Events

Gathering

New Faculty Experience

The New Faculty Experience is designed to equip incoming resident faculty members for the first few weeks of teaching at Vanguard. It is just one part of a broader professional development program, which continues throughout new professors first year as part of our community.

Learning outcome themes include: Get set, plug in, breathe, geek out, tune in, prepare, equip, explore, and connect. The New Faculty Experience helps establish co-mentoring relationships to support a greater understanding of how Vanguard is structured and how shared governance contributes to decision-making. The Institute for Faculty Development will send calendar invites to those who will be participating in the New Faculty Experience.

New Faculty Experience Days 1-4 | 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM

Day 1 | Waugh Student Center Price Room
Day 2 | Waugh Student Center Price Room
Day 3 | Zoom
Day 4 | Waugh Student Center Price Room

Day 108/1510:00 am - 2:00 pm
Day 208/1610:00 am - 2:00 pm
Day 308/1710:00 am - 2:00 pm
Day 408/1810:00 am - 1:00 pm

15Monday, Aug 15 - Friday, Aug 19Various Times

Multiple LocationsCheck the event description for specific locations.

Online Event

New Adjunct Faculty Jumpstart

We invite you to attend a half-hour walkthrough session to introduce you to your adjunct liaisons and the DT101 course. Designing and Teaching for Impact course (DT101) is a self-paced online course which equips faculty to teach in-person, online, or hybrid classes designed to engage students and heighten learning. It also teaches how to use Canvas and other educational technology tools in the facilitation of learning.

Conducted by John Sim and Amy Jungkeit.

Event 108/2212:00 pm - 12:30 pm

22Monday, Aug 22 - Monday, Aug 22Various Times

Multiple LocationsCheck the event description for specific locations.

Gathering

Faculty Gathering

The resident Faculty Gathering is a two-day event, which aims to reunite faculty and welcome new members to our community. The gathering’s agenda is structured to foster conversation and collaboration between more experienced and newer faculty, as well as across disciplines and divisions.

“Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ. For we were all baptized by one Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink. Even so the body is not made up of one part but of many.” 1 Corinthians 12:12-14

Faculty Gathering Days 1 + 2

Day 1 | Zoom
Day 2 | Needham Chapel (Zoom option available)

Please register for each day of the Faculty Gathering (Tuesday + Wednesday), separately.

Day 108/2310:00 am - 2:30 pm
Day 208/2410:00 am - 12:00 pm

23Tuesday, Aug 23 - Wednesday, Aug 24Various Times

Multiple LocationsCheck the event description for specific locations.

Gathering

Community-Building Events

Resident Faculty are invited to engage in community-building events throughout the 2022 Faculty Gathering week. Please register for each event you would like to attend, so we can have an accurate count for food, supplies, and refreshments.

Community-Building Events 1-7

Hike | Back Bay
Picnic | TeWinkle Park
Play | Price Room + Heath Lawn or Zoom
Breakfast + Worship | Needham Courtyard + Chapel
Lunch | Academic Luncheon | Campus Mall
Pray | Prayer Walk | Library Patio or Phone
Enjoy | VU Test Kitchen | Price Room + Recipe Sharing | Canvas

We know that’s a lot of registrations to do. However, for us to execute our plans well (e.g., have enough food), we need to have an accurate headcount for each event. Once you register, you will be able to easily each event to your calendar.

Event 108/2210:00 am - 11:15 am
Event 208/2211:30 am - 1:00 pm
Event 308/221:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Event 408/248:30 am - 9:30 am
Event 508/2412:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Event 608/258:30 am - 9:30 am
Event 708/2512:00 pm - 1:30 pm

22Monday, Aug 22 - Thursday, Aug 25Various Times

Multiple LocationsCheck the event description for specific locations.

Gathering

Faculty Learning Labs

Engage in up to two hands-on ‘lab’-type workshops during the Faculty Gathering week. For each time block, there are campus and Zoom options. Resident and adjunct faculty are welcome.

