Faculty Forum Day April 4th, 2007
CONFERENCE AT A GLANCE
8:30 - 9:30
Continental Breakfast and Social Hour in the ritsche auditorium Lobby
9:30 – 10:30
Keynote address by Jonathan Kozol in Ritsche Auditorium
10:30 – 10:45
Break
10:45 – 12:00
Concurrent Sessions a; Workshop 1 and Workshop 2, Part one
12:00 – 1:00
Lunch on Your own
1:00 – 2:00
Concurrent Sessions B; Workshop 2, Part Two
2:00 - 2:15
Break
2:15 – 3:15
Concurrent Sessions C
3:15 – 3:30
Break
3:30 – 4:30
Concurrent Sessions D
Program
8:30 - 9:30
Continental Breakfast Ritsche Auditorium Lobby
9:30 – 10:30
Keynote Address by Jonathan Kozol Ritsche Auditorium
More information please check Keynote address by Jonathan Kozol
10:30 – 10:45
Break
10:45 – 12:00
Concurrent Sessions A
A1
Alcohol & Academics: Preventing High Risk Alcohol Use - Promoting Academic Excellence
South Voyageurs Room, Atwood
Discussion will focus on our students’ alcohol use and its impact in the classroom and on learning. Presenters will review 2006 CORE survey data, Alcohol Advisory Board, comprehensive prevention programs, available services, and how faculty can help. Future workshops will be offered based on feedback provided during this session.
Facilitators: John Eggers, Robert C. Reff
A2
Completing an Assessment Plan and Report
Lady’s Slipper Room, Atwood
This workshop is designed to help faculty members with the preparation of assessment plans and with annual assessment reports for major programs, general education, and upper division writing. Samples of completed documents will be provided. Questions will be answered and expectations clarified regarding assessment plans and annual assessment reports.
Session Chair: Jim Sherohman
Facilitators: Elaine Ackerman, Sandra Johnson, Judy Litterst, Joe Melcher, Brad Sleeper
A3
"My teacher has an Accent:" Negotiating Diasporic Identities in the Classroom and the Implications for Teaching and Learning.
North Voyageurs Room, Atwood
The panelists will discuss how they go about negotiating, constituting and reconstituting their identities as foreign instructors in the classroom. Specifically, they will address how these multiple identities inform how they teach and constitute classroom environment and impact the process of building shared experience between students and the instructor.
Facilitators: Eddah Mutua- Kombo, Luz Triana-Echeverria, Mumbi Mwangi, and Fouzi Slisli
A4
All You Wanted to Know About the Upper Division Writing Requirement
Glacier Room North
A status-update report on the Upper Division Writing program at SCSU and showcase of model approaches from different major programs for review and discussion.
Facilitators: Phil Keith, Judy Litterst, Mitch Rubinstein, Brenda Lenz, and others
A5
The Uncivil University—When Ideology and Propaganda Become Discrimination
Glacier Room South
Using Prof. Gary Tobin’s new book, The Uncivil University and the US Civil Rights Commission report, we will engage in a conversation about the current acts of ideological diatribes about situations like the Israel-Hezbollah conflict of 2006 and the ways in which universities throughout America are facilitating a new wave of anti-Semitism.
Session Chair: Joseph Edelheit
A6
Microsoft office 2007 Update
Miller Center auditorium
Microsoft Office 2007 is coming to campus computers on May 21st. If you are curious about Microsoft Office 2007, please join us for this overview. We will show you the new look of Office 2007 and talk about some of the changes from Office 2003. Topics to be covered include frequently asked questions about Office 2007 and how the conversion to Office 2007 will affect you.
Facilitators: Rich Josephson, Casey Wagner, and Brad Grabham
W1
Workshop with Jonathan Kozol
Cascade Room, Atwood
Workshop for SCSU faculty and staff as well as for area school district teachers and administrators focusing on building stronger and more lasting partnerships between the University and area schools. Pre-registration required.
W2
Preparing and Coordinating Learning Community Course Material
Mississippi Room, Atwood
This is Part One of a two-part workshop for faculty members whose Learning Community (LC) proposals were accepted for inclusion in the FYE program for 2007-2008. The workshop will provide information on how to coordinate course objectives, linked syllabi schedules and assignments for the classes involved in the different learning Communities. We ask that participants bring all course materials they plan to use in their LC course (syllabus, assignments, texts, etc.) so that they can begin coordinating course materials and activities. Part Two of this workshop will meet during Concurrent Session B following a break for lunch.
