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General Education Institute scheduled June 8-9
2:32 p.m., May 17, 2004--UD faculty, professional staff and graduate students are invited to attend the fourth General Education Institute on Tuesday and Wednesday, June 8-9, in the Multipurpose Rooms of the Trabant University Center. The deadline for registration is Friday, June 4.
IT-User Services is offering a pre-institute session, from noon-4:30 p.m., Monday, June 7, on “Promoting Thoughtful Online Discussions through Effective Questioning,” with Carol DeArment, instructional designer for the Center for Instructional Development and Distance Education at the University of Pittsburgh. The session includes a hands-on workshop on using WebCt discussion groups.
“The institute is especially important and relevant this year following the Faculty Senate’s approval of the General Education Initiative involving undergraduate education, requiring first-year learning experiences for freshmen and discovery-based learning for undergraduates,” Martha Carothers, faculty director of the Center for Teaching Effectiveness/General Education Initiative, said. She and Avron Abraham, associate professor of health and exercise sciences and chairperson of the Faculty Senate Committee on General Education and president-elect for 2004-05, are coordinating the institute.
The goals of the General Education Institute are to place UD’s General Education Initiative in a national context; to highlight the General Education Initiative at UD in terms of ethics, cultural diversity and assessment and to help faculty develop instructional approaches that advance general education goals.
The institute will begin with breakfast at 8 a.m., Tuesday, June 8, and end with a reception and poster session at 4 p.m. The program on Wednesday, June 9, begins at 9 a.m. with morning presentations, followed by lunch and afternoon breakout sessions ending by 3 p.m.
“We have invited an excellent lineup of speakers who will address different topics pertaining to the General Education Initiative,” Carothers said.
The speakers include:
- Debra Humphreys, vice president for communications and public affairs at the Association of American Colleges and Universities and former director of programs on diversity and women’s issues in higher education, who will make a presentation on cultural diversity;
- Alex London, assistant professor of philosophy and executive member of the Center for the Advancement of Applied Ethics at Carnegie Mellon University, and Tom Powers, National Science Foundation research fellow in the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Virginia, who will make a presentation on ethics;
- Peggy Maki, higher education consultant, formerly senior scholar and director of assessment at the American Association for Higher Education and the author of “Assessing for Learning: Building a Sustainable Commitment Across the Institution,” who will make a presentation on assessment; and
- Freeman Hrabowski III, president of the University of Maryland in Baltimore County, whose research involves science and math education focusing on minority participation, who will make the keynote address, “Promoting Diversity in a Public University: The UMBC Experience.”
For more information and to register, visit [www.udel.edu/ugs/gened/gei2004/index.htm].
Article by Sue Moncure
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