Monday, March 21
4:00 - 5:00 PM - Sabbatical Report: Emil Kramer presents "Plato's Diaectical Pedagogy: Answering the "Why?" to the design of Plato's Symposium and Republic"
Wilson Center
Tuesday, March 22
10:30 - 11:30 AM - Visiting Diversity Scholar Sascha McKeon presents a Biology presentation and Life in Grad School
Hanson Hall of Science 102
10:45 AM - Voice Seminar
Wallenberg Hall, Denkmann Building
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM - Chem Chats, presented by Visiting Diversity Scholar Alecia McCall
Hanson Hall of Science 203
11:30 - 11:50 AM - Tuesday Reflection - Eric Hanson '11
Ascension Chapel, Founders Hall, 2nd floor
2:30 - 3:30 PM - Reception and Conversation with our Visiting Diversity Scholars Sascha McKeon and Alecia McCall
Open to Augustana Campus Community
Hanson Hall of Science 302
4:00 PM - Food Reads - Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
Tredway Library, Room 518
4:30 PM - Ann Boaden Book Reading: Light and Leaven: Women Who Shaped Augustana's First Century
Refreshments will be served
Wilson Center
Wednesday, March 23
9:30 - 10:30 AM - Coffee and Conversation
CEC Conference Room, Sorensen Hall, 1st floor
12:00 - 1:00 PM - Bible Study Group
led by Pastor Priggie, for faculty, staff and administrators
Bring your lunch, and a Bible
Chicago Room, College Center
4:00 - 5:00 PM - Conversation on Preparing or Improving Your Senior Inquiry Courses Olin 302
6:00 - 7:00 PM - After Hours
Tredway Library, Room 518
8:00 PM - M2 Duo
Violinist Machiko Ozawa and pianist Makia Matsumura are guests artists M2 Duo, playing "electroacoustic," tango, classical, soundtrack and world music
Wallenberg Hall, Denkmann Building
Thursday, March 24
10:30 - 11:30 AM - Faculty Forum on Faculty Handbook CANCELLED
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM - Faculty Senate Meeting
Hanson Hall of Science 102
4:30 - 5:30 PM - Why NASA Matters
presented by Aaron Brown, aerospace engineer
304 Hanson Hall of Science
7:00 PM - The River Readings: Molly McNett
Fiction writer Molly McNett, winner of the 2008 John Simmons Award for Fiction from the University of Iowa Press, reads from her work
Reception to follow
Wallenberg Hall, Denkmann Building
7:00 PM - Harry Markopolos: No One Would Listen: A True Financial Thriller"
Harry Markopolos details his nine-year effort to get the Securities & Exchange Commission to investigate Bernard Madoff
Centennial Hall
Friday, March 25
4:00 PM - Friday Conversations - Interpreting the IDEA SRI Feedback Form"
presented by Lisa Allen, Amanda Baugous, Jon Clauss, Mark Salisbury
3:30 PM - Refreshments
Wilson Center
Saturday, March 26
8:00 PM - Faculty Recital: Janet Stodd, flute and piccolo
Wallenberg Hall, Denkmann Building
Sunday, March 27
4:00 PM - Faculty Recital: Deborah Dakin, Viola; Robert Elfline, piano
Performing works by Baksa, Vieuxtemps, Mendelssohn, Sibelius and Britten
Wallenberg Hall, Denkmann Building
Volume 8, Issue 23 - March 21, 2011This Week's Message
During the Friday Conversation this week Mark Salisbury (Institutional Research & Assessment) Amanda Baugous and Lisa Allen (Student Rating Supervisory Committee) will lead a discussion on
Interpreting the IDEA SRI.
While all members of our community are welcome, this session is designed primarily for those who have administered the new SRI and want to make the most of the four-page feedback they've gotten back from the IDEA Center. Of course, those who will be administering the form for the first time this spring and who want to learn from other's experiences will also benefit!
This is the third in a series of training sessions that we have offered and would be glad to offer again, upon request. The first two being
- Preparing for the IDEA SRI This session has (and will continue to be) been offered a number of times and is most effective when part of a departmental conversation. We discuss the context in which we would like people (individuals and departments/programs) to view the new instrument. We also focus on the Faculty Information Form (FIF) which needs to be considered before the start of the term and, ideally, incorporated into the syllabus for full effect.
- Navigating the IDEA Center Website This session was presented at the most recent Friday Conversation and is designed (as the name implies) to help guide individuals to the most important among the massive number of resources available at the Idea Center's site. We point out resources the Center offers that are helpful for both using the instrument but also for course design generally. [You recently received an email with a list of relevant sites and the handout; please contact me if you need another copy.]
Again, we would be glad to offer any of these sessions to interested parties. Of course, we are planning on offering training during next year's retreat as we prepare for the campus-wide norming of the instrument during the 2011-12 academic year.
We hope to see you at this Friday's Conversation. Have a productive week three!
Jon Clauss
Augustana Center for Teaching & Learning
