Better Together: Wherever, Whenever
Morning Breakout Session I 10:00-11:00
Afternoon Breakout Session 1:30-2:30
How can building spaces for belonging help us cultivate resilience? How do you create a sense of belonging for a distributed workforce? How do you weave a collaborative culture when your adjunct faculty have never seen your campus? How do you leverage your institution’s technology resources to unite your educators in mission? Discover the possibilities of a layered approach to community building in this session.
Helping adjunct faculty feel a close connection with your institution is a crucial factor in their satisfaction, retention, and resilience. Like a powerful catalyst, your teaching community’s connection to each other and the institution’s mission promotes student satisfaction and persistence. In this session, we will examine what it takes to build spaces for faculty to connect, be heard, and feel the impact of the value they bring to the community and institution.
Southern New Hampshire University’s Global Campus (online) adjunct faculty have traditionally been a distributed workforce, working from across the US, with no physical footprint on our brick-and-mortar campus. Building and maintaining community has been paramount to sustaining our institution’s mission and vision. We've taken a multi-tiered approach to building engagement across our 9000+ member teaching community. This includes collaborating with other stakeholders to create communities of practice, as well as launching a three-day virtual conference, now planning for its sixth year.
Participants should bring their own devices to participate in live polls throughout the session.
Alexis Morton
Assistant Director of Faculty Engagement
Southern New Hampshire University
As Assistant Director of Faculty Engagement at SNHU’s Center for Online Learning and Teaching, Alexis orchestrates virtual and face-to-face opportunities for Global Campus faculty to share their insights and best practices for teaching online with others in the learning community.
Alexis has over 20 years of experience in education, having worked with elementary through adult learners in her career. She holds an MEd (University of New Hampshire), a BA in Linguistics (University of New Hampshire), a graduate certificate in Social Media Marketing (Southern New Hampshire University) and has also obtained a professional certificate in The Science of Happiness at Work (BerkeleyX; University of California, Berkeley). She is currently enjoying the challenge of working to earn a PhD in Industrial and Organizational Psychology.
In her time with Southern New Hampshire University, Alexis has served as an advisor to graduate students, a program manager for faculty training and development, a subject matter expert for two courses, and an adjunct faculty member. Outside of work, Alexis is a fan and avid reader of her son’s comic strip series, “Duckmeat.”