Faculty Conversations
Fall 2006 | Spring 2007
Watching Each Other Teach Tuesday, September 19. Elizabeth Leer, Education; Diana Postlethwaite, English and Boldt Chair in the Humanities; Anthony Roberts, Dance
'Good Thinking, Good Funding': Supporting Faculty Scholarship Thursday, September 21. Jeanine Grenberg, Philosophy and FDC chair; Kathy Tegtmeyer Pak, Political Science and Asian Studies; Mary Trull, English
Teaching with Visualizations: What do your students _see_? Wednesday, September 27. Cathy Manduca, Director, Science Education Resource Center (SERC), Carleton College
Establishing Standards and Criteria for Grading Wednesday, October 11. Barbara Walvoord, Concurrent Professor of English and Fellow of the Institute for Educational Initiatives, University of Notre Dame, IN
Provost's Sabbatical Series Luncheon Wednesday, October 25. Eric Cole, Professor of Biology, and Anne Sabo, Associate Professor of Norwegian
Linking Assessment and Faculty Development: Carleton's Writing Portfolio Tuesday, October 31. Liz Ciner, Senior Lecturer in English and Associate Dean of the College, and Carol Rutz, Lecturer in English and Director of the College Writing Program, Carleton College
Real Measurement for Real Pedagogy: Finding indications of student learning in the stuff you already have lying about Tuesday, November 7. Chuck Huff, Psychology and 2006-07 CILA Assoviate; Dana Gross, Psychology
Advising as Teaching Wednesday, November 8. Martha Hemwall, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Dean of Student Academic Services, Lawrence University, WI
Disciplining Interdisciplinarity Wednesday, November 15. Mary Titus, English, Director of the Center for Integrative Studies and 2006-2007 CILA Associate; members of the Interdisciplinary Learning Community
On Again, Off Again: Integrating On and Off Campus Study Tuesday, November 28. Eric Lund, Religion, Director of International and Off-Campus Studies; and others
Spring 2007 | Fall 2006
New Social Uses of the Web: Student use (and abuse) of Facebook Tuesday, February 13. Greg Kneser, Dean of Students; Dan Beach, IIT
Academic Integrity in a Cut and Paste World: Beyond the Honor Code Wednesday, February 21. Jim Hanson, Religion, Associate Dean of Students
Learning About Thinking, and Thinking About Learning, With Knowledge Surveys Tuesday, February 27. Karl Wirth, Associate Professor of Geology, Macalester College
Provost’s Sabbatical Series Luncheon Tuesday, March 6. Phyllis Larson, Associate Professor of Japanese and Asian Studies; Bruce Nordstrom-Loeb, Associate Professor of Sociology
Critical Factors Affecting the Impact of Liberal Arts Colleges Wednesday, March 14. Charles Blaich, Director of Inquiries, Center of Inquiry in the Liberal Arts, Wabash College, IN
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Series: Watching Students Discuss: A multimedia approach to assessing seminar skills Wednesday, March 21. José Feito, Associate Professor of Psychology and Interdisciplinary Studies, Saint Mary’s College of California, 2001 and 2003 Carnegie Scholar
WORKSHOP: What Are We Talking About? Building a conceptual language for understanding seminar discussions Wednesday, March 21. José Feito, Associate Professor of Psychology and Interdisciplinary Studies, Saint Mary’s College of California, 2001 and 2003 Carnegie Scholar
The Meta-Curriculum: Planning theme years at St. Olaf Wednesday, April 4. Dan Hofrenning, Political Science; Jim May, Provost and Dean of the College
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Series: Teaching Curiosity Wednesday, April 11. Mary Titus, English, Director of the Center for Integrative Studies and 2006-07 CILA Associate
The Center for Interdisciplinary Research (CIR): What do students learn from this model of undergraduate research? Tuesday, April 17. Julie Legler, MSCS, Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research
The Use of Rubrics: From clarifying assignments to facilitating grading Tuesday, April 24. Gwen Barnes and Maggie Broner, Spanish
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Series: Can you teach virtue in the classroom? Can you learn it? Tuesday, May 1. Chuck Huff, Psychology and 2006-07 CILA Associate
