Jack Gelfand, Director of ORSP and Maria Nakamura, Associate Director, will discuss the various components of budgets that are submitted with proposals to outside agencies. Though ORSP will prepare your budget when you submit a proposal, it helps to understand the approximate cost of various activities when planning your program. They will also discuss state and federal regulations and their impact on budget computations.

We will also be streaming this workshop into Second Life at:

This workshop is intended both for instructors new to teaching courses in departmental Writing Plans and for those who've been teaching writing-intensive courses for a while but are unsure about the role of writing in those courses.  We will review the college's guidelines and rationale for Writing Across the Curriculum courses and make some very general suggestions about what WAC instructors might hope to accomplish with student writers.  Participants are encouraged to bring along any assignments, rubrics, student work - or anything else - they'd like to work on or enter into discussion.

A short report of the results of a survey administered last spring by the Writing Across the Curriculum Steering Committee of undergraduates on writing, to be followed by an open-ended discussion of writing on campus, inside and outside the WAC requirement.

You may also participate in this workshop in Second Life at: http://slurl.com/secondlife/SUNY%20Oswego/79/154/30.

Monday, January 12

Session I

Time: 9:00 - 10:30

Session Title: "Getting Started in Second Life"

Presenter: John Kane

Room: CC 206

Session II:

Time: 10:45 - 12:15

Session Title: "Educational Uses of Second Life"

Presenters: John Kane

Room: CC 206

January 19-22, 2010

Penfield Library One-on-One Learning/Research Sessions (by appointment only)

Tuesday, January 19

Session 1

Time: 9:00 - 10:30

Session Title: Using Adobe Professional to create online forms

Presenters: Linda Cook and Shannon Pritting

Room: Library Instruction Room 1

Friday, September 12th, 2008

117 Wilber Hall

9:00 AM

Are you interested in

The Future of Higher Education?

You are invited to join

a discussion of books

on the future of higher education.

Books are now available on reserve in the library.

 Or, why not order a copy through Interlibrary Loan

 or purchase one for yourself through the bookstore or on-line?

You are encouraged to read the book in advance,

but, if unable to do so, please come hear the discussion anyway.

12:40-1:40  Campus Center 133

The book Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses has set off a national debate on rigor and the college curriculum. Tracking 2,300 undergraduates at a range of four-year institutions, the research behind the book found that large numbers of students learn little if anything in college, face minimal course requirements … and yet graduate. The findings are based on student scores on the Collegiate Learning Assessment, as well as student surveys and transcript analysis.