<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><p style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:15.5467px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:16.96px">Reminder - Closes on February 14th</span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:15.5467px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:16.96px">**SENT ON BEHALF OF THE THE FACT2 COUNCIL**</span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:15.5467px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:16.96px">Dear SUNY Faculty,</span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:15.5467px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:16.96px">The SUNY FACT2 Task Group on Examining Pedagogy and Learning in Online Domains (ExPLOD), SUNY Center for Professional Development, and the SUNY Office of the Provost are interested in learning more about faculty perception and experience with online and remote teaching environments.  As a teaching faculty at your campus, we are requesting your help to participate in a short survey.</span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:15.5467px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:16.96px">ExPLOD has created a survey to gather information from teaching faculty (e.g., tenure track, non-tenure track, clinical, and adjunct faculty) across SUNY.  The goal of this survey is to learn more about faculty’s perceptions of their ability to confidently teach online across SUNY.  This survey will be administered through SUNY System Administration’s survey tool and will inform future recommendations of the Task Group to FACT2 and the SUNY Provost.</span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:15.5467px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:16.96px">The survey primarily consists of closed-ended questions, but there are also some open-ended follow up questions that faculty will be asked at the end.  Questions are not course or campus specific. Rather, we are asking faculty to reflect on their overall experiences and perceptions teaching online program pre- and post-Spring 2020.  We believe that the faculty responses from this survey will be helpful to SUNY’s understanding of online faculty’s experiences and confidence teaching online.</span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:15.5467px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:16.96px">The survey has been approved by the system-wide IRB, and all faculty responses will be confidential. We plan to share the aggregated data with the ExPLOD Task Group members, the SUNY Office of the Provost, and with the rest of the SUNY community as appropriate.  Survey analysis may also be used to develop articles about faculty perception of online learning, in general.</span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:15.5467px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:16.96px">Participation is completely voluntary and will not impact the faculty role and/or responsibilities through SUNY.  You must be 18 years of age and older to complete this survey. The risks are no more than those experienced in typical daily life, and there is no compensation for participating.  You can exit the survey at any time, for any reason.  The survey is anonymous, meaning you will not be asked any identifiable information, such your name, phone number or address.  By completing the survey, you agree to be part of the study as stated above, and that your anonymous responses can be used as part of the aggregated dataset.</span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:15.5467px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:16.96px">The survey will be open January 26 to February 14, 2021, and it should take you no more than 20 minutes to complete. If you have any questions or concerns, you can directly email the ExPLOD Task Group’s co-chair and principal investigator Dr. Audeliz (Audi) Matias at <a href="mailto:audeliz.matias@esc.edu" target="_blank">audeliz.matias@esc.edu</a> or the Human Research Ethics Board of SUNY New Paltz at <a href="mailto:hrebsecretary@newpaltz.edu" target="_blank">hrebsecretary@newpaltz.edu</a>.</span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:15.5467px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16pt;line-height:22.6133px">Click in the survey link if you agree to participate:</span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:15.5467px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="https://suny.edu/survey/take/fact2facultyperceptions" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size:16pt;line-height:22.6133px">Faculty Perceptions of Online Teaching Survey</span></b></a><b><span style="font-size:16pt;line-height:22.6133px"></span></b></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:15.5467px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:16.96px">Please do not hesitate to get in touch if you have any questions about the purpose of or procedures related to survey.</span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:15.5467px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:16.96px">Sincerely,</span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:15.5467px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:16.96px">ExPLOD Task Group, FACT2 Council</span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:15.5467px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:16.96px"><br></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:15.5467px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:16.96px"><br></span></p></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><font color="#cc0000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><p style="margin:0px;text-align:left;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;line-height:normal;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal;background-color:transparent"><b><font size="4">Sara S. Phillips</font></b><br></p></font><font color="#cc0000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="4" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><p style="font:400 12.8px Arial;margin:0px;text-align:left;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal;background-color:transparent"><font size="2">Director of Institutional Effectiveness</font></p><p style="font:400 12.8px Arial;margin:0px;text-align:left;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal;background-color:transparent"><font size="2">315 Kehoe</font></p><p style="font:400 12.8px Arial;margin:0px;text-align:left;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal;background-color:transparent"><font size="2">101 Broad Street</font></p><p style="font:400 12.8px Arial;margin:0px;text-align:left;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal;background-color:transparent"><font size="2">Plattsburgh, NY 12901</font></p><p style="font:400 12.8px Arial;margin:0px;text-align:left;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal;background-color:transparent"><span style="font-size:13.33px">(o) 518-564-4106</span><br></p><p style="font:400 12.8px Arial;margin:0px;text-align:left;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal;background-color:transparent"><b><font size="2"><a style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" href="http://plattsburgh.edu/" target="_blank">plattsburgh.edu</a></font></b></p><p style="font:400 12.8px Arial;margin:0px;text-align:left;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal;background-color:transparent"><b><br></b></p><p style="font:400 12.8px Arial;margin:0px;text-align:left;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal;background-color:transparent"><b><img src="https://web.plattsburgh.edu/files/914/images/SUNY-Plattsburgh-Email-Logo-2018.jpg"></b></p></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>