Professional Development and Campus Engagement

 

Governance assignments:

• Agenda Committee  2001-2004
• Diversity DTF  2005-2007
• Academics Budget Council and College Budge Council 2002-2004

Other campus involvement

• Day of absence/Day of presence:  2003, 2005, 2007. 
• Orientation assistant in various capacities.  For example:

  -Often lead seminar for new parents.  -2007
  -Courage to Learn orientation activities for new students several years
  -Scholars program 2005- Introduction to seminar

• Gear up presentations:  2004 & 2005
• Several HCC advising fest events as SPBC representative

Emerging resource faculty

This is work I’d like to continue doing.  I get tremendous inspiration being around people who interrogate their teaching.  I have much to learn about how to effectively lead these kinds of workshops.  I need to make more time to actually dig into the research and inform myself about the philosophies, controversy and research behind the practices and questions I am interested in.  I plan to dive more deeply into this work next year in several ways.  See my self-reflection for the plan.   

• National Summer Institute on Learning Communities Resource Faculty 2003-2007.   Workshops led at this institute include: 

-          Aha! Metamoments – students identify catalysts to learning.
-          On Seminar   with Jim Harnish
-          Metamoments and Reflection with Audrey Sharp  (Seattle Central C.C.)
-          Brain based learning with Rita Smilkstein (Western Washington U.)

• “Going Meta:  Purposeful Pedagogy Across Contexts in LC’ a presentation given to the National Learning Communities Project Conference “Learning Communities and Reforming Undergraduate Education” 2004
  
• Resource faculty at several Washington Center Rainbow Lodge Retreats
  
• Evergreen summer institute facilitator:  Facilitating hot topics summer 2004 & 2005
  
• Led 2 day long workshops with Cynthia Kennedy at Antioch College, Ohio,  on learning communities and developing interdisciplinary programs.
  
• Led day long workshops at University of Montana-Western for faculty on engaging learning.

Completed: Ph.D. in Psychology, U.C. Berkeley, 2002.  Motivated to learn, interested in the topic, feeling skilful, or interested in the work:  what really matters?