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REGISTER NOW FOR NOVEMBER 21–22 CONFERENCE ON "CULTURE MATTERS: Designing Learning Environments to Foster Awareness and Intercultural Competence" The effects of culture are everywhere in higher education, providing abundant opportunities as well as challenges for strengthening college teaching and learning. They range from the implications of serving an increasingly diverse student population or integrating global learning into the curriculum to the ways each institution and discipline transmits its particular perspectives, values, and practices to new generations. The goal of this conference is to explore the premise that culture, in all of its manifestations, is emerging as a fundamental influence on teaching and learning in the 21st century. Not only must today's faculty, staff, and students be culturally aware and interculturally competent to be successful, but efforts to strengthen college teaching and learning can be helped or hindered according to whether cultural differences are taken into account. The learning-centered institution is one where reflection on diverse perspectives is embedded in its work—one where culture matters. Register by the October 29 Early Bird deadline to save $45! Visit our Conference page for more information about internationally-recognized keynote speaker Carlos Cortés and the full session line-up for this important event. PROPOSALS DUE SEPTEMBER 19, 2008, FOR FEBRUARY 2009 CONFERENCE, "THE LEARNING EDUCATOR: Fostering Our Own Development for Better Practice and Results" In an environment marked by rapid change and increasing complexity, providing the best education for our students requires relentless attention to our own continuous learning and growth as professionals. Moreover, only those institutions that are flexible, adaptive, and productive—learning organizations, as Peter Senge dubbed them—will excel. As Senge states, learning organizations are work environments “where people continually expand their capacity to create the results they truly desire, where new and expansive patterns of thinking are nurtured, where collective aspiration is set free, and where people are continually learning to see the whole together.” This conference will explore what individual faculty and staff do to foster their own continuous development as teaching professionals and how colleges and universities strive to create environments that characterize learning organizations. It will feature what they’ve learned from these approaches and how teaching practices and student learning have improved as a result. We’re looking for proposals for concurrent sessions on topics such as systematic study and public dialogue of key issues in teaching and learning—for example, models of classroom research, action research, and Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) projects; teaching circles and other faculty development approaches; groups working to interpret and use NSSE and other assessment data; and practical application of approaches grounded in higher education scholarship. Click here to read the full Call for Proposals. BRING THE EXPERTS TO YOU WITH THE COLLABORATION’S TRAVELING WORKSHOPS AND CUSTOMIZED SERVICES What’s the best way to ensure a great faculty or staff development experience with guest facilitators on your campus, other than researching and auditioning presenters yourself? Tap into The Collaboration’s talented pool of workshop facilitators and presenters! So far this year, 33 of The Collaboration’s Traveling Workshops on topics ranging from “Teaching Millennial Students” to “Conducting a Peer Review of Teaching” have been booked by 26 institutions in 14 states, including Arizona, Connecticut, Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Ohio, South Carolina, Texas, and Wisconsin. Ranging in length from one hour to three days, several of these workshops have been customized to meet specific campus needs. Many institutions have booked workshops for fall faculty development days; other purposes include supporting institutional initiatives related to increasing the use of engaged learning methods, improving assessment practices, making better use of educational technology, developing greater capacity to serve the needs of new immigrant students, and strengthening the leadership skills of department chairs. So, how does this program work? We recruit our presenters, work with them to design session outlines and materials, talk with you about your needs, match our talent pool to your needs, and monitor results by designing customized evaluations and analyzing your participants’ feedback. With help from our staff to find the perfect fit for your needs, you can choose a single workshop in a variety of formats (half-day, full-day, multi-day, even multi-year!), a keynote address, or a combination of several workshops or a keynote and workshop together to create a conference. We can customize the program to serve your needs, even combining it with our program consulting and evaluation services. Check out our online catalogue, for information on more than 50 workshops and six new Workshop Sampler Series that are all ready to go, and then call us for help creating a plan just for you. There’s also a handy online inquiry form! InstitutE For Academic INnovation to be Held June 1–5, 2009 College and university administrators, department chairs, program directors, and others: Mark your calendars now to take a team to next summer’s Institute for Academic Innovation, to be held June 1–5, 2009. Team proposals will be due in March. More information will be available in November. Click here for more information. The Collaboration to Host International InstitutE For New Faculty Developers IN ST. PAUL, Minnesota, June 21–26, 2009 The International Institute for New Faculty Developers, a biennial event co-sponsored by the Professional and Organizational Development (POD) Network in Higher Education, is designed for individuals who are in their first years as full- or part-time faculty or instructional development professionals or who are interested in preparing themselves for this line of work. Participants include staff of instructional and faculty development programs or teaching and learning centers, those about to be appointed to these positions, and those responsible for organizing, directing, conducting or chairing committees for faculty development activities in a two- or four-year college or university. A five-day working program, the Institute is designed to answer the questions asked by new faculty developers, to place faculty developers at ease in their positions, and to get them started in effectively planning and conducting instructional development activities on their campus. The Institute will be held on the campus of Macalester College. Watch for more information this fall.
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