The Rutgers Teaching Excellence Network continues to contribute to excellence in faculty development and institutional growth through our contributions to the literature and community conversations we participate in. The grant team is proud to have presented contributed talks and posters at 4 conferences in 2025 on the subject of faculty development and institutional change. Chris Hass traveled to the APS Global Physics Summit and the ASCN Transforming Institutions Conference to present on structural supports for institutional change. Mary Emenike and Chris Hass traveled to the International Learning Assistant (LA) Conference to present a poster describing the ways Rutgers’ LA Program impact faculty course transformation, specifically highlighting the connections to institutional structures and faculty motivation. Chris Hass, Phil Brown, and former TEN Participant Gabe Zenarosa traveled to ASEE’s 2025 Conference and Exposition to present our paper on the TEN program. Chris Hass presented a talk on their postdoctoral research at Rutgers’ 2025 International Scholars Speaker Series. Mary Emenike, Chaz Ruggieri, and fellow discipline-based education researcher Marc Muñiz co-facilitated a workshop at the 2025 Rutgers Active Learning Symposium to share their work with the Semester Support Group they developed as part of TEN programming to support faculty engaging in peer observation of teaching to document student engagement and instructor activities using an established observation protocol.
Presentations
- “Implementing Interconnected Faculty Development Initiatives for STEM Faculty,” Hass, C. A., Brown, P. R., Emenike, M. E., Ruggieri, C., Ptak, C., Blackwell, S., Zenarosa, G. L. 2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition. Montreal, Quebec, Canada, June 22-25, 2025.
- Associated Conference Proceeding: Hass, C. A., Brown, P. R., Emenike, M. E., Ruggieri, C., Ptak, C., Blackwell, S., Zenarosa, G. L. (2025). “Implementing Interconnected Faculty Development Initiatives for STEM Faculty,” Proceedings of the 2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition. DOI: 10.18260/1-2—56754 https://peer.asee.org/56754
- “Recent Studies of Pedagogical Experiences at Rutgers”, Hass, C. A., 2025 Rutgers International Scholar Speaker Series, URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFh_4v9ldgc&list=PLaOCJq14BcgEfflSunbsFsUfaCdnRxrLZ&index=3
- “Guiding Faculty Development with Strong Structuration”, Hass, C. A., Ruggieri, C., Brown, P. R., Ptak, C., Blackwell, Emenike, M. E., 2025 ASCN Transforming Institutions Conference, St. Louis, Missouri, June 9-11, 2025
- “Supporting faculty course transformation through the Teaching Excellence Network.”, Hass, A.F., Brown, P.R., Emenike, M.E., Blackwell, S., Ptak, C., & Ruggieri, C. American Physical Society Global Physics Summit, Anaheim, California, 2025.
Poster
- “LA Model impacts on faculty course transformation: connections between structure and motivation,” M. Emenike, C. Hass, S. Blackwell, P. Brown, C. Ruggieri, C. Ptak, 2025 International Learning Assistant (LA) Conference, Boulder, CO., November 7-9, 2025.
Faculty Workshop
- “Reliably Documenting Student Engagement and Instructor Activities in Undergraduate Learning Environments Using an Established Observation Protocols,” Emenike, M.E., Ruggieri, C., Muñiz, M.N., Rutgers Active Learning Symposium, Piscataway, NJ, 2025.