Programs & Events

Spring 2012:

March 6: “Using Good IDEAs: Making Better Use of Our Faculty Evaluations and Institutional Data.”  Led by Jasminka Ninkovic and Satu Riutta.

March 20:  “Sustainability is a Group Ride.”  Led by Peter Wakefield.

March 22:  “Designing Backward: Syllabus Redesign.”  Led by faculty from Georgia College and State University, leaders in the IC-bG (Innovative Course-building Group), Drs. Caralyn Zehnder and Julia Metzker.

April 11: “The Challenge of the New Schedule: Ways to Use the Extended Time.”  Faculty facilitators: Clark Lemons, Adriane Ivey, and Nichole Powell

April 25:  “The China Boom: One Institution’s Response to Expanding Enrollment.”  Led by Stacy Bell McQuaide and Amela Malkic.

Fall 2011:

CSC/CAE, Adriane Ivey, September 16th, SCR, 2:00-3:15:  "Using Portfolios for Reflective Learning"

DDR Lunch/Learn, September 19th: "An Update:  Assessing our Students' Research Skills and Writing Skill"

Jasminka Ninkovic, SCR, September 20th: "Using the IDEA Evaluations to Gather Data"

James Lang, DDR Lunch/Learn, October 4th: "On Academic Integrity"

DDR Lunch/Learn, October 25th: "Back to Serenbe-Back to the Future: INQ discussion"

Spring 2011:

Faculty lunch/learn:  February 16th, DDR,  On the Road to Inquiry

Jill Lane, March 17th, Inquiry Guided Learning breakfast workshop  

Jasminka Ninkovich, Amanda Pendleton, Jeff Galle:  March 31st:  Making Use of IDEA Evaluations

Stacy Bell:  April 6th: Impact of the New Normal Student Population on Faculty Pedagogy

Fall 2010:

Virginia Lee: September 7th,  Inquiry-Guided Learning workshop

Pamela Milloy: September 21st , Responding with Intention: Using the IDEA Course Evaluations

Stacy Bell: October 5th, 'Accuracy versus Fluency: A Conversation'

Faculty lunch/learn:  November 15th , DDR, Inquiry Guided Learning

2009-2010

CAE lunch talk, October 27, 2009: "The Second Year Experience," Dr. Molly Schaller, U of Dayton

CAE workshop:  October 30, 2009: "Getting Started with a SoTL Project," Dr. Bill Hill, Director, Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, Kennesaw State University

CAE workshop: February 25, 2010:  Dr. Virginia S. Lee 

CAE workshop:  TBA, The Phenomenology of Error, Stacy Bell

2008-2009

In 2008-2009, the Center for Academic Excellence offered several college wide programs in addition to the 3rd annual Institute for Pedagogy in the Liberal Arts (IPLA). 

CAE, college wide, "What's so Critical About Critical Thinking.  Presenters: Lucas Carpenter, Adriane Ivey, Jeff Galle 

CAE, college wide, "Writing in the Disciplines,"  Presenters: Florian Pohl, Adriane Ivey, Susan Ashmore, Nitya Jacob 

CAE, college wide, "Engaged Debate," Melissa Wade, Barkley Forum, Director 

CAE, college wide. "Proficiency or Accuracy: Issues Grading ESL papers," Stacy Bell

CAE, Institute for Pedagogy in the Liberal Arts (3rd Annual), Oxford College, other colleges of Emory University, Georgia Gwinnett College, and Newton County Schools.

Scholar facilitators: Patti-Own Smith, Pat Marsteller, Melissa Wade, Art Young, Ken Carter, Paul Oser, and the IT staff.