SPRING 2007 EVENTS
Promotion and Tenure Portfolio Blitz
January 2-4, 9 am to 12 pm
Group instruction and peer reviewing time; release to individual writing at
12:00 noon. We ensure that your materials communicate clearly to an out-of-field
reviewer, and reflect larger themes of importance to the institution, not just
the disciplines. This is the most valuable workshop The Center for Teaching and
Learning offers
Weekly Lunch Series
January 24
MoPip: a statewide program to combat campus alcohol abuse
Dave Lusk, Roberta Donahue
January 31
Mentoring Proposals for Student Summer Research
Sara Orel
February 14
How to Handle Rejection (in publishing that is) based on the
article, Facing Failure: the Use and Abuse of Rejection in
Political Science
Marijke Breuning
February 28
Making Group Work Work
Julie Lochbaum, John Perrachione, Jim Turner
March 14
Stages of the Faculty Career: distinguishing between associate and
full professor
Talie Alexander, John Bohac, Xiaofen Chen, Amber Johnson, Sara Orel
March 21
Academic Integrity: Copyright
March 28
Academic Integrity: Plagiarism
April 4
Inquiring Minds: Faculty Scholarship
April 11
Student Profiles & Trends in Higher Education
*Bob Wheeler, Strategic and Academic Consulting, SunGard Higher
Education Managed Services
April 18
Fellows Report Out
April 25
Fellows Report Out
Diversity Reading Circle
American Council on Education (ACE) and the American Association of
University Professors (AAUP) joined forces to produce three important research
studies about diversity in American higher education. Diversity Institute
Fellow Judi Misale led us through their findings.
March 16
University Faculty Views about the Value of Diversity on Campus and In the
Classrooms
March 30
College Missions, Faculty Teaching, and Student Outcomes in a Context of Low
Diversity
April 6
The Educational Possibility of Multi-Racial/Multi-Ethnic College Classrooms
Weekly Lunch Series -- Extra Edition
January 26
*Global Issues speaker, Keith Doubt
Assessment Colloquium
January 30
Assessment Data on Engagement
Assessment Intern, Rebecca Maddox
February 20
Development of a Knowledge Survey as a Hierarchical Assessment
Vehicle
John Ritter and Anton Weisstein
April 17
Utilization of an Online Database to Increase Effectiveness of
Clinical Assessment in the Athletic Training Program
Michelle Boyd and Jennifer Hurst
Global Issues Colloquium
January 25
Understanding Evil: Lessons From Bosnia
*Dr. Keith Doubt; Chair, Dept. of Sociology Wittenberg University
February 15
Globalization Comes to Dakar
*Professor Kenneth Harrow; Professor in comparative literatures and
film at Michigan State University
March 15
Analysts, Spies, Politicians and the National Intelligence Estimates
Dr. Charles Frost; Professor Emeritus of Justice Systems
April 12
How Ethnic Conflict Expands: The Rwandan Genocide and Mobutu's
Overthrow in Zaire
Dr. John Quinn; Social Science, Truman State University
*Denotes off-campus presenter