Spring Great Expectation Faculty Conference
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2023 Great Expectations Spring Faculty Conference: Education for Humanity
Academic Affairs
The 2023 Great Expectations Spring Faculty Conference featured a speech by keynote speaker, Tamara Bilous, Professor of English, Rivne State University, Ukraine.
Professor Tamara Bilous is Educator in Residence at Otterbein University for spring semester (2023). While affiliated with Otterbein, she has engaged in professional development opportunities in the areas of multicultural education and ESL instruction with support from Professor Diane Ross and Erin Johnson.
She joins Otterbein while continuing her teaching and research responsibilities as a Professor of English at Rivne State University of the Humanities, in Rivne, Ukraine. Dr. Bilous is fluent in English, Ukrainian, and Russian, and she is an expert in philology (linguistics). Her teaching and research interests are in intercultural communication, intercultural competence, teaching English as a foreign language (EFL), tolerance and intercultural dialogue, and values in education. Her PhD thesis was completed in 2004 and was titled: Upbringing Tolerance in the Students of Higher Educational Establishments in the Process of Learning English.
After the speech, various groups and departments set goals for programs like Integrative Studies, FYE/SYE, and the Honors Program. A panel discussing the upcoming Common Book, Call Me American, a Memoir by Abdi Nor Iftin, closed out the day.
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2022 Great Expectations Spring Faculty Conference
Academic Affairs
The 2022 Great Expectations Spring Faculty Conference featured a talk about renewal in file drawers facilitated by Alison Prindle (Professor Emerita of English, INST Chair 1987-1994) and Beth Daugherty (Professor Emerita of English, INST Chair 1994-2000).
After the talk, various groups and departments offered programs that talked about the experiences of the groups, the use of Open Education Resources, and integrating ecological knowledge into the curriculum. The day finished out with a discussion of the 2022-2023 common book, What The Eyes Don't See by Mona Hanna-Attisha.
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2021 Great Expectations Spring Faculty Conference: Learning and Growing Together
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The 2021 Great Expectations Spring Faculty Conference featured several different breakout sessions hosted by various members of the Otterbein community including ones about inclusive leadership, supporting undergraduate research, DS accommodations, plagiarism, INST 300, and being uncomfortable.
The finished out with an all-group session and fellowship at the Otterbein Community Garden.
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2019 Great Expectations Spring Faculty Conference: Seeing the "Us" in General Education
Academic Affairs
The 2019 Great Expectations Spring Faculty Conference featured a keynote speech by Suzanne Tapp. Suzanne Tapp is the Executive Director of the Teaching, Learning, and Professional Development Center and an adjunct faculty member in the Integrated Studies Program at Texas Tech University. Suzanne is a former Board of Directors member for the Professional and Organizational Development Network for Higher Education (POD) and founding chair of the Texas Faculty Development Network. She is the co-editor of the new book, “Transparent Design in Higher Education Teaching and Learning.” Her research interests include organizational change, inclusive teaching practices, ePortfolio development, and digital storytelling. She will gladly engage in almost any conversation about her favorite hobby: running.
Before the keynote speech, Andrew Mills (INST Program Director, Religion & Philosophy) gave a talk reporting on what students reported learning in their integrative studies classes.
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2018 Great Expectations Spring Faculty Conference: Otterbein University and the Public Good
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The 2018 Great Expectations Spring Faculty Conference featured a talk by John C. Burkhardt, drawing on his work to talk about how faculties can be more inspired and effective.
John C. Burkhardt is a professor of clinical practice in the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education at the University of Michigan. He was the founding director and currently leads the National Forum on Higher Education for the Public Good, which was established in 2000 to better understand and influence the changing role of higher education within a diverse, dynamic, democratic society. For three years, 2013-2016, John directed the National Center for Institutional Diversity. He served for eight years as a program director for the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, was the vice-president for administration and planning at the University of Detroit and Mercy College during the five years of their merger, had roles in the Detroit Public Schools, at Eastern Michigan University and Saginaw Valley State University. He serves on several non-profit and community boards including nine years as chair of the St. Joseph Mercy Hospital System, the Robert K. Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership, and is currently president of the Alliance of Leadership Fellows, an international group committed to expanding opportunities for leadership in communities and institutions across the world.
