Monday, February 9, 2010
Thank You
To Dr. Brian Krylowicz, Director of University Counseling, and Tom Johnson, Director of Public Safety, who led the Weekly Lunch on It’s Not My Job….Dealing with Threatening or Emotional Students through the Students of Concern Team. Thanks also to all those who turned out for this very important discussion.
To those faculty who are crafting proposals for the 2010 CASTL Institute to be held in June at Creighton University. Deadline to submit is February 12.
This Week
Weekly Lunch on Wednesday presents Outcomes Based Local Assessment: Quantitative and Scientific Reasoning - Karen Smith, Phil Ryan, Glenn Wehner, and Ian Lindevald participated in an NSF grant to study quantitative and scientific reasoning in the general education curriculum. They will discuss both their findings and how their experiences might apply to assessment of other Truman learning outcomes. Sign the sheet at checkout to receive up to $3.50 towards your Sodexo meal and join us in the Spanish Room between 12:30 and 1:30 pm as your schedule allows.
Need to learn MS Access 2007? The Kirksville TCRC is running a workshop Wednesday, Feb 10, 9am – 3pm, at their building at 315 S. Franklin. Cost for Truman Employees is: $52 (be sure to mention ‘Truman Employee’ when registering as this fee represents a discount)
- Learn the basic functions and features of Access.
- Learn how to design and create databases.
- Work with tables, fields and records.
- Sort and filter data and create queries, forms and reports.
The next Faculty Research Conference will be held in the Alumni Room in the SUB on February 13, beginning at 9:00 am.
Coming Soon
Future Weekly Lunch programs from now until Spring Break are:
- February 17: Assessing Learning Outcomes from Public Reflection in Service-Learning Advantage. Baillie Cloyd, Americorps VISTA Member for Service-Learning.
- February 24: Keep Your Eye on the Ball - James Guffey. Bring your best ideas and experiences for keeping students focused in class, and be ready to share.
- March 3: Library Services: What's Happening Now and Our Look to the Future - Library Staff
A More Perfect Union: The Struggle for Civil Rights for All will be on Wednesday, February 17th at 2:30 p.m. in the Pickler Memorial Library Gallery. Students, faculty and staff will read civil rights speeches from different eras of history.
Don’t miss the Truman appearances of the Freedom Writers. Read about the inspiring story behind the foundation and to find out how this event might help accomplish some of your learning objectives, Truman’s Essential Skills, or Truman’s Interconnecting Perspectives. Then join students and colleagues:
- Saturday, February 13, 2009
- Monday, February 15, 2009
6:00 pm – Start time for Freedom Writers film in Kirk Gym (sponsored by Missouri Hall)
9:00 pm – Start time for Freedom Writers film in SUB Hub (sponsored by SUB After Dark)
6:30 pm – Doors to Baldwin Auditorium open to students, faculty, staff, and our surrounding communities
7:00 pm – Freedom Writers Speakers Program begins in Baldwin Auditorium (sponsored by Res Life, NSP, MAC, NEA, CSI, Regional Professional Development Center, Student Senate, Center for Teaching and Learning) Followed by Q/A and book signings.
University Conference Day will be February 18. Sessions for students are being planned so please encourage them to attend as well. Schedules will be available soon from the Provost’s Office.
Also of Interest
The program A More Perfect Union: The Struggle for Civil Rights for All is looking for students, faculty and staff to volunteer to prepare and read civil rights speeches. Speeches may be selected from an already established list or may be submitted for approval prior to the event. However, all speeches are to be from historic civil rights authors and not the original work of the reader. Readers are expected to come prepared. Speeches will be read at 2:30 p.m. Feb. 17 in the Pickler Memorial Library Gallery. Speeches will be assigned on a first-come, first-serve basis so please do not delay. As the program will last only 1 to 1 and a half hours, some speeches may need to be shortened to excerpts. Please contact Erin Case at ecase@truman.edu immediately if you are interested in reading a speech.
Wouldn’t it be great to have faculty and staff working side by side with students, building relationships outside of the classroom and at the same time, providing service to the community? That chance will be coming with The Big Event on Saturday, March 20, 2010. Registration starts this Friday, February 5 at 12:00am.
Hope to see you at some of these events,
Julie