Past Events and Programs

Facilitating Student-Led Conferences – NEW

Study and practice techniques for facilitating student-led conferences in any discipline! One complaint about student conferences is that they very often become meetings without reasons or agendas--wastes of instructor and student time. With highly structured student-led conferences, students present and critique their own strengths and weaknesses and potentials plans of action for building on and ...

Fact-Checking 101: Strategies for Identifying Misinformation—NEW!

As the upcoming presidential election approaches, learning to identify and combat misinformationeffectively is more important than ever. This 90-min. workshop will equip you with the knowledge, skills, and tools necessary to critically evaluate information and support your students in making informed decisions in their academic pursuits and as engaged citizens in the democratic process. Through ...

Faculty & Staff Singers

In the midst of the stress and challenges experienced through this pandemic, here is an opportunity for you to breathe deeply and find some healing and peace through singing!  The BC Faculty and Staff Singers will meet every other Friday and make music together from the safety of your own home!  Aimee Hong, Faculty of ...

Faculty Mentor Training – Summer 2022

Are you interested in serving as a mentor next year (2022-23) in the Tenure Mentoring or Adjunct Mentoring Programs? If so, this is a required training for all those who would like to mentor in one or both of these programs. Or are you just interested in what effective mentoring is? We welcome you to complete ...

Faculty Writing Retreat: Support for Scholarly and Creative Work

The faculty at Bellevue College is a talented, knowledgeable group of people and many are actively publishing within their field. This two-day retreat aims to provide the time and space for faculty to increase their scholarship by writing and creating in a supported community, giving participants dedicated, justifiable time without distraction in which to focus ...

Filipino/a/x American Culture – NEW!

Take a deep dive into Filipino/a/x American culture, starting with cuisine and geography of the Philippines. Learn about colonialism and global influences on Philippine identity, indigeneity, and nationalism. Gain understanding of Filipino migration to the United States and globally as we flip through Filipinos: Forgotten Asian Americans (Cordova 1983). And hear about local places, people, ...

Finding and Implementing Open Educational Resources (OERs)

The materials we choose for our courses impact student success in multiple ways. The relevancy of the content to our students and the cost of those materials are two aspects that faculty can control, and using Open Educational Resources (OERs) is one strategy. Although OERs have been demonstrated to have measurable positive outcomes on student ...

Finding Resources and Building Collaborations for PBL

How do you make project-based learning even more impactful? This two-part workshop will explore resources and on-campus collaborations that can help you take project-based learning to the next level in your courses. We’ll investigate: Strategies for obtaining grants and leveraging on-campus sources of funding such as professional development funding, the RISE Award, the Lockwood, and ...

From Conflict to Resolution – How to Define and Discuss Tough Topics in the Workplace – NEW!

Despite our best efforts, at some point in our lives conflict is inevitable. This workshop combines Psychology and Communication principles to address the skills needed for handling disagreements in the most effective manner possible.  During this interactive workshop, participants will collaborate with faculty and staff members while exploring tools for defining problems, choosing the most ...

Going Beyond the Gradebook: Infusing a Coaching Approach to Instruction (New!) 

How would you describe the role you play in your classroom besides ‘teacher’? Are you an adviser, a manager, a mentor, a coach? The First-Year Seminar (FYS) program has adopted many aspects of a "coaching" philosophy to offset some of the shortcomings of traditional instruction to empower students to take more direct responsibility for certain ...