Friday @ the Center is a weekly e-newsletter distributed to all SPU full-time and adjunct faculty members each Friday during the academic term. It contains teaching tips, notifications of grant opportunities, upcoming lectures and workshops, and other news related to the work of the Center. These archives highlight items of perennial rather than time-bound interest.
Friday @ the Center Archives
Click on the links below to launch PDF versions of e-newsletters past:
Academic Year 2007-2008:
06-06-08— Last Call: June Mini-Course Offering!
05-23-08— One More File Building Workshop
05-16-08— Form Intellectual Community: Take a Mini-Course!
05-09-08— Spring On-Line Course Evaluations
05-02-08— Fulbright Information Meeting for Students
04-25-08— Great Teaching Idea? Six Days Left...
04-11-08— Diversity Brown Bag Lunch Today!
04-04-08— SPU Goldwater Scholar
03-28-08— March Snow Brings...Spring Quarter
02-29-08— Course Evaluation Notes & Advice
02-22-08— Attend a LFP Conference on Religious Identities
02-15-08— Celebrating Goldwater Nominees
02-08-08— Dealing with Problem Students: #3
01-25-08— Last Call for Internal Grant Applications!
01-18-08— Upcoming Faculty Development Events
01-11-08— Lilly SERVE Speaker's Grant
11-16-07 — Faculty Book Circle: The Orthodox Way
11-09-07 — Dealing with Plagiarism: SafeAssign
10-26-07 — Students Headed toward Graduate School?
10-18-07 — Faculty Luncheon on Multicultural Pedgogy
10-12-07 — Getting Students to Read: #1
10-05-07 — Day of Common Learning News
09-28-07 — Faculty Scholarship Celebration
09-21-07 — First Impressions, Part 3
Academic Year 2006-2007:
06-15-07 — Don’t Waste Your Summer!
06-08-07 — SPU Faculty Awarded $100,000!
06-01-07 — Easy Bibliographies?
05-25-07 — Faculty 2007 Mini-Courses
05-18-07 — Writing for Everyone: Part 12
05-11-07 — Writing for Everyone: Part 11
05-04-07 — Writing for Everyone: Part 10
04-27-07 — Writing for Everyone: Part 9
04-20-07 — Writing for Everyone: Part 8
04-13-07 — Have a Great Teaching Idea?
04-06-07 — Copyright Questions?
03-30-07 — Course Evaluation Responses Rise
03-16-07 — Thinking about Grants? Think Laura
03-09-07 — Course Evaluations
03-02-07 — Jurgan Moltmann Faculty Book Circle
02-23-07 — Writing for Everyone: Part 4
02-16-07 — Writing for Everyone: Part 3
02-09-07 — Keeping Effective Office Hours
02-02-07 — Writing Notes for Everyone
01-26-07 — SPU Strengths and Challenge
01-19-07 — What is a Theology of Reconciliation?
01-12-07 — Meyer Award Deadline on Monday!
01-05-07 — Teaching Consultations Available
12-08-06 — Tired of Grading? Think about Applying for a Grant!
12-01-06 — The P-Word: Plagiarism
11-17-06 — The November Teaching Professor . . .
11-10-06 — Re-live the Day of Common Learning
11-03-06 — Teaching Tip: Preliminary Feedback
10-27-06 — Nuts & Bolts of Applying to Graduate School
10-20-06 — Faculty Scholarship Celebrated
10-13-06 — The October Teaching Professor
10-06-06 — Race and Pedagogy Brown Bag Lunch
09-29-06 — Book Circle Openings
09-22-06 — Last Call for Joining a Book Circle
09-15-06 — Day of Common Learning: Globalization
09-08-06 — Retreat! Retreat!
09-01-06 — Welcome Back!
Academic Year 2005-2006:
06-09-06 — Engaging Students in Learning
06-03-06 — Faculty In-Service on Monday
05-26-06 — Teaching Tip: Final Exams
05-19-06 — Theology Mini-Courses
05-12-06 — Fulbright Grants for Students
05-05-06 — Faculty Workshop: The Scholarship of Teaching
04-28-06 — Teaching Moment: May Madness
04-14-06 — Global Engagement Forum
04-07-06 — LFP National Research Conference CFP
03-31-06 — Welcome to Spring Quarter!
03-17-06 — Last Call: Teaching 101 Workshop
03-10-06 — Do Men and Women Really Learn Differently?
03-03-06 — Teaching 101 Workshop
02-24-06 — Got Plagiarism?
02-17-06 — Advising Tip from SAS
02-10-06 — Rude Students?
02-03-06 — SPU Factoids
01-27-06 — Women Faculty’s Tea
01-20-06 — Major Fellowship Meeting Alert
01-13-06 — Have a Brilliant Student?
01-06-06 — Connecting with Course Evaluations
12-09-05 — Ten Things to Do or You can Kiss Your Class Goodbye
12-02-05 — Encouraging Course Evaluation Responses
11-18-05 — On-Line Course Evaluations Update
11-04-05 — Midterm Evaluations
10-28-05 — Fulbright Nominee
10-21-05 — Welcome Bryce and Celebrate Books
10-14-05 — SPU Rhodes Nominee
10-07-05 — Kudos for Grant Applications . . .
09-30-05 — Day of Common Learning Updates
09-23-05 — Bewilderment and Beginnings
09-16-05 — Day of Common Learning
09-09-05 — Syllabi Suggestions
09-02-05 — Welcome Back!
Academic Year 2004-2005:
06-17-05 — Please Fill out Your Survey!
06-10-05 — Teach or Research Overseas!
06-03-05 — 2006 NEH Summer Stipend Awards
05-27-05 — Celebrate Faculty Scholarship!
05-20-05 — Increasing Course Evaluation Participation
05-13-05 — The May Teaching Professor
05-06-05 — Graduate Faculty Lunch Tuesday
04-29-05 — Call for Papers
04-15-05 — Is Graduate School for You?
04-07-05 — The Weter Lecture
04-01-05 — The Weter Lecture
03-11-05 — Teaching 101 Workshop
02-18-05 — Want Formative Feedback on your Teaching?
02-11-05 — University of Washington Undergraduate Symposium
02-04-05 — Using Evaluations to Improve Teaching
01-28-05 — Is There A Rhodes Scholar in Your Class?
01-14-05 — Jack Kent Cooke Graduate Scholarships
01-07-05 — Planning for Exams
Academic Year 2003-2004:
02-27-04 — NEH Fellowship Applications
02-20-04 — David Brooks Coming to SPU
02-13-04 — Scripture & the Disciplines Conference
02-06-04 — PowerPoint and Pedagogy
01-30-04 — The Teaching Professor: Lecturing
01-23-04 — Calvin College Seminars in Christian Scholarship
01-16-04 — Newman on Academic Publishing
12-12-03 — Lilly Summer Theological Training
12-05-03 — Final Exams
11-21-03 — CCCU Initiative Grants
11-14-03 — Religion, Conflict, and Violence
10-31-03 — Elie Wiesel Prize Contest
10-24-03 — SPU Fulbright Applicants