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Join us for a series of presentations and discussions exploring in what ways it may be beneficial to retool traditional academic courses so as to enhance student engagement, and the means of accomplishing and assessing the success of such transformations. All interested parties (students, staff and faculty members), both from the Oglethorpe community and from other near-by institutions of higher education, are invited and encouraged to attend. For each event, participation is solicited from those teaching and studying in all disciplines, as the themes to be explored are believed to be of broad interest, applicability and concern.
Schedule
Presenters
SCHEDULE
PLEASE RSVP: As seating is limited at each event, please send the names and affiliations of those who will be attending, which events the reservations are for and contact information to Dr. Keith Aufderheide. Voicemails may also be left at 404-364-8405.
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
What We Did During Our Summer Vacation: Report from the 2007 SENCER Summer Institute
7:00 – 8:30 p.m.
Oglethorpe University Museum of Art (3rd floor, Philip Weltner Library)
Freshmen: Earn One Arts & Ideas Credit
Presenters: Dr. Keith Aufderheide, Dr. Lynn
Gieger, Dr. John Nardo and Dr. Michael Rulison
A synopsis of the SENCER*,
civic engagement and STEM** connections
being explored on the Oglethorpe campus. The
team will look back at what has been accomplished,
examine their underlying motivations,
look ahead at what they hope to accomplish –
within the next year and thereafter – and describe
how they plan to assess the success of their efforts.
* SENCER is Science Education for New Civic
Engagements and Responsibilities
** STEM is
Science, Technology, Engineering
and Mathematics
Thursday, April 3, 2008
Digital Resources to Support a Community of Scholars
1:30 – 2:30 p.m.
Earl Dolive Theater (2nd floor, Philip Weltner Library)
Presenter: Dr. Terry McGuire
Science research is a collaborative enterprise. Science
teaching, however, is often done in isolation.
There are several developing digital resources that
will provide peer-reviewed educational resources
for innovative teaching. In this informal presentation,
McGuire will discuss his own work with the
National Science Digital Library and Nature Education
and how every professor can help develop
digital resources.
Thursday, April 3, 2008
Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Tolerate/Like/Love Assessment
2:45 – 3:45 p.m.
Earl Dolive Theater (2nd floor, Philip Weltner Library)
Presenter: Dr. Terry McGuire
End-of-the-course student evaluations are more
likely to document failure than lead to better
learning. McGuire has recently employed a number
of embedded, formative assessments in his
teaching. Here he will discuss how these procedures
help him monitor student achievement.
Thursday, April 3, 2008
Is it OK for Every Student to Earn an ‘A’? The 'Backgrounder' and Beyond
7:00 – 8:30 p.m.
Oglethorpe University Museum of Art (3rd floor, Philip Weltner Library)
Freshmen: Earn One Arts & Ideas Credit
Presenter: Dr. Terry McGuire
McGuire’s 2005 SENCER “Backgrounder” describes
his “reinvention” as a professor. Three
years later he continues to change his teaching.
He will discuss his changing view of students and
the strategies he has adopted to improve learning,
producing results that are inspiring to McGuire
and gratifying for his students.
Friday, April 4, 2008
The Value of Engagement
12:00 – 1:30 p.m.
Talmage Room (Emerson Student Center)
Presenter: Dr. Lawrence M. Schall
Schall will discuss his commitment to increasing
the engagement of every student at Oglethorpe,
both on and off campus. While civic engagement
has been a major component of this effort, he will
also explore a number of other specific “engagement”
initiatives that have proved successful.
Lunch will be provided through Table Talk.
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PRESENTERS
Keith H. Aufderheide, Ph.D.
