Spring Faculty Forum April 2, 2008

The Keynote speaker for Faculty Forum Paul Rogat Loeb: “Soul of a Citizen: Hope in a Time of Fear”

8:00am – 8:45am Breakfast, Ritsche Lobby

8:45am – 9:45am Ritsche Auditorium

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Paul Rogat Loeb has spent over thirty years researching and writing about citizen responsibility and empowerment--asking what makes some people choose lives of social commitment, while others abstain. He has written five widely praised books, and articles for a range of publications including the New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Psychology Today, Christian Science Monitor, Chronicle of Higher Education, The Nation, Village Voice, Utne Reader, Redbook, Parents Magazine, Mother Jones, Sojourners, Technology Review, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Baltimore Sun, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Detroit News, San Francisco Chronicle, St Louis Post-Dispatch, Tampa Tribune, Academe, New Age Journal, National Catholic Reporter, Teaching Tolerance, Salon, International Herald Tribune, and Knight-Ridder News Service. He has lectured to enthusiastic responses at 400 colleges and universities around the country--including Harvard, Stanford, Dartmouth, Chicago, Michigan, MIT, Yale, Cornell, Duke, Wisconsin, and Columbia--and been a lead speaker at numerous conferences including the National Education Association, American Society on Aging, Education Commission of the States, National Youth Leadership Council, American College Personnel Association, Campus Compact’s Presidential Summit, the American Association of Colleges & Universities, a national conference on race and ethnicity on campus, the company meeting of Patagonia Corp., and the Unitarian General Assembly. His January 2002 talk to the annual provost’s conference of the American Association of State Colleges & Universities inspired the Association’s American Democracy project, now involving 200 campuses. Visit www.paulloeb.org

Forum Day, April 2, 2008

CONFERENCE AT A GLANCE

8:00 - 8:45 Continental Breakfast

8:45 – 9:45 Keynote Address by Paul Loeb

9:45 – 10:00 Break

10:00 – 11:15 Concurrent Sessions A

10:00 – 12:00 Workshop –Visioning Session for Campus Facilities Master Plan

11:00 – 12:00 Open meeting- Academic Action Plan

12:00 – 12:45 Lunch on your own

12:00 – 3:00 Workshop –K-16 STEM Learning:Science Museum of Minnesota, please RSVP by March 28th tocetl@stcloudstate.edu

12:45 – 2:00 Concurrent Sessions B

1:00 – 2:00 Open meeting- Academic Action Plan

1:00 – 3:00 Workshop – Reintegrating MN Soldiers

1:00 – 3:00 Workshop - Democratic Citizenship with Paul Loeb

2:00 - 2:15 Break

2:15 – 3:30 Concurrent Sessions C

3:30 – 3:45 Break

3:45 – 5:00 Concurrent Sessions D

4:00 - 5:00 Teleconference - Conflict Coaching: Giving Shape to an Emerging Practice, Pre Registration Required email cetl@stcloudstate.edu

PROGRAM

8:00 - 8:45 Continental Breakfast, Ritsche Auditorium Lobby

8:45 – 9:45 Keynote Address by Paul Loeb, Ritsche Auditorium

9:45 – 10:00 Break

10:00 – 11:15 Concurrent Sessions A

A1                              SCSU Responds to the Virginia Tech Tragedy, Glacier North, Atwood

In April 2007, we all became Hokies. While SCSU has been consistently engaged in safety and security planning, we began incorporating the lessons learned from Virginia Tech in our communications, security procedures, programming, services, and future planning. This session will be an opportunity to discuss existing, developing and future procedures.

Facilitators: Mike Gillilan, John Eggers, Rex Veeder, Loren Boone, Miles Heckendorn

A2                              D2L Updates, Miller Center 218

Exporting grades, archiving and backing up D2L course material,There are many reasons that an instructor might wish to archive or back up material from a D2L course, and we’ll look at the various options in this workshop. MnSCU-D2L is developing a plan to delete old D2L course material in an effort to increase performance of the D2L system. While we don’t know when or how this might happen, the tools demonstrated in this workshop can help you export your old grades and back up other course materials. This workshop will be repeated during spring semester. We will also be sending out emails to faculty using D2L as more details are known.

