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Year Events
1991-92 Teaching Tips
Media Technology
The Teacher:  Friend or Foe
Computers in the Classroom:  Two Examples
1992-93 Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Classroom
How to Cut Paper Grading Time and Provide More Useful Feedback
Classroom Teaching and Ethnic Minorities
Decentering the Classroom
1993-94 Innovative Teaching in Various Settings:  Large Classes, Labs, Science Courses and Using Slides
Increasing Demands on Students:  Problems and Solutions
Using Computers in Courses:  Using Email to Enhance Class Discussion, How the Network Has Improved My Teaching and Planning for Electronic Learning
Culture Shock:  First Year Teachers Discussing Union Student and Faculty Culture
1994-95  
1995-96  
1996-97  
1997-98

How Are You Motivating Your Students:  Fear of Failure or Love of Knowledge?
Assessing Student Workload
Addressing Negativity in the Classroom
Interdisciplinary Discourse
To Electrify or Not to Electrify:  Electronic Resources for Your Classroom
Anxiety about the Classroom
Authority in the Classroom

1998-99

Why Students Need Faculty Advice
Does Group Work Work?
Nurturing:  Is There Such a Thing as too Much?
Numb to Criticism
Initiating Discussion in the Classroom:  The Courage to be Controversial
How I Keep Myself Energized
Fulbright Fellows: Teaching From An International Perspective
Using Technology to Facilitate Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning

1999-00

Setting Expectations for 'Gen Ed' Science Courses
Setting Expectations for the Major
Setting Expectations for First Year Students
"Restored/With Good Advice and Little Medicine." (Shakespeare, 2.Henry IV) or Advising Senior Projects
When I Survey the Wondrous… : How Do Religion and the Classroom Mix?
Culture Shock
Teaching Abroad: Images to Feed the Mind
Order or Disorder?

2000-01

Setting Expectations: How Does Plagiarism Affect Our Teaching?
Setting Expectations for Effective Student Presentations
Writing to Learn and Learning to Write Workshops
Advising Guidelines for Future Professors Program

2001-02 Making the Most of College
Re-Orientation of New Faculty
Preceptorial, Past and Present
2002-03  
2003-04 Writing Across the Curriculum:  Is It Meeting Its Goals?
Is It OK that "A" Is the Most Common Grade at Union?
Classroom Manners:  What Is Acceptable?
Use of Authority in the Classroom
2004-05  
2005-06 Grading Policies
2006-07 Advising at Union:  How Can We All Do It Better?  (Read the report from the Ad Hoc Committee on Advising)
Discussion of Sophomore Research Seminars
The Numbers Game:  (De)Constructing Course Evaluations
Should Union Have An Honor Code?
Teaching Sensitive Subjects

Thanks to Ashraf Ghaly for 1998-2001 content!