Aufderheide graduated magna cum laude with honors from Wilmington College in 1976, with majors in chemistry and English. He was awarded a Ph.D. degree in theoretical physical chemistry from Miami University in 1980. That same year, he came to Oglethorpe, where he progressed through the academic ranks, becoming a full professor in 1990. He routinely teaches general, analytical and physical chemistry courses. His interests include thermodynamics and quantum mechanics. He served as Chair of the Division of Natural Sciences from 2004 to 2007. In addition to teaching, he is also presently interim associate provost and is the team leader of the local SENCER group.
J. Lynn Gieger, Ph.D.
Gieger graduated cum laude from Millsaps College in 1990 with a B.S. in economics. She received an M.A. in economics and an M.A.T. in mathematics education from Duke University. After a career in middle and secondary mathematics teaching, she then went on to the University of Georgia to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics education. Gieger came to Oglethorpe in 2003 as an assistant professor, teaching both undergraduate mathematics content courses for majors and non-majors and graduate-level mathematics content/methods courses for future K-5 teachers. Her research interests include mathematics education of teachers and the ways in which mathematics and mathematics teachers are portrayed in popular culture.
Terry McGuire, Ph.D.
McGuire is an associate professor and vice chair in the department of genetics at Rutgers University. He obtained his B.A. from The Ohio State University and his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has published in many different areas, including Mendelian and mathematical genetics, behavioral and neural genetics and ecological genetics. He has designed and taught a wide range of courses within the department of genetics. McGuire has been an active participant in the SENCER project. He first participated as an advance team member (SENCER Summer Institute—or SSI—2002) and has brought three teams from Rutgers University to succeeding SSIs. He is a SENCER senior associate and the author of a SENCER “Backgrounder” describing his journey as a professor. In addition to his work with SENCER, he is a BEN (BioSciEdNet) Scholar. He was recognized for his distinguished contributions to undergraduate education in the School of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers University, and he was appointed as a Presidential CASTL Fellow. In 2007, he was appointed to the editorial board for the new online endeavor Nature-Education, with primary responsibility for Mendelian Genetics.
John C. Nardo, Ph.D.
Nardo graduated magna cum laude from Wake Forest University in 1992 with majors in English literature and mathematics with a concentration in Italian studies. He earned M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in mathematics from Emory University in 1998. After three years at North Georgia College & State University, Nardo came to Oglethorpe University in 2000. In 2004, he was promoted to associate professor and elected Chair of the Division of Mathematics and Computer Science for a three-year term. He has taught all but one course in the traditional undergraduate mathematics curriculum and regularly teaches statistics in Oglethorpe’s Evening Degree Program. Currently, he is on a year-long sabbatical retraining in actuarial mathematics, an applied field of probability and statistics.
Michael K. Rulison, Ph.D.
Rulison attended the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana as a National Merit Finalist, earning a B.S. degree in 1976 with a double major in physics and mathematics. He then received M.S. (1979) and Ph.D (1982) degrees in theoretical physics, both with distinction, from the University of Georgia, where he held a DOE fellowship. He joined the faculty of Oglethorpe University in 1982 and was promoted to full professor in 1992. He was Manning M. Pattillo, Jr., Professor of Liberal Arts from 1997-1999. Rulison was Chief Faculty Consultant for the AP Physics program from 1996-1999. He is currently Chair of the Division of Natural Sciences. His research interests include proton spin, self-organized criticality and the history of cosmological thought.
Lawrence M. Schall, J.D., Ed.D.
Schall graduated with honors from Swarthmore College in 1975 and went on to earn his Juris Doctor degree in 1978 from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He practiced law as a trial attorney for the next seven years, specializing in civil rights litigation with a focus on children’s rights and public assistance issues. In 1990, Schall returned to his alma mater, Swarthmore College, and served for 15 years, leaving as vice president for administration. While at Swarthmore, he was awarded a doctorate in higher education from the University of Pennsylvania. From 2003 until 2005, he served as co-director of Penn’s Executive Doctorate Program and as an adjunct faculty member of Penn’s Graduate School of Education. Schall was elected 16th president of Oglethorpe University in 2005.
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