In 2017, John published two books one focused on the changing meanings associated with diversity in higher education, and a second that examines intersections between scholarship and practice related to advancing the public good in U.S. society. In 2017 he was chosen by COURSERA to develop a massive, open on-line course entitled "Leadership for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion". To this point, thousands of individual participants have interacted with one another around the themes of this course.
After the talk, breakout sessions were lead by various departments and groups. The day ended with a group poster session and social hour.
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2017 Great Expectations Spring Faculty Conference: Discovering the Life-Long Benefits of General Education
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The 2017 Great Expectations Spring Faculty Conference feature a keynote speech by Dr. Richard Detweiler.
Rick. Detweiler is the president of the Great Lakes Colleges Association and the founder of the Global Liberal Arts Alliance, a coalition of 29 universities from 16 countries working to strengthen education in the tradition of the liberal arts and sciences.
His formative professional experience was time as a Peace Corps Volunteer on a small Pacific island, which led him to study social and intercultural psychology at Princeton University where he earned his MA and PhD. He began a faculty career at Drew University where he taught courses in social psychology, research methods, and intercultural relations for 19 years. An advocate for university planning and innovation he also accepted various administrative responsibilities which eventually led him to become president and professor of psychology at Hartwick College in New York. Prior to coming to the GLCA he also held positions as Distinguished Fellow and interim president of the Council on Library and Information Resources in Washington, DC. In addition, he holds an appointment as a foundation fellow at Oxford University’s Harris Manchester College.
He consults with colleges and universities on the development and implementation of educational strategies to fulfill liberal arts purposes, faculty leadership development, and strategic planning and priority setting processes. He is an active researcher and author in higher education, intercultural relations, and international education and speaks frequently on issues related to the future of higher education and the values and impact of the liberal arts and sciences. He was a founding dean of the Frye Leadership Institute at Emory University, the recipient of a Carnegie Mellon University/AMS Award for leadership in the innovative use of computer and communications technology, is on the board of trustees of Sterling College in Vermont, and has served as a board member of many higher education organizations. His research on the liberal arts and its long-term impact on personal, professional, and societal success and fulfillment is forthcoming as a book.
After the keynote speech, there were breakout sessions hosted by various groups and departments and the day ended with a social hour.
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2016 Great Expectations Spring Faculty Conference: Inclusive Teaching, Diverse Classrooms
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The 2016 Great Expectations Spring Faculty Conference featured a keynote speech by Dr. Lisa Guion Jones.
Dr. Lisa Guion Jones has nearly 23 years of experience in higher education. She currently serves as Professor and Assistant Dean in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at North Carolina State University. In this role, she provides strategic leadership to Goal 2 of the College’s Strategic Plan, to "exhibit an inclusive and diverse environment where faculty, staff and students can each reach their full potential."
As a transformational leader, Dr. Jones has initiated innovative programs that have increased the recruitment and retention of faculty, staff, and students.
