Year

Events

Teaching Students to Write for Audiences Across The Curriculum.

Friday, April 19 during the Faculty Happy Hour from 4 to 6 in the Milano Lounge.
Moderator Stephen Schmidt (Economics), Mary Mar (Writing Center), Palmyra Catravas (Electrical & Computer Engineering) and Patricia Culbert (Theatre) will facilitate the discussion. They will address the issue of teaching students to vary their writing style according to the discipline and audience, they are writing for.  
Are we communicating this to them as well as we should? If not, how might we do it better? We'll also talk about the ways in which standards for writing vary across the curriculum, so that the faculty can be better equipped to guide students, and can better understand the writing standards for the different disciplines.

Are we, and our students, losing sight of intellectual life?

25 January: Faculty Happy Hour, 4-6, Milano Lounge
Please come at 4 to begin socializing, but we won't start our official conversation until about 4:30 so that
(if they desire) people can attend the open meeting Steve Leavitt is holding concerning campus culture. 

Suzie Benack: Busy-ness as Pathology
David Ogawa: Assessment, Failure, and the Myth of Productivity
Leo Zaibert: Preserving "Leisure" (the Greeks called it scholé) for Intellectual Life

Professor Jonathan Weaver, University of Detroit Mercy, Mechanical Engineering Department

The goal of this workshop is to broaden faculty awareness of creativity through several hands-on activities
and exposure to tools and techniques that can be applied in an academic setting.  These exercises induce
new perspectives on traditional classroom material and encourage students and faculty to be creative in
general.  The workshop is relevant to faculty across the curriculum.

Is Teaching Together Better? A Two-part Session on Interdisciplinary Teaching
What Are Critical Skills? What Is Critical Thinking?
Tips on Teaching: Your Questions Answered

2007-08

Education in Action: Service Learning at Union
Mini-Terms: Global, Innovative and Diverse?
Diversity in the Classroom 

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 

2005-06

Grading Policies 

2004-05

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

2001-02

Making the Most of College
Re-Orientation of New Faculty
Preceptorial, Past and Present

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 

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?

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 

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

1994-95

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 

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 

Teaching Tips
Media Technology
The Teacher:  Friend or Foe
Computers in the Classroom:  Two Examples