketball team earned the award for the 2013-14 academic year along with standouts, senior Spenser Mitchell and juniors Taylor Bassett and Ryan Wilson. The Intercollegiate Tennis Association has selected the Saint Leo University women's tennis program as an All-Academic team for its successful 2014 season. The ITA All-Academic Team award is open to any ITA member program that has a cumulative team grade point average of 3.20 or above (on a 4.00 scale). The Lions also had six individual selections to the team. Ismail Lemtouni, Matt Nicholson-Lewis and Fons Verberne received the prestigious on the Men s side. The College Swimming Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) named four Saint Leo University student-athletes 2014 CSCAA Individual Scholar All-Americans. Nicole Weber and Stephanie Martinez were named to the 2014 Division II women's team, while Matheus Assis and Gabriel Keown were Division II men's team selections. The Saint Leo Men's and Women's Swim teams were both honored with the 2014 Spring CSCAA Scholar All-America Teams award

supported by Nike Swim. In addition the program placed 23 student-athletes on the Sunshine State Conference Spring Commissioner's Honor Roll, which honors student-athletes who post a minimum grade-point average of 3.20 on the 4.0 scale. For more information on these stories and more make sure to check out SaintLeoLions.com. Events 125 th Anniversary Poetry Contest The university is conducting a poetry contest, and students, faculty, staff and alumni are invited to create and submit a poem that embodies the spirit of Saint Leo. Sponsored by the Department of English, Fine Arts and Humanities, Sandhill Review, Lightning Key Review, and The Sandhill Writers Retreat, the contest welcomes a broad range of reflections, experiences and memories in all poetic forms. First, second, and third-place winners, with possible honorable mentions, will be recognized during the Founders Week celebration. Winning poems will also be placed on plaques at a place of recognition at University Campus, as well as on the 125th-anniversary web page, and will be included in the Sandhill Review and a Highlights in History e-mail and blog post. For full information including submission guidelines please visit the link HERE. Please submit any events happening at your center to Adjunct.Faculty.Relations@saintleo.edu Share your Knowledge Adjunct Mentions Todd Wilmore was honored with being the Closing Plenary Speaker at The Great Lakes Conference on Teaching and Learning, on the campus of Central Michigan University in Mount Pleasant, Michigan, May 14 through 16, 2014. The seventh annual conference brought together hundreds of educators and dozens of presenters to share knowledge and practices, and facilitate lively, interactive sessions.

The title of his closing was: Go Farther - Erase the Lines "Don t just go outside the lines that define how you teach - Erase them. Let s talk about taking down the fences and letting student imagination run free. Let s not be afraid to erase the lines that constrain our teaching and confine our learners." He was also selected to present a concurrent session called: How to Gamify Your Classes. "A growing body of research indicates that games work in reinforcing learning if they trigger real emotions and are compelling and immersive. Gamification is a method we can use to create in students a desire to explore and collaborate. We can add elements of surprise and interest that is difficult to do in traditional formats. And we can do it while achieving our learning objectives." Robert Rivers- On May 4, 2013, he completed his Doctor of Ministry degree in Christian Spirituality from Washington Theological Union, Washington, DC. On April 25, 2014, at the National Association of Deacon Directors annual convention in Atlanta, he presented two talks on his national survey for wives of Roman Catholic deacons and deacons candidates. We would love to publish your success stories in the Adjunct Faculty Newsletter. Please submit a paragraph or two: Adjunct.Faculty.Relations@saintleo.edu August 28, 2014 Office of Adjunct Faculty Relations adjunct.faculty.relations@saintleo.edu