Faculty Development

New Faculty Teaching Group

Topic: TBA
Organizer: Lori Stanley
Facilitator: TBA
Date: Mon., Dec. 7, 2:45-3:45pm
Location: Nansen – Dahl Centennial Union (2nd floor)
Registration: Please sign up below if you plan to attend.

Topic to be announced.

_The New Faculty Teaching Group is open to all faculty in their first year of teaching at Luther College.

Teaching Writing: Using Rubrics to Evaluate Papers

Sponsor: Dean’s Office
Facilitator: Nancy Barry, Luther College Writing Director
Date: Mon., Nov. 30, 4:00-5:30pm
Location: Olin 101
Registration: No limit, but please sign up below if you plan to attend.

Information on other upcoming faculty development opportunities is available at http://lis.luther.edu/learn/schedule.

New Faculty Teaching Group

Topic: TBA
Organizer: Lori Stanley
Facilitator: TBA
Date: Mon., Nov. 23, 2:45-3:45pm
Location: Nansen – Dahl Centennial Union (2nd floor)
Registration: Please sign up below if you plan to attend.

Topic to be announced.

_The New Faculty Teaching Group is open to all faculty in their first year of teaching at Luther College.

Teaching Discussion: Planning and Teaching a First-Year Seminar

Sponsor: Dean’s Office
Facilitators: Ruth Caldwell (French), Lea Pickard (Anthropology and Women and Gender Studies), Eric Baack (Biology)
Date: Wed., Nov. 18, 4:00-5:00 pm
Location: Nansen (2nd floor Union)
Registration: No limit, but please sign up below if you plan to attend.

This session will focus on strategies for developing a successful first-year seminar. The facilitators will share their ideas for engaging students and addressing the goals of the course.

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

Sponsor: LIS
Facilitator: Chris Barth
Date: Wed., Nov. 18, 3:30-4:30pm
Location: Preus Library – Hovde Lounge
Registration: No limit, but please sign up below if you plan to attend.

This session will focus on a discussion of copyright and intellectual property policies as they affect faculty and student classroom work, research, and recreation.

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

Sponsor: LIS
Facilitator: Chris Barth
Date: Wed., Nov. 18, 3:30-4:30pm
Location: Preus Library – Hovde Lounge
Registration: No limit, but please sign up below if you plan to attend.

This session will focus on a discussion of copyright and intellectual property policies as they affect faculty and student classroom work, research, and recreation.

Teaching Discussion: Planning for J-Term II Alternatives

Sponsor: Dean’s Office
Facilitators: Terry Sparkes (Director of Curriculum Development), Chuck Christianson (Economics and Business), Brian Solberg (HPE), Jeff Dintaman (Theatre/Dance)
Date: Thurs., Nov.

Teaching Discussion: Planning and Teaching a First-Year Seminar

Sponsor: Dean’s Office
Facilitators: Ruth Caldwell (French), Lea Pickard (Anthropology and Women and Gender Studies), Eric Baack (Biology)
Date: Wed., Nov. 18, 4:00-5:00 pm
Location: Nansen (2nd floor Union)
Registration: No limit, but please sign up below if you plan to attend.

This session will focus on strategies for developing a successful first-year seminar. The facilitators will share their ideas for engaging students and addressing the goals of the course.

Presenter: Brenda Gourley, Former Vice Chancellor and President, The Open University
Date: Friday, November 6, 2009, 11:30-12:30 AM
Location: Olin 301 (Round Table Room)

This talk will trace the history and modus operandi of the Open University in the United Kingdom, placing it in the context of trends in higher education across the world. The pressures arising from demographic change and widening participation challenge both traditional systems and the assumptions on which they were based.

Presenters: James Dolgonas, President / CEO, CENIC; David J. Ernst, Associate Vice President & CIO, University of California Office of the President; Theresa Rowe, Chief Information Officer, Oakland University; John J. Suess, Vice President of Information Technology/CIO, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Date: Friday, November 6, 2009, 10:30-11:20 AM
Location: Olin 301 (Round Table Room)

How might cloud computing, however it is defined, change the services and economics of IT at our institutions?