Session Chair: Catherine Fox
facilitators: Tracy Ore, Mark Jaede
12:00 – 1:00
Lunch
1:00 – 2:00
Concurrent Sessions B
B1
Writing and Improving Student Learning Outcomes
Lady’s Slipper Room, Atwood
Assessment begins with goals for student learning. Student learning outcomes describe what we want students to know and be able to do. Has your program struggled with writing these outcomes? We will help! Come alone or bring a group of faculty from your program. Most of the time will be spent developing your outcomes.
Session Chair: Sandra Johnson
Facilitators: Joyce Simones, Jim Sherohman, Joe Melcher, Mary Soroko
B2
Help Design Architecture for the New SCSU General Education Program
Voyageurs Room North, Atwood
Consider a metaphor of architectural design as we develop our new General Education Program. We invite you as individuals or groups to send architectural plans for a new General Education Program. Contact the General Education Committee (jlitterst@stcloudstate.edu) by April 1st for sharing and discussion on April 4th.
Facilitators: Judy Litterst
B3
SCSU Delegation to Chile
Glacier Room South, Atwood
Representatives from the SCSU Delegation to Chile will share experiences from their January, 2007 trip. They will also provide a brief overview of Chile, history of SCSU’s relationship with UdeC, purpose of the delegation, potential outcomes, and, of course, photos from the trip!
Facilitators: Paula Weber, Rob Lavenda, Margaret Vos
B4
Becoming Allies in Serving Students Who Have Disabilities
Voyageurs Room South, Atwood
This session would be co-sponsored and co-hosted by the office of Student Disability Services and the office of Lead Investigator (this would include both the current interim lead investigator and the current interim special advisor to the president because of her recent past with the 1B. 1 process). The focus of the conversation would be discussion of compliance issues with “reasonable accommodation” of students served by SDS and how the operation of disability services works with the 1B. 1 process. The objective of the session is to address recently expressed Faculty Association concerns about expectations of faculty in regard to servingstudents who have disabilitiesand to make the process of compliance with ADA requirements a friendlier “team effort among the faculty, office of Student Disability Services and Office of Lead Investigator.
Facilitators: Owen Zimpel, Stewart Wirth, Nancy Jessee
B5
“You, Your Story and the iPod you Rode-in On”
Glacier Room North, Atwood
Who teaches and who learns. The opportunity to honor the capacity of our students to know more than we do and more than we may want. and visa versa. Teaching as dialogue, technology as a tool rather than a method, and the difference between intrusive control and the possibility of personal celebration.
Facilitators: Balsy Kasi, Geoffrey Tabakin
B6
Using D2L for student evaluations
Miller Center 207
Want to find out how to use D2L for student evaluations. Come to this session to see how this can easily be done, how reports can be generated for your PDR’s, and how you can use these this tool to improve student satisfaction.
Facilitators: Rich Josephson and Steve Malikowski
B7
Is It a Game: Raisi9ng Awareness of Gambling Related Problems among College Students
Mississippi Room
With the explosion of on-line gambling nationally, and the popularity of games like Texas Hold’em, there has been a renewed interest in the social, economic and psychological costs associated with problem gamblers. This past fall, SCSU students were invited to complete an on-line survey in relation to gambling. The results of the survey provide a baseline understanding of SCSU student behaviors and attitudes regarding gambling and of problem gambling as an issue. We will present the findings of the survey as well as general information and resources related to the subject of problem gambling among college students.
Facilitators: John Eggers, Dan McClure
W2
Continued Preparing and Coordinating Learning Community Course Material
Cascade Room, Atwood
This is Part Two of a workshop for faculty members whose Learning Community (LC) proposals were accepted for inclusion in the FYE program for 2007-2008. The workshop will provide information on how to coordinate course objectives, linked syllabi schedules and assignments for the classes involved in the different learning Communities. We ask that participants bring all course materials they plan to use in their LC course (syllabus, assignments, texts, etc.) so that they can begin coordinating course materials and activities
Session Chair: Catherine Fox
facilitators: Tracy Ore, Mark Jaede
2:00 - 2:15
Break
2:15 – 3:15
Concurrent Sessions C
C1
Engaging students for healthier lives
Glacier Room North, Atwood
Educators hope to affect students’ lives. For teaching to do this students’ must critically engage with the content while also examining their own lives. This session will present a novel activity developed for a Human Biology class which intends to accomplish just that. An open discussion of transformative learning will follow.
