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Audio Files from CAE
The Center for Academic Excellence invites you to download the following podcasts of events you may have missed: Carnegie Conversation - June 5, 2007Reproduction of copy written material without prior permission of the copyright owner, particularly in an educational setting, is an issue of concern for the academic community. This session addresses questions such as: What is copyright law? What does it protect? How long does it last? What is "fair use"? How do I find out who owns the copyright for a particular work? How do copyright laws apply to electronic resources? Is all copying by education institutions considered to be fair use? Panelelists include:
Carnegie Conversation - May 31, 2007Consensual Relationships and/or Sexual Harassment Between Faculty/Staff & Students The quality of the college experience is strongly affected by student-faculty interactions. Given the importance of these
Carnegie Conversation - May 17, 2007Seventh Annual Civic Engagement Awards “The World Is Concave” Featured Speaker: Peggy O'Brien, Ph.D., Senior Vice President for Education at The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and is also Chair of the Board of Trustees at Trinity University in Washington, DC, and Co-chair of AAC&U's National Leadership Council that produced the compelling new report, College Learning for the Global New Century. She will share a few down-to-earth remarks on what a superior college education really looks like, and the importance of social responsibility in that education and in life. In addition, she will prove that the world is concave. Carnegie Conversation - May 15, 2007Suicide is the second leading cause of death among college-age men and women (after auto accidents). What is the university's legal obligation to try to prevent student suicide? What are best practices for supporting our sometimes medically and mentally fragile student population? How much responsibility should the institution assume and how can we balance the need to support and care for our students, while also protecting ourselves and the institution from this emotionally charged legal conundrum? Panelists:
Carnegie Conversation - May 3, 2007Academic Dishonesty & Disruptions in the Classroom Inside the classroom, we agree and we disagree. Ideally, through discourse, new, better, and more complex understandings and ideologies emerge. Are there limits to how much controversy or disagreement should be tolerated in the classroom? When the discourse serves to chill or squelch thinking and sharing of perspectives, what is the role of the faculty member? When does the free exchange of ideas cross the line and become disruptive behavior? How should disruptive behavior in the classroom be defined? How can disruptive behavior be discouraged? How should faculty respond when classroom disruption occurs? What should an instructor do in the face of persistent disruption? When should the police be called? What confidentiality standards should be followed? Do students have First Amendment rights in the classroom? If so, what are the limits to those rights? What if a disruptive student claims the disruptive behavior is the result of a disability? Panelists:
Carnegie Conversation - April 25, 2007First Amendment Rights in Higher Education Featuring Lee Bird, Vice President of Student Affairs at Oklahoma State University and Mary Beth Mackin, Assistant Dean of Students at University of Wisconsin at Whitewater; co-authors of The First Amendment on Campus: A Handbook for College and University Administrators. What should university administrators and faculty do when the First Amendment seemingly conflicts with tightly held institutional values? Should administrators block, discourage, or attempt to adjudicate speech because it doesn’t agree with their belief systems or institutional mission statements? This session will provide a forum for participants to learn about and discuss strategies and issues related to helping students, faculty, and staff find the balance between constitutional freedoms and a community of respect. Dr. Bird and Dr. Mackin will lead off the session with an overview of the salient legal issues and then introduce the panel of PSU faculty and staff who will help the audience to apply the conceptual framework to our context at PSU. Panelists:
September 2006"Why Don't They Understand?" Understanding Learning to improve Teaching with John Tagg Are we teaching our students how to learn in deep and lasting ways? Professor Tagg will offer a look at a superficial approach to learning higher education institutions may be fostering as well as a reflective assessment of a deep approach waiting to be nurtured. September 2006Assessment for Learning with John Tagg How can we assess student learning in ways that help students learn? Does assessment just evaluate what students know, or can we use it to promote deeper, more resilient, more robust learning? In this session we will discuss some of the problems with much conventional assessment and ways that we can use assessment to make learning happen. |
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