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Conference Info:
2016 Plenaries &
Keynotes
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Thursday Opening
Plenary,
8:30-9:30 AM
Fostering Access
and Equity
LeeAnne Godfrey,
Assistant
Professor, TESL,
Minnesota State
University,
Mankato
Heidi Farrah,
English Faculty,
North Hennepin
Community
College
Ben Kiely,
English Faculty,
North Hennepin
Community
College
Rhiana Yazzie,
Artistic
Director,
New
Native Theatre
Our MnWE Opening
Plenary speakers
approach the
conference theme
“Fostering
Access and
Equity” from
three different
perspectives.
LeeAnne Godfrey
of Mankato State
will look at
these matters
through an ESOL
lens. Heidi
Farrah and Ben
Kiely will
discuss North
Hennepin
Community
College’s
accelerated
Developmental
Composition
“Gateway”
curriculum. And
New Native
Theatre founder
and director
Rhiana Yazzie
will consider
theater as a way
to foster access
and equity.
Friday
Plenary,
8:30-9:30 AM
Students in the
Information Age:
Access,
Research, and
Persistence
Elizabethada
Wright,
Associate
Professor of
Writing Studies,
Univ. of
Minnesota-Duluth
Kim Pittman,
Reference and
Information
Literacy
Librarian, Univ.
of
Minnesota-Duluth
Samantha DeVilbiss, Prog.
Coord., Office
for Students in
Transition,
UM-Duluth
Tammy
Durant,
Assoc.
Prof.
and Chair,
Literature
and Language,
Metropolitan
State U.
Michelle Filkins,
Reference and
Instruction
Librarian,
Metropolitan
State University
Elizabethada
Wright, Kim
Pittman, and
Samantha
DeVilbiss will
discuss a
collaboration
between four
academics (a
university
librarian, a
supportive
services
instructor, a
writing program
administrator,
and an
administrator
from the Office
of Students in
Transition)
working
together on the
project
"Assessment in
Action: Academic
Libraries and
Student
Success." Their
project looks at
how well student
persist in their
research
attempts
throughout the
research
process.
Michelle Filkins and
Tammy
Durant will
discuss
Metropolitan
State
University's
academic
integrity policy
(which won the
International
Center for
Academic
Integrity's
2015 Campus
of Integrity
Award) in
the broader
theoretical
context of
information
framing: how are
incidental/accidental
information
training
students drilled
in daily and the
changing
strategies
teachers
must deploy in
the Information
Age to ensure
students gain
equal access.
Thursday Keynote:
Dr. Donald Ross, University of Minnesota
and Dr. Taiyon Coleman,
Minneapolis Community
and Technical College
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Friday Keynote:
Dr.
Wang
Ping,
Multi-Award
Winning Poet,
Fiction
Writer,
Essayist, and
Cultural
Organizer
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Thursday Lunch
Academic Keynote by
Dr. Donald Ross, English and Writing Studies Departments, University of
Minnesota-Twin Cities,
and
Dr. Taiyon Coleman,
English Department, Minneapolis Community and
Technical College
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"Dilemmas
in Teaching Literature"
We will use a workshop format to explore
some of the possibilities for teaching literature to our students.
How do we
balance teaching
a few texts in
depth and
surveying a
canon (however
defined)? Might
we focus on what
motivates
characters,
e.g., religion,
economics,
social justice,
and sex?
What attention
should we pay to
the gender,
economic status,
and race of
authors and
characters?
Should students
be encouraged to
read for
cultural
critique,
personal
improvement,
ethics and
values?
What motivates
students to read
(at all,
carefully), to
discuss what
they have read
in class, to
write about it?
Does that depend
on students’
identifying with
characters,
plots, and
settings?
Given that
reading skills
and practices,
cultural and
literary
backgrounds, and
interests vary
enormously, how
might we adjust
our teaching for
the class or for
individual
students?
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Donald Ross
is Professor of English and Writing Studies at the University of
Minnesota-Twin Cities and co-founder of MnWE. At UMN, he has taught
literature since the 1970s. His courses have included freshman
seminars, the American survey since the Puritans, poetry, short story,
and graduate seminars in writing in the 1850s. He is now a professor
of Writing Studies where the emphasis on reading, mostly nonfiction,
is in support of student writing. He's published several
dozen scholarly articles. |
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Tai Coleman
is Professor of English at
Minneapolis Community and Technical College. She has an MA from Iowa
State University, and an MFA and PhD from the University of Minnesota. She
is a well-published, award-winning poet and essayist; the recent state
Chair of the MnSCU committee for new directions in developmental
English courses; and a campus, state, and national leader in greater
equity and access. At the 2015 CCCC, she presented on "the Risky
Business of Engaging Racial Equity in Writing Instruction." |
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Friday Lunch
Academic Keynote by
Dr. Wang
Ping, Multi-Award Winning Poet, Fiction Author, and Essayist
"A Life of
Miracles along the Yangtze and Mississippi"
Thirty
years ago, I
left Shanghai
and came to the
USA with $26 in
my pocket and a
dream for a new
life. I didn’t
know exactly
what I was
seeking. Sure, I
was going to get
my PhD, but that
wouldn’t be
enough. I also
knew it would be
hard to earn,
considering I
had no friend or
relative or
money in
America. All I
knew was I’d
outgrown my old
home, and I
needed to find a
new one. So on
the night when
the Mets won the
World Series,
and Flushing
went wild with
celebration, I
arrived at JFK
and started my
journey along
the Hudson, and
later the
Mississippi.
This is a story
of immigration
and diaspora in
modern
globalization, a
story of
reaching for
dreams and
living a life as
if everything
was a miracle.
There are 30
million people
crossing borders
every day; 15
million are
children seeking
a new life, a
better life, at
any cost. Their
story is mine,
and mine is part
of their
story--our
story, because
the same story
has been told by
our ancestors
for thousands of
years, and will
continue to be
told as long as
civilization
continues.
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Wang Ping is
the
author of more than ten books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Her
literary awards include an NEA Grant, Eugene Kayden Award for Best Book in
Humanities, Minnesota Book Award, and an Asian American Studies Award; awards from the New York
Foundation for the Arts, New York State Council of the Arts, and
Minnesota State Arts Board; and others. She also
has had fellowships from the Bush and McKnight Boards, the Lannan Foundation,
and the Vermont Studio Center.
Wang has a PhD in Comparative Literature from New
York University, and she is Professor of English at Macalester
College. As founder and director of—and chief paddler in residence of—her Kinship of Rivers project, and through
many solo multi-media exhibits, she has used the arts to connect
people with each other who live near the Mississippi and Yangte-ze
Rivers. |
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Dr. Donald Ross
and Dr. Taiyon Coleman
Dr. Donald Ross
More information:
Donald
Ross--University of Minnesota
Dr.
Taiyon Coleman
More information:
Taiyon Coleman—
Minneapolis Comm.
& Tech. College
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Dr. Wang Ping, above and below
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More information:
www.WangPing.com
Wikipedia--Wang
Ping
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