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Monday, September 26, 2011

Innovative Educators Webinar: The Nuts And Bolts Of Learning Community Development And Implementation


Speaker SpotlightTuesday, October 25 ~ 1:00-2:30pm EDT Webinar Description

"As designers of educational experiences for students, faculty and administrators are using learning communities to integrate the intellectual and social aspects of learning. Learning communities are effective in promoting student learning and in fostering faculty development and renewal."
~ Anne Goodsell Love, Ph.D.


Webinar Presenter





Growth in learning communities has increased steadily in the past two decades. Colleges and universities of all sizes and types have implemented them for some or all of their students, usually with the aim of improving student learning, improving students' experiences in and out of the classroom, providing integration of ideas and disciplines across campuses, and increasing rates of student retention and degree completion. Colleges have turned to learning communities as an effective way to change the behaviors and organization of students, faculty, and student affairs professionals such that they work together to form a more holistic learning experience than what is experienced when courses are taken in isolation from one another.


This webinar will provide an overview of learning communities and take participants step-by-step through a planning process for learning community development. Participants will learn how to create a learning community development team and will walk away with a clear idea of how to build a timeline for implementation. Our expert speaker will also provide resources for continued work after the webinar.


Objectives



Participants will:
Identify reasons for Learning Community development
Develop goals, objectives, and timeline for Learning Community implementation
Identify people to be on Learning Community development team
Learn about resources for Learning Community development and implementation


Who is the Speaker?

Anne Goodsell Love is Associate Provost for Assessment at Wagner College, working with students and faculty to support learning in and out of the classroom, and the coordination of college-wide assessment efforts. Previously at Wagner she was Dean of the College, overseeing residence life, health services, academic advising, co-curricular programs and student organizations, judicial affairs, and leadership development.


In addition to her work at Wagner, for the past ten years Dr. Love has been Co-Director of the Atlantic Center for Learning Communities, a regional leadership network dedicated to supporting colleges and universities in their development of learning communities and other learner-centered pedagogies.


Before coming to Wagner College, Dr. Love was Assistant Dean of University College at The University of Akron. There, she had oversight for orientation and the first-year seminar, academic advising, learning communities, developmental programs, and students on academic probation.


Dr. Love is the editor of Collaborative Learning: A Sourcebook for Higher Education, co-author of Enhancing Student Learning: Intellectual, Social, and Emotional Integration, and has published articles and made many presentations related to the implementation and assessment of learning communities. She earned a B.S. in psychology at St. Lawrence University, a M.Ed. in Counselor Education from The Pennsylvania State University, and a Ph.D. in Higher Education from Syracuse University.
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U.S. History: 10 Speeches and News Conferences by JFK Now Available on iTunes via U. of North Dakota


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Inside Higher Ed Career Advice: Ph.Do Journal Submissions

September 2, 2011
By Eszter Hargittai

Publishing one's own work is essential in most academic areas. While some fields continue to put a lot of weight on books, writing journal articles is important in an increasing number of areas. The logistics of journal submission are not obvious. Nonetheless they are yet another aspect of academic professionalization that seems to go unaddressed in many graduate programs. In this piece I cover how you go about picking an appropriate journal for your paper and how you prepare it for submission. The assumption is that you have prepared a manuscript that you and your mentors feel is ready for consideration by a journal. (In some disciplines, refereed conference proceedings are more the norm. I suspect much of what is below applies to those cases as well.) MORE
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Teacher Learning Community: Hidden Webtools_11 Tools for 2011


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AJC.com: TSU Freedom Riders get hall of fame nod; just wanted to do the right thing

September 22, 2011


By Ernie Suggs


Growing up in Nashville, in the deeply segregated South of the 1940s and 1950s, it was almost a given that Pauline Knight-Ofosu would stay in town and attend Tennessee State University.


Most of her relatives -- except a brother who got a full scholarship to Fisk University, also in Nashville -- had attended TSU, and both schools served as beacons for black achievement.


