Dear Colleagues,
Academic Affairs has arranged transportation for those faculty who registered for the NYU Faculty Resource Network Symposium being co-hosted by Dillard and Xavier Universities on November 16 & 17, 2012,
Faculty wishing to attend the sessions at the Hilton Riverside Hotel and Xavier University on Friday, November 16th will be shuttled to the Symposium as follows:
8:30 a.m. Shuttle will pick up faculty in front of the Library
8:45 a.m. Shuttle will depart Dillard University
9:00 a.m. Hilton Riverside Hotel – Conference Registration
9:30 -11:30 a.m. WORKSHOP
12:00 p.m. LUNCH
1:00 p.m. Dillard Shuttle departs for Xavier University
2:00 – 4:30 p.m. Plenary Session Keynote Address Plenary Panel Q & A
4:45 p.m. Reception
6:00 p.m. Dillard Shuttle departs for Dillard University
For your convenience I have attached a copy of the Symposium Schedule. If you have any questions please feel free to contact or office.
Barbara M. Albert
Executive Assistant
Office of Academic Affairs
(504) 816-4216 (office)
(504) 816-4144 (fax)
balbert@dillard.edu
www.dillard.edu
NEW FACES, NEW EXPECTATIONS
Friday, November 16, 2012
TIME EVENT LOCATION
7:30 a.m.
Registration Lobby
Hilton New Orleans Riverside Hotel
9:30-11:30 a.m.
Workshop
The Practice of Critical and Creative Thinking
Kabacoff Room, Riverside Building
Robert DiYanni
, New York University Hilton New Orleans Riverside Hotel
1:00 p.m. Buses depart for Xavier University Lobby
Hilton New Orleans Riverside Hotel
2:00-3:00 p.m.
Plenary Session Administration Building
Welcome and Introductions
Auditorium, Xavier University
Norman Francis,
President
Xavier University
Keynote Address
Education, Inequality, and the Future of
American Democracy
Pedro Noguera,
New York University
3:00-3:15 p.m.
Question and Answer Session
3:15-3:30 p.m.
Break
3:30-4:30 p.m.
Plenary Panel Administration Building
Billy C. Hawkins
, President Auditorium, Xavier University
Talladega College
Jose Jaime Rivera
, President
University of the Sacred Heart
Dorothy Cowser Yancy
, President
Shaw University
Moderator:
Ron Robin
, New York University
4:30-4:45 p.m.
Question and Answer Session
4:45-6:00 p.m.
Reception NCF Academic Science Complex
Atrium, Xavier University
6:00 p.m. Buses depart Xavier University for the
Hilton New Orleans Riverside Hotel
NEW FACES, NEW EXPECTATIONS
Saturday, November 17, 2012
TIME EVENT LOCATION
7:45 a.m. Buses depart for Dillard University (All events Lobby
will take place in the Professional Schools and Hilton New Orleans Riverside Hotel
Science Building)
8:15-8:45 a.m.
Continental Breakfast Atrium
8:45-9:45 a.m.
Welcome and Introductions Georges Auditorium
Walter Kimbrough
, President
Dillard University
Plenary Panel:
David G. Horner
, President
American College of Greece
Sylvia Kofler
, Head of Press and Public Diplomacy
Delegation of the European Union to the
United States of America
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Breakout Sessions 1-6
1.
Music as a Resource for the Adult Room 131
Education Experience
2.
Interdisciplinarity: A Key to Making Sense of Room 135
the Liberal Arts
3.
Making Rhetoric Electric Room 136
4.
Using Experiential Learning to Serve the Room 151
New Student
5.
Three Perspectives on Meeting the Needs of Room 164
New Student Populations
11:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Breakout Sessions 6-11
6.
Credit for Prior Learning—Who Decides? Georges Auditorium
7.
Appreciating (Textual) Diversity: Learning Room 131
Communities and Nontraditional and
Disadvantaged Students
8.
The Times, They are a-Changin’: New Expectations Room 135
in Undergraduate Premedical Education and Medical
School Admissions
9.
Education Law: A Requisite for the Room 136
Education Major
11:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
10. Expanding Our Embrace: Enhancing Information Room 151
Literacy and Composition Skills for Adult Learners
11.
Corridor to Charlotte: JCSU as the Cultural Room 164
Bridge to Domestic and International Awareness
12:30-1:45 p.m.
Lunch/Poster Session Atrium
2:00-3:00 p.m.
Breakout Sessions 12-16
12.
What’s Old is New: Using Real World Experiences Room 131
to Engage and Meet the Expectations of 21
st
Century Students
13.
Engaging Minority High School Students with Room 135
Disabilities in a College-Inclusion, Person-Centered
Planning Program
14.
Involving Families in the Success of Room 136
Minority Students
15.
Service Learning through Critical Thinking, Room 151
Narrative, and New Media: Unique, Interdisciplinary,
and Engaging Possibilities for At-Risk and
Other Students
16.
The Liberal Arts as a Practical Education: Helping Room 164
Students Make Connections between Liberal Arts
Majors and Future Employment
3:15-4:15 p.m.
Breakout Sessions 17-21
17.
Bringing the World to the Weary/Wary Student: Room 131
Strategies and Tactics for Engaging Overworked and
Uninterested Students in Global Affairs
18.
Writing and Lifelong Learners: Interactive Room 135
Projects and Writing Teams for Adult Learners
19.
It Takes a Village: Using Collaboration to Enhance Room 136
Interactive Learning and Improve the
Employability of the Liberal Arts Student
20.
Engaging Adult Learners: Interdisciplinary, Room 151
Intergenerational, and Community-Based
Participatory Research
21.
Transformation in the Mathematics Classroom: Room 164
Fear to Creativity
4:15-5:30 p.m.
Reception Atrium
5:30 p.m. Buses depart Dillard University for the Hilton New Orleans Riverside Hotel
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