Facilitators: Rich Josephson, Tom Hergert

A3                            Assessing Community Engagement, Voyageurs North, Atwood

In this session, facilitators will engage faculty, staff, and directors in roundtable discussions on the university’s involvement in community engagement and strategies to assess impact. Participants will discuss topics including the definition, purpose, method, assessment and results of conducting and/or incorporating community engagement activities into academic and non-academic areas.

Facilitators: Jim Knutson-Kolodzne, Isolde Mueller, Stuart Umberger

10:00 – 12:00 Workshop

W1 Visioning Session for Campus Facilities Master Plan, Voyageurs South, Atwood

Facilitators: Steve Ludwig, SCSU; Greg Vandal, Superintendent of Schools in Sauk Rapids Rice School District; David Leapaldt, Grooters Leapaldt Tideman Architects

11:00 – 12:00 Open Meeting: Discussing the first draft of the full Academic Action Plan, Glacier South, Atwood

Facilitator: Members of the Academic Action Planning Steering Committee

12:00 – 12:45 Lunch on your own

12:00 – 3:00 Workshop

W2 K-16 STEM Learning; Science Museum of Minnesota- Limited attendance with lunch provided,

please RSVP by March 28th tocetl@stcloudstate.edu, Voyageurs North, Atwood

MUSE in Minnesota is a new statewide initiative from the Science Museum of Minnesota. Its efforts center on four Guiding Principles:

Promoting STEM integration

Addressing Minnesota’s achievement gaps through cultural competence and relevance

Believing that learning is incremental

Promoting continuity and coherence through a systems-approach.

This interactive session focuses on the third principle and will explore theories of intelligence as described in the research of Carol Dweck and their impacts on intellectual risk-taking and resilience in the face of failure. Liesl Chatman, Marjorie Bullitt Bequette, and Erin Strauss will lead the session. They have combined leadership experience in professional development, educational research, K-12 teaching, university-K-12 partnerships, and informal education.

Facilitators: Patricia Simpson, SCSU; Erin Strauss, Liesl Chatman, Majorie Bullitt Bequette, Science Museum

12:45 – 2:00 Concurrent Sessions B

B1                           SCSU – High School Collaboration through the Senior to Sophomore Program, Glacier North, Atwood

The Senior to Sophomore Program offers the opportunity for high school students to enroll in introductory SCSU courses at their high schools. Three SCSU faculty and their high school counterparts will present the unique approaches and activities they have developed to actively collaborate with high school faculty and students.

Facilitators: Patricia Hauslein, Kay Sebastian, Isolde Mueller, Jeff Torguson and guests.

B2                           Creating Honors Majors at SCSU, Lady Slipper, Atwood

Departmental majors already exist in theory, under departmental control and entirely separate from University Honors. But they are seldom implemented. To make them more widespread at SCSU we'd need a campus-wide discussion of credits, workload, enrollment mechanics, recognition of students, and relation to the Upper Division Writing Requirement.

Facilitators: David Boyer and Other Interested Parties

B3                            Turning Student Cheating Episodes into Life Learning Experiences, Mississippi, Atwood

In academia, cheating is often dealt exclusively through punitive means. Consequently, the student does not typically modify their behavior after being caught, punitive consequences typically do not mitigate repeat cheating episodes. Furthermore, students should provide “restitution” for engaging in academic dishonesty. The authors propose that faculty consider the following matrix in addressing student dishonesty:

Event/Occurrence Phase

Investigation Phase

Findings (if cheating did not occur, END. If cheating occurred, then go to #4)

Consequences Phase

Restitution Phase

Facilitators: Jeff Johnson, Michael Ferguson, Mike Gillilan

1:00 – 2:00 Open Meeting: Discussing the first draft of the full Academic Action Plan, Glacier South, Atwood

Facilitator: Members of the Academic Action Planning Steering Committee

1:00 – 3:00 Workshops

W3 Reintegrating MN Soldiers, Little Theatre, Atwood

The Minnesota National Guard has pioneered a program in hopes of changing how soldiers and airmen are reintegrated back to their communities. Called Beyond the Yellow Ribbon, the program is named as a reminder that the support of soldiers cannot end when they return from deployment and the yellow ribbons are untied. Presented by nationally known Chaplain John Morris of the Minnesota National Guard and Don Pfeffer, Director of the Higher Education Initiative of the Minnesota Dept of Veteran Affairs.

Organizers: Jayne Lokken and James McCauley

Facilitators: Don Pfeffer, Chp. John Morris

W4 Democratic Citizenship with Paul Loeb, Cascade, Atwood