Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching - CELT

34 A&B Lanigan Hall

Phone: x2875 Email: celt@oswego.edu

http://www.oswego.edu/celt

To: Faculty and Staff

From: Bill Bosch, Director

Date: September 29, 2003

There will be a number of useful events scheduled for the next few Tuesdays. I hope you can fit these into your schedule. If I can be of help to you with these topics or any other ones, please contact me at the Center.

Academic Advising:

"Helping Students Understand Educational Planning"

Tuesday Oct 7^th Room 34B Lanigan Hall 4:00-5:00

Presenters: Rhonda Mandel, Provost Office & Kathleen Evans, Student Advisement Center

Rhonda Mandel is the Associate Provost and oversees the area of General Education and Faculty Development. Kathleen Evans is from the Student Advisement Center which provides training for summer orientation faculty advisors and coordinates campus-wide advisement for Undeclared students. Topics to be discussed include the structure of academic advisement here at Oswego, specifics on general education, and the tools and resources necessary to be a good academic advisor.

Dealing with Students in Crisis:

Academic and/or Psychological

Tuesday Oct 14^th Room 34A Lanigan Hall 4:00-5:00

Presenters: Nancy Hale, Counseling Services & Harry Shock, Student Advisement

Information on out-of-class notices, attendance policies, course withdrawals, requests for incompletes will be presented. We will also discuss how to help students in psychological/personal distress and how the Counseling Services Center can help.

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Learning To See, Seeing to Learn

“How technology has affected our students’ approach to learning”

Tuesday Oct 21^st Room 34A Lanigan Hall 4:00-5:00

Presenter: Rolando Arroya-Sucre, OLS

The freshman entering college in 2001 belong to what can be defined as the first generation of students fully immersed in a virtual world in which technology is not only a thoroughly familiar element in their daily life, but in which values, attitudes, emotions and skills are influenced by the technology tools available to this generation.

Research has provided useful findings pertaining special admission students’ academic preparedness, motivation, and learning skills. How are these characteristics impacted by the students’ approaches to and use of technology?

Has technology affected the ways in which students approach their academic experience?

In this workshop you will have an opportunity to explore and gain a richer understanding of the technology-related generational differences and how they affect the teaching learning interaction.

How to get support for research (grants, etc)

Tuesday Nov 11^th Room 34A Lanigan Hall 4:00-5:00

Presenters: Maria Nakamura and Linda Cook, ORSP

Maria Nakamura, Associate Director, and Linda Cook of ORSP will be discussing the various ways their office can help faculty in searching for and applying for grants. In particular, they will discuss how to access some of this information about grant and research opportunities that are on the internet. Also, the various types of internal grants that are available will be discussed.

Tuesday Nov 18^th Room 34A Lanigan Hall 4:00-5:00

Presenters: Jerry Oberst, Admissions & Harry Shock, Student Advisement

Persons with disabilities, needing accommodations to attend any of the events listed above, should contact the Center at x2875 or email at celt@oswego.edu in advance.