Changing Roles: Impacting Student Achievement through Faculty Development
Free Online Presentation
Monday, February 27, 2023
1:00 to 2:00 pm CST
Presented via Zoom
Faculty development provides librarians the opportunity to use our considerable expertise to develop scalable and sustainable programs that support teaching and learning – making a significant, demonstrable impact on the educational missions of our institutions.
Librarians have a long history of developing or supporting faculty development (Fribley et al., 2021). Recent scholarship describing librarian experiences as faculty developers provides evidence that librarians can effectively act in the role and indicates that such work can positively impact student achievement (Bowles-Terry & Sobel, 2022; Flierly et al., 2020; Sharun & Smith, 2020). However, the faculty developer role is not yet closely associated with librarianship (Handler & Hays, 2019). Librarians may hesitate to implement faculty development initiatives for fear that they lack the experience, knowledge, or skills.
In this interactive panel discussion, three librarians with significant experience leading faculty development initiatives will discuss how librarians can impact student outcomes by adopting a faculty developer role. Panelists will discuss key issues, including:
- How does faculty development support librarians’ teaching and learning goals?
- What factors support librarians’ ability to act as faculty developers?
- How does faculty development align with the traditional role and identity of librarians?
- How can librarians develop their capacity to act as faculty developers?
Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions and share comments via Padlet. They will leave with an enhanced understanding of the faculty developer role and actionable steps for integrating faculty development into their practice.
Presenters
Jane Hammons is an assistant professor and the Teaching & Learning Engagement Librarian at The Ohio State University Libraries. Her work centers on providing instructor development to support the integration of information literacy into the curriculum, and her research explores the potential for librarians to impact teaching and learning through faculty development. Jane has been published in The Journal of Academic Librarianship, The Journal of Information Literacy, and she has pending publications in Portal: Libraries and the Academy and College & Research Libraries.
Amanda Folk is an associate professor and Head of the Teaching & Learning Department at The Ohio State University Libraries. Her scholarly interests include exploring the sociocultural nature of information literacy and its implications for teaching and learning and examining the academic and library experiences of student populations that have traditionally been marginalized in higher education in the United States. In addition to serving as the editor-in-chief for The Journal of Academic Librarianship, Amanda has been published in College & Research Libraries, Portal: Libraries and the Academy, College & Undergraduate Libraries, The Journal of Information Literacy, and International Information & Library Review. Amanda was the recipient of the 2020 ACRL Instruction Sections’ Ilene F. Rockman Instruction Publication of the Year Award.
Michael Flierl is an associate professor and Student Learning Librarian at The Ohio State University Libraries. His scholarship investigates the intersections of information literacy and student learning and success through qualitative and quantitative methods. Michael worked in Purdue’s award-winning faculty development program, IMPACT, for five years in various leadership capacities, including as the Special Issues Editor for Reference Services Review and as a Fellow at The Institute for Information Literacy at Purdue. He has co-authored publications on faculty development in various scholarly spaces, including College & Research Libraries, Library & Information Science Research, as well as an invited occasional paper for the National Institute for Learning Outcomes/Assessment.
Additional Information
This session will be moderated by Samantha Harlow from the ULS Professional Development Committee.
If you can’t make this session but wish to view a recording later, please register so that you’ll receive an email that includes a link to the video of the presentation. Please direct questions and concerns to Andrea Wright (wright.andrea@outlook.com) or Samantha Harlow (slharlow@uncg.edu), co-chairs of the ACRL ULS Professional Development Committee. A full list of the committee’s past and future programs are available here.
