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Campus Support Resources

The Healthy Academics Toolkit

The UW-Madison Healthy Academics Toolkit is a data-driven tool to support a shift in policies, practices, and pedagogies in academic contexts across campus, including classrooms, research labs, and advising offices. It offers specific strategies and resources that can be implemented to proactively support the health and wellbeing of both undergraduate and graduate students.

Dean of Students Office – Resources for Faculty and Staff

The Office of Student Assistance and Support (OSAS) Faculty & Staff Resource List provides a series of how-to guides on topics such as addressing disruptive classroom behavior, supporting students’ mental health, and more. It also discusses FERPA policy and includes direct links to the separate services OSAS provides–(for example, drop-in consulting, Student of Concern forms, and Undocumented Student Support).

Campus-Supported Resource: National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity

As a member of UW-Madison, you have access to our institution’s membership in the National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity. This is a great resource chock full of teaching resources, webinars, and community connection platforms.

A lot of the NCFDD material is pitched to tenure-track faculty. The center discusses practices for academic productivity, writing, avoiding burnout, etc. They also feature some resources specifically for students, graduate students, and administrators.

It can be difficult to juggle research and teaching requirements during the semester. In addition to its teaching support materials, the NCFDD  hosts an occasional two-week online “writing retreat”—essentially a short daily online check-in and optional chat room where writers of all academic positions and ranks share their daily writing goals and challenges and track their progress.

Faculty Advising

Guide to Effective Advising – NSF Aspire Alliance

In Fall 2019 the NSF Aspire Alliance released a new resource for faculty about effective advising. While most of the examples are tailored to STEM faculty, the Guide should translate easily across disciplines.

The vision of the National Science Foundation-funded Aspire Alliance is to increase the learning, persistence, and completion of students from underrepresented groups (URG) in colleges and universities in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Faculty are a key leverage point in the success of URG undergraduate students. When URG students are taught by URG faculty, they achieve at significantly higher rates. Research also reveals that inclusive teaching, mentoring and advising each leads to enhanced performance, self-efficacy, and STEM identity, which foster persistence. In addition, while academic advising in higher education has been professionalized and its importance in student success recognized, faculty advising has not yet experienced the advancement in scholarship, theory and practice that is needed.

The National Change Team of the Aspire Alliance is working to provide current and future faculty with training in advising (and teaching and mentoring) so that they can improve their own repertoire of skills to be effective educators for students from all backgrounds.

• NSF Aspire Alliance’s Guide to Academic Advising for STEM Faculty (free, downloadable pdf):
  https://www.aspirealliance.org/national-change/national-change-resources/faculty-advising-guide

Please send colleagues to the website to download the pdf – the Inclusive Teaching team at UW-Madison is tracking downloads.

Campus Events and Workshops

The Center for Teaching, Learning, & Mentoring at UW-Madison hosts a number of campus workshops around teaching and learning, and it also enthusiastically signal-boosts campus partners’ events as well. If you scroll to the bottom of the page, you will also see a rolling calendar of events related to teaching and learning across campus.