NYU Faculty Resource Network Symposium - Dillard and Xavier Universities - November 16 & 17, 2012

The following message is being sent on behalf of the Office of Academic Affairs and the Center for Teaching, Learning and Academic Technology:

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

NYU Faculty Resource Network Symposium - Dillard and Xavier Universities - November 16 & 17, 2012

Recommendations on Classroom Architecture for Learning

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Filed Under designing spaces for effective learning, educause, learning spaces, manipulating space to ignite creativity, technology-enhanced classrooms

Some great resources on innovative and effective learning spaces, from my POD listserv:
EDUCAUSE (‘Learning Spaces’ ebook)
http://www.educause.edu/research-and-publications/books/learning-spaces
A wonderful resource for creative ideas about how to use space to improve learning, teaching, and student engagement.

EDUCAUSE (general resources)
http://www.educause.edu/library/technology-enhanced-classroomsExtensive ECUCAUSE resources and library on technology-enhanced classrooms.

JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee)
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/eli_learningspaces.htmlExcellent resources on designing spaces for effective learning.
North Carolina St. LITRE
http://litre.ncsu.edu/“Learning in a Technology-Rich Environment” (LITRE) is an empirical research program aimed at enhancing the extensive learning with technology opportunities available at North Carolina State University.” Great resources, includes a student learning tool kit and a technology practices directory.
Make Space (John Wiley & Sons, 2012)
http://dschool.stanford.edu/makespace/“Make Space (John Wiley & Sons, 2012) is a new book based on the work at the Stanford University d.school and its Environments Collaborative Initiative. It is a tool for helping people intentionally manipulate space to ignite creativity.” Includes tips and tools, situations and scenarios, insights, space case studies, and a design template – an approach that embraces creativity, flexibility, and collaboration.

Recommendations on Classroom Architecture for Learning

Call for Abstracts to the University of Glasgow Learning and Teaching Conference

http://centerforfacultydevelopment.wordpress.com/2012/11/03/call-for-abstracts-to-the-university-of-glasgow-learning-and-teaching-conference/

 

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from my ISSoTL listserv:

Call for abstracts to the University of Glasgow Learning and Teaching conference
Sixth Annual University of Glasgow Learning and Teaching Conference
Friday 19th April 2013
The conference is open to all members of the University community with an interest in learning and teaching, and to a number of external contributors and participants.
The conference will focus particularly on the following themes:

• Broadening students’ educational experiences
• Using assessment to support student learning
• Harnessing technology for effective learning
• Education for sustainable development in our curricula
• Making it work – overcoming real challenges from practice

Call for abstracts:
The conference will comprise a mixture of presentations (30 minutes) and interactive workshops (60 minutes); online at: http://learn.gla.ac.uk/abstracts/
All abstracts should address at least one of the above themes, and selection will be based on the following criteria:

• breadth of interest to the community
• links to the University’s Learning and Teaching Strategy [not for external contributions]

Please submit your abstracts by 30th November 2012. As with the 2012 conference, successful abstracts will be published in the Proceedings in booklet and online formats.

Registration:
Registration will open early in the New Year, when the full programme will be announced. Full details will also be published on the website.

Call for Abstracts to the University of Glasgow Learning and Teaching Conference

The SoTL Commons: A Conference for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning March 27-29, 2013 Georgia Southern University Savannah, GA, USA

The SoTL Commons: A Conference for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning March 27-29, 2013 Georgia Southern University Savannah, GA, USA  http://academics.georgiasouthern.edu/ijsotl/conference/2013/index.htm

