Release date: Oct. 15, 2002
Contact: Deb Hammacher, Associate Director, University Media Relations,
at 404-727-0644 or dhammac@emory.edu

Oxford College Conference Explores Scholarship of Teaching

Oxford College of Emory University will focus on excellence in teaching and enduring learning at a conference titled "Cross-Disciplinary Inquiries Into the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning" Friday, Nov. 1. Plenary addresses will be given by Randy Bass of Georgetown University and Daniel Bernstein of the University of Kansas. Both are Carnegie scholars, awarded grants for innovative scholarship in education by the non-profit Carnegie Corporation.

The conference will highlight successful scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) projects by Carnegie scholars and Oxford College faculty, staff and students. Bass will give the opening plenary address; Carnegie scholars and Oxford faculty will give panel presentations; Oxford faculty, staff and students will give poster presentations; and Bernstein will give the closing plenary address.

Oxford College, on the site of Emory's original campus in Oxford, Ga., was founded in 1836. A two-year, undergraduate college within the university, Oxford enrolls approximately 600 students who spend their first two years of college in a small, teaching-centered liberal arts environment. Students successfully fulfilling the necessary requirements may then complete a bachelor's degree at Emory's Atlanta campus.

Registration is $25 for students with i.d. and $55 for all others. For more details or to register on-line, go to www.oxford.emory.edu/SoTL2002/, send e-mail to SoTl2002@learnlink.emory.edu, or call Jennifer Danforth at 770-784-4715

The complete schedule is as follows:

8-9 a.m Continental breakfast, registration, poster sessions

9-10:30 Welcome, opening plenary address:
• Randy Bass, Carnegie scholar, professor of English, and executive director of the Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship at Georgetown University: "Evidence of the Journey: Six Years in Search of a Scholarship of Teaching"

10:45-Noon Concurrent panel sessions
Panel 1:
• Curtis Bennett, associate professor of mathematics at Loyola Marymount University: "A Course Portfolio as a Window on Student Learning and an Entry to Future Research"
• Colleen Tremonte, associate professor of writing and American culture, James Madison College-Michigan State University: "Window Shopping: Negotiating Cross-Disciplinary Inquiry in SoTL"
• Arlene Wilner, professor of English at Rider University: "Assignment Design and Critical Thinking in Freshman Writing Courses"
Panel 2:• Mona Phillips, professor of sociology and anthropology at Spelman College: "The Surprises of SoTL: The Dismantling of a Social Theory Classroom"
• Mariolina Slavatori, associate professor of English, University of Pittsburgh: "The Play of Difficulty"
• Gerald Shenk, associate professor of social history at California State University-Monterey Bay: "Ethical Problems in Studying the Effects of Diversity in a Multicultural History Classroom"

12:15-1:30 Lunch/discussions

1:45-2:45 Panel 3:
• Jane Aiken, professor of law at Washington University: "Teaching Justice Across the Curriculum"
• Hessel Bouma, professor of biology at Calvin College: "Small Group Discussions on Issues in Biomedical Ethics to Promote Intellectual and Moral Development in Science Courses"
• Robert Corrada, associate professor of law at the University of Denver: "Living Labor Law"

3-4:45 Closing plenary:
• Daniel Bernstein, Carnegie scholar, director of the Center for Teaching Excellence, and professor of psychology at the University of Kansas: "Representing Teaching: The Intellectual Work Behind the Performance"

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