May Faculty College

The May Faculty College offers an extended period of time for faculty to build upon teaching and learning issues addressed throughout the year by the CTL. In collaboration with other programs (e.g., FYP, CBL, IT) the CTL coordinates a series of workshops to explore new ideas, share experiences, and enjoy time spent together in earnest conversation about our profession.

May College 2009: Fostering Creative Classrooms and Sustaining a Scholarly Life

Tuesday, May 19 - Thursday, May 21
May College 2009
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Dean's Invitation

Colleagues,

May College was originally conceived to provide an opportunity for faculty and staff to come together to discuss teaching and learning.  We will continue this tradition this year, with a diverse program that addresses numerous facets of teaching and learning.  Though as the title of the program, “Fostering Creative Classrooms and Sustaining a Scholarly Life,” indicates, we will also expand our concerns and provide space and assistance for faculty to think about scholarship.   

May College will start by broadly exploring the liberal arts, first by hearing reflections on the education that we offer by President Sullivan and later by asking participants to think through different curricular designs.   We will then focus more narrowly, exploring issues such as responding to student writing, to responding to writing without using paper, to advising, to assessment, both of diversity courses and more broadly. 

This year’s May College ends by recognizing the importance of scholarship to our lives and providing an opportunity for participants to consider how to define and succeed with their scholarly agendas.  Jeanne Barker-Nunn, who will run the Thursday afternoon workshop, did a workshop last year that was well received.  We look forward to her return visit. 

Please plan to attend either the entire event or those portions that you feel are particularly helpful for you.

Val  Lehr

May College 2009 - Save the Dates

Are you interested in learning how to think through and assess the extent to which students are understanding diversity in your classes?

Would you like to learn how to:
       Integrate audio, video or blogging into your pedagogy?
       Incorporate quantitative reasoning in your classes?
       Employ pedagogies of engagement with your students?
       Learn more techniques for working with student writing and
       oral communication?

Would you like to get strategies, support and coaching on publishing your scholarly work?

Are you aware of all the funding sources we have at St. Lawrence for supporting faculty and student research?

If you are thinking about starting a new research project, are you aware of what support might be available for grant writing?

These are only a few of the themes that will be addressed in the workshops featured at this year's May College.   We will be sending more information as the semester progresses, but we hope you will put May College on your calendar.
Sincerely,
Members of the May College Planning Committee

Danielle Egan
Cathy Crosby-Currie
Kirk Fuoss
Neil Law
Erin McCarthy
Hillory Oakes
Natalia Ovchinnikova
Susan Pankey
Karl Schonberg
Sondra Smith
Eve Stoddard
Bob Thacker

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