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and Sciences Newsletter
to Linda Thien by Tuesday
at 5:00 p.m. via e-mail: thienlr@slu.edu; fax: 977-3649; interoffice mail: Fusz
Hall, Second Floor
Don't forget to submit
important departmental news to
Grand Connections
The Ignatian Anniversary Year
____________________________
Chris
Lowney
author
of Heroic Leadership
Coming
March 28 and 29 to discuss concepts from
his book .
"Becoming men and women for others means,
among other things,...
that our students are becoming what American
society and the world so desperately need: leaders
who possess keen discernment, superior
communication skills, and a deep ethical core."
(Provost Weixlmann, University News, 1/19/06)
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Emails or Quarantined Emails
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you are having these difficulties, IT advises the following:
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February
20
Biology
Candidate Seminar: Dr. Xinguo "Mike"
Wang, Department of Animal Health and Biomedical Sciences, University
of Wisconsin, Madison, will present "Molecular Mechanisms in Mosquito
Innate Immunity" at 1:00 p.m. in Busch Student Center, Room 253B/253C.
The
SLU University Theatre:
February 24, 25 and March 3, 4:
8 :00 p.m.
Sunday, February 26: 2:00 p.m.
Lucky
Stiff-Music
by Stephen Flaherty; Book and Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens
Roll the dice with this zany, offbeat and very funny musical - murder
- mystery farce! Unassuming shoe salesman Harry Witherspoon will inherit
$6 million if he takes his gambler uncle's corpse for a fun-filled vacation
in Monte Carlo. The gamble pays off with an evening
of inspired musical theatre lunacy.
The
Reinert Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE)
February
21
WebCT
Training: "Easy
HTML and Moving MS Office Files to the Web" from 10:00 - 11:30
a.m., Verhaegen Hall 212, co-taught by the ITS WebCT Team and CTE Staff.
Call Kim Scharringhausen at 977-3522 to register.
February
22
60
Minutes Technology in an Hour: "Simulations
& Game Playing," from 12:00 - 1:00 p.m., in Verhaegen Hall
212. Presenter: Dr. Cynthia LeRouge, Decision Sciences and MIS.
February
24
Starlink
Teleconference: "New Standards for
the New Student?" from 1:30 - 2:30 p.m., Verhaegen Hall 212. Participate
with a group in Verhaegen 212 or watch it from your own computer. Contact
CTE at cte@slu.edu or 977-3944 for
more information.
February
28 and March 3
Effective
Teaching Seminar: "Academic Integrity
in the Classroom," 1:30 - 3:30 p.m., Verhaegen Hall 212. Presenters:
Joya Uraizee (English); Ellen Carnaghan (Political Science); Martha
Allen (Pius XII Memorial Library).
March
24 and 25
9th
Annual Faculty Teaching Portfolio Retreat:
Nine spaces are still available for faculty
reservations!
The retreat will be held at the Cedar Creek Conference Center in
New Haven, Missouri. Nominations from chairs or deans for junior faculty
are being accepted. Please call the Center's office at 977-3944 or contact
Lori Hunt at huntla@slu.edu for
more information.
PLEASE CONSIDER SERVING ON THE FACULTY COUNCIL
March
7
Department
of English: Scott Blackwood will present
a fiction reading at 4:30 p.m. in Humanities 142. His collection of
inter-related short stories, In the Shadow of Our House (SMU
Press, 2001), was praised in the New York Times as an "acute
and nimble" collection. His forthcoming novel, See How Small,
is set in Austin where he resides. A lunch is being planned that day
from 12:30 - 2:00 p.m. in Bannister House. Students with a strong
interest in creative writing are invited to have lunch with Scott
and talk about the craft of fiction. For the discussion, we will be
distributing copies of the opening chapter of Scott's new novel. As
spaces for the lunch are limited, faculty are asked to encourage their
students to email Devin Johnston at johnstdd@slu.edu
for reservations.
MARK
YOUR CALENDARS:
Friday, MARCH 24, 2006
1-4 p.m.
College Church-Lower Level
The Undergraduate Summit Series VI: A Capstone Event on the SLU Undergraduate Experience
More information on the agenda later......
Workshops on Grading and Assessment on May 16, 2006
Barbara E. Walvoord, Ph.D., author of Effective Grading and Assessment Clear and Simple, Chair of Assessment Committee, Fellow of the Intstitute for Educational Initiatives, and Professor of English, University of Notre Dame, will offer two workshops on May 16 to SLU faculty and staff.
