http://www.fredonia.edu/pdc/pdf/A&Hbrownbag09.pdf
Getting ready for your re-appointment, tenure and/or promotion review and you need advice on putting together your portfolio? This session features a panel of faculty members who are at various stages in their careers and from various academic departments. They will share their personal experiences and demonstrate how they are able to present their academic work in an organized portfolio. New and veteran faculty are invited to attend.
DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE
“TOWARDS A EUROPEAN ‘BEST PRACTICE’ FOR HIGH SKILLED MIGRATION?”
Appreciative Inquiry is an approach to planning and positive change that has been used successfully in colleges, communities and organizations all around the world. It is broad-based, highly participative, and energizing. It builds new skills in faculty and staff, develops new leaders, encourages a culture of inquiry, and helps create shared vision and purpose for your college by building on your core values and strengths. Perhaps most importantly-it leads to action, commitment, and results.
Designed For:
College presidents, executive teams, planning committees, and Ai Consultants who work with colleges and other public agencies.
Learning Outcomes:
Developing Your College's Next Strategic Plan with Appreciative Inquiry will provide college executives, executive teams, and planning committees an overview of how Appreciative Inquiry works and answer key questions.
How is Appreciative Inquiry different from other planning processes?
What resources does planning with Appreciative Inquiry require?
Who gets involved and how?
How long does it take?
What is an Appreciative Inquiry "Summit" and how does my college host one?
What does a strategic plan developed through Appreciative Inquiry look like?
Outline:
How is Appreciative Inquiry different from other planning processes?
Strengths-Based vs. Deficit-Based
The Wholeness Principle
Broad directions vs. Narrow objectives
The role of data
2. Elements of an Appreciative Inquiry Strategic Planning process
Get Ready
Creating a Core Team
Introducing Ai to college community
Get Set!
Pre-Summit Community Interviews
The Appreciative Inquiry Summit
Writing the Strategic Plan
Go!
Implementing the Plan
Building an Appreciative Culture
“Turkey: East meets West”
Come learn about the exciting adventure SUNY Fredonia students took to Turkey to learn about the rich culture where two continents come together. Come explore with us the cities of Istanbul and Izmir. See how this unique culture bridges the west and the east, Europe and Asia; Greco-Roman and the Ottoman mosques and churches.
Wednesday, November 4th from 12:00-1:00 in Reed Library’s Temporary Classroom (1st Floor, Reed Library, Carnahan Jackson Center for Scholarship and Teaching)
Zotero is a free Firefox extension designed to help you collect, manage, cite and share research sources, and is quickly becoming a standard research management tool in higher education for both students and faculty. By the end of this hands-on workshop, you should be able to:
• Set up, add items, and manage content in your Zotero Library
• Capture citation information from a variety of sources, including: websites, library databases, YouTube, Flickr, book catalogs and Google Books with just one click
• Sync your library, so it is accessible from multiple computers
• Create collaborative groups to manage student research projects, or to share research with colleagues
• Use Zotero’s citation features that interface with Microsoft Word in order to automatically generate bibliographies, as well as in-text citations and footnotes
For more information about Zotero, visit: http://www.zotero.org/
Presented by: Dawn Eckenrode, Reference and Instruction Librarian
“Get Connected, Peru”
Emily will discuss her experience as a volunteer and a backpacker in South America's most unique country, Peru. Learn how she came away from this experience feeling truly connected to the country and its people.