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The Ignatian Anniversary Year
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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
ALL ARE INVITED
(see agenda following)
FOR
FACULTY AND STAFF:
IGNATIAN YEAR LUNCH and LECTURE
Leadership
in Heroic Proportions:
The Jesuit Way
with
Chris Lowney
author
of Heroic Leadership
Wednesday, March 29, 2006
11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Busch Student Center, Room 170
Please
respond by Wednesday, March 22
by email at ignatian@slu.edu
or call 977-2428.
THE
UNDERGRADUATE SUMMIT SERIES VI:
A CAPSTONE EVENT ON THE SLU
UNDERGRADUATE EXPERIENCE
AGENDA:
12:30-1:00
Registration
1:00-1:45
Where have we been?
Showcase of accomplishments
Success of committees
Joe Weixlmann, Ph.D., Provost
University
Academic Affairs Committee
Chair: Marla Berg Weger
Undergraduate Initiatives Committee
Co-Chairs: Paaige Turner, Dee Kauffman
First-Year Experience Committee
Co-Chairs: Leanna Fenneberg, Liz Hogan
Sophomore/Junior Experience Committee
Co-Chairs: Donald Stump, Argyle Wade
Senior Experience Committee
Co-Chairs: Kim Reitter, Fred Yeager
1:45-2:15
Where are we now?
Issues of retention
Recommendations from retention consultant visit
Marla Berg-Weger, Ph.D.
Senior Associate Provost
2:15-2:30
Break
2:30-3:15
Where are we going?
Small group discussion:
How do we address concerns of retention?
How do we continue the momentum of the undergraduate experience, and
continue to improve the experience for students at SLU?
How do we continue to promote partnerships and collaborations toward
seamless in-class and out-of-class experiences for students?
How do we share 'best practices' of the undergraduate experience on
campus to inform and inspire the work of others on campus?
3:15-4:00
Dessert reception in appreciation for commitment to the undergraduate
experience at SLU.
RSVP to Maureen Burkhardt at burkhams@slu.edu
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.
Reinert
Center for Teaching Excellence
Friday,
March 10
1:30 p.m.
Pius Library - Knight's Room
Dr. Margaret Cohen, Associate Provost for Professional Development and Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning at the University of Missouri-St. Louis will present "Do Unto Others: Addressing Civility in University Classrooms."
Consumer attitudes about academic success may overpower respectful attitudes toward learning, professors and peers. This workshop discusses and demonstrates effective alternatives to help colleagues across the disciplines learn to promote, assess, and maintain professional and civil behaviors in their courses.
This
workshop is sponsored by the Reinert Center for Teaching Excellence.
Register via e-mail, cte@slu.edu or
by calling 977-3944.
FROM THE COLLEGE
College
of Arts and Sciences Excellence in Teaching Awards
and
Mentoring Award
The following faculty members have been selected to receive 2006 College
of Arts and Sciences Excellence Awards at the Annual Awards Ceremony
on Tuesday, April 18, 2006:
Dr.
Caroline Reitz
(English)
The Helen I. Mandeville Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Humanities
Dr.
Katherine MacKinnon
(Sociology & Criminal Justice)
The Robert A. Johnston, S.J. Award for Excellence in Teaching in the
Social Sciences
Dr. Jon Fisher (Biology) The William V. Stauder, S.J. Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Natural Sciences
Dr. Karla Scott (African-American Studies, Communication) The Chauncey E. Finch Award for Excellence in Advising
Each of these award recipients will receive an engraved College medallion and a $1,000.00 grant for professional expenses.
The
following faculty were nominated by their students and peers for the
above awards and will be recognized as finalists. They will receive
a certificate of excellence at the Ceremony.
Excellence in Teaching:
Dr. Judy Durham (Chemistry)
Dr. Robert Krizek (Communication)
Dr. Annie Smart (Modern and Classical Languages)
Dr. Paaige Turner (Communication)
Excellence
in Mentoring:
Dr. Hal Bush (English)
Dr. Paul Jelliss (Chemistry)
Dr. Shelley Minteer (Chemistry)
Dr. Joya Uraizee (English)
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.
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
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.
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.
For
Faculty:
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?
For
"Unit" Directors and Faculty:
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.
To register: http://fyp.slu.edu/
Spring Program for Chairs and Program Directors
Thursday,
March 23, 2006
12:00 - 1:30 p.m., BSC 352/353
"Faculty Portfolio Development"
Marilyn
Miller, Ph.D., Academic Portfolio Retreat facilitator, will share
information about the Retreat and strategies for supporting faculty
in developing materials for tenure and promotion.
March 23, Chairs' Meeting, 3:00 - 4:30 p.m., Busch Student Center 351.
March
23
"Stories
of Hope"
MORE INFORMATION FORTHCOMING
Due to Spring Break, the next Newsletter will be on Monday, March 20, 2006.
ACADEMIC NEWS
Faculty Publications, Presentations, Awards
Fine
and Performing Arts
Dr.
Michael Yonan chaired a panel called "The Cultural Aesthetics of
Eighteenth-Century Porcelain" at the annual conference of the College
Art Association of America in Boston, Massachusetts.
History
Dr.
Elisabeth I. Perry, John Francis Bannon Professor of History, presented
a lecture on Eleanor Roosevelt's political apprenticeship at the Missouri
Historical Society on March 2 in conjunction with the museum's exhibit
on First Ladies. On March 17 she will lecture at Park University in
Kansas City on "The Challenge of Feminist Biography" as part
of the university's symposium celebrating Women's History Month.
Dr. Michal Jan Rozbicki has published an article on the historical ontology of liberty, "Between Public and Private Spheres: Liberty as Cultural Property in Eighteenth-Century British America," in: Cultures and Identities in Colonial British America, Robert Olwell and Alan Tully, eds. (Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press, 2006).
Modern
and Classical Languages
Dr.
Pascale Perraudin (Assistant Professor of French) has published "Le
Devoir de violence de Yambo Ouologuem: images et nation au degré
zero" in Discursive Geographies: Writing Space and Place in
French/Géographies
Discursives: L'écriture
de l'espace en langue française
(Rodopi, 2005). Dr. Perraudin has also published "A travers l'oeuvre
de Michèle Rakotoson: la mort dans l'âme ou le silence
qui enfante la voix" in Femmes et écriture de la
transgression, (L'Harmattan, 2005) and "Contempler
la b