Tuesday,
May 16, 8:30 a.m. to noon, Busch Student Center, Saint Louis Room
Making
the Grading Process Fair, Time-Efficient, and Useful for Student
Learning AND Using the Grading Process for Departmental Decisions
The
workshop addresses these questions:
How do I create assignments that demand high-quality student thinking?
How can I make grading fair and consistent for all my students?
How can we make grading consistent across sections of the same
course?
How can we deal effectively with "grade inflation"?
How can we help students focus on the learning, not just on the
grade?
How can we make grading time-efficient?
How can we use classroom evaluation of student learning for departmental
and program-level improvement?
Tuesday,
May 16, 1:00 - 4:00 p.m., Busch Student Center, Saint Louis Room
Practical and Feasible Ways to Assess and
Improve Student Learning in Departments and General Education
Issues include:
how to get department members on board; how to do assessment within available time and resources; what is the most basic, simple, no-frills assessment plan; how to simplify an assessment plan that is too complicated; how to construct workable goals for learning; how to choose assessment measures that are sustainable and useful; how to conduct simple yet useful surveys of students and alumni; how to use the grading process for assessment; how to ensure validity and reliability in measures; and how to actually USE your data for the benefit of the department and its students.
For more information, contact Julie Weissman, Associate Provost, at 977-2193 or at weissman@slu.edu.
FROM THE COLLEGE
SLU
Film Studies Program - Campus Film Series, Spring 2006
Thursdays, 7:00 p.m., Kelley Auditorium, No Cover.
Films are introduced by Film Studies and invited faculty.
February
23
Lagaan,
Once upon a time in India (Gowariker, Hindi, 2001) 3:45
March
2
La Niña Santa/The Holy Girl (Martel, Argentina,
2004) 1:46
March
23
Whale
Rider (Caro, New Zealand, 2002) 1:45
March
30
The
Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer, 1928, silent) 1:22
April
6
Brother
(Balabanov, Russia, 1997) 1:36
April
20
Les
Choristes (Barratier, France, 2004) 1:37
April
27
The
Ballad of Ramblin' Jack (Elliott, USA, 2000) 1:30
The Faculty Council will be sending out a request for nominations for next year's council. Please consider serving on this body particularly if you have never done so or encourage a colleague to run.
MOCRA EXHIBIT
Untitled, Arshile Gorky
1934
"Arshile Gorky: The Early Years - Drawings and Paintings, 1927
- 1937" will be on exhibit until March
12, 2006 in MOCRA.
Armenian-born Arshile Gorky was one of the most influential artists in the development of Abstract Expressionism. This exhibition will feature over 40 rare drawings and paintings that reveal Gorky's early experiments and hint at his own distinct style that was to reach its maturity in the 1940s. This exhibition is part of "MOCRA: Sources," an occasional series of exhibitions presenting those seminal artists who have influenced the development of modern and contemporary art, and whose impact is seen in the artists of our time who engage the religious and spiritual dimensions in their work.
For more information, please call 977-7170 or mocra@slu.edu; or visit the website.
ACADEMIC NEWS
Faculty Publications, Presentations, Awards
Modern
and Classical Languages
Dr.
Jean-Louis Pautrot, Professor of French and International Studies; Director,
Film Studies Certificate Program, is the author of The André
Jazz Reader. His edition appeared with the University of Michigan
Press. It is an anthology of Hodeir's jazz writings from 1954 to 1972,
with a more recent 1986 article translated especially for the volume.
Pre-Law
Program
The
Saint Louis University Mock Trial Team has won a bid to participate
in the national intercollegiate competition for the 18th year. This
year's team has been invited to compete against more than 40 additional
winners from regional competitions across the nation. On February 10th
and 11th, SLU encountered such teams as Bradley, University of Iowa,
Illinois State University, and Loras. In
addition to a team bid, individual competitors received awards. J.B.
Patti and Scott Wilson both received outstanding witness awards and
Mike Crowley received an outstanding attorney award. The team couldn't
have done so well without the support of SLU and SLU's legal fraternity,
Phi Alpha Delta. The teams are coached by two attorney coaches: Mike
McDonnell, Esq., a SLU law graduate and Jim Paul, Esq., who participated
in mock trial while an undergraduate at SLU in the early 1990's. The
Interim Director of Pre-Law, Kate Kimker, a former SLU mock trial team
captain, serves as the educator coach.
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