NEA HIGHER EDUCATION CONFERENCE SURVEY AND SAVE THE DATE!

 

SAVE THE DATE !

 

NEA HIGHER EDUCATION CONFERENCE 2013

“FACULTY, STUDENTS AND THE COMMON GOOD”

PORTLAND MARRIOTT DOWNTOWN WATERFRONT

PORTLAND, OREGON

 

CONFERENCE DATES

MARCH 22-24, 2013

 

LEADERSHIP DAY

MARCH 21, 2013

 

NCHE MEMBERSHIP MEETING

MARCH 21, 2013 (7P.M.) AND MARCH 22, 2013 (8 A.M.)

 

HIGHER ED STATE STAFF TRAINING

MARCH 22, 2013

 

“FACULTY, STUDENTS AND THE COMMON GOOD”

As our nation becomes increasingly partisan and polarized, especially between rich and poor, and as public education becomes increasingly underfunded and targeted by anti-egalitarian forces, what is the role of faculty, academic professionals, higher education support professionals and students in creating a more democratic, more decent society. What is the public good, and what does it mean to fight for it?

Registration information will be posted on the NEA website as soon as registration opens. 

Please take time to provide your suggestions for this year’s conference by completing a survey at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/higheredconference.

For more information, contact Rachelle Grant at rgrant@nea.org or Phadra Williams Tuitt at pwilliams@nea.org.

 

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 Rachelle Grant

National Education Association | Center for Organizing

1201 16^th St. NW |Ste 410 |Washington, DC 20036 | Phone: 202.822.7338 | Fax: 202.822.7624 | rgrant@nea.org

NEA HIGHER EDUCATION CONFERENCE SURVEY AND SAVE THE DATE!

2013 NEA Higher Education Conference Call For Proposals

CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS

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2013 NEA Higher education conference

“faculty, students and the Common Good”

Call for Workshop Proposals

You are invited to submit proposals for workshops to be held at the 2013 NEA Higher Education Conference in Portland, Oregon at the Portland Marriott Waterfront.

The purpose of workshops is to provide a forum for exchanging opinions and presenting ideas. The theme of this year’s conference is “Faculty, Students and the Common Good”.

Proposals should include:

·         Workshop name

·         150- to 200-word overview of the workshop.  Workshop sessions can be submitted in the areas of organizing, member recruitment and engagement, local association best practices, social media, political action best practices, bargaining, policy, pedagogy or any other topic in keeping with this year’s conference theme.

·         A two to three sentence descriptor or your workshop. This is the descriptor that will be used in the program if your workshop is selected.

·         Please denote whether this workshop can be a 45 minute flash session, a 1.15 breakout session, a 1.30 breakout session or all three.

Workshop proposals should be submitted no later than December 1, 2012 to Phadra L. Williams Tuitt at pwilliams@nea.org.

 

Proposals will be reviewed and you will be contacted no later than January 3, 2013.

2013 NEA Higher Education Conference Call For Proposals

Connections 2013 Conference - Registration Now Open!

Connections 2013 Beyond the Obvious: Taking Assessment to New Places    March 4-6, 2013 The Inn at Virginia Tech and Skelton Conference Center 901 Prices Fork Road Blacksburg, VA 24061      You are invited to attend the 3rd Annual Connections Conference on Higher Education Assessment hosted by Virginia Tech and WEAVE.    This year's theme takes us beyond a singular focus on measuring student learning to address the pressures campuses face for more and better data regarding the performance of campus support units. Innovative uses of technology and common sense approaches to administrative assessment and evaluation represent a new area of focus at the 2013 Conference; emerging best practices for administrative assessment will be highlighted.. This is a small interactive conference with only 200 registrations, so space is very limited. Registration will close once capacity is reached.   Click Here to learn more about Connections 2013!

Connections 2013 Conference - Registration Now Open!

The 4th International Conference on Engineering and Meta-Engineering: ICEME 2013

Please consider participating and kindly forward to those potentially interested in The 4th International Conference on Engineering and Meta-Engineering: ICEME 2013 (www.2013iiisconferences.org/iceme) being in the context of The 4th International Multi-Conference on Complexity, Informatics and Cybernetics: IMCIC 2013, to be held in Orlando, Florida, USA, on March 19 - 22, 2013.

 

Submission deadline is on December 4th, 2012. Other deadlines are included in the conference web site.

 

Submissions for face-to-face and virtual presentations are both accepted.

 

Among the areas included in ICEME 2013 are the following:

 

•   Engineering Education

•   Design and Implementation of Education Activities and Technologies – E-learning

•   Research and/or Design in Traditional and Non-Traditional (Soft) Engineering

•   Meta-Engineering: Design and Implementation of Engineering Activities

•   Engineering and Technological Innovations

•   Engineering and Entrepreneurship

•   Engineering (Design and Implementation) of Scientific Activities

•   Systems Engineering and/or Meta-Engineering

•   Software Engineering and/or Meta-Engineering

•   Computing Engineering and/or Meta-Engineering

•   Disciplinary and/or Inter-Disciplinary Engineering

•   Case Studies and Methodologies

•   Philosophy of Engineering

 

Details about the following issues have also been included at the URLs given above:

 

•   Publication of best papers in the Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics, and Informatics, JSCI (indexed in EBSCO, Cabell and Google Scholar), with no additional cost for the author(s).  (All papers to be presented at the conference will be included in the conference printed and electronic proceedings)

•   Pre- and post-conference virtual sessions

•   Virtual participations

•   Two-tier reviewing combining double-blind and non-blind methods

•   Access to reviewers’ comments and evaluation average

•   Waiving the registration fee of effective invited session organizers

•   Best papers awards

 

Information about 1) collocated events with the above mentioned conferences, and 2) the events being organized for the IIIS Summer Conference on July 9 - 12, 2013, in Orlando, Florida, USA, can be found at http://www.iiis.org/current-deadlines.asp

 

Best regards,

 

ICEME 2013 Organizing Committee

The 4th International Conference on Engineering and Meta-Engineering: ICEME 2013

Dillard University CENTER FOR TEACHING, LEARNING, AND ACADEMIC TECHNOLOGY: Call for Posters, Publications, and Creative Work(s)

You've spent years honing your skills as an educator and researcher. Now share your experience and knowledge by submitting a poster, publication, or creative work for presentation at the NYU Faculty Resource Network Symposium co-hosted by Dillard University on Saturday, November 17, 2012 in the Professional Schools and Science Building.

The Center for Teaching, Learning and Academic Technology would like the opportunity to “showcase” our faculty accomplishments. If you are interested in submitting books, articles, poster presentations, and/or creative work(s) for exhibition, please contact Dr. Eartha Lee Johnson, (ejohnson@dillard.edu) Co-Coordinator of the Faculty Development (CTLAT) Program. Dr. Johnson will provide you with the guidelines for submitting and exhibiting at the upcoming symposium.

We look forward to seeing our faculty accomplishments “showcased” during this event.

Barbara M. Albert
Executive Assistant
Office of Academic Affairs
(504) 816-4216 (office)
(504) 816-4144 (fax)
balbert@dillard.edu
www.dillard.edu

Dillard University CENTER FOR TEACHING, LEARNING, AND ACADEMIC TECHNOLOGY: Call for Posters, Publications, and Creative Work(s)

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

http://centerforfacultydevelopment.wordpress.com/2012/11/03/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/

 

Posted by judithcoe ⋅ November 3, 2012⋅ Leave a Comment

 

Filed Under education, Glasgow Learning and Teaching conference, student learning, technology

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