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Faculty Spring Symposium

Full-time Faculty: Join us on the Melbourne Campus for the Faculty Spring 2026 Symposium on Thursday, January 8, 2025! In keeping with our Grow EFSC 2025-26 theme, come cultivate a successful term with help from workshops, academic discipline meetings, and more.

January 8th Spring Symposium Schedule

8:30 - 9:00 AM - UFF Meeting (Bldg. 4)
9:00 - 9:30 AM - Coffee & Smiles (Bldg. 10)
9:30 - 10:00 AM - Administrative Announcements & Faculty Recognition (Bldg. 4)
10:00 - 11:30 AM - Guest Speaker Presentation (Bldg. 4)
11:30 AM - 12:45 PM - Lunch & Council Announcements (Bldg. 16)
1:00 PM - 2:15 PM - Concurrent Workshops, Block One
2:30 PM - 3:45 PM - Concurrent Workshops, Block Two

Guest Speaker Presentation: Guardrails, not Gotchas: Policy and Practice for AI on Campus - Christian Moriarty

Campus AI use is growing fast while oversight and safeguards struggle to keep pace. This session provides a clear ethics update on bias, opacity, hallucinations, detector limits, privacy, and uneven access, and then offers practical "stoplight" policy suggestions for informed decision-making. Green covers low-risk, well-documented uses that align with mission and law. Yellow allows conditional uses with human oversight, transparency, and due process. Red prohibits high-risk practices that undermine privacy, fairness, legal duties, or due process. Participants will practice classifying real campus scenarios, apply a one-page privacy and transparency checklist, and leave with a stoplight scaffold and a simple plan to pilot changes in a course, unit, or workflow. The goal is to move from hype to balanced strategies that protect people and support real learning.

Speaker Bio: Christian Moriarty is a Professor of Ethics and Law at St. Petersburg College, Chair of the Academic Integrity Council at SPC, and a director and treasurer for the International Center for Academic Integrity. He earned a BA in Psychology and Interdisciplinary Science Honors and an MA in Ethics from the University of South Florida, holds a JD from Stetson University, and is a licensed member of The Florida Bar.

He is currently pursuing a doctorate in education with a focus on AI policy at Florida State University. He teaches applied ethics, professional responsibility, and the law of art and intellectual property. Professor Moriarty consults and speaks globally on academic integrity and AI ethics and law, with clients including Harvard University and the Parliamentary Confederation of the Americas, and has served as a guest professor at Riga Technical University, Latvia.

Workshops Block 1: Info & RSVP Links
Workshops Block 2: Info & RSVP Links

Please Note: These workshops run concurrently on January 8th from 1 to 2:15 PM. You must only register for one of the following sessions as space is limited.

Take Your First Step into OER

Location: Melbourne, Bldg. 1, Rm. 161
Seating Cap: 25
Presented by: OER Committee

Open Educational Resources (OER) are free and openly licensed materials that faculty may use, adapt, and share with face-to-face, blended or online students. In this hands-on session, you will explore a variety of open educational materials and consider applications for using an OER in your teaching.  

Original Work in the Age of AI: Rethinking Integrity, Ownership, and Assessment

Location: Melbourne, Bldg. 7, Rm. 114
Seating Cap: 60
Presented by: Ramona Smith and Ilana Grimes

This session explores a central question: “How is AI changing what counts as original, authentic, and meaningful student work?” Framed through three interconnected lenses—academic integrity, authorship and ownership, and assessment redesign—the presenters will lead a practical and interactive discussion on how AI reshapes teaching and evaluation. Participants will consider how to uphold authenticity in learning through transparency, ethical modeling, and meaningful task design.

DesignPLUS

Location: Melbourne, Bldg. 7, Rm. 308B
Seating Cap: 25
Presented by: AcTec

The DesignPLUS Sidebar tools make it simple to create organized, accessible, and visually engaging content in your Canvas courses. In this hands-on session, you’ll get to explore both the DesignPLUS Sidebar and QuickStart Wizard, learning how to design easy to follow pages that can improve navigation and enhance the student experience.

Faculty Mentoring: Honing Your Skills

Location: Melbourne, Bldg. 7, Rm. 108B
Seating Cap: 40
Presented by: Valerie Gallucci and Donna Brown

Mentoring is an important aspect of job satisfaction and performance in educational institutions. Formal mentor training creates a nurturing working environment for new faculty. Participants will learn about the purpose of mentoring, positive mentoring attributes, supportive college resources, and the benefits of mentoring. Participants will engage in role playing and group exercises in this workshop.

