CSU Teaching Resources

Center for Faculty Excellence (CFE)

The Center for Faculty Excellence (CFE) is dedicated to helping all faculty, including part-time faculty, in their endeavors at CSU. The CFE fosters faculty excellence through innovative teaching and leadership to ensure engaged student success. Using in-person and remote workshops, and discussion groups, the CFE assists faculty in developing their talent and advancing their engagement with CSU students, their careers, and the University. 

The CFE offers a wide variety of workshops and faculty learning communities each year. The topics include engaged teaching and learning, inclusive teaching, active learning, flipped learning, syllabus design, using technology in the classroom, and classroom assessment techniques. In addition, there are presentations by the library, affordable learning advocates, the Writing Center, eLearning, student success, and other campus service providers.

The CFE will offer a short onboarding course for all part-time faculty in September each year that introduces the myriad services CSU offers to support faculty and students in teaching and learning. Successful participants will earn a certificate upon completion and may be eligible for a small stipend. Please monitor your CSU email for further details of this and all CFE opportunities. 

You can view the resources and workshop schedules of the Center at http://www.csuohio.edu/cfe/cfe 

Registration for each event will open approximately two weeks before the start date. 

Instructional Technology & Distance Learning (ITDL)

ITDL provides a wide-range of media services for part-time faculty. Faculty can reserve audio/visual equipment for classroom use from the Equipment Circulation Unit. Equipment can be picked up from one of three equipment centers on campus: Main Classroom (MC 310), »Ê¹Ú×ãÇò90±È·Ö£º Multimedia Services Center (RT 301), and Monte Ahuja Hall (BU 18). For a small fee and 24-hours advance notice, the Center will deliver and set up audio/visual equipment for classroom use. For more information about this service, or to place an equipment reservation or for technical assistance call (216) 687-3846, Monday through Thursday from 8 am to 10 pm, Friday from 8 am to 5 pm, and Saturday from 8 am to 4:30 pm.

The Center also provides a variety of video and audio streaming services. Lecture capture services, using Mediasite, are available to record lectures (in the classroom or in the studio) to be viewed online. The Center can create audio, video, and graphic elements for presentations or produce full, edited video productions for instructional use. Call (216) 687-3855 to discuss your production needs.

Information Services and Technology Privileges

All faculty and staff are provided with email service, Internet service, software and technology training either in classroom or online, and access to CampusNet and Internal Home Pages. Please contact the IS&T Call Center at (216) 687-5050 for software technology training.

The Michael Schwartz »Ê¹Ú×ãÇò90±È·Ö£º

Part-time faculty members have full library privileges.
The Michael Schwartz »Ê¹Ú×ãÇò90±È·Ö£º at Cleveland State University supports the institutions instructional and research programs through resources and services made available to faculty both on site and over the Internet. Located on the first eight floors of Rhodes Tower, the »Ê¹Ú×ãÇò90±È·Ö£º contains substantial holdings of online resources, print materials, sound recordings, curriculum materials, art slides, films, videotapes, and multimedia products. Information regarding library holdings is available online through SCHOLAR from any computer with Internet access at http://scholar.csuohio.edu/.

»Ê¹Ú×ãÇò90±È·Ö£º Instruction

Subject specialist librarians are available to collaborate with faculty to integrate information literacy and library resources into their courses. Information literacy is "the set of integrated abilities encompassing the reflective discovery of information, the understanding of how information is produced and valued, and the use of information in creating new knowledge and participating ethically in communities of learning" (ACRL, 2016).

To arrange for any of these services, contact the subject specialist librarian for your discipline. For more information, visit the Ask Your Personal Librarian webpage or call the Reference Desk (216) 687-5300.

The Michael Schwartz »Ê¹Ú×ãÇò90±È·Ö£º's Instruction Program prepares students to conduct research effectively, to think critically about information, and to use information ethically.

Professional services include:

• Providing course-related information literacy instruction sessions.
• Helping faculty design meaningful research assignments that incorporate principles of information literacy while advancing course goals.
• Creating course-specific online research guides.
• Acting as an embedded librarian in distance learning/online classes.
• Developing online instructional resources such as tutorials or screencasts.

Electronic Resources and Course Reserves

In support of teaching and learning, the Michael Schwartz »Ê¹Ú×ãÇò90±È·Ö£º collection includes high quality electronic books and research database subscriptions that are accessible online 24/7. These collections and other information sources are available from the »Ê¹Ú×ãÇò90±È·Ö£º's website, http://library.csuohio.edu. For off-campus access, users need to set up a library PIN -- https://library.csuohio.edu/services/pin.html.

Students enrolled in online classes are further served by the resources found on the »Ê¹Ú×ãÇò90±È·Ö£º Services for Distance Learning Students webpage https://library.csuohio.edu/dl/index.html

Through the Electronic Course Reserve (ECR) system https://researchguides.csuohio.edu/ecr, course reading and media materials are available to students and faculty at all hours and anywhere there is internet access. Faculty can submit materials for course reserves to the »Ê¹Ú×ãÇò90±È·Ö£º's Digital Production Unit https://library.csuohio.edu/services/dpu/index.html. Electronic books and articles from the »Ê¹Ú×ãÇò90±È·Ö£º's collection and print materials may also be placed on course reserve.

Resource Sharing, OhioLINK, and Beyond

The »Ê¹Ú×ãÇò90±È·Ö£º's in-house collections are complemented by retrieval and delivery services such as interlibrary loan, OhioLINK, and SearchOhio. As an active member of OhioLINK, a statewide consortium of academic libraries, Cleveland State University is able to provide the campus community with access to over 46 million books and other library materials. Through its retrieval and delivery services, OhioLINK delivers print materials to requesters at any college or university library within a few days. Other services are also available that can provide users with access to information from sources around the world.

Center for Elearning

The Center for eLearning offers a variety of training and support services for instructors of online, blended and traditional courses. See the Elearning website for details - /center-for-elearning/center-for-elearning

Office of Disability Services

The ODS staff are a resource for the whole CSU community, not just students! The ODS staff are available to consult with you regarding disability issues. The ODS staff are allowed to discuss more specific information about students if there is a legitimate need to know. As faculty, it is important for you to understand how each student learns. Please contact ODS if you have questions. The ODS resources for faculty are available at /disability/information-for-faculty