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ATTN: Department Chairs and Program Coordinators Department Chairs and Program Coordinators are invited to an informal discussion with Keynote Speaker Dan Weintraub in the Gabrielino Room of the TSU.
Focus on Creative ActivityWalking Tour of Campus Sculptures :
Focus on TeachingEthics in the Classroom
Plagiarism Detection with Turnitin.com: Patrick Crispen Room: Pollack Library South 44F Time: 10:30 - 11:00 Description: This year, Turnitin will be integrated with Blackboard, making it easier than ever to use this valuable teaching tool. Turnitin detects plagiarism by comparing your students' papers with a data base containing millions of documents. Learn how to use this valuable tool.
Focus on Science
Tour of the W.M. Keck Foundation Center for Molecular Structure Room: McCarthy Hall basement (look for the yellow XRAYS near the west elevator) Time: 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Description: The W.M. Keck Foundation Center for Molecular Structure ( CMolS ) is the first comprehensive x-ray crystallographic and computational facility located at a predominantly undergraduate institution. CMolS is truly a ' collaboratory ', where faculty and student investigators across the nation are brought together via Internet to access necessary technology and methodology for determination and critical analysis of molecular structure. Chemist Katherine Kantardjieff will conduct a tour of the CMolS .
Learn How Your Golf Cart Navigates Room: Humanities 422 (Geographic Learning Center ) Time: 10:00 - 10:30 & 11:00 - 11:30 . Description: Geographer John Carroll will demonstrate how GIS works and how it can be used in both teaching and research.
Focus on Technology Skills for Teaching and Learning
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Creating Websites: Julian Laverde & Patrick Crispen Room: Pollack Library South 44F Time: 11:00 - 11:45 Description: Have you created your own home page yet? Learn how you can host it on our Faculty Development Server and take advantage of the Macromedia and FrontPage workshops. |
Integrating Blackboard with library resources: Sean Pollack and Susan Tschaubrun
Room: Pollak Library 130
Time: 10:00 - 10:45
Description: Blackboard, the learning management system, helps instructors organize course content well. Learn how to introduce library materials into the system to help students negotiate resources more effectively.
Overview of the faculty and student portals: Amir Dabirian Room: Pollack Library 130 Time: 11:00 - 11:45 Description: Changes to the portal mean that students can now enroll in Blackboard using their student portals, and faculty can communicate with students even before classes begin. Learn how! |
Smart Classroom Training: Gloria Diaz
Room: University Hall 339
Time: 11:00 - 12:00
Description: This is the training you must take before you get a key to the computer closet in your classroom. If you haven't already taken this training, now is the time!
Creating your data base profile: Erika Blossom, Office of Grants & Contracts Room: Hetebrink AB Time: 10:00 - 10:50 Description: Erika Blossom from the Office of Grants and Contracts will help you enter your information into our data base that matches you up with potential funding agencies and show you how to use the data base. |
Longitudinal Studies at CSUF
Room: Tuffree AB
Time: 10:00 - 10:50
Description: A panel discussion involving CSUF researchers who have been engaged in longitudinal studies, including Dr. Jessie Jones, Kinesiology, Jaki Coffman and Diana Guerin, Child & Adolescent Studies.
Poster Session Showcasing Faculty Research and Creative Activity Room: TSU Atrium Time: 8:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. Description: Dr. Rhonda Allen, Director of the Faculty Development Center , will host this session. |
Public Affairs
Room : TSU Alvarado AB
Time : 10:00 - 10:50
Description: Paula Selleck , Public Affairs: Faculty Members as Newsmakers, Public Affairs as a Resource. Paula Selleck , News Director of Public Affairs, will explain how University public relations publicizes faculty activities and how faculty members can use their expertise to assist in community building.
Gianneschi Center for Nonprofit Research Room: Hetebrink AB Time: 11:00 to 11:50 Description: Kathleen Costello, Director of the Center, will demonstrate the Center's new Website, which is compendium of campus programs and departments that relate to local nonprofits |
Lunch - TSU Pavilion AB
Time: Noon - 1:00
Luncheon speaker
Time: 1:00 - 2:00
Description: Dr. Yolanda Moses, Special Assistant to the Chancellor For Excellence and Diversity at the University of California , Riverside .
"Promoting Academic Excellence: The Faculty Role in Times of Change"
About the Keynote Speakers
Daniel Weintraub is the California columnist for the editorial pages of the Sacramento Bee, a position he has held since November, 2000. Weintraub has covered California government and politics since 1987. He was a Capitol correspondent with the Los Angeles Times for 8 years and Capitol Bureau Chief for the Orange County Register for six years before moving to The Bee. He has covered three California governors and has written extensively on state fiscal issues, education policy, health care and energy. Weintraub's column appears Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday in the Bee and focuses on politics, policy and public affairs -- and the points at which they meet. His online newsletter, the California Insider, offers items and insights about state politics and the Capitol and is distributed by SacBee.com. Weintraub is a native Californian who was born in San Diego and graduated with a degree in economics from San Diego State University .
Prior to joining UCR, Dr. Moses was President of the American Association for Higher Education, a Washington, D.C.-based higher education membership association composed of faculty, administrators, and graduate students. AAHE has distinguished itself over the years in the areas of assessment, teaching and learning, scholarship broadly defined, faculty roles and rewards, service-learning, and, more recently, the scholarship of engagement and cultural diversity. Dr. Moses served as President of The City College of New York from 1993 to 1999. Dr. Moses came to CCNY from California State University - Dominguez Hills, where she was Vice President for Academic Affairs and Professor of Anthropology, a position she had held since 1988. From 1982 to 1988 she was Dean of the College of the Arts and Professor of Social Science (Anthropology) at California State Polytechnic University , Pomona . In 1995 Dr. Moses was elected President of the American Anthropological Association, the world's largest association of anthropologists, with over 11,000 members. She was the first African-American President in the AAA's 93-year history. |