“When I was growing up, an HBCU was really the most prestigious place for anybody to work in or come out of,” Knight-Ofosu said. “There was a time when our professionals were comprised of teachers, undertakers, people at the post office and maybe people who owned barber and beauty shops. We didn’t have that many people – because of segregation -- who could express their talents the way they could be expressed. But HBCUs were that place.”


Knight-Ofosu 's stay at TSU would prove to be eventful. While her classmates, the Tigerbelles were becoming legends after winning several gold medals in track & field at the 1960 Olympics in Rome, she was risking her life – and her education -- as a Freedom Rider, traversing the South to bring attention to segregated facilities.


On Friday, she and 15 other members of the TSU Freedom Riders – including Atlanta residents William Harbour and Larry Hunter -- will be inducted into the National Black College Hall of Fame.


“It is a heartwarming thing for all of us to be honored by the people who we have admired all of our lives,” said Knight-Ofosu, a retired biologist from the Environmental Protection Agency, who now lives in Rex. “We weren’t doing it for whatever it might bring us. It was hard to watch your mother and father -- who deserved to be treated like citizens – being treated unjustly. That was wrong and if something is going on you don’t like stop complaining and do something.”


The TSU Freedom Riders are being inducted specifically for the contributions they made in college. In 1961 they were at the forefront as early Freedom Riders, along with students from other Nashville colleges like Fisk and Meharry Medical School.


Braving beatings and death, TSU students who were arrested were expelled from school, before suing for re-admission.


“We were thought of as bad people, because we railed against the establishment in a way they had never seen. The sit-ins were one thing, but the Freedom Rides were on a whole different level,” Hunter said. “I am happy about this honor, but the original intent was not to be inducted into a hall of fame. It was to set this country on a path to where it is now -- moving to a society that is not biased towards anyone."


The induction is the highlight of the 26th Annual Hall of Fame Weekend Conference, which shines a spotlight on the history and importance of historically black colleges. Other activities include a lectures, a recruitment fair, a golf tournament, a gospel choir competition and queens pageant.


Other inductees into the hall of fame Friday include:
Two Spelman College graduates and Atlanta residents Pearl Cleage in Arts & Entertainment and Brenda Hill Cole in Law; Lonnie Bartley of Fort Valley State University in Athletics; Johnnie B. Booker of Hampton University in Business; Ruth Crawford of Paine College in Community Service; Henry Tisdale of Claflin College in Education; the Rev. Charles B. Jackson of Benedict College in Faith & Theology; and Henry M. Michaux of North Carolina Central University in Government.

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Howard University News: Howard Receives $2.2 Million to Strengthen Health Workforce Diversity


September 22, 2011


Award helps students from disadvantaged backgrounds enter health professions


WASHINGTON – The Howard University Health Careers Opportunity Program (HCOP), a collaborative effort by three of the University’s colleges to create a more diverse healthcare workforce, has been awarded $2.2 million by the federal Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA).


The University will receive $737,693 annually for three years to attract students to the health care profession beginning in kindergarten and ultimately train them to become physicians and dentists. The first year grant is part of $9.7 million in awards HRSA awarded to 14 educational institutions recently to increase diversity in the health professions workforce through the HCOP.


The money is to help develop an educational pipeline for economically and educationally disadvantaged students, and prepare them for careers in the health professions.


At Howard, the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Medicine and the College of Dentistry will work jointly. Dr. Robert E. Taylor, who recently stepped aside as dean of the College of Medicine, was instrumental in securing the grant and is the program director.


“The HCOP grants allows us to continue the essential mission of the colleges, which is to train promising students who desire to become physicians or dentists but who are from disadvantaged or underserved backgrounds,” Taylor said. “This program is so important that before we received this grant, we supported it through funds from donation to the medical school.”


About one of every 10 students graduating from the medical and dental schools will benefit from the grant, Taylor said.


