Center for Faculty Excellence
WELCOME!
Our mission is to facilitate the professional development of faculty in their pursuit of excellence in teaching, research and service. Please explore our website to learn about our training and grant opportunities, as well as a host of other resources to support your professional development and career advancement.
Fall 2023 CANVAS WORKSHOPS
These 90-minute sessions will begin at 10:00am on Fridays. They will also be recorded and posted in your Canvas CATS course. Click on each session to view the agenda and to register.
- September 29 - Assignments
- October 13 - New Quizzes
- October 27 - Grading and Feedback
- November 10 - Course Settings and Sharing
- November 17 - The Canvas Teacher App
The Fall Teaching Institute with Partners in Excellence: "Partnering to Promote Success"
These one-hour workshops will be held in-person in Mims 118 and live streamed. Click on each session to learn more and to register.
- Wednesday, September 20 (3:00pm) - Creating a Student Environment with Dr. Celina Echols
- Wednesday, October 18 (3:00pm) - Student Mental Health with Paige LeBleu, LPC, LMFT
- Tuesday, November 7 (3:00pm) - Student Accessibility & Accommodations with Kim Bergeron, NCC, LPC-S
- Monday, November 27 (11:00am) - Student Engagement Strategies with Dr. Susan Zimlich
CFE Services & Resources
Spotlight on Excellence*
Benny (Brenda Birch) Gallaher (Industrial and Engineering Technology) has had her third anthology published. The
title is Time Swept Treasures: Southern Style, and it is available on Amazon.
Edgar Reyes (Math) had a paper accepted for publication in Matimyas Matematika. The title of the paper is “S w-polar decomposition for O(p,q).” The special case
O(1,3) is the Lorentz group in the physics of space-time. The study and work were
supported by the Kenelly-Voss Endowed Professorship in Mathematics during the period
2018-2021.
Laura J. Fazio-Griffith (Health and Human Sciences) of Baton Rouge was reappointed to the Louisiana Licensed
Professional Counselors Board of Examiners. Fazio-Griffith is a licensed professional
counselor and was nominated by the Louisiana Counseling Association. She will serve
as a counselor educator.
Kent Neuerburg (Mathematics) gave an invited presentation (virtually) at the 2023 International Conference
on Algebra, Analysis, and Applications at Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal,
India. His presentation titled “Exponent-Preserving Groups” discussed results of research
on centralizer nearrings done with Alan Cannon (Mathematics) and Gary Walls (Mathematics).
Anne Babson (English) was interviewed about her book The Bunker Book by Susan Larson on her WWNO show The Reading Life.
Dr. Jerry Parker (World Languages and Cultures) was recently named the 2023 Teacher of the Year by
the Louisiana Foreign Language Teachers Association. He will represent the state of
Louisiana at the 2024 Southern Conference on Language Teaching conference. He was
also recently named managing editor of the academic journal Research Issues in Contemporary Education, the official journal of the Louisiana Educational Research Association.
