Faculty and Staff

Fireside Chat with CJ Winslow M.Eng '06, B.S. '05

Date: Thursday, April 9, 2026 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM - Design it. Build it. Grow it. Discover how CJ Winslow turned engineering, innovation, and manufacturing into a thriving company. Learn how technical skills, product development, and smart risk-taking can transform an engineer into a business leader. RSVP by 04/10/26 RSVP https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1USf7r28Dpbs63x_jYcjh_bG8qZh1X9fZ1vn-uH-ZSsk/edit?usp=sharing 4/13/26 5:00pm - 7:00pm in the Union Theater

Division of Human Resources Workshop: RPI MAX for Staff: Leveraging Feedback and Career Opportunities

Date: Thursday, April 9, 2026 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM - As an employee, you work in partnership with your manager to align expectations and set meaningful goals. Throughout the year, you check in together, recalibrate as needed, and celebrate progress and achievements. This workshop focuses on supporting your individual career development, preparing for the annual manager evaluation, setting effective goals, and using tools that can help you advance your career.

Division of Human Resources Workshop: RPI MAX for Supervisors: Performance and Coaching

Date: Thursday, April 9, 2026 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM - As a manager, you play a central role in guiding the performance process for your employees—working collaboratively to align expectations, support development, and monitor progress toward achieving goals. This workshop introduces the core principles of performance coaching, including how to identify and evaluate performance gaps, set effective goals, and lead the RPI MAX performance process. Participants will also explore practical tools for building strong, high‑performing teams.

Rensselaer Faculty and Staff Quick Learn Webinar: Tips for Improving Online Breakout Room Sessions

Date: Tuesday, April 7, 2026 1:30 PM - 2:00 PM - In this webinar we will review tips and tricks to creating more productive breakout sessions. In this session, we will not be learning "how to" use the breakout room feature in Webex but we will be strategizing on how to improve the engagement in the sessions by offering roles, mixing things up, and creating connections. To register for this workshop and see a list of other upcoming workshops, please use the website listed in the See section.

Spring 2026 End of Term Course Surveys in HelioCampus: Adding Additional Questions to a Course Section (Faculty/Instructor Training)

Date: Tuesday, April 7, 2026 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM - This webinar offers faculty/instructors of course sections to add additional questions to their student end of term course evaluations. This is an optional process and only needed if instructors wanted to add other questions than what is on the institute course evaluation. Please click the link in the See section to register for the session.

2026 Faculty and Staff Climate Survey Launched

Date: Friday, April 3, 2026 (all day) - The 2026 Faculty and Staff Climate Survey launched by email on April 2, 2026. Your honest and candid opinions about the environment at RPI and how it affects your ability to do you work and thrive, professionally and personally, are important. You will find a personal link to complete the survey in your email from President Schmidt. Please submit the completely anonymous survey by April 30, 2026. If you have questions, please email OIRA at oira@rpi.edu .

Fidelity Confidential Consultation (By Phone with Zoom Video Option)

Date: Thursday, April 2, 2026 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM - Schedule a confidential consultation to help you become better informed and more confident about your workplace retirement savings plan benefits. To schedule an appointment, call 1-800-642-7131, Monday through Friday, 8:00 am to midnight, or online at https://nb.fidelity.com/public/nbpreloginnav/rpi/microsite/#/tem/meet-with-us

Rensselaer Faculty and Staff In Person Workshop - Deeper Dive into the Active Learning Approaches of Jigsaw, Think/Pair/Share, & Visual Maps

Date: Wednesday, April 1, 2026 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM - In this workshop, we will focus on the three active learning concepts of the Jigsaw activity, Think/Pair/Share and working with Visual Maps/Charts. We will spend some time on each of these 3 approaches, discussing the concept of each and looking at examples to help you think about how you might be able to incorporate the approach into your class. Please register by March 27th using the Event URL in the See section of the calendar event.

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