Monday, August 8, 2011
You Are Not Alone! Working in Small Groups: Tues 8/9 1 pm EDT Online: TLT Group Symposium
Librarians + Faculty + ... Working In Small Groups and Faculty Learning Communities [FLCs]
Guest Presenters from Miami University of Ohio:
Milton Cox (Founder of Faculty Learning Communities), Eric Resnis, Elizabeth Sullivan
Tuesday, August 9, 2011, 1:00 pm (ET)
The Symposium is free to TLT Group members. REGISTER Fee to the general public $450.
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Please complete pre-session survey! Your answers to these 3 questions about collaboration at your own institution will help shape the Symposium and improve its recommendations, even if you can't attend the Symposium.
TLT Group Annual Summer Symposium.....second session August 9, 2011
You are not alone! Queries and Strategies for Collaborative Change
Continuing August 9, and 11 at 1:00 - 2:00pm EST with Steve Gilbert, President of the TLT Group, and guests
Students + Faculty + ... in Small Mixed Groups, and Mixed Inquiry Collaboration
Guest Presenters from Elon University:
Taylor Binnix (Undergraduate), Katie King, Ben McFadyen
Thursday, August 11, 2011, 1:00 pm (ET)
The TLT Group Annual Symposium is a chance to gather with colleagues across a variety of roles - faculty, librarians, faculty developers, administrators - who are seeking ways to improve teaching, learning with technology in ways that are balanced and support incremental change.
The topic of this year’s Symposium focuses on the use of collaboration by small groups of faculty and academic professionals to improve teaching and learning with technology in specific courses as well as address current major challenges in higher education.
Guest presenters will demonstrate specific kinds of collaboration already being successfully implemented at some institutions: Student-Faculty, Faculty-Faculty, Faculty-Librarian, Faculty-Faculty Development, and Faculty-Tech. Participants should expect a high level of interaction among and with presenters. We encourage all in higher education - faculty, librarians, faculty developers, administrators - to attend our annual symposium.
We believe that focusing on small, realistic steps will lead to more widespread, long-lasting changes. We invite you to join us in improving teaching and learning with technology.
Thanks,
Sally
The TLT Group a non-profit organization PO Box 5643 Takoma Park MD 20913 301-270-8312
BET Report: Why Do Black Students Perform Poorly on Standardized Tests?
A new study from Stanford University finds that Black students fear incorrect answers will confirm negative stereotypes about their race.
By Britt Middleton
Posted: 08/07/2011 03:00 PM EDT
Standardized tests like the SAT can make any student nervous, but a new study from Stanford University finds that Black students are especially susceptible.
The study concluded that African-American students perform poorly on standardized tests because they fear incorrect answers will confirm negative stereotypes about their race, The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education writes in an article published this week.
When students aren’t thinking about these stereotypes, they perform better on the test.
The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education writes:
A new study at Stanford has shown that this “stereotype threat” can also hinder black students in learning new material. In an experiment, groups of black and white students were asked to study the meanings of 24 obscure words. One group was placed in a threatening environment by being told that they were participating in an experiment to see “how well people from different backgrounds learn.” Another group was simply told the researchers were examining different learning styles and there was no hint of any racial undertones.
One to two weeks later, the students were quizzed informally about the words they had studied. The results showed that black students who were initially in the group that was told racial differences were being examined, scored 50 percent lower than black students who had studied in the nonthreatening environment. But when an actual test was administered, the stereotype threat kicked in and both groups of black students performed poorly.
The new study was published in the August issue of Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
Jackson State University News Room: JSU receives $57 million for research and sponsored programs activities
(JACKSON, Miss) – Jackson State University garnered $57 million in research and other sponsored programs awards for fiscal year 2010–11.
The $57 million figure represents external funding for projects from federal and state agencies and private foundations.
“This has been a tough, but good year for JSU considering the federal budget constraints,” said Felix Okojie, JSU Vice President of Research and Federal Relations.
“We are excited as an academic community about the value-added opportunities our external funding has created to further the research and teaching excellence of our faculty and staff and the learning opportunities of our students,” said JSU President Carolyn Meyers.
– JSU –
About Jackson State University: Bridge to a Brighter Tomorrow
Jackson State University, founded in 1877, is a historically black, high research activity university located in Jackson, the capital city of the state of Mississippi. Jackson State’s nurturing academic environment challenges individuals to change lives through teaching, research and service. Officially designated as Mississippi’s Urban University, Jackson State continues to enhance the state, nation and world through comprehensive economic development, health-care, technological and educational initiatives. The only public university in the Jackson metropolitan area, Jackson State is located near downtown, with three satellite campuses throughout the city. For more information, visit http://www.jsums.edu/
University Business: Louisiana Legislature Renews Effort To Overhaul Higher Education At The Top
Times-Picayune
Undaunted by two failed efforts to create a single higher education governing board, the Louisiana Legislature is now looking to a blue-ribbon commission for ideas on how to revamp the management structure for public colleges and universities.
The 18-member governance commission was created during the spring regular session by Reps. Thomas Carmody, R-Shreveport, and John Schroder, R-Covington, whose House Concurrent Resolution 184 gives the panel until 60 days before the start of the 2012 regular session to recommend ways of delegating authority and money between the various campuses and the Board of Regents.
Unlike previous education panels, which have relied on outside experts for advice, the latest iteration consists solely of Louisiana residents. The list of appointees includes Board of Regents Chairman Robert Levy of Ruston, Dillard University interim President James Lyons, N.J. "Woody" Oge Jr. of Avondale, and Ann Duplessis, the deputy chief administrative officer for the city of New Orleans and a former state senator.
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