2019 University and Faculty Fall Conference

8:15 - 8:45 a.m. Chapel

Ness Family Chapel
Karen Hille Phillips Center for the Performing Arts

10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Keynote Speaker

Olson Auditorium

Guy Nave Jr.
Professor of Religion, Luther College
Achieving Change by Practicing Change

5:00 - 7:00 p.m. - President's Reception

Morken
Join members of the PLU community at our traditional welcome back event. Spouses/partners are welcome.

1:00 - 1:30 p.m. - Faculty Committee Organizational Meetings

Academic Performance and Integrity – Anderson University Center 201
Convener, Tom Edgar

Core Curriculum – Hauge Administration Building 211 A
Convener, Scott Rogers

Educational Policies – Hauge Administration Building 211 B
Convener, Svend Ronning

Faculty Affairs – Hauge Administration Building 208
Convener, Priscilla St. Clair

Governance – Anderson University Center 212
Convener, Agnes Choi

Global Education – Anderson University Center 213
Convener, Erik Hammerstrom

Instructional Resources– Hauge Administration Building 206
Convener, Genevieve Williams

Long Range Planning – President’s Conference Room
Convener, Allan Belton

Rank and Tenure – Anderson University Center 134
Convener, Gina Gillie

2:30 - 3:15 p.m. - School/Division Meeting

School of Arts & Communication – Mary Baker Russell Rehearsal Room (C-322)

School of Business – Morken 103

School of Education & Kinesiology – Anderson University Center 133

School of Nursing – Ramstad 206

Division of Humanities – Hauge Administration Building 200

Division of Natural Sciences – Leraas Lecture Hall, Rieke Science Center

Division of Social Sciences – Xavier 201

8:30 - 9:40 a.m. - Welcome and Opening

Chris Knutzen Hall 

8:30 – 9:10 a.m. – Address – Provost Joanna Gregson
Introduction of New Faculty

9:10 – 9:40 a.m. – Address – Faculty Chair Michelle Ceynar

10:00 a.m - 12:00 p.m. - Faculty Plenary Session I

Scandinavian Cultural Center

Actualizing the Power Within
– workshop designed by Dr. Bette J. Dickerson and Dr. Kim Washington-Watson, lead by Dr. Kim Washington Watson

The objective of this workshop is to identify shared conflictual issues and to begin to develop consensual solutions for corrective collective action.

Kim Washington Watson Ed.D. (aka Dr. Kim) has served as an administrator and faculty for 20 years. She earned an associate in Arts and Science from Tacoma Community College, a bachelors and, master’s degrees in Public Administration from Evergreen State College, and Ed.D. in Education and College Administration from Oregon State University. While working at Tacoma Community College, Washington Watson designed the Job Assistant Center, served as the chair for the President’s Council on Cultural Diversity, directed Student Services and Instruction, and served for Tacoma Human Rights Department. Washington Watson’s work accomplishments with the National Science Foundation included the creation of an online advising avatar tool now serving Oregon, Phoenix, and California. She has worked with Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges and served as a faculty trainer for Clover Park Technical College and Montgomery College, Maryland. At American University she served as Interim Assistant Director for the D.C. Reads program and now serves as Special Initiatives Assistant to the Assistant Vice President–Student Engagement, Office of Campus Life.

In 2009, Washington Watson established her own business, KEW Consultants to assist with educational services for underserved communities in Pierce County. Through KEW she won a grant from Washington State Employees Credit Union (WSECU) in 2015 to which she created two computer laboratories in the Hilltop and Eastside of Tacoma, WA. Dr. Washington Watson maintains experience in multiple levels of college instruction including, faculty training, cross-disciplinary competency, online teaching, facilitation, and community service. Her publications include Learning communities and student affairs: Partnering for powerful learning (2007). Learning Communities and Educational Reform. The Washington Center for Improving the Quality of Undergraduate Education: The Evergreen State College. Olympia, WA.

