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General Education Institute set June 7-8

3:35 p.m., May 19, 2005--UD faculty, professional staff and graduate students are invited to attend the fifth General Education Institute Tuesday and Wednesday, June 7 and 8, in the Multipurpose Rooms of the Trabant University Center.

Luncheon reservations must be received by Wednesday, May 27; all other registrations may be made the day of the sessions.

“The summer institute has evolved over the last five years from an introduction to the General Education Initiative into a lively gathering of faculty and academic professionals,” according to Martha Carothers, faculty director of the Center for Teaching Effectiveness/General Education Initiative. “The presentations and breakout sessions spark ideas and help to refine learning approaches which integrate General Education Goals into course instruction. Everyone walks away with renewed thoughts about General Education support and resources.”

The institute’s agenda is to look at the UD General Education Initiative within in a national context and to highlight the General Education Goals at UD, including questions of ethics and recognizing responsibilities to self, community and society at large; learning to think critically to solve problems; developing the ability to integrate academic knowledge with experiences that extend the boundaries of the classroom; and to introduce these goals as the Instructional Grant topics for 2005-06.

The institute will begin with registration at noon, Tuesday, June 7, in the Trabant University Center lobby, followed by a roundtable luncheon and poster session by 2004-05 Instructional Grant faculty from noon-1: 15 p.m. in Multipurpose Rooms A and B.

David J. Sill, associate provost of Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, and professor of design, will give the capstone experience presentation on integrating academic knowledge with experiences that extend beyond the classroom at 1:30 p.m. in Multipurpose Rooms A and B, followed by a capstone experience breakout session at 2:45 p.m.

Sill will discuss capstone programs at various colleges and how these help students connect and integrate different learning experiences into the whole of their undergraduate education.

An Instructional Grant session, with advance information about the fall 2005 Request for Proposals, at 4 p.m., in Multipurpose Room C, concludes the session.

On Wednesday, June 8, registration will begin a 9 a.m. in the Trabant University Center lobby. James L. Ratcliff, president and senior researcher of Performance Associates Postsecondary Consulting, will give a presentation on critical thinking, at 9:30 a.m. in Multipurpose Rooms A and B, followed by a critical thinking breakout session at 10:45 a.m.

Previously Ratcliff served as a researcher and director of the Center for the Study of Higher Education at Pennsylvania State University where he directed a five-university consortium, the National Center for Postsecondary Teaching, Learning and Assessment, which conducted large-scale investigations of the effects of programs and other factors on student learning. He is the author of Changing the General Education Curriculum.

Registration will be held for the afternoon session at noon in the Trabant University Center lobby, followed by a roundtable luncheon and poster session by 2004-05 Instructional Grant faculty from noon-1:15 p.m. in Multipurpose Rooms A and B.

Margarita Lenk, associate professor of computer information systems in the business college of Colorado State University, will give a presentation on service learning at 1:30 p.m., followed by a breakout session at 2:45 p.m.

Lenk has been involved in service learning in accounting education with ties to community nonprofits. She was chairperson of the Active Learning Committee within the American Accounting Association and has been involved in creating partnerships among industry, professionals, nonprofits and higher education.

A repeat of the Instructional Grant session at 4 p.m. in Multipurpose Room C will conclude the General Education Institute.

For more information and to register online for the luncheons and sessions, go to [www.ugs.udel.edu/gened/gei2005/index.htm] or call Carothers at (302) 831-2027.

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