Departmental Culture (DAT) by Gina Quan https://padlet.com/ginaquan/ow6x0v5v8hn8gpls What are some attributes of departmental culture that could impact the student experience? en-us 2021-03-19 16:37:08 UTC 2025-12-22 18:35:19 UTC hello@padlet.com What to do https://padlet.com/ginaquan/ow6x0v5v8hn8gpls/wish/1330581017 - double click or click pink "+" (bottom right) to open a box
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- Doors to offices closed so faculty can "get work done"
- Office hours are strict and meetings aren't available outside those times

]]> 2021-03-30 16:19:44 UTC https://padlet.com/ginaquan/ow6x0v5v8hn8gpls/wish/1368679286 https://padlet.com/ginaquan/ow6x0v5v8hn8gpls/wish/1368679321 level of collegiality and mutual respect among the faculty.

]]> 2021-03-30 16:19:45 UTC https://padlet.com/ginaquan/ow6x0v5v8hn8gpls/wish/1368679321 Climate of Control https://padlet.com/ginaquan/ow6x0v5v8hn8gpls/wish/1368679394 restrictive way of submitting assignments or required attendance.
punitive language in syllabus.]]> 2021-03-30 16:19:46 UTC https://padlet.com/ginaquan/ow6x0v5v8hn8gpls/wish/1368679394 Access to research experiences https://padlet.com/ginaquan/ow6x0v5v8hn8gpls/wish/1368679778 2021-03-30 16:19:51 UTC https://padlet.com/ginaquan/ow6x0v5v8hn8gpls/wish/1368679778 Deficit Mindset about student learning https://padlet.com/ginaquan/ow6x0v5v8hn8gpls/wish/1368679923 Competitive behavior that is destructive to collegiality
Disorganization ]]> 2021-03-30 16:19:53 UTC https://padlet.com/ginaquan/ow6x0v5v8hn8gpls/wish/1368679923 What gets communicated to the students, what is withheld from them, and how they are invited to events and into the decision-making process tuk34725 https://padlet.com/ginaquan/ow6x0v5v8hn8gpls/wish/1368680012 2021-03-30 16:19:54 UTC https://padlet.com/ginaquan/ow6x0v5v8hn8gpls/wish/1368680012 Invisible: How big course decisions are made? https://padlet.com/ginaquan/ow6x0v5v8hn8gpls/wish/1368680336 Classroom size? Evening exams? Recitation or not? Grad/undergrad support ratios? What team of faculty is responsible? Who leads discussions? This is very different from our current visible, which for NTT faculty mostly revolves around annual merit review, reappointment, and maybe some committee assignments. Visible: dept weekly colloquium. Invisible: ways of sharing out broadly with faculty issues related to teaching.]]> 2021-03-30 16:19:59 UTC https://padlet.com/ginaquan/ow6x0v5v8hn8gpls/wish/1368680336 Success https://padlet.com/ginaquan/ow6x0v5v8hn8gpls/wish/1368680386 Expectations about what it means to be a 'successful' student in a discipline.]]> 2021-03-30 16:19:59 UTC https://padlet.com/ginaquan/ow6x0v5v8hn8gpls/wish/1368680386 https://padlet.com/ginaquan/ow6x0v5v8hn8gpls/wish/1368680393 Focusing on employee convenience rather than the student experience]]> 2021-03-30 16:19:59 UTC https://padlet.com/ginaquan/ow6x0v5v8hn8gpls/wish/1368680393 https://padlet.com/ginaquan/ow6x0v5v8hn8gpls/wish/1368680522 Value, respect for teaching]]> 2021-03-30 16:20:01 UTC https://padlet.com/ginaquan/ow6x0v5v8hn8gpls/wish/1368680522 Building Empathy https://padlet.com/ginaquan/ow6x0v5v8hn8gpls/wish/1368680720 Not fully understanding the external factors that impact a student's life and how that can affect their engagement with courses]]> 2021-03-30 16:20:04 UTC https://padlet.com/ginaquan/ow6x0v5v8hn8gpls/wish/1368680720 how to best teach in a specific discipline https://padlet.com/ginaquan/ow6x0v5v8hn8gpls/wish/1368680806 2021-03-30 16:20:05 UTC https://padlet.com/ginaquan/ow6x0v5v8hn8gpls/wish/1368680806 https://padlet.com/ginaquan/ow6x0v5v8hn8gpls/wish/1368680894 Departmental climate around DEI

