Dahl Centennial Union - Borlaug

Facilitators: Diane Gossman and Dennis Blake
Date: Thurs., Oct 29, 2:30pm-3:00pm
Location: Dahl Centennial Union – Borlaug

Desktop Messaging is a service which allows faculty and staff the opportunity to retrieve Voice Mail messages via e-mail from your office or while away from your office. This demonstration will show you the features of Desktop Messaging.

Facilitators: Diane Gossman and Dennis Blake
Date: Thurs., Oct 29, 2:30pm-3:00pm
Location: Dahl Centennial Union – Borlaug

Desktop Messaging is a service which allows faculty and staff the opportunity to retrieve Voice Mail messages via e-mail from your office or while away from your office. This demonstration will show you the features of Desktop Messaging.

Crafting Recommendation Letters for Rhodes, Fulbright, and Other Competitions

Sponsor: Dean’s Office
Facilitator: Terry Sparkes (Associate Dean and Director of College Honors)
Date: Wed., Sept. 30, 11:30am-1:00pm (come and go as your schedule allows)
Location: Borlaug
Registration: Please sign up below.

This session is intended to assist faculty in the process of crafting a letter of recommendation for students applying for Rhodes, Fulbright, and other national scholarship competitions.

Copyright and Intellectual Property: Legal, Ethical, and Practical Considerations for Faculty

Sponsors: Dean’s Office, LIS, and Center for Ethics and Public Life
Facilitators: Chris Barth (LIS) and John Moeller (Political Science and Center for Ethics and Public Life)
Date: Wed., Sept.

Facilitator: Karlos Hill, CFD Fellow and Visiting Instructor in Africana Studies and History

Location: Borlaug – Dahl Centennial Union

Topic: Discussion of “The Lyncher in Me,” Warren Read’s provocative memoir about his family’s participation in the 1920 Duluth lynching.

This reading group will bring together faculty, staff and students interested in exploring contemporary race relations by investigating the history and legacy of lynching in the United States.

Facilitator: Karlos Hill, CFD Fellow and Visiting Instructor in Africana Studies and History

Location: Borlaug – Dahl Centennial Union

Topic: Discussion of the second half of “The Lyncher in Me,” Warren Read’s provocative memoir about his family’s participation in the 1920 Duluth lynching.

This reading group will bring together faculty, staff and students interested in exploring contemporary race relations by investigating the history and legacy of lynching in the United States.

Facilitator: Karlos Hill, CFD Fellow and Visiting Instructor in Africana Studies and History

Location: Borlaug – Dahl Centennial Union

Topic: Discussion of the first half of “The Lyncher in Me,” Warren Read’s provocative memoir about his family’s participation in the 1920 Duluth lynching.

This reading group will bring together faculty, staff and students interested in exploring contemporary race relations by investigating the history and legacy of lynching in the United States.

Facilitator: Guy Nave
Location: Borlaug – Dahl Centennial Union

It is obvious that the world we live in is interdisciplinary—or, more accurately, nondisciplinary. Why then are our attempts to understand the world primarily discipline-focused? While disciplines are powerful, they often lead to constraining ways of knowing, discouraging inquiries and explanations that span disciplinary boundaries. Interdisciplinary teaching can provide a bridge for overcoming disciplinary isolation. What, however, is interdisciplinary teaching?

Facilitator: Diane Gossman
Location: Borlaug – Dahl Centennial Union

Atomic Learning delivers a library of short, easy-to-view-and-understand tutorial movies that can be used as an integral part of a professional development program, a valuable curriculum supplement and an anytime/anywhere software training resource. The collection answers common questions people have when learning and using software. It includes more than 35,000 individual tutorial movies, which cover more than 100 software applications.

Two faculty from Luther’s Nursing facility in Rochester will be joined by the Academic Technology Librarian to bring the most up-to-date essentials on how to make KATIE’s Lesson module work for you. Additionally, KATIE Forums best practices and anecdotal experience will be discussed.