PubTalk: “A Life of Lies” with Chris Michener
Join us November 7th at noon in Cotter Café for the next Faculty PubTalk: Chris Michener’s “A Life of Lies”.
Leadership Activities in the Classroom
Saint Marys’ mission states that we prepare students for lives of ethical service and leadership, and in the Leadership PLC the last few semesters, Dr. Scott Sorvaag has been guiding us in thinking about how we use and interpret leadership in higher education. (One of his continual reminders is that leadership is a form of energy — hence the picture for this post.) As part of our PLC, we reviewed some offerings by the International Leadership Association, including this list of Leadership Activities one can include in virtually any class.
The kinds of questions that make a great midterm evaluation
Whenever I advise someone on assessment, I always start with the question, “What do you want to know?” The same question makes a lot of sense when thinking about course evaluations and midterm evaluations. While most instructors don’t have control over final course evaluations (I suppose the idea is that the questions asked are what administrators want to know), we by and large do have control over the questions we ask on midterm evaluations. Richard Talbert, chair of mathematics at Grand Valley State University in Michigan, has an elaborate system for tracking student perceptions over a whole course, but the questions he uses would be great for any kind of mid-course check-up. The statements he asks students to reflect on are…
PubTalk: American Falconry and the Wilderness of the Mind by Tycho de Boer
Join us on October 17th at noon in Cotter Café for our first Faculty Pub “PubTalk”. Faculty Pub is about supporting faculty who are working on writing projects and the PubTalk series embodies this with faculty who talk about their writing progress, process, and results. And the talks will generally be short with lots of opportunities for discussion. For the first PubTalk, we thought we’d start with the most interesting possible topic: killer birds. So come see Dr. Tycho de Boer from history give a talk called, “American Falconry and the Wilderness of the Mind”.
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