]]> 2021-03-30 16:20:06 UTC https://padlet.com/ginaquan/ow6x0v5v8hn8gpls/wish/1368680894 Beliefs about student motivation https://padlet.com/ginaquan/ow6x0v5v8hn8gpls/wish/1368680940 2021-03-30 16:20:06 UTC https://padlet.com/ginaquan/ow6x0v5v8hn8gpls/wish/1368680940 Who represents the department on academic committees elwbcf https://padlet.com/ginaquan/ow6x0v5v8hn8gpls/wish/1368681036 If faculty that only value research (or teaching) represent the department outside the department then it is hard to make systemic changes ]]> 2021-03-30 16:20:08 UTC https://padlet.com/ginaquan/ow6x0v5v8hn8gpls/wish/1368681036 https://padlet.com/ginaquan/ow6x0v5v8hn8gpls/wish/1368681051 Individualistic views vs. collective- the extent to which a departments culture and climate values collaboration 

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]]> 2021-03-30 16:20:09 UTC https://padlet.com/ginaquan/ow6x0v5v8hn8gpls/wish/1368681168 Openness of faculty to questions https://padlet.com/ginaquan/ow6x0v5v8hn8gpls/wish/1368681590 2021-03-30 16:20:15 UTC https://padlet.com/ginaquan/ow6x0v5v8hn8gpls/wish/1368681590 Coordinating multiple sections of a course with different instructors https://padlet.com/ginaquan/ow6x0v5v8hn8gpls/wish/1368682353 2021-03-30 16:20:22 UTC https://padlet.com/ginaquan/ow6x0v5v8hn8gpls/wish/1368682353 how often, how quickly, and consistently emails and questions get answered https://padlet.com/ginaquan/ow6x0v5v8hn8gpls/wish/1368683267 2021-03-30 16:20:34 UTC https://padlet.com/ginaquan/ow6x0v5v8hn8gpls/wish/1368683267 Not having a culture of a curriculum (i.e., isolated courses rather than an academic pathway) https://padlet.com/ginaquan/ow6x0v5v8hn8gpls/wish/1368683302 2021-03-30 16:20:35 UTC https://padlet.com/ginaquan/ow6x0v5v8hn8gpls/wish/1368683302 Tenured faculty being unionized https://padlet.com/ginaquan/ow6x0v5v8hn8gpls/wish/1368683448 2021-03-30 16:20:37 UTC https://padlet.com/ginaquan/ow6x0v5v8hn8gpls/wish/1368683448 How teaching is evaluated. https://padlet.com/ginaquan/ow6x0v5v8hn8gpls/wish/1368683651 2021-03-30 16:20:39 UTC https://padlet.com/ginaquan/ow6x0v5v8hn8gpls/wish/1368683651 https://padlet.com/ginaquan/ow6x0v5v8hn8gpls/wish/1368683792 Faculty motivation to teach]]> 2021-03-30 16:20:42 UTC https://padlet.com/ginaquan/ow6x0v5v8hn8gpls/wish/1368683792 Sources of pedagogical information https://padlet.com/ginaquan/ow6x0v5v8hn8gpls/wish/1368683834 1. Students can provide useful feedback
2. Teaching centers are not welcome sources of pedagogical information
3. Instructor churn means that pedagogy changes frequently and lacks cohesion, even about basic curricular matters]]> 2021-03-30 16:20:42 UTC https://padlet.com/ginaquan/ow6x0v5v8hn8gpls/wish/1368683834 Location of faculty offices https://padlet.com/ginaquan/ow6x0v5v8hn8gpls/wish/1368684008 All over campus in. interdisciplinary space or all in one general location]]> 2021-03-30 16:20:45 UTC https://padlet.com/ginaquan/ow6x0v5v8hn8gpls/wish/1368684008 Sense of belonging https://padlet.com/ginaquan/ow6x0v5v8hn8gpls/wish/1368684575 2021-03-30 16:20:53 UTC https://padlet.com/ginaquan/ow6x0v5v8hn8gpls/wish/1368684575 Research vs teaching https://padlet.com/ginaquan/ow6x0v5v8hn8gpls/wish/1368685003 When research and teaching are ]]> 2021-03-30 16:20:59 UTC https://padlet.com/ginaquan/ow6x0v5v8hn8gpls/wish/1368685003 Culture of assessment of student learning https://padlet.com/ginaquan/ow6x0v5v8hn8gpls/wish/1368685468 2021-03-30 16:21:05 UTC https://padlet.com/ginaquan/ow6x0v5v8hn8gpls/wish/1368685468 Insiders vs. outsiders mindset https://padlet.com/ginaquan/ow6x0v5v8hn8gpls/wish/1368685568 2021-03-30 16:21:06 UTC https://padlet.com/ginaquan/ow6x0v5v8hn8gpls/wish/1368685568 Feeling of inclusion https://padlet.com/ginaquan/ow6x0v5v8hn8gpls/wish/1368685913 Feeling of inclusion in the office and classroom.

