Webinars available to us (free!) through university memberships:

• Tuesday, 10/21, 2:00-3:00 pm, Mythbusting: Accessible Courses Need Not Be Boring! through the Online Learning Consortium (will be recorded for later viewing too)
• Wednesday, 10/22, Noon-1:00 pm, Going Beyond Title II Compliance: Building a Culture of Accessibility in Higher Education, through Educause
• Thursday, 10/23, 1:00-2:00 pm, Strategic Design for Engaged Online Learning, through the online Learning Consortium (will be recorded for later viewing too)

 

Recordings for the following workshops are available on the Faculty/Staff Resource Center MySBU page. Please use your regular SBU credentials to access.

• Wednesday, 8/13/2025, 2:00 pm, Introduction to Moodle for New Faculty--on Zoom 
• Monday, 8/18/2025, 3:00 pm, Creating Accessible Learning Materials plus a Title II Introduction, Hybrid
• Tuesday, 8/19/2025, 10:00 am, Library Lower-Level Seminar Room: Administrative Professionals Day (by invitation only)
• Wednesday, 8/20/2025, 3:00 pm, Moodle Assignments, on Zoom
• Monday, 8/25/2025, 2:00 pm, ASA FAQ (Accessibility Services & Accommodations), Hybrid
• Tuesday, 8/26/2025, 11:30 am, New Full-Time Faculty Orientation (by invitation only)
• Monday, 9/22/2025, 12:30 pm, Plassmann 006 and Zoom: AT Assistive Devices/Software and Students with Accommodations. Presented by Molly Vaughan, MS, OTR/L and Cody Childs, BA
• Wednesday, 9/24/2025, 9:30 am, Library Computer Lab: WebEx Open Hour (short presentation plus a chance to get your questions answered), with Peter Schultz
• Friday, 9/26/2025, 12:30 pm, Plassmann 006 and Zoom: TRAID Program Overview (Free loan program for assistive devices for SBU community and beyond). Presented by Molly Vaughan, MS, OTR/L and Aime Rizzuto, OTD, MS, OTR/L
• Monday, 9/29/2026,12:30 pm, Plassmann 006 and Zoom: ADA for Students with Physical Impairments. Presented by Derien Braxton, MD, MPH.

Our book club originally scheduled for August has been postponed because the books did not come in. 

The book is The Opposite of Cheating: Teaching for Integrity in the Age of AI, by Tricia Bertram Gallant and David A. Rettinger. 

This will be a no-pressure book club, where you can participate at your convenience, through a Moodle site with chapter-by-chapter discussions. We hope to have a core group of people who will share their thoughts, allowing for a healthy exchange of ideas. There is also a possibility of in-person/Zoom meetings if members desire.

Where can you obtain the book?

It is available electronically through the library at this link: https://research.ebsco.com/linkprocessor/plink?id=d9ea4681-90a5-3d8c-b3dc-efc468bdc4bf (if you’re off campus, log in with your library login, which is your SBU username without the @sbu part) and your library password (your last name, with the first letter capitalized).

A limited number of hard copies can be purchased—if you want one, please respond to Ann Tenglund (ateng@sbu.edu) to request it.

To use Cabells Journalytics tool, to search for journals in most fields, please follow the link below. If you are accessing this tool from off-campus, you will be prompted for your library login.

• We are currently experiencing some difficulty linking to Cabell's.
• ON-CAMPUS: go to https://app.cabells.com. If you are not directed to the search page, click on the "Access" button in the upper right corner of the screen. It is a round icon and it will say "Access" when you mouse over it.
• OFF-CAMPUS access: go to http://sbu.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://app.cabells.com and if not directed to the search page, click on the "Access" button as described above.

CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION

You have free access to the Chronicle of Higher Education! All you need to do to use this subscription is sign up for an account, using your sbu.edu address, and you will have access anywhere you are. To sign up:

   1. Click on LOGIN IN in the upper right corner of the Chronicle's home page at www.chronicle.com.  Do NOT click on "Subscribe"--that will ask you to pay!

    2. If you already had an account on the Chronicle site, simply log in. If you do not have an account, scroll down the page to the link that says "Create an Account."

Problems with this resource? Please contact Ann Tenglund at ateng @ sbu.edu

___________

NEW YORK TIMES

Both faculty/staff and students have free access to the New York Times through the Library.

For the New York Times: Visit http://nytimes.com/passes or see how here: http://youtu.be/NROcngiF_uY.

Passes need to be renewed annually, using the link above.  Once you renew a pass, you may need to sign out of any devices where you read the Times and then sign in again so that your new pass lets you into all of the content you should see.

For teaching ideas, see the New York Times in Education website--scroll down to the "Resources Designed for Educators" section of the page.

____________

BUFFALO NEWS

NEW USER? Any new users must create an account when you click to login at http://Buffalonews.com/users/login.  

EXISTING USER? Any existing users can attempt to login with their credentials. If these credentials fail, then reset the password.

EDUCAUSE is a nonprofit association whose mission is to lead the way, advancing the strategic use of technology and data to further the promise of higher education.

