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Campus News - February 11, 2002 |
Inaugural conference on teaching, learning Feb. 15 in Dane Smith Hall
A Scholarship of Teaching and Learning conference will be held Friday, Feb.
15 at UNM for faculty and graduate students. Topics include how to deal with
unprepared students, the inside story on tenure, how to adapt to different learning
styles, retention and the freshman year experience.
The conference is free of charge, an RSVP by Feb. 11 is required.
Registration begins at 12:30 p.m. at Dane Smith Hall, rm. 120.
The keynote, Cutting Edge Teaching and Learning Issues, will be
presented by Sherwyn Morreale, Ph.D., associate director of the National Communication
Association, from 1 to 2 p.m.
Presenters Beth O'Neil, Colston Chandler, Peter White, Susan Deese-Roberts
and Richard Holder will conduct various sessions from 2:15 to 5 p.m.
A reception follows at University House from 5 to 6 p.m.
The conference is sponsored by Preparing Future Faculty, a nationwide effort
preparing graduate students to become faculty.
Additional support is provided by UNM's Center for the Advancement of Scholarship
in Teaching and Learning, Teaching Assistant Resource Center and Alliance for
Graduate Education and the Professoriate.
To RSVP, contact Amie Kincaid, 277-4541, amiekincaid@hotmail.com. For more information, contact Janet Cramer, 277-0095, jcramer@unm.edu.
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