Contacts and Information

Our website address is: https://sites.soka.edu/online-teaching. This is one place to find resources for online teaching at Soka University of America. We will also be supporting a Brightspace site with additional information and a discussion forum for faculty with questions and concerns about online learning and faculty support. The Faculty Library/IT committee is actively soliciting information from faculty on how we can support them through an online Brightspace page. The Faculty Online Teaching Forum and Brightspace site is available here:

https://soka.brightspace.com/d2l/home/15363

SUA Library

Jennifer Tirrell from the SUA library ( jtirrell@soka.edu ) has gathered some useful articles for faculty hoping to learn how to effectively teach online. She is available to help with additional searches if faculty are interested Here are some of the articles she recommended:

Here are some examples:

SUA ITS

The SUA IT group is eager to support faculty in any way they can to provide training, hardware support and information for teaching online. The primary contacts within IT for faculty support in online teaching are below:

Barbara McGrath – phone: (949) 480-4195 email: bmcgrath@soka.edu

Sophia Kawada – phone: (949) 480-4229 email: skawada@soka.edu

Additional support can be received using the IT helpdesk phone number, which is (949) 480-4357. They will prioritize faculty inquiries and be sure to route faculty calls to a full-time staff member.

If you have any hardware needs – a loaner laptop, a videocamera or other hardware, or other items, please let us know and we will work with IT to do our best to make this available to you. We have created a faculty survey to gather this input and please do let us know by completing this survey which is available here: https://soka.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_b7XLZJupVxjikGF

Dean’s Office

If you have any other questions about our online learning period, please contact Bryan Penprase, the Dean of Faculty at bpenprase@soka.edu, or Janna Skye, Assistant to the Dean of Faculty at jskye@soka.edu, and we will do our best to either answer your question or to direct you to someone who can help.