 

As an EDUCAUSE member organization, staff across our organization have access to EDUCAUSE member benefits.

 

Benefits of EDUCAUSE membership include:

 

Research, Publications, and Analytics Services: Access to cutting-edge research, data, analytics and benchmarking services, toolkits, and publications on key issues, technologies, and trends in higher education.

 

Professional Development: Management and leadership skills training through the EDUCAUSE Institute and peer mentoring, as well as volunteer opportunities to contribute to the profession. Special pricing is available for all programs and services, including registration for online and face-to-face events on a wide range of topics such as enterprise IT, cybersecurity and privacy, teaching and learning, and more.

 

Topic-Based Communities: Opportunities to make connections with peers from around the world through topic-based events and online communities.

 

How to Get the Most Out of EDUCAUSE Membership

 

Follow the steps below to learn how to maximize your benefits:

 

1. Create an EDUCAUSE Profile or log in: Create a profile to help tailor your member experience to your interests. Keep your profile up-to-date to be alerted of relevant resources and developments.
2. Explore EDUCAUSE Membership Orientation: Discover some of the top tools and most popular resources EDUCAUSE members are using—curated for your area of interest.
3. Join online community groups: These member-driven peer groups are perfect for sharing your ideas and expertise, finding solutions to pressing issues you’re facing, and exploring common interests.

LinkedIn Learning--click here and use your SBU credentials to access the campus subscription
    Recording & slides from the April 9 Workshop on Using Linked-In Learning with Students
     Fall LinkedIn Learning Workshop materials
     How to connect your learning account to your LinkedIn profile.

•      Some LinkedIn Learning courses you might want to explore this summer:
  • How to Boost Your Productivity with AI Tools
  • Integrating Generative AI into the Creative Process
  • Academic Honesty in the Digital Age: The Role of AI
  • Creating Inclusive Learning Experiences with UDL (Universal Design for Learning)
  • Inclusive Teaching: Supporting All Students in the College Classroom
  • Teaching with LinkedIn Learning

FacStaff & OTHER LISTS

• Join the FacStaff list if you're not already on it by sending a request to Ann Tenglund. The FacStaff list is a general list, open only to faculty and staff, where occasional discussions take place. It is most often utilized for announcements that expand what is on the daily Notice Board.
• The Notice Board is sent to all faculty, staff, and students every weekday. You do not need to subscribe--it is automatically sent once your account becomes active.
• New full-time faculty will be automatically added to the Faculty and divisional listservs, and new adjunct faculty will automatically be added to their divisional listserv.
  • New full-time faculty are also automatically added to the FacStaff list, at the request of the Faculty Senate. If you have too much email coming in, you can set the FacStaff list so it does not send you every email--you can also see the content by visiting the FacStaff group in Outlook.

Monday Morning Mentor
Monday Morning Mentor provides a 20-minute video presentation weekly during fall and spring semesters, with access to a transcript, handouts, and other materials. You might want to review materials from a popular spring session: Core Concepts of Quality Assessment. 

The Fall 2025 schedule can be viewed here.

You can access each week's content at https://mondaymorningmentors.com. The password changes weekly.

Because this is a subscription resource, the password cannot be posted here. You will receive a weekly email with the topic of the week and the password.

Webinars

Check out the free live and on-demand webinars from the Online Learning Consortium (subscription provided by Dr. Mike Hoffman. Associate Provost/Graduate Dean/CIO). There are lot of useful topics for everyone, not just those who teach exclusively online.

• Live and On-Demand Webinars from the Online Learning Consortium

• • Register for a free account using your SBU email address for access. Once you have an account, you can easily register for the webinars. Also consider signing up to receive OLC Today, a weekly e-mail newsletter.
  • Webinars are free for members and apply to all modalities of teaching and learning! If you see a webinar that looks interesting but you have a time conflict, no worries--most webinars are recording for on demand viewing later!
    
    
    • To register, log in and then ensure you are on the "Upcoming Webinars" tab on their site.
  • If you could not attend one of the Online Learning Consortium webinars live, almost all of them are recorded for later viewing--use the link above, and make sure you are on the "On Demand Webinars" tab.

.

How to Make the Most of our Institutional OLC Membership

1. Create your own OLC User Account/Profile - ensures member benefits are available to you.
2. Sign up to receive OLC Today (weekly newsletter) - this is our best means of communicating what's new in the world of online learning and education.
3. Explore our Home Page and check out free resources available to you (download Playbooks from our Tools for Educators: Communities of Practice in Higher Education or Supporting Online Adjunct Faculty Across Institutional Roles; sign up to watch OLC Webinars (live or recordings); explore the OLC Research Center.

Congratulations to all authors represented in the November 2024 Faculty/Staff Publications Reception!

• Event Booklet

The Faculty/Staff Publications Reception is held every other year. Please plan to join us again in 2026!

If you have a suggestion or idea for the Faculty Resource Center, please let us know here: https://sbu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_agfuAWVlTcYLNOu

All types of suggestions and ideas are welcome. Any member of the University community is invited to leave us a suggestion.

Thanks in advance!