Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Back-to-School faculty events
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A five-member faculty panel will talk about "What I Know Now that I Wish I Had Known Earlier." Members of the panel are Manuel Apodaca-Valdez, assistant professor of Spanish, Brandon Eggleston, assistant professor in Health Services, Brandon Field, assistant professor of engineering, Matthew Grow, assistant professor of history, and Amie McKibban, assistant professor of psychology. The faculty attending the orientation will tour the campus and participate in a workshop on surviving the first week of classes led by Lesa Cagle, interim director of Faculty Development and Patrick Shaw, director of English Composition. Lunch follows at 12:30 p.m. The afternoon workshops on teaching are open to all USI faculty. The topics range from technology in the classroom and service learning to creating effective library research assignments and getting students to do the reading. The full schedule, and sign up opportunity, is online at www.usi.edu/extserv/career/FacultyStaffDevSchedule.ASP |