Dr. Bette J. Dickerson is an Assistant Vice President in the Office of Campus Life, American University (AU), responsible for Student Engagement. Prior to that she was an AU Associate Professor of Sociology for twenty-eight years, retiring in 2017 as Associate Professor Emerita. Dr. Dickerson has served on the University Senate, as Chair of the Sociology Department and of the Women and Gender Studies Program. At the time of her retirement, she was Chair of the Sociology Graduate Program committee with primary responsibility for graduate student advising and internships. Professor Dickerson was a primary instructor for the Public Sociology Certificate program and taught in the Multi-Ethnic Studies and the African American and African Diaspora Studies interdisciplinary programs. She holds a PhD in Sociology from Washington State University and, before joining AU, had over 20 years of experience working in various philanthropic, nonprofit, and education venues. Dr. Dickerson is a past president of the Association of Black Sociologists, a recipient of its A. Wade Smith Award for Teaching, Mentoring and Service, and served on its History and Archives, Awards, Nominations, and Executive committees. Her publications include co-authoring an article on young Black women’s perceptions of childbirth, marriage, and career in the Journal of Sociology & Social Work (September, 2013), Black elder women and sexuality in Black Sexualities (Rutgers University Press, 2010), and a chapter on women’s leadership in sociology in Gender and Women’s Leadership (SAGE Publications, 2010). She authored a chapter on the Association of Black Sociologists in Diverse Histories of American Sociology (Brill, 2005) and was a co-editor for the recently released Notions of Family: Intersectional Perspectives (Emerald: Advances in Gender Research series, 2013).  Dr. Dickerson’s most recent participatory action-research projects were with South African grandmothers on their experiences with the HIV/AIDS pandemic in the aftermath of apartheid. She conducted community-engagement learning and service programs in South Africa and in Cuba where the focus was on race and gender identities.

1:30 - 3:30 p.m. - Faculty Plenary Session II

Chris Knutzen Hall

Understanding and Engaging our Core Curriculum

This session will be led by the Ad Hoc Committee on General Education Review and Revision, hoping to continue conversations about the Core Curriculum —what we teach to every undergraduate PLU student. The goal of the Committee’s overall process, and of this session, is to determine how the Core can best serve our students and exemplify the educational mission we share. The Committee will present the revised Liberal Arts Framework, compare it with our current General Education Program, and provide opportunities for conversation about each and about the best ways to assess whichever program is approved. The session will be followed by wine.

10:00 - 11:30 a.m. - Ecology of Wellness at PLU: How do you participate?

Regency Room

Kuldhir Bhati, Executive Director of the Counseling and Health Centers
Eva Frey, Dean of Students
Joanna Royce-Davis, Vice President for Student Life

This session will focus on who are our students; how do we care for our students’ whole selves as a whole community.  We will be sharing data about our current population of students, campus initiatives and programs designed to support students success, and ways that we can increase our ability to support students through their educational journey at PLU.

~open to all staff

1:00 - 2:00 p.m. - The Growing Importance of Cybersecurity

Regency Room

Melanie Kingsley, Software Support Specialist
David Rebar, User Support Team Lead

Learn about best practices for protecting both personal, as well as university data, and find out what options are available to better protect your accounts. We will talk about identifying what types of data to be most concerned about and what resources are available to address some of these security concerns.

~open to all staff

9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. - ``Did that just happen?``: Navigating Tensions and Difficult Conversations in the Classroom

Regency Room

Jennifer Smith, Dean of Inclusive Excellence
~open to all faculty

9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. - Getting Started with Sakai for Instructors

Library 140 Design Lab

Sean Horner, Senior Web Developer
~open to all faculty and course instructors, strongly encouraged for all new faculty/course instructors

1:00 - 3:00 p.m. - 9 Things to Do for a Successful PLU Event

Regency Room
~open to all staff and faculty

3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. - Center for Student Success and Faculty Advisors - Working Together

Chris Knutzen Hall

Center for Student Success (CSS) Staff
~open to all faculty 

8:30 - 11:00 a.m. - Academic Program Leaders

Regency Room

Joanna Gregson, Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs
~this session is by invitation only

Academic Program Leaders is an opportunity for leaders across the academic division to come together at the start of the academic year.

Invitations have been sent via Google Calendar. Please contact the Office of the Provost (provost@plu.edu) if you have any questions regarding Academic Program Leaders.

10:00 - 11:00 a.m. - Collaborating with Google Docs and Drive

Library 331

Layne Nordgren, Director for User Services/Instructional Technologies
~open to all staff and faculty

Interested in collaborating with your colleagues and students using documents, spreadsheets, and presentations? This workshop will focus on using the collaborative features of the Google Docs tool set. Hands-on activities will include collaborative document editing using Google Docs tools.