Dr. Mark S. Johnson, the new dean of the College of Medicine, said the program fits perfectly with the college’s mission to serve the underserved.


“In order for us to expand the pipeline of disadvantaged students who are prepared to enter college and subsequently careers in the health sciences, we must provide programming such as that which is included in the HCOP program,” Johnson said. “We are proud to have been selected to continue our work in this area.”


Howard’s HCOP brings together three of the University’s colleges, selected K-12 schools of the Washington metropolitan area, and the D.C. Area Health Education Center. The program is designed to increase the pool of qualified medical and dental school applicants, facilitate their entry into professional school and ultimately increase access to quality health care for communities that are medically underserved.


The Center for Preprofessional Education in the College of Arts and Sciences will expose K-12 students to health professions careers.The center will provide science knowledge enhancement activities for disadvantaged students in grades 7-12 and an academic summer enrichment program for underserved pre-medical and pre-dental students prior to their freshman year at Howard University.


It will provide assistance to disadvantaged college juniors, seniors and graduates with the Medical College Admissions Test and the Dental Admissions Test.


Additionally, the College of Dentistry and the College of Medicine will offer disadvantaged dental and medical applicants who have been granted conditional acceptance a strong program of retention counseling and mentoring designed to enhance their academic success.


“This grant continues and sustains our efforts in increasing the pipeline of under represented minorities young men and women with outstanding potential for success as future health care providers,” said Dr. Leo Rouse, dean of the College of Dentistry. “This allows us to develop the next generation of health care providers who will continue our mission of serving the underserved.”
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Dr. Mona Lisa Saloy at the Louisiana Book Festival October 29, 2011 9am-5pm Baton Rouge, LA



Red Beans and Ricely YoursDr. Mona Lisa Saloy is Professor of English and founder of the Creative Writing Program at Dillard University. Saloy’s new verse appears in The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume IV: Louisiana, 12/2011; the Pan African Literary Journal, Fall 2010. Her essay, “Disasters, Nature, and Poetry” is in Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry, University of Georgia Press. Red Beans and Ricely Yours: Poems won the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Prize, the T. S. Eliot Prize in poetry.



SCHEDULE
9 AM – 9:45 AM
House Committee Room 1
Reading
Louisiana's Poet Laureate Presents Louisiana Voices: A Poetry Panel
Book Signing
11:15 AM - NOON
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Dr. Mona Lisa Saloy

Author, Folklorist
Professor of English
Humanities Department
College of Arts & Sciences
Dillard University
2601 Gentilly Boulevard
New Orleans, LA 70122-3097
Cell: 504-343-0689
Office: 504-816-4354
FAX: 504-816-4381

"Every person in the world is born to do something unique and something distinctive. And if he or she does not do it, it will never be done."


----Dr. Benjamin Elijah Mays (1884-1984), Scholar & President, Morehouse College


www.monalisaslaoy.com
saloy1@aol.com
msaloy@dillard.edu


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Dillard University Participates in the 24th Annual 2011 UNCF Walk for Education



The 24th Annual 2011 UNCF Walk for Education is scheduled for this Saturday, 10/01/2011 at Audubon Park. We have over 300 students signed up for this fun filled event, and we want you all to be a part of the fun!



UNCF will host a Kick Off party on September 28th at the Audubon Tea Room from 5:00pm to 8:00pm (See Attached). Faculty and Staff are invited to attend this event. By simply clicking this link http://give.uncf.org/site/TR?pg=team&fr_id=1660&team_id=15463 , you can go to the Faculty/Staff walk page and join the TEAM in less than five minutes. If you prefer, you can write a check to UNCF NEW ORLEANS for $30.00. The Development Office (Rosenwald #222) will be collecting those checks and going to various departments to encourage everyone to participate. Thanks for your continued dedication and support of our Dillard students, and special thanks to those who have already joined TEAM DU.


Sincerely,
Travis Chase
Ext. 4713
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Amy Porterfield: 6 Steps to Instantly Connect With Your Blog Readers



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