Curriculum Open Lab

Location: Melbourne, Bldg. 7, Rm. 326
Seating Cap: 25
Presented by: Amy Krewson

Got questions? Get answers! Attend this open lab to work on curriculum submissions, make edits to proposals currently under review, track the status of your curriculum items, review assigned curriculum proposals, and receive real-time support. This open lab is ideal for faculty who are revising curriculum, serving as curriculum reviewers, or hold discipline/program manager positions. This is not a seminar—please come prepared with your specific curriculum questions or concerns.

Navigators to Success

Location: Melbourne, Bldg. 7, Rm. 111
Seating Cap: 40
Presented by: Barbara Kennedy

This workshop highlights the EFSC Navigators to Success Program, a comprehensive summer transition program designed to help students on the autism spectrum build the academic, social, and self-advocacy skills needed for success in higher education. Presenters will share the need for the program and the research behind the elements of the program. In addition, the program components, outcomes, and lessons learned from implementation with be discussed. Faculty will learn about common transition challenges for autistic students, effective communication and teaching strategies, and how program outcomes can inform inclusive classroom practices.

Stress? Anxiety? You Must be a Professor

Location: Melbourne, Bldg. 7, Rm. 100
Seating Cap: 25
Presented by: James Braun

The student crying in your office, who can’t believe she’s failing. Or the frustrating student who can’t accept he’s wrong, so he won’t get his perfect score. This wasn’t covered in our graduate degree, but it’s part of being a professor. This seminar will show us how to identify and address stress and anxiety in our and our students’ lives.

Please Note: These workshops run concurrently on January 8th from 2:30 to 3:45 PM. You must only register for one of the following sessions as space is limited.

Earning the Right to be Heard

Location: Melbourne, Bldg. 7, Rm. 108C
Seating Cap: 40
Presented by: Ron Rountree

"Earning the right to be heard" is a concept that emphasizes the need to build credibility, trust, and influence through respectful actions, primarily by listening to others before expecting them to listen to you. It suggests that being heard is not an automatic right in interpersonal or professional contexts, but rather something achieved through a foundation of mutual understanding and respect.  

Portfolio 101 (Non-Tenured Faculty Only)

Location: Melbourne, Bldg. 1, Rm. 161
Seating Cap: 20
Presented by: Dustin Files

This session guides nontenured faculty through the tenure portfolio process at Eastern Florida State College. Participants will learn how to locate tenure requirements, understand key steps in constructing and submitting an electronic portfolio, and organize evidence that meets Collective Bargaining Agreement standards. By the end of the workshop, attendees will be able to plan, compile, and present a professional portfolio that effectively documents their accomplishments and readiness for tenure consideration.

Canvas Updates

Location: Melbourne, Bldg. 7, Rm. 308
Seating Cap: 25
Presented by: AcTec

Explore the latest updates and features introduced in Canvas throughout 2025, along with enhancements in integrated teaching technologies that support and expand your instructional toolkit.

Emotional Intelligence: Navigating Emotion

Location: Melbourne, Bldg. 7, Rm. 111
Seating Cap: 40
Presented by: Sharon Cronk-Raby

Have your emotions ever gotten the better of you? Of course, they have – because that happens to all of us. This workshop will share strategies for navigating emotions, helping us better express our feelings through an understanding of emotional intelligence, which focuses on emotion regulation.

From OLC to EFSC: Accelerate 2025 Innovations in Online and Hybrid Learning

Location: Melbourne, Bldg. 7, Rm. 108B
Seating Cap: 40
Presented by: Haley Osborn

What does the future of online and hybrid learning look like? In this interactive workshop, I’ll share key takeaways from the OLC Accelerate 2025 conference, highlighting innovative practices, tools, and trends shaping the future of digital education.

AI in Education: An Open Faculty Forum

Location: Melbourne, Bldg. 7, Rm. 114
Seating Cap: 60
Presented by: Wade Dauberman

This faculty-led open forum workshop will explore practical, ethical, and discipline-specific ways to integrate generative AI into teaching and assessment. Participants (you!) will share current uses, examine how students are already using AI, and discuss strategies to maintain academic integrity while still fostering higher-order thinking. The session will be facilitated to surface common challenges, showcase successful assignment redesigns, and identify areas where the college can develop shared guidelines, resources, and professional development around AI in education.

Think you don’t have time for CAPRI? Think again!

Location: Melbourne, Bldg. 7, Rm. 100
Seating Cap: 25
Presented by: Dale McGinnis and Billy Fried

CAPRI is a simple, flexible, and rewarding way to grow as an educator-watch two peers teach, have one peer observe your class, and then share insights together, all on your own schedule. You’ll earn ½ point toward Tenure/MCC/FDIP (by completing the program) and gain valuable ideas to enhance your teaching. Join this Spring Symposium session to learn how CAPRI can help you strengthen your teaching through collaboration, reflection, and shared expertise. Why CAPRI? Because our best resource for teaching is each other!