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New Faculty Seminar: Fall Semester Syllabus There are many who seek knowledge for the sake of knowledge: that is curiosity. There are others who desire to know in order that they may themselves be known: that is vanity. Others seek knowledge in order to sell it: that is dishonorable. But there are some who seek knowledge in order to edify others: that is love.
Session 1: Past, Present, and a Precarious Future Guests: Sue Hammersmith and Ginny Arthur “A Riverboat Gambler’s Utopian Experiment,” Monte Bute “Vision, Mission & Core Values Statements” “Extraordinary Education at Metropolitan State University: Report on Spring 2012 Faculty Forums,” Ginny Arthur “College at Risk,” Andrew Delbanco
Session 2: IFO Contract and Criteria for Tenure and Promotion Guests: Nancy Black and Lawrence Moe “2011-13 IFO/MnSCU Contract” “How Far is Distance Learning from Education?” Hubert L. Dreyfus [Intriguing model of skill development that is quite applicable to Metro State faculty]
Session 3: Why We Teach Discussion Facilitators: Monte Bute and Tom O’Connell “Why We Teach: Scholastics, Partisans, Socratics, and Communitarians,” Tom O’Connell and Monte Bute (table) Exemplars of the Taxonomy “Tip to Professors: Just Do Your Job,” Stanley Fish “Toward a Revolutionary Feminist Pedagogy,” bell hooks “The Answer of Socrates,” Hannah Arendt “We Teach Who We Are,” Parker Palmer
Session 4: How We Teach—Nuts and Bolts Guests: Panel of Faculty · What do I do with 200 Minutes? The Interactive and Smart Classroom · Teaching Venues: Classroom, Online, Hybrid, Theory Seminar, Prior Competence · Syllabus Construction—applying Aristotle’s Poetics · Selecting Readings—Less is More · Assignments that Foster Higher Order Reading, Thinking, Writing, and Discussion · The Neglected Art and Craft of Honest and Constructive Evaluation “Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education,” Arthur W. Chickering and Zelda F. Gamson “Designing Education for Understanding,” Howard Gardner
“Embracing Contraries in the Teaching Process,” Peter Elbow
Session 5: Scholarship and Continued Preparation Guests: Panel of Faculty Scholarship Revisited, Ernest L. Boyer
Session 6: Student Growth and Development Guests: Doug Knowlton and Tadael Emiru “Qualities of a Liberally Educated Person,” William Cronon “Principles of Good Practice for Student Affairs” “’Engagement’ and the Unprepared,” Doug Lederman “A Letter to a Student of a Certain Class,” Monte Bute
Session 7: Service to the University and Community Guests: Panel of Faculty “Revising Faculty Service Roles—Is ‘Faculty Service’ a Victim of the Middle Child Syndrome?” Gayle A. Brazeau
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