• Campus Events - Getting Involved on Campus and Meeting Colleagues and Students
• Family and Living Support
• Lecturer Review Information
• RTP Information (for Tenure-Track faculty)
• Research Information and Opportunities
  • Opportunity to view webcasts with your colleagues on Friday mornings.
• Service Opportunities
• SJSU Career Opportunities [SJSU HR website]
• Teaching Resources
  • Student Success Information
• Workshops and Discussions Opportunities on teaching, scholarship, service, career planning

Workshops on Teaching, Scholarship, Service and Career Planning

• COB Teaching Workshops
• Center for Faculty Development 
  • Workshop calendar
  • Peer Partners in Teaching Information
• Educated Person Brown Bag sessions
• Human Resources Training Calendar

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Campus Events

• If you are not receiving an "SJSU This Week" email every Monday, please click here to sign up for this service to help keep you apprised of university events and important dates
• SJSU Events Calendar
• Spartan Daily SpartaGuide (check newspaper daily)
• Campus Reading Program Events
• School of Music & Dance Concert Schedule
• Center for Literary Arts Schedule

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Teaching Resources

• Teaching & Learning Resources from the Center for Faculty Development
• Teaching Ideas from Some COB Faculty
• Books (some may be available in the Ctr for Faculty Development in the IRC building, 2nd floor)
  • Free online bookby Professor Joe Hoyle with lots of tips that can be immediately implemented
  • McKeachie's Teaching Tips
  • What the Best College Teachers Do
  • Advice for New Faculty Members
  • The Compleat Academic - A Career Guide
  • Effective Grading
• How to Speak: Lecture Tips from Patrick Winston of MIT(short videos)
• Teaching and Learning Information from Carleton College
• Harvard Business Review - Get free access to cases and notes by registering at the educator link at that site

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Student Success Information

• Student retention informationfrom Penn State
• SJSU NSSE data
• Benchmarks of Effective Educational Practice (from NSSE) - please read - great info!
• Promoting Student Success - What Faculty Members Can Do (pdf)(NSSE)

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Retention, Tenure & Promotion (RTP) Information

• Teaching & Learning Support Opportunities from the Ctr for Faculty Development
• Office of Faculty Affairs

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Lecturer Information

• Annual evaluation information
• Office of Faculty Affairs

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Research/Scholarship Information & Opportunities

• Be sure people know you exist and what your areas of expertise are:
  • Experts Database - be sure you are listed
  • Have a website and keep it current
  • Participate in activities of your professional/academic association
  • Submit your publications and presentations to be noted in the College of Business Intellectual Contribution Newsletter.
• Center for the Advancement of Research Methods and Analysis (CARMA) - webcasts available on various topics (COB has a subscription to this service - please use it; register using your COB email address; live webcasts need to be over an IP address connected to SJSU)
  • Carma webcast schedule - you can watch these Friday morning monthly webcasts by yourself or with colleagues through the SJSU Center for Faculty Development. Check their schedule at http://www.sjsu.edu/cfd
• SJSU Behavioral and Applied Research Group
• Information from Joel West on statistical software options (pdf)
• Graduate Studies & Research Office - guidance, resources, IRB and more
• Grant Information
• SJSU Research Foundation - Funding opportunities, workshops, and more
• King Library page with links to online research and other materials
• King Library Database- PapersInvited - provides information on calls for papers and much more

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Service Opportunities

There are many opportunities for service on and off campus. For off-campus opportunities, consider the professional organizations you belong to. For on-campus:

• Serve as faculty advisor to a student club
  • COB Student Clubs
• Serve on an Academic Senate Committee:
  • Academic Senate
  • Committee Information
  • Let the COB Committee on Committees representative - Joyce Osland (osland_j@cob.sjsu.edu) know of your interest in serving on a committee.
• Ask your Department Chair about service opportunities in the department and college.
• Chairing a committee? Check out Marlene Turner's guide to being an effective committee chair
• Look for campus activities, such as strategic planning forums, COB's Silicon Valley Center for Entrepreneurship events, Socrates Cafe sessions, reading discussion groups, Educated Person brown bags, and other events where you can interact with students and employees.

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Family and Living Support

• Higher Education Recruitment Consortium - a variety of information  including job leads a family member moving to the area may be interested in.
• On-campus faculty and staff housing

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