After launching the College’s Diversity Council, Dr. Jones led in the development and implementation of the College’s first strategic plan for diversity. She also spearheaded the implementation of the plan. For example, she collaborated with department heads to offer the Dean’s Postdoctoral Fellowships which have resulted in a 50% increase in African-American postdocs. Over the past five years, African-American faculty in CALS increased by 67%. Additionally, she worked with Directors of Graduate Programs to implement the Deans Graduate Research Assistantship Program and other initiatives that increased the minority graduate student population by nearly 60% from 2009-2014. She worked with Undergraduate Coordinators to offer summer institutes for educators/guidance counselors, forge partnerships and agreements with STEM schools, and offer summer science programs for gifted minority middle school students as well as a summer research program for high school students. She will be receiving the 2016 Keeper of The Dream Award from the NC School of Science and Math (NCSSM), a residential STEM high school, in recognition of her program that provides summer and academic year research opportunities to their minority students which led to them receiving scholarships, awards in national competitions, and research poster presentations. NCSSM students in the program enroll into NCSU at significantly higher rates than their counterparts. She also worked with faculty to offer faculty development, mentoring, and networking activities to meet their needs. Dr. Jones developed the Template for Documenting the Scholarship of Engagement that is now part of the University’s official Tenure & Promotion (T&P) Guidelines; shared during faculty orientation, and T&P information sessions.
Dr. Jones revamped the College’s Freshman Transition Course curriculum to focus on academic enrichment, non-cognitive variables for student success, high-impact experiences, and other evidence-based student retention practices. An independent study examined four years of data revealing that students in the course had higher GPAs and retention rates than similar students who did not take the course. She also led a program for students from migrant farmworking backgrounds. Date reveals that the retention and graduation gap for those Latino students in the program is closed. These and other strategic efforts have resulted in Diverse Issues in Higher Education ranking NC State as 9th in the nation for graduating minority undergraduate students in agricultural disciplines in 2014 – a significant increase from being ranked 21st five years ago.
While successfully rising up through the professorial ranks at two top universities, Dr. Jones taught graduate and undergraduate core courses, chaired graduate student committees, and served as academic advisor for undergraduates. She coordinated international study tours for students, led undergraduate research projects, and mentored student scholars. She has secured nearly $5 million in external funding, of which over $1 million was for student scholarships. She has been engaged in fundraising activities with the College’s Development Office and is effective in donor relationship building and gift stewardship of the Bone Scholars Program. She also published 80+ refereed and peer-reviewed publications, wrote two book chapters and has received numerous awards including induction into the International Adult and Continuing Education Hall of Fame in recognition of outstanding scholarship in her discipline, the Epsilon Sigma Phi’s Visionary Leadership Award, and USDA National Award for Outstanding Collaboration Team. Most recently, she was accepted into the American Council on Education (ACE) Fellows Program for 2015-16. The ACE Fellows Program, established in 1965, is designed to strengthen institutions and leadership in higher education by preparing emerging leaders for senior positions in college/university administration.
After the keynote speech, faculty members went off to various breakout sessions hosted by different groups and departments. The day ended with a post session and social hour.
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2015 Great Expectations Spring Faculty Conference: General Education
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The 2015 Great Expectations Spring Faculty Conference features a keynote speech by Kathleen Blake Yancey. Kathleen Blake Yancey is Kellogg W. Hunt Professor of English and Distinguished Research Professor at Florida State University. A (past) president of several scholarly organizations--among them the National Council of Teachers of English and the Council of Writing Program Administrators (CWPA)--she co-founded and co-edited Assessing Writing for seven years, and she just stepped down from her five-year term as Editor of College Composition and Communication. She is the author of numerous articles, book chapters, and twelve books—including Portfolios in the Writing Classroom; Delivering College Composition: The Fifth Canon;Assessing Writing across the Curriculum; and Writing across Contexts: Composition, Transfer, and Sites of Writing. She has received several awards, including the 2013 Donald Murray Writing Prize; the 2009 CWPA Best Book Award; and the 2015 CCCC Research Impact Award.
After the keynote speech, breakout sessions on writing to learn strategies, the integration cafe, international travel courses, and inclusive teaching were held. The day ended with a happy hour.
