Should You Teach Online?
February 24, 2011
By Chloe Yelena Miller
http://www.insidehighered.com/layout/set/popup/advice/2011/02/24/essay_on_whether_you_should_teach_online
Friday, May 6, 2011
Inside Higher Ed Career Advice: Landing Online Teaching Jobs
Should You Teach Online?
February 24, 2011
By Chloe Yelena Miller
http://www.insidehighered.com/layout/set/popup/advice/2011/02/24/essay_on_whether_you_should_teach_online
Texas Southern University News: Executive Director of the White House Initiative on HBCUs to Speak at TSU’s May Commencement
Texas Southern University’s May 2011 graduates will hear their commencement address delivered by John Silvanus Wilson, Jr., Executive Director of the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Saturday, May 14th at 9:30 a.m. in the Health and Physical Education Arena located on the campus of Texas Southern.
John Silvanus Wilson, Jr. currently serves as the executive director of the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). To accomplish the initiative's mission of strengthening the capacity of these institutions, he leads his team to work with the 105 HBCUs, the White House, 32 federal agencies, and the private corporate and philanthropic sectors. Their challenge is to ensure that HBCUs are a significant force in helping the nation to reach the goal set by President Barack Obama of having the highest proportion of college graduates in the world by the year 2020.
Before working with the White House Initiative, Wilson was an associate professor of higher education in the Graduate School of Education at the George Washington University (GWU). He also served as the executive dean of GWU's Virginia campus, and he helped to develop a strategic plan for the university. While at GWU, his primary research and teaching interests included transformative advancement and finance in higher education, the role of black colleges and universities, and identifying the most sensible paths aspiring institutions can take toward greater stability and prestige.
Wilson spent the first 16 years of his career at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he ultimately served as director of foundation relations and assistant provost. He was a senior officer by the second of two capital campaigns, with goals of $700 million and $2 billion, respectively. As director, he more than doubled the productivity of the office he managed and reached a record annual revenue stream of over $50 million, well above the level required to reach the campaign sub-goal of $250 million.
Wilson received a bachelor's degree from Morehouse College, a Master of Theological Studies from Harvard University, and both a master's and a doctoral degree in administration, planning and social policy, also from Harvard University. While working at MIT, he served as a teaching fellow in Harvard University's Afro-American Studies Department as well as in Harvard's Graduate School of Education.
For 10 years, Wilson served as the president of the Greater Boston Morehouse College Alumni Association. In that role, he led an effort to raise over $.5 million toward scholarships and another $.5 million toward community outreach for his alumni chapter. Based in no small part on those achievements, he was awarded the coveted Benjamin Elijah Mays Leadership Award by his alma mater in 1998.
Wilson has recently served on the Board of Trustees of Spelman College in Atlanta, Ga.; as a consultant in the United Negro College Fund Institute for Capacity Building's HBCU Institutional Advancement Program; and on the Kresge Foundation's Black College Advisory Board. From 1996 through 2000, he served as chairman of the Alumni Council of the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He has served on the boards of both the Samaritans and the Andover Newton Theological School.
Campus Technology FORUM 2011 CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS September 27-29, 2011
Campus Technology Forum 2011: Connect, Collaborate, Innovate, Achieve
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Campus Technology FORUM 2011 CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS
September 27-29, 2011
Hilton Long Beach and & Executive Meeting Center
Long Beach, CA
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BECOME A SPEAKER at Campus Technology FORUM 2011, September 27-29, 2011 in Long Beach, CA!
Are you interested in conducting a session or workshop or sharing a poster presentation with your colleagues?
Now is the time to apply!
***NOTE: May 13, 2011 IS THE DEADLINE TO APPLY ONLINE!***
* Gain exposure for your work, your research and institution in a collegiate networking environment. Join us for Campus Technology's premier west coast higher ed event!
* Help fill the information gap for faculty, CIOs and IT managers looking for innovative techniques and best practices to make the most of limited resources, while providing the best education possible. This year, we are especially seeking proposals for sessions that cover how higher education programs and instructional strategies are supported by the latest research and educational technologies. During this economically delicate time, many of our participants are looking for cost-saving strategies and technological solutions that are proven successes. IT Departments in many universities and colleges are striving to do more with less and we want to provide a platform for sharing these best practices
* Share technology-inspired classroom applications, creative IT and learning solutions, research, policies and products that show current or future promise for higher education. Presentations that fit within the broad topics of learning applications and tools, instructional design, learning space development, green initiatives and IT infrastructure are of particular interest, and we are also looking for presenters with expertise in digital media, social media, collaborative environments and other technologies applied currently in higher education environments.
Please consider these topics when submitting your proposal(s):
-Digital Media
-eTextbooks and other electronic curriculum and library resources
-IT Leadership Strategies
-Mobile learning
-Online/distance/virtual/hybrid learning
-Student Data Management systems
-Web based communication and productivity applications
Campus Technology INVITES APPLICATIONS to present from all education professionals representing universities, colleges and community colleges, in various content areas and specialties, as well as business and industry experts.
