Center for Advancement of Faculty Excellence
The CAFE exists to offer dynamic programs and professional learning opportunities that will help retain and cultivate an engaged, collaborative, and diverse faculty at APSU.
The Center supports faculty at all career trajectories from new faculty to tenured, full professors and with all aspects of being a faculty member to include resources for teaching and research, facilitating collaborations and engaging faculty in fostering a culture of excellence at APSU.
| To be the Trusted Resource for Transformational Educators at APSU. | To Support the Faculty of Austin Peay State University by providing resources, advocacy, and professional development. |
The Center for the Advancement of Faculty Excellence (CAFE) strives to support faculty members in teaching, research, leadership, and resources aimed at optimizing student interactions. We achieve our Mission by providing professional development opportunities in the field of teaching and learning, sponsoring conferences, writing book club, instructional and technical information workshops.
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Announcing our 2025 FC Keynote Speakers!
CAFE is excited to announce our Keynote Speakers for our 2025 All Faculty Meeting
in August - The Learning Scientists! Cindy Nebel, PhD and Megan Sumeracki, PhD will deliver the keynote address and
lead us through a workshop after our Faculty Luncheon.
Learn more about The Learning Scientists here!
As cognitive psychological scientists, they will discuss the science of learning, focusing on retrieval, spaced practice, and interleaving. They will explain how cognitive psychology is applied to education as an overview, and then talk about individual strategies. For each strategy, they will explain what it is, demonstrate some evidence supporting its effectiveness, and then cover ways it can be applied in various settings. During the workshop, they give opportunities to think about the ways they may already be incorporating the strategies (either intentionally or unintentionally), and then how to incorporate the strategy more in an intentional way now that they've learned/learned more about it.
Thank you for attending our January 2025 Pre-Semester Trainings and Sessions!
Monday, January 13 - Cintas First Responder Training: Life-Threatening Emergency Bundle with Paul D'Addario and Lawson Patten II, Cintas
Tuesday, January 14 - National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Tennessee Crisis Intervention Training with Kim Rush King, CIT Senior Manager
Wednesday, January 15 - Full Spectrum Learning Session: "Understanding and Supporting Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in Higher Education" with APSU's Emmanuel Mejeun, Director of Full Spectrum Learning
Thursday, January 16 - Green Zone Training with APSU's Jasmin Linares, Assistant Vice-President for Military & Veterans Affairs
Friday, January 17 - Safe Zone Training with APSU's Zac Moore, Assistant Director of Student Life & Engagement
TechBytes SPRING 2025 Schedule
2024 FC Keynote Speaker - José Bowen
Slides of August 12th presentation to Faculty
Teaching with AI: Handout
We need more AOQF Peer Reviewers!
CAFE Loyalty Program Registration
