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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 .
"Leaders imagine an inspiring future and strive
to shape it rather than passively watching the
future happen around them. Heroes extract
gold from the opportunities at hand rather
than waiting for golden opportunities to be
handed to them."
(Page 33 of Heroic Leadership)
Lost
Emails or Quarantined Emails
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you are having these difficulties, IT advises the following:
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instances of when it is happening. Times of day,
email to/from who, etc. will all be useful.
March
2
Faculty
Council meeting, 3:00 - 5:00 p.m., Busch Student Center 352/353.
The
SLU University Theatre:
March 3 and 4: 8 :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
28
WebCT
Training: "Intro to the WebCT Environment
and Managing a WebCT Course," co-taught by the ITS WebCT Team and
CTE Staff,10:00 - 11:30 a.m., Verhaegen Hall 212. Call Kim Scharringhausen
at 977-3522 to register.
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).
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:
The
Undergraduate Summit Series VI: A Capstone Event on the SLU Undergraduate
Experience
Friday,
MARCH 24, 2006
1-4 p.m.
College Church-Lower Level
Workshops
on Grading and Assessment on May 16, 2006
8:30 - Noon
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.
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" ENDS on March 12, 2006 in MOCRA.
DON'T
MISS
"Keen Vision: The Gary C. Werths Collection"
at SLUMA
"Keen Vision: The Gary C. Werths Collection" is a significant exhibition, in part, because one finds within it the works of many notable artists such as Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti, Jacques Lipchitz, Jim Dine, Kiki Smith and William Morris. But it is made more significant because of the motive of our collector, Gary C. Werths, who has chosen to share such work with us.
ACADEMIC NEWS
Faculty Publications, Presentations, Awards
Fine
and Performing Arts
Dr.
Jeral Becker, tenor, was the featured soloist in "Aperite mihi
portas justitiae" a cantata by Dietrich Buxtehude, presented by
the American Kantorei at Concordia Seminary on February 19, 2006. This
work, together with other compositions from the Baroque period, was
aired on Classic 99 on February 26, 2006.
Sociology
and Criminal Justice
Dr.
Katherine MacKinnon co-authored the paper, "Niche construction,
complexity and cooperation: Modeling human evolutionary responses to
complex challenges," with Agustin Fuentes (University of Notre
Dame) and Matthew Wyczalkowski (Washington University in St. Louis).
The paper was presented by Dr. Fuentes as part of a symposium, "Man
the Hunted: The Origin and Nature of Human Sociality" at the annual
meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
on February 19th in St. Louis. The symposium was also part of a press
conference where reporters from around the world interviewed many of
the participants. News stories so far have appeared in the BBC, Daily
Telegraph (UK), Arizona Daily Star, and the Times Online (UK).
Theological
Studies
Dr.
Ronald Modras presented a lecture at Fairfield University on the impact
of Renaissance humanism on Ignatius Loyola as part of Fairfield's celebration
of the Ignatian Jubilee Year.
His lecture given last April at Loyola University, New Orleans, "Diversity, the Catholic Church, and Ignatian Humanism: Or How to Make a Roux" has been published in a Loyola University collection titled, "The University and the Human in a Pluralistic Age."
Dr. Tobias Winright, Assistant Professor, authored "Peace Cops? Christian Peacemaking and the Implications of a Global Police Force" which was published in Sojourners Magazine 35/3 (March 2006): 20-24.
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