The Center for Teaching, Learning, and Scholarship (CTLS) will host the 6th annual “The SoTL Commons” conference in Savannah, Georgia. The conference brings together people engaging in SoTL and anyone wanting to improve student learning outcomes in higher education today. The conference epitomizes that college teaching is intellectual work that is enhanced both by disciplinary scholarship and the scholarship on teaching the disciplines (SoTL). The SoTL Commons Conference is a catalyst for learning, conversations and collaborations about SoTL as a key, evidence-based way to improve student learning. Keynote and Featured Speakers The keynote speakers will be Dan Bernstein (University of Kansas), Lynn Taylor (University of Calgary) and Brian Coppola (University of Michigan). The SoTL Commons Logo: The Nautilus The logo for the conference is the chambered nautilus shell. The self-propelling nautilus grows chamber by chamber, each one larger than the previous one, in an unfolding spiral as it develops steadily over time. The shell's elegant trajectory opens outward and its dynamic design is like the persevering, quiet movement of SoTL through the currents of teaching and learning. The SoTL Commons Conference aspires to be a growing, spiraling, lively catalyst for the international momentum of SoTL, encouraging the opening up and opening out of teaching and how students best learn into public conversations and collaborations. The spiraling pattern of the nautilus is found throughout nature. The conference is simply, but importantly, one swirl in the overall SoTL spiraling transformation of the nature of teaching and academic culture. Companion to the SoTL Commons Conference: IJSoTL A SoTL companion to “The SoTL Commons Conference” is the open access, peer-reviewed eJournal, International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning, published by the CTLS at Georgia Southern University.	Home Page Welcome Keynote Speakers Keynote Addresses Call for Proposals Registration for Conference Accommodations Conference Proceedings Travel About SoTL International Journal for SoTL Georgia Southern University Contact Us Exhibitor/Vendor Info    http://academics.georgiasouthern.edu/ijsotl/conference/2013/documents/SoTL%20Commons%202013%20flyer.pdf
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Conference: The SoTL Commons Center for Teaching, Learning, and Scholarship Statesboro, Georgia, USA November 12, 2012 - 8:58 PM

 

The SoTL Commons: A Conference for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning March 27-29, 2013 Georgia Southern University Savannah, GA, USA

UCD CFD Blog Faculty Development: Colleges Must Help Prepare Students for Colleges Must Help Prepare Students for

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Colleges Must Help Prepare Students for Higher Education, Report Says

Posted by judithcoe ⋅ October 30, 2012⋅ Leave a Comment

Filed Under aligning elementary and secondary curricula with college expectations, American Association of State Colleges and Universities, call for more engagement on college preparation, college readiness, Common Core State Standards, elementary and secondary education, giving high schools reports on how their graduates are performing in college, improving teacher-preparation programs, increasing the availability of dual-credit classes

In today’s Chronicle –
Colleges Must Help Prepare Students for Higher Education, Report Says
by Eric Kelderman
If colleges want more of their students to be ready for the academic challenges of higher education, then those institutions have to take a more direct role in elementary and secondary education, recommends a new report from the American Association of State Colleges and Universities.
The report, written by a dozen college presidents and released here at the association’s annual meeting, calls on its member campuses to begin preparing students as early as preschool, helping children to acquire the building blocks of a successful academic career. And to have the greatest impact, the report says, colleges should focus on areas with high concentrations of poverty, where children have the greatest disadvantages in academic preparation.
“Education is like a pyramid: Each level rests on what came before,” says the report. “Any weakness in a child’s educational development jeopardizes all that follows, and gains made at an early age continue to benefit the child in future years.”
Specifically, the report recommends four approaches that every member campus should be involved in: improving teacher-preparation programs, increasing the availability of dual-credit classes, aligning elementary and secondary curricula with college expectations, and giving high schools reports on how their graduates are performing in college.
While college readiness has been a topic in higher-education circles for some time, the new report calls for more direct involvement in the development of prospective students, said James C. Votruba, president emeritus of Northern Kentucky University and co-chairman of the panel that wrote the report. In addition, said Mr. Votruba, the call to be engaged with elementary schools goes much further than most college-readiness programs, which generally focus on the last two years of high school.
Mr. Votruba also said that college presidents would have to become strong advocates for the proposals in order to overcome resistance from faculty members. “Our institutions are not going to be drawn to this work naturally,” he said.
The call for more engagement on college preparation is in line with two other efforts of the association. Most recently, its members joined with those in the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities in a pledge to increase the number of baccalaureate-degree holders by 3.8 million by 2025. The association of state colleges is also involved in developing and putting in place a common set of learning goals for schoolchildren, called the Common Core State Standards.

Additional sources on this topic:

• Aligning Elementary And Secondary Curricula With College Expectations
• American Association Of State Colleges And Universities
• Call For More Engagement On College Preparation
• College Readiness
• Common Core State Standards
• Elementary And Secondary Education
• Giving High Schools Reports On How Their Graduates Are Performing In College
• Higher Education
• Improving Teacher-preparation Programs
• Increasing The Availability Of Dual-credit Classes
• Pedagogy

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