Track Session Type
Sustainability: Grant Acquisition & Management, Sustainability, Engaging Student Leaders, OER for Resilience, OER Community Building, OER and Technology
Presentation Type
Panel Presentation
OER Level of Expertise
Intermediate, Advanced
Audience
Faculty, Librarian, Administrator
Session Title
Getting Tenure Without Losing Your Mind: How to make the OER work you’re already doing count
Session Abstract
Finding ways to recognize OER in the tenure and promotion process has long been a goal for open education advocates. The tenure and promotion process shows what is valued by an institution and is key to the sustainability of open education. To highlight the ways that folks have been successful in this process, the Driving OER Sustainability for Student Success (DOERS3) collaborative solicited case studies of their experiences. In this presentation, two faculty members at the City University of New York will discuss how they included OER in their portfolios. Stacy Katz, Open Resources Librarian-STEM liaison, is a library faculty member at a senior college and achieved early promotion to Associate Professor. Shawna M. Brandle is a full Professor and political science faculty member at a community college. By sharing their experiences, they hope to help faculty, staff, and administrators see how OER work can align with the tenure and promotion process.
Full Description of the Session
Finding ways to recognize OER in the tenure and promotion process has long been a goal for open education advocates. The tenure and promotion process shows what is valued by an institution and is key to the sustainability of open education. To highlight the ways that folks have been successful in this process, the Driving OER Sustainability for Student Success (DOERS3) collaborative solicited case studies of their experiences. In this presentation, two faculty members at the City University of New York will discuss how they included OER in their portfolios. Stacy Katz, Open Resources Librarian-STEM liaison, is a library faculty member at a senior college and achieved early promotion to Associate Professor. Shawna M. Brandle is a full Professor and political science faculty member at a community college. By sharing their experiences, they hope to help faculty, staff, and administrators see how OER work can align with the tenure and promotion process.
Presenter Bios
Stacy Katz is an Associate Professor and Open Resources Librarian-STEM Liaison at Lehman College, CUNY. She holds an MLIS and MEd in Curriculum and Instructional Technology. Stacy initiated, developed, and oversees the Open Educational Resources (OER) initiative for the college. Stacy’s research to date has focused on OER, particularly how librarians develop and support OER initiatives, faculty professional development in OER, and open pedagogy. Shawna M. Brandle is a Professor of Political Science and the Open Education Coordinator at Kingsborough Community College and a member of the faculty of the Digital Humanities program at the CUNY Graduate Center. She holds a PhD in Political Science from the CUNY Graduate Center. Her research areas include human rights, media coverage of human rights and refugee issues, and Open Educational Practices in higher education. In Fall 2021, Dr. Brandle was a Fulbright Scholar at Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan. She is the author of Television News and Human Rights in the US & UK: The Violations Will Not Be Televised (Routledge 2015); her current book project is co-authored with Dr. Janet Reilly. She spends her spare time making art with her family.
Start Date
4-4-2023 9:00 AM
End Date
4-4-2023 10:00 AM
Getting Tenure Without Losing Your Mind: How to make the OER work you’re already doing count
Finding ways to recognize OER in the tenure and promotion process has long been a goal for open education advocates. The tenure and promotion process shows what is valued by an institution and is key to the sustainability of open education. To highlight the ways that folks have been successful in this process, the Driving OER Sustainability for Student Success (DOERS3) collaborative solicited case studies of their experiences. In this presentation, two faculty members at the City University of New York will discuss how they included OER in their portfolios. Stacy Katz, Open Resources Librarian-STEM liaison, is a library faculty member at a senior college and achieved early promotion to Associate Professor. Shawna M. Brandle is a full Professor and political science faculty member at a community college. By sharing their experiences, they hope to help faculty, staff, and administrators see how OER work can align with the tenure and promotion process.