Companies, organizations and individuals representing technology-related products are invited to apply. These sessions should offer valuable facts and content to the audience and are not to be used as an "infomercial." Sales pitches are highly discouraged. Vendor presentations will be noted in the CT Program. Vendors are encouraged to have end users present with them, or preferably, for them. All vendor presenters must be exhibitors at CT Forum with a Promotion Package.
CHEA's 2011 Summer Workshop and Seventh National Accreditation Forum June 23-24, 2011 Renaissance Dupont Circle - Washington, DC
The CHEA 2011 Summer Workshop and Seventh National Accreditation Forum will take place in just a few weeks. Participants from government, accrediting organizations, higher education and the media will meet to address key issues for accreditation and its future.
A preliminary program, including times and topics for sessions, is now available on the CHEA Website. You can register by mail, fax or online.
Sessions at the workshop will focus on:
•Accreditation: What Does the U.S. Department of Education Expect?
•Accreditation in the Eyes of Congress.
•Americans' Consumption of Education News: A Report from the Brookings Institution.
The Seventh National Accreditation Forum will feature breakout sessions where participants will work together on establishing policy positions for key issues identified during CHEA Initiative's multi-year conversation on accreditation.
Don't miss this opportunity to be a part of the national discussion of the challenges and opportunities that accreditation faces.
Council for Higher
Education Accreditation
One Dupont Circle NW
Suite 510
Washington, DC 20036
(tel) 202-955-6126
(fax) 202-955-6129
chea@chea.org
A national advocate and institutional voice for self-regulation of academic quality through accreditation, CHEA is an association of 3,000 degree-granting colleges and universities and recognizes 60 institutional and programmatic accrediting organizations. For more information, visit CHEA's Website at www.chea.org
Evaluation of Participation in Dillard University Center for Teaching, Learning & Academic Technology (CTLAT)
Dear Faculty Colleagues: Please go to the weblink listed below to evaluate the Center for Teaching, Learning and Academic Technology programs this past academic year at Dillard University. Your opinion is very important for planning the grant application for next year as well as to direct planning for future events and programs. Please click on the link and answer the survey before MAY 13TH, 2011.
http://skylight.wsu.edu/s/f21a88d0-d6d3-4e30-89d6-905677c2296c.srv
Thanks for your participation,
Keith M. Wismar,Ph.D.
Interim Coordinator of Academic Assessment
Ramona Jean-Perkins, Ph.D.
QEP Director and CTLAT Coordinator
Azubike Okpalaeze,Ph.D.
Coordinator of Instructional Technology
Michigan State University Office of Faculty and Organizational Development Online Instructional Resources
selected, annotated collection of links for university instructors
We’ve reviewed hundreds of instructional resources on the Web and selected particularly useful sites to create this comprehensive Online Instructional Resources website.
These diverse teaching and learning resources were reviewed, organized, and annotated to create fifteen major categories subdivided into 125 subcategories. Each subcategory is arranged to give instructors both basic and advanced information on each topic.
Teaching in the Disciplines is a new resource that is designed to complement the general and cross-disciplinary resources in the rest of the Online Instructional Resources website.
Teaching to the Competencies is also a new resource that is designed to support MSU’s Liberal Learning Goals and Outcomes as well as provide additional resources focused on competency-based education.
The website is under active construction. It may take a year or more to provide resources on all the disciplines represented in our University. If you have a request for information about a topic not included here, or if you have a suggestion for a link that we should consider including, please email us at facdevel@msu.edu. We are checking these links and adding updated resources every semester. We welcome your input and feedback.
Campus Technology: OER Glue: 'Use Open Education Resources Where They Are; Integrate With Everyone'
By Trent Batson05/04/11
If you find a good OER (open education resource) and copy it into your project, and meanwhile the OER keeps evolving, your project may quickly become obsolete. But OER Glue (from Tatemae), recognizing the transience of Web 2.0 resources, lets you mash live OERs into your project. "Your content stays fresh," according to OER Glue's Web site. OER Glue also integrates with many important educational and cultural Web 2.0 platforms and sites, including Google Docs, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Blackboard, Moodle, Flickr, Wikipedia, Plone, Drupal, Joomla, WordPress, MediaWiki, RSS, Delicious, Google Calendar, Survey Monkey, Maple TA, IRC, SMS, e-mail, and more.
Diverse Issues in Higher Education: Museum Dedicated to Civil Rights Leader and Educator Benjamin Mays Opens
May 3, 2011
GREENWOOD S.C. — A museum dedicated to the life of Benjamin E. Mays, an educator who was an early inspiration to Martin Luther King Jr. and was often referred to as the father of the civil rights movement, opened last week.
Civil rights leader Andrew Young, a former Atlanta mayor and U.N. ambassador, spoke at the dedication of Mays’ childhood home in Greenwood’s Epworth community.