Facilitators: Lee Aberle, Pat Hauslein
C2
Using Assessment Data to Improve Your Program
Lady’s Slipper Room, Atwood
Has your program had difficulty translating assessment results into program changes and improved student learning? If so, this workshop may help you move to the next level. Come with a problem. Most of the time will be devoted to addressing the problems brought to the session by workshop participants.
Session Chair: Jim Sherohman
Facilitators: Sandra Johnson, Joe Melcher, Joyce Simones, Brad Sleeper
C3
Academic Freedom: Rights and Responsibilities
Glacier Room South, Atwood
SCSU seems rife with misunderstandings about academic freedom. This panel will discuss the issues involved in developing a meaningful system of academic due process because due process is absolutely necessary for establishing academic freedom. Concomitant academic and professional responsibilities will also be covered because it is impossible to implement academic due process without enforcing them.
Facilitators: Larry Roth, Chris Jordan
C4
Got Conflict? The SCSU Mediation Program as a Faculty/Staff Resource
Voyageurs Room South, Atwood
Presenters will talk briefly about a framework for thinking systematically about conflict and for considering options we have in engaging with others in a conflicted situation. We will then talk about the SCSU Mediation Program as a faculty and staff resource: of faculty/staff, by faculty/staff, and for faculty/staff. We will describe ways the program tries to help colleagues in conflict: mediation, consultation, reality-checking, coaching, etc.
Facilitators: Bob Inkster
C5
RefWorks
Miller Center 218
RefWorks is a Web-based program that can help manage your references and create a bibliography in seconds — in 250-plus styles. It is available to all St. Cloud State students, faculty and staff, on and off campus. This session covers the fundamentals of using RefWorks, including how to add references, export citations to your working document and generate customized bibliographies in a specific citation style.
Facilitators: Lisa Forslund and Melissa Prescott
3:15 – 3:30
Break
3:30 – 4:30
Concurrent Sessions D
D1
International Student Transfer – Evaluation and Advising
Voyageurs Room North, Atwood
This session is for department chairs and faculty members who advise international transfer students. The session will provide information on the transfer credit evaluation and advising process for international transfer students. We seek input from faculty involved in the process and in exploring new ways to better serve these students.
Facilitators: Mark Nook, Janelle LeBlanc, Brenda Zamlen, Amy VanSurksum, Choon Kim
D2
Taboo Teaching Topics
Glacier Room North, Atwood
But it’s not taboo; we can help each other teach better. Perhaps the most important method for becoming better teachers happens over lunch. This roundtable discussion will explore informal methods for giving and getting advice. This session is also for those interested in joining the Faculty Consultation Program through the CETL.
Facilitators: Pat Hauslein
D3
How Did It Get So Big: Integrating Student Research Across Courses and Departments
Voyageurs Room South, Atwood
An integrated research experience for students involving multiple classes and multiple departments is described. Special education majors begin the project as first-year students and participate in different elements of the program throughout their baccalaureate studies. A student will have four opportunities to develop research questions, gather data, and analyze results.
Facilitators: J. Michael Pickle, Dory Beutel, Kathy Mayhew, Patty Waletzko,
D4
Update on Assessment for College Readiness
Lady’s Slipper Room, Atwood
Professors lament the lack of academic preparation in writing, reading, and math among some entering students. What can be done about this? How can you get involved? Presenters will explain the implementation of MnSCU Board Policy 3.3, Assessment for Course Placement. How will SCSU develop a course placement policy that addresses how student knowledge and skills shall be assessed?
Session Chair: Gretchen Starks-Martin
Facilitators: Julie Condon, Sandy Johnson
D5
Podcasting and Vodcasting
Miller Center 207
Thinking of implementing pod- VODcasting as part of your learning process? Come to this session to see what pod-VODcasting is and how is it done. We will explain the basics, show examples and give you directions how to get started.
facilitators: Plamen Miltenoff and Brad Grabham
