Spring 2010

Why do you teach what you teach?  Responding to the unasked question in class
Tuesday, February 23rd
4:00 - 5:00 pm
University House Dining Room
Convener: Samuel Torvend, Associate Professor of Religion and Project Director of the Wild Hope Project
Sponsored by: Wild Hope and Center for Teaching and Learning

Documenting the Vocation of Teaching: A workshop for junior faculty
Tuesday, March 9th
4:00 - 5:00 pm
University House Dining Room
Convener: Samuel Torvend, Associate Professor of Religion and Project Director of the Wild Hope Project
Sponsored by: Wild Hope and Center for Teaching and Learning

Why Service Learning and the Search for Vocation Go Hand-in-Hand
Tuesday, March 16th
4:00 - 5:00 pm
University House Dining Room
Conveners: Kelly Cowdery, Director of the Center for Public Service, and Samuel Torvend, Associate Professor of Religion and Project Director of the Wild Hope Project
Sponsored by: Wild Hope, Center for Public Service and Center for Teaching and Learning

Academic Dishonesty
Thursday, March 18th
4:00 - 5:00 pm
University House Dining Room
Sponsored by: Campus Life Committee

Academic Advising Workshop
Wednesday, April 7th
4:00 - 5:00 pm
University House Dining Room
Conveners: Pat Roundy, Dean of Student Academic Success & Director of Academic Advising, and Nova Schauss, Assistant Director of Academic Advising

John Gardner
Thursday and Friday, April 15-16
Details: TBA
Sponsored by: First-Year Experience Program
John Gardner is best known as the initiator (in 1982) of an international reform movement in higher education to call attention to and improve what he originally coined "The Freshman Year Experience" and then renamed "The First-Year Experience."  He serves as Senior Fellow of the National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition and is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of South Carolina.  During his visit, there will be multiple opportunities for faculty and staff to be involved in sessions on issues related to the First Year.

Preparing your tenure and promotion file
Tuesday, April 27th
4:00 - 5:00 pm
University House Dining Room
Sponsored by: Rank and Tenure Committee
What materials should I routinely keep for my file?  What should I do with my student evaluations?  How can I document my scholarship?  How can I document student learning in my classroom?  These and other questions will be answered in this informative workshop on tenure policies and procedures.  Other members of the committee will be present to answer your questions.

Please note: tenure track faculty, with four or less years at PLU, are invited to attend this workshop.  (Tenure track faculty, eligible for tenure review in Fall 2010, will be invited to a separate informational session held by the Rank and Tenure Committee in May).

To RSVP, or for further information, please contact the Office of the Provost at provost@plu.edu, no later than Monday, April 26.