2006 Event Details

 

AAC&U Shaping Faculty Roles in a Time of Change
Faculty Work and the New Academy: Emerging Challenges and Evolving Roles
November 9–11, 2006
Chicago, Illinois

Director of Inquiries, Charles Blaich, will facilitate at two sessions:

Friday, November 10, 2006
1:45 – 2:45 p.m.

The Faculty Role in Value-Added Assessment (PDF)

In this seminar, a dean, a faculty member, an institutional researcher, and two leading researchers studying liberal education will lead a conversation about how to fruitfully engage faculty in the improvement of teaching and learning. They will report on recent work on a Teagle-funded initiative to engage faculty in value-added assessment. Participants will learn how to develop models for establishing useful collaborations among faculty, institutional researchers, and senior administrators with a special emphasis on approaches that replace the ubiquitous but mistaken tack of seeking faculty "buy-in" for assessment with a collaborative approach that grounds assessment more directly in faculty culture and interests.

Steven Weisler, Dean of Academic Development, Hampshire College; Charlie Blaich, Director, Center of Inquiry in the Liberal Arts, Wabash College; Carol Trosset, Director of Institutional Research, Hampshire College; Scott VanderStoep, Associate Professor of Psychology, Hope College; and Greg Wolniak, Research and Policy Analyst, Human Capital Research Corporation

Saturday, November 11, 2006
12:45 – 1:45 p.m.

Can Faculty Teach 'The Good Life?

The principle of free inquiry defines the academy. Session facilitators will raise two questions using this principle: 1) how do colleges that have a distinctive and often religious perspective of the "good life" honor free intellectual inquiry; and 2) are there especially effective strategies for faculty who wish to teach "the good life"? The session includes findings from church-related and secular colleges and the audience will reflect on barriers, challenges, and successes in teaching "the good life".

Larry A. Braskamp, Professor Emeritus of Loyola University Chicago; Charles Blaich, Director of Inquiries, Center of Inquiry in the Liberal Arts at Wabash College; and Lois Calian Trautvetter, Assistant Professor, Northwestern University

Visit the conference website for more information.

 

National Postsecondary Education Cooperative (NPEC): 2006 National Symposium on Student Success
November 1–3, 2006
Washington, DC

Director of Inquiries, Charles Blaich, will speak at the following two sessions:

Plenary Session V
Thursday, November 2, 2006
1:30 p.m.

What are We Doing to Foster Student Success?

Leaders of national student success initiatives will describe the work that their organizations are doing and the results of these efforts.

Moderator: Cecilia Lopez, Vice President, Academic and Student Affairs, Harold Washington College

Panel: Charles Blaich, Director of Inquiries, Center for Inquiry in the Liberal Arts at Wabash College; Thomas Brock, Director, Young Adults and Postsecondary Education, MDRC; Ann Coles, Senior Vice President, College Access and Director, Pathways to College Network, The Education Resources Institute (TERI); Arnold Kee, Managing Director for Programs, Institute for Higher Education (IHEP).

Breakout Session C7
Thursday, November 2, 2006
3:00 p.m.

Success in the Liberal Arts and Liberal Education

Presenters: Charles Blaich, Director of Inquiries, Center of Inquiry in the Liberal Arts at Wabash College and Ross Miller, Director of Programs, Office of Quality, Curriculum, and Assessment, Association of American Colleges and Universities

Moderator: Mark Putnam, Chief Planning Officer, Office of University Planning and Research, Northeastern University

For more information about the Symposium on Student Success, see the conference program.

 

Summer Film Series
June 7 & 20, 2006

Wednesday, June 7 - Richard Gunderman

Kenneth Branagh's Henry V (1989)

4:00 PM     Discussion about careers in the health professions (Trippet 325)
5:00 PM     Picnic (Hays arboretum)
6:00 PM     Film (Hays 104, Class of 1951 Lecture Hall)
8:00 PM     Dessert & Discussion

Tuesday, June 20 - John Roberts

The Doctor, starring William Hurt (1991)

5:00 PM     Picnic (Hays arboretum)
6:00 PM     Film (Hays 104, Class of 1951 Lecture Hall)
8:00 PM     Dessert & Discussion

 

AERA 2006 Annual Meeting
April 7–11, 2006

Center of Inquiry Presentation: Student Development of Moral Reasoning, Intercultural Effectiveness, and Leadership: Three Research Perspectives

Center of Inquiry researchers, Cherry Danielson and Debra S. Gentry will present this topic at the AERA conference, along with Tricia Seifert (University of Iowa), Nathan Lindsay (University of Michigan), and Marcia Baxter-Magolda (Miami University).

Scheduled Time: Mon, Apr 10 - 2:15pm - 3:45pm  
Building/Room: Moscone Center South / Mezzanine Level West, Room 276

Conference Abstract:

In order to understand how student experiences, teaching practices, programs, and institutional structures support liberal arts education outcomes, researchers from the Center of Inquiry in the Liberal Arts, the Universities of Iowa and Michigan, and Miami University of Ohio, developed a study of four institutions to investigate critical factors that may lead to the development of liberal arts education outcomes. These outcomes include leadership, moral reasoning and intercultural effectiveness. Using a comprehensive, mixed-method design, this research was designed to help colleges and universities improve student learning, enhance programming, and effectively lead students toward the development of liberal arts education outcomes.

See presentation slides>> (PDF)

 

AAC&U Network for Academic Renewal Conference: General Education and Outcomes That Matter in a Changing World
March 9–11

The following are Center of Inquiry presentations from the March 10th plenary session, "Critical Factors Affecting the Outcomes of General Education:"