New Faculty Re-Orientation Workshops
*Every Tuesday from 8am - 9am in the Reed Library Tower Lounge (4th Floor)
Continental breakfast will be served
September 9 - "Veteran's Day - Candid Discussions with the Class of 2007"
September 16 - "There's More to College than Classes: Helping Students in Crisis" with Liza Smith, the Learning Center & Sally Turner, Counseling Center
September 23 - 2nd Annual Teaching and Learning Conference, Williams Center, 9am to 3pm
September 30 - "Reappointment, Promotion, Continuing Appointment: What YOU Need to Know" with Vice President, Ginny Horvath, and Deans, Dave Ewing, Chris Givner, and John Kijinski
October 7 - "Show Me The Money: Finding Funding & Writing Successful Grants" with Maggie Bryan-Peterson, Office of Sponsored Programs
October 14 - "Creating Meaningful Library Assignments" with Kerrie Fergen Wilkes & Dawn Eckenrode, Reed Library, Reference & Instruction ** location for this workshop is the "temporary" Library classroom/1st floor Reed Library
Fed up with references to Wikipedia popping up in your students’ bibliographies? Tired of reading papers that fail to go beyond the first ten hits on Google in their depth of research? Our instruction librarians are here to help. Interested? Then consider attending the “Developing Meaningful Library Assignments” reorientation workshop, where we share information the variety of support services our Instruction Librarians provide for faculty, including:
· Assistance with designing research assignments that make the most of what Reed Library has to offer.
· Library Instruction sessions—we use a variety of active learning strategies to teach your students concepts such as: avoiding plagiarism, source evaluation, search techniques, and more. These hands-on workshops are tailored to your course and research needs of your students.
· The creation of assignment-specific and course-specific resource guides and tutorials for your students.
October 21 - "It's Registration Time: The Nuts and Bolts of Effective Advising" with Joanne Martonis & Stephanie Wares, Academic Advising Center