Faculty, staff engage in Hallmarks Curriculum Summit, training

action photo from the curriculum event showing individuals at round tables taking notes and engaged as speaker Dr. Whiting shares about the self-determination in motivation continuum.

The summer semester may have officially begun, but that hasn’t kept Campbell’s faculty and staff from continuing to seek out ways to support our students. The week of May 18 saw more than 50 faculty and staff convened on campus to dive deeper into the Campbell Hallmarks of Character, Initiative and Calling.

Thanks to Campbell’s Educating Character Initiative grant from Wake Forest University, we welcomed Dr. Liz Whiting to campus. Whiting is a scholar of Character Pedagogy at Wake Forest’s ECI. Whiting developed an impactful workshop for over thirty-five faculty and staff in attendance focusing on our virtues of Character at Campbell: compassion, generosity, integrity and justice.

articipants reflected on prompts such as “What do you hope students care more deeply about as a result of your course?” and “What interpersonal and/or intrapersonal skills do you want your students to be more adept at?” This time and space helped many to solidify the ways that they will be more deliberate in engaging students in character education.

group of faculty and staff from Campbell University in the Student Union ballroom taking a group photo at their curriculum event.

Campbell’s office of The Hallmarks and The Teaching Resource Center in Wiggins Memorial Library (with special thanks to Jennifer Seagraves) co-hosted this week of events for our Campbell community. Dr. Rachel Nelson had been looking forward to welcoming Dr. Whiting to campus. Nelson shared, “In many cases, faculty are already doing the work of character education across our campus but this workshop Whiting designed helped them name it. This, and other events we design, remind faculty that they are not alone in their endeavors to engage students in meaningful reflection.”

A spirit of collaboration and community was evident as faculty socialized during breaks and worktime. “It’s always great to bring together people from across departments and colleges. Meaningful conversations took place and connections were made,” Nelson said. 

Group of faculty and staff seated at round tables engaged in working at curriculum summit on campus at Campbell

On Monday of that same week, The Office of the Hallmarks also hosted an additional training affectionately referred to as “Hallmarks 101.”

This training is open to all faculty and staff who want to learn more about the application of Campbell’s mission statement in their classrooms and interactions with students. This was the third time this training had been offered. In total, eighty faculty and staff at Campbell have attended to learn more about the Hallmarks. This event includes specific reflection activities that dive into the core of Character, Initiative, and Calling and utilize the Clifton Strengths assessment to fully align our strengths with our calling. Special guest facilitators for the Hallmarks 101 sessions include: Dr. Karen Mishra, Dean Betsy Dunn-Williams, Professor Brian Bowman, Dr. Justin Nelson, and Dr. Jennifer Bashaw. 

The next Hallmarks 101 session will be on Tuesday, December 15th. Interested faculty and staff can contact Rachel Nelson (rnelson@campbell.edu) for more information.