The Jesuit Social Research Institute and the Office of Grants & Sponsored Programs will be hosting a Grant Writing Workshop Series during the Fall semester. The three session series will provide faculty and staff with the tools to craft successful grant proposals from private and federal funders, secure research grants, and prepare fellowship proposals.

Library faculty will profile ways to diversify your student research assignments as alternatives or complements to the traditional research paper. Our examples will be drawn from the wider higher education field as well as from recent Loyola New Orleans courses. We will focus on phasing and scaling research assignments, on contextualizing assignments with application and reflection, and on sharing research in a range of formats, but especially as digital scholarship.

Please come support our summer Marquette Fellows as they present on their studies and projects. 

Andrew Denney, Prison Chaplains in the Age of COVID-19: An Examination of Job Duties and Meeting the Spiritual Needs of Inmates

Scott Heath, Head Theory: How Hip Hop Works

Ty Lawson, The Bitter End

Naomi Yavneh Klos, In Quarantine with Anne Frank: Lessons of Compassion in a Time of Anxiety, Uncertainty and Hate

Join library faculty and staff to learn ways that we can partner with you on both your own research as well as your classroom teaching. We would also like to hear more about what your teaching and research look like in order to identify new ways to creatively collaborate with you.

Learn about recent retention trends for undergraduate students based on demographic information and exit interviews. Liz Rainey will present fall 2021 to fall 2022 retention data as well as early trends in the fall 2022 semester. Faculty will learn ways to address retention challenges in their classes, advising meetings, and referrals. 

How do we instill the Jesuit ideals of service to others and special concern for the poor and oppressed? Consider using service learning in your courses! Not sure where to start? Not sure how it fits? Service can be used in virtually any discipline. Come find out how to utilize service learning pedagogy in your courses.

Responding efficiently and effectively to student work is a significant area of study in Composition and Rhetoric, but it is often not a part of graduate training in other disciplines--even though many fields use writing for assessment and to help students develop disciplinary competencies.

In this presentation, Dr. Omid Fotuhi (Director of Learning and Innovation at WGU Labs) will present some research findings on the consistent ways in which some institutional cues and messaging disproportionately disadvantage students from under-represented groups. We will also explore strategies and interventions to correct messaging strategies, and convey encouragement, high standards, and inclusion. Specifically, how to keep students engaged after receiving critical feedback and in response to a probation letter.

Join us for a workshop where we teach you how to use templates, create a navigation homepage, and set up the gradebook. Whether you are new or an expert, you are sure to learn some new information. Please bring a laptop, if you are able to do so.

September 8, 12:30pm, Multimedia Room 2

Presented by Dr. Dan Guo