Learning Labs 1-3 | 10:00 – 10:50 AM

Create: Digital Course Promotion Flyer with Eunice Kang | Zoom
Engage: In Civic Life with Love + Wisdom with Jeff Hittenberger | Price Room
Optimize: Conditions for Humans’ (+Rats’) Learning with Michael Hanna | “Rat Lab”

Learning Labs 4-6: 11:00 – 11:50 AM

Take: Attendance w/ Qwickly with David Rhoads | Zoom
Develop: Author/Speaker Media Kit with Naomi Kasa + Bonni Stachowiak | Zoom
Record: Class Welcome Video in the IFD Studio with Sandie Morgan | IFD Studio

Learning Lab 108/2510:00 am - 10:50 am
Learning Lab 208/2510:00 am - 10:50 am
Learning Lab 308/2510:00 am - 10:50 am
Learning Lab 408/2511:00 am - 11:50 am
Learning Lab 508/2511:00 am - 11:50 am
Learning Lab 608/2511:00 am - 11:50 am

25Thursday, Aug 25 - Thursday, Aug 25Various Times

Multiple LocationsCheck the event description for specific locations.

Welcome Week

Welcome Week Events

Resident faculty and academic staff are urged to plug into the various 2022 Welcome Week events, particularly the academic open houses. Welcome Week aims to help students and families mark this transition into college life and set a foundation of success for the year. We are hosting repeating events across two days, in order to accommodate smaller groups than in year’s past. You are also invited to stay for the Family BBQ and Commissioning either or both of those evenings. Finally, those divisions with academic clubs or resources are welcome to register to host a booth at the Welcome to the Neighborhood Fiesta.

Academic Open Houses
08/25/22 + 08/26/22
4:15 – 5:00 PM (set up is at 3:30 PM)
Locations vary and are selected/determined by departments

Family BBQ & Commissioning
08/25/22 + 08/26/22
5:00 – 6:30 PM (BBQ) | 7:00 – 8:00 PM (Commissioning)
Location: Heath Lawn (BBQ) + Campus Mall (Commissioning) (near VU 100 letters)
Faculty/staff meals are paid for by the Office of New Student Experience + Family Relations.

Welcome to the Neighborhood Fiesta
08/05/22
4:00 – 6:00 PM
Departments w/ clubs or other academic resources can register for a free booth + host a vendor table at the event.

Academic Open House 108/254:15 pm - 5:00 pm
Academic Open House 208/264:15 pm - 5:00 pm

25Thursday, Aug 25 - Saturday, Aug 27Various Times

Multiple LocationsCheck the event description for specific locations.

Online Event

Qwickly Attendance

Vanguard University requires faculty to use Qwickly Attendance to track class attendance on Canvas. This webinar will provide an overview of Qwickly Attendance’s features and functionality, as well as showcase a variety of attendance-taking modes. Learn how to use the Check-in mode to allow students to check in using their own devices, complete with a PIN and countdown timer, and the Online Activity mode, which determines attendance statuses based on academic activity.

Conducted by John Sim.

Event 109/1212:00 pm - 12:30 pm

12Monday, Sep 12 - Monday, Sep 12Various Times

Multiple LocationsCheck the event description for specific locations.

Gathering

Adjunct Faculty Gathering

Join us for this year’s Adjunct Faculty Gathering. All adjunct faculty are welcome to participate in this time to reflect on our unique strengths and how they may equip us to join in God’s redemptive work.

Theme: One Body. Many Parts.

Verse: “Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is
with Christ. For we were all baptized by one Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews
or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink. Even so the body
is not made up of one part but of many.”

– 1 Corinthians 12:12-14

Please sign up for this event, to assist us in our planning. After you use our online registration system to rsvp, you can easily add the event (including the Zoom link) to your calendar.

19Monday, Sep 195:00 pm - 5:50 pm

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