FALL 2006 EVENTS
Weekly Lunch Series
September 6
American Democracy Newspaper Project
Katie Pesha and Robert Duffy, USA Today reps*
September 13
Extending Undergraduate Research in the Humanities at Truman
Dereck Daschke, Linda Seidel, Marc Rice
September 20
Faces of Truman – SUB Director and the place of student unions in
collegiate life
Sujit Chemburkar
September 27
No wls, Campus Fair
October 4
Teaching for Critical Thinking (Elder & Paul guides)
Julie Lochbaum
October 11
Teaching for Critical Thinking (Elder & Paul guides)
Julie Lochbaum
October 18
Teaching for Critical Thinking (Elder & Paul guides)
Julie Lochbaum
November 1
College of the Overwhelmed
Bryan Krylowicz
November 8
Inquiring Minds Want to Know: Faculty Research on Knowledge Surveys
John Rutter, Anton Weisstein
November 15
20th Anniversary of the Truman Press
Nancy Rediger, Barbara Mandell, Judith Sharp
November 29
Surviving the End-of-Semester Crunch
All attendees
December 6
Table fellowship
Liberal Studies Roundtable - UGC Commission on the Curriculum Series
September 14
32 Courses With A Compact Interdisciplinary Core
Mary Shapiro
September 28
Moving from a Distributional Model that Emphasizes Acquiring Certain
Knowledge to a Competency-Based Model that Emphasizes Processes and
Ways of Thinking
Michelle Breault, Laura Fielden, Teresa Heckert
October 5
The Forms of Faculty Participation in Curricular Innovation: Liberal
Arts and Civic Engagement
Chett Breed, Roberta Donahue
October 12
Discipline Self-Examination Focused on Student Recruitment and
Retention and Faculty Resources
Marc Rice, Patricia Mickey, Mira Frisch, & Tom Hueber
October 19
Will This be on the Test? Deliberation as a Guide and Goal in
Transcending Grade-Focused Culture
Ken Carter
October 26
Undergraduate Research Experiences in the Teacher-Scholar Model
Jason Miller, Maria Nagan, John Ishiyama
November 2
Curricula Reform as Seen through the Mission and Assessment
Candy Young, Chris Lantz, Debra Kerby, John Dieter
November 9
Review of works by 2007 Baldwin speaker-to-be, John Tagg
attendees
November 16
Review of works by 2007 Baldwin speaker-to-be, John Tagg
attendees
Global Issues Colloquium
September 21
School of the Americas WATCH
*Eric LeCompte, Natl. Outreach Coordinator, SOA WATCH
October 12
Stem-Cell Research Around the World
*Sandra Aoust, MO Coalition for Lifesaving Cures; *Phil Slocum,
D.O., Vice-President & Dean, KCOM
November 2
Global Warming
Steve Carroll, Michael Kelrick
November 30
Arrest This Music! Music & Political Protest
Marc Rice