“It all started right over here,” Young said, pointing at Mays’ small childhood home. “It started here in a log cabin and a cotton patch. If it hadn’t been for Benjamin Mays, there probably wouldn’t have been a Martin Luther King. Nor an Andrew Young, nor a (former Atlanta mayor) Maynard Jackson. In fact, the legacy that came out of this little area is, forgive me, I don’t mean any heresy, but it is like Jesus coming out of the little town of Bethlehem.”
Young’s documentary on Mays’ friendship with Gone With the Wind author Margaret Mitchell was scheduled to be shown at the Greenwood Community Theater, and the playing of two of Mays’ inspirational speeches also was planned.
Born in 1894, Mays left the Epworth community to attend the High School Department at South Carolina State College. After graduating there, he enrolled at a Black college in Virginia and then went on to the integrated Bates College in Lewiston, Maine.
He earned his master’s degree from the University of Chicago while he was teaching at Morehouse College in Atlanta and serving as a Baptist minister. He was named president of Morehouse College in 1940 and held that position for 27 years. Among the graduates of Morehouse during Mays’ tenure was Martin Luther King Jr., in 1948. King called Mays his intellectual father and credited Mays with leading him into the ministry.
In 1950, Mays was appointed by President Harry Truman to the Mid-Century White House Conference on Children and Youth. A speech that Mays gave in Evanston, Ill., in 1954 at the 2nd Assembly of the World Council of Churches, is largely credited with bringing international attention to racial issues in the segregated South and sparking the civil rights movement.
Mays retired from Morehouse College in 1967, but he didn’t quit working in education. Two years later, he was elected to the Atlanta Board of Education and later became that board’s first Black president. He served on the board until 1981. Mays died in 1984, just a few months shy of his 90th birthday.
The Benjamin E. Mays Historic Preservation Site has been in the works for several years, and curator Loy Sartin has spent the past year collecting and cataloging material and artifacts.
Mays’ childhood home was moved in 2004 from a pasture along U.S. Highway 178 in Greenwood County to the grounds of GLEAMNS Human Resources Commission Inc. The organization serves more than 9,000 low-income households in the Upper Savannah Planning District, including Greenwood, Laurens, Edgefield, Abbeville, McCormick, Newberry and Saluda counties.
“I just thought it was incredible, when you would pass by 178 you would see that sign that he was born there,” says Sartin. “For a long time I knew very little about Dr. Mays, basically just what was on that sign. But, when you start reading his autobiography and his writings, you see what a tremendous person he was and what an impact he had on this nation.”
The site includes the Mays home, a 19th-century one-room schoolhouse and a museum and interpretive center. The collection includes photographs, books, clothes and other personal effects.
Lilly Conferences on College and University Teaching - Bethesda Hyatt Regency; June 2 – 5, 2011
Colleagues:
For over 30 years, Lilly Conferences on College and University Teaching have provided professional opportunities for the presentation of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. This is an interdisciplinary national conference. The 2011 overarching theme Evidence-Based Learning and Teaching reflects the philosophy that our approaches to learning and teaching should be based on scholarly activity.
Plenary presenters for the June 2 – 5, 2011 conference are Bob Boice, Claire Major, Norm Vaughan, and Todd Zakrajsek.
http://lillyconferences.com/dc/presenters.shtml
In addition to the plenary presenters, there are over 250 session presenters this year, sharing information on a wide variety of topics pertaining to four primary themes: advancing active learning, creating communities of learners, preparing future faculty, and teaching responsibly with technology. A draft schedule-at-a-glance is located at the following address:
http://lillyconferences.com/dc/download/AgendaGlance-Draft-050311.pdf
Registration remains open but nearing capacity. To register, visit the conference web site at: http://lillyconferences.com/dc
Please Note: At present, the conference hotel is nearly full. If you are planning to attend, we strongly encourage you to reserve your hotel soon. The Bethesda Hyatt Regency is sold out for Wednesday evening, but rooms are still available for Thursday through Sunday at the amazing price of $109 per night.
To accommodate overflow, the Bethesda Doubletree has agreed to give us a special rate of $119 per night, about 5 blocks from the conference venue and offers a free shuttle to the conference venue every hour on the hour. To reserve a room, call the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Bethesda – Washington DC, 8120 Wisconsin Avenue, Bethesda MD 20814, and ask for the Lilly Conference Rate.
Tel: 301-652-2000
http://www.doubletreebethesda.com/index.cfm
Please pass this e-mail on to colleagues who might be interested and if you have already registered we look forward to seeing you in Bethesda.
Sincerely,
Todd Zakrajsek, Conference Director
Lilly Conference on College and University Teaching - DC
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Todd Zakrajsek, Ph.D., Conference Director Lilly Conference on College and University Teaching - DC http://lillyconferences.com/dc
email: lillyconferences@gmail.com
919-636-8170
Inside Higher Ed: Archiving the Web for Scholars
As the Internet becomes an increasingly important source of material for academic research, librarians try to preserve "ephemera of the Web."
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