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2014 Great Expectations Spring Faculty Conference: General Education
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The 2014 Great Expectations Spring Faculty Conference features a keynote speech by José Antonio Brown. José Antonio Bowen is the new incoming president at Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland. He currently is the Dean of the Meadows School of the Arts, Algur H. Meadows Chair and Professor of Music at Southern Methodist University. Bowen began his teaching career at Stanford University in 1982 as the Director of Jazz Ensembles. In 1994, he became the Founding Director of the Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music (C.H.A.R.M.) at the University of Southampton, England. He returned to America in 1999 as the first holder of the endowed Caestecker Chair of Music at Georgetown University where he created and directed the Department of Performing Arts. He was Dean of Fine Arts at Miami University, before moving to SMU in Dallas. He has written over 100 scholarly articles for many journals including the Journal of Musicology, The Journal of Musicological Research, Performance Practice Review, 19th-century Music, Notes, Music Theory Spectrum, the Journal of the Royal Musical Associations, Studi Musicali, the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians and in books from Oxford and Princeton University Presses. He is the editor of the Cambridge Companion to Conducting (Cambridge University Press, 2003) and received a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship. He contributed to Discover Jazz (Pearson, 2011) and is an editor (along with David Baker, Dan Morgenstern, John Hasse, and Alyn Shipton) of the 6-CD set, Jazz: The Smithsonian Anthology (2011). He has a TED talk on Beethoven as Bill Gates. Bowen has also been a pioneer in active learning and the use of technology in the classroom, including podcasts and online games, and has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, USA Today, US News and World Report, and on NPR for his book Teaching Naked: How Moving Technology out of your College Classroom will Improve Student Learning (Jossey-Bass, 2012). He is currently working on an online jazz history game. He has been honored by students and colleagues for his teaching at SMU, Miami and Georgetown and he received a Stanford Centennial Award for Undergraduate Teaching in 1990. In over 30 years as a jazz performer, he has appeared in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and the Americas with Stan Getz, Dizzy Gillespie, Bobby McFerrin, Dave Brubeck, Liberace, and many others. His compositions, conducting and playing are featured on numerous recordings and he currently performs with the jazz collective jampact. His latest CD, Uncrowded Night, features his playing with the José Bowen Quartet (also on iTunes.) He has written a symphony (which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Music in 1985), a film score, and music for Hubert Laws, Jerry Garcia and many others. His Jewish music (published by Transcontinental Music) is also widely performed and includes a Jazz Shabbat Service (with over 80 performances around the world). Other awards for his compositions include the Hubbell, Popular and Standard Awards (from ASCAP), the Louis Sudler Prize in the Arts, the Bell T. Richie Prize, and the Koret Israel Prize. He is on the Editorial Board for Jazz Research Journal, the Journal of the Society for American Music (Cambridge University Press), the Journal of Music History Pedagogy, and Per Musi: Revista Acadêmica de Música. He is also on the Advisory Board for The New Grove Dictionary of American Music (Oxford University Press) and is a Founding Board Member of the National Recording Preservation Board for the Library of Congress. In 1996, Bowen was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) in England. Bowen holds four degrees from Stanford University: a Bachelor of Science in chemistry, a Master of Arts in music composition, a Master of Arts in humanities and a joint Ph.D. in musicology and humanities. Stanford honored him as a Distinguished Alumni Scholar in 2010.
Breakout sessions were offered before the keynote speech and a response discussion was offered after the speech.
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2013 Great Expectations Spring Faculty Conference: General Education
Academic Affairs
The 2013 Great Expectations Spring Faculty Conference features a keynote speech by David A. Green. David A Green is Director of the Center for Faculty Development and affiliated faculty in International Studies at Seattle University, WA. Before becoming a faculty developer, David was chair of Languages and International Business at Birmingham City University (UK) and has taught at the graduate and undergraduate level in foreign language, literature, cross-cultural management, communication, and higher education. He publishes on academic identity and faculty perceptions of both student characteristics and the field of higher education pedagogy. David is co-editor of the International Journal for Academic Development and co-author (with Celia Popovic) of Understanding Undergraduates: Challenging Our Preconceptions of Student Success, published in the USA and UK by Routledge (2012).
After the keynote speech, breakout sessions and general updates were offered. The day ended with door prizes and happy hour.