]]> 2021-03-30 16:21:11 UTC https://padlet.com/ginaquan/ow6x0v5v8hn8gpls/wish/1368685913 Instructional vision https://padlet.com/ginaquan/ow6x0v5v8hn8gpls/wish/1368686867 There is no shared vision of instruction so students do not know what to expect from course to course in the discipline]]> 2021-03-30 16:21:24 UTC https://padlet.com/ginaquan/ow6x0v5v8hn8gpls/wish/1368686867 whose pictures are on the walls... is it a dudewall / whitewall or more inclusive? https://padlet.com/ginaquan/ow6x0v5v8hn8gpls/wish/1368687562 Lots of what is here is about the invisible norms - here is a visible artifact that students do notice. (Dudewall is Rachel Maddow's term)]]> 2021-03-30 16:21:34 UTC https://padlet.com/ginaquan/ow6x0v5v8hn8gpls/wish/1368687562 no clear course outcomes identified / required https://padlet.com/ginaquan/ow6x0v5v8hn8gpls/wish/1368687758 2021-03-30 16:21:37 UTC https://padlet.com/ginaquan/ow6x0v5v8hn8gpls/wish/1368687758 how faculty communicate with each other https://padlet.com/ginaquan/ow6x0v5v8hn8gpls/wish/1368688316 2021-03-30 16:21:46 UTC https://padlet.com/ginaquan/ow6x0v5v8hn8gpls/wish/1368688316 Students as partners https://padlet.com/ginaquan/ow6x0v5v8hn8gpls/wish/1368688978 Including student voices in decisions about curricula / course design.]]> 2021-03-30 16:21:53 UTC https://padlet.com/ginaquan/ow6x0v5v8hn8gpls/wish/1368688978 Rigor in Gateways courses erickaldor https://padlet.com/ginaquan/ow6x0v5v8hn8gpls/wish/1368690612 Beliefs about the role of gateway courses in establishing rigor of program, importance of this rigor for post-graduation (e.g., med school). This can lead faculty to discuss students' expectations that course be extremely difficult.]]> 2021-03-30 16:22:17 UTC https://padlet.com/ginaquan/ow6x0v5v8hn8gpls/wish/1368690612 Asset or deficit perspective of students https://padlet.com/ginaquan/ow6x0v5v8hn8gpls/wish/1368691336 2021-03-30 16:22:28 UTC https://padlet.com/ginaquan/ow6x0v5v8hn8gpls/wish/1368691336 Ideas of what engineering courses should be like https://padlet.com/ginaquan/ow6x0v5v8hn8gpls/wish/1368691670 Faculty having beliefs such as engineering students don't want to talk to each other can be harmful in the classroom.]]> 2021-03-30 16:22:33 UTC https://padlet.com/ginaquan/ow6x0v5v8hn8gpls/wish/1368691670 Knowledge/understanding of students https://padlet.com/ginaquan/ow6x0v5v8hn8gpls/wish/1368697398 2021-03-30 16:23:51 UTC https://padlet.com/ginaquan/ow6x0v5v8hn8gpls/wish/1368697398 Who teaches what courses stephaniechasteen https://padlet.com/ginaquan/ow6x0v5v8hn8gpls/wish/1368699996 Do faculty rotate through? Do they own courses? Do instructors teach lower level?

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