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Keynotes 2009: Bodmer
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"The Changing Boundaries of Higher Education in English Studies"
by Paul Bodmer, National Council of
Teachers of English
(retired)
Friday, April 3, 10:00-11:30 am
Paul Bodmer will discuss how the traditional definitions of
the preparation and role of the student, the working environment of the
faculty, and the learning of essential knowledge are changing. This
redefinition requires us to re-think the boundaries that define the roles
of the student and teacher and the methodologies of institutional
delivery. Bodmer will frame those changing boundaries against the
backdrop of national policies and initiatives that will impact the
long-term work we do.
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Paul
Bodmer spent most of his career as Associate Professor of English at
Bismarck State College. A career-long member in TYCA Midwest, he
served as chair of the National Two-Year College Council of NCTE when
that organization transitioned into National TYCA of NCTE. In January
of 2000, he joined the staff of NCTE in Urbana, Illinois as the
Associate Executive Director for Higher Education. In 2005 NCTE
opened its Washington, DC office of NCTE, and Bodmer was on the team
that established the office. He retired from NCTE on June 30, 2008.
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"How We Talk About and Do Assessment Changes Everything” by
Lynda Milne, Minnesota State Colleges and Universities System Director for
Faculty Development
and Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning.
Saturday, April 4, 10:30-11:30 am
Lynda Milne will use former MLA President Gerald Graff's
2008 essay "Assessment Changes Everything" – NCTE adaptation at
www.insidehighered.com/views/2008/02/21/graff
and original MLA essay at
www.mla.org/blog&topic=121
– as a starting point to examine how we talk about and currently do
learning outcomes assessment,
with the purpose of encouraging us to appropriate the word
"assessment."
Today it seems to belong to the exclusive lexicon of administrators, but
the reality that it represents—of planning, guiding, observing, and
evaluating student learning—belongs entirely to faculty. Assessment is not
a procedure as much as a scholarly activity in which faculty are always
engaged.
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Lynda Milne is the Minnesota
State Colleges and Universities (MnSCU) System Director for Faculty
Development and Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning. At
Wayne State University in Detroit, she founded and directed a
teaching, learning, and technology center serving 2700 faculty. Prior
to that, at the University of Michigan, she founded a student
multimedia learning center in the natural sciences. In the early days
of the Internet at AT&T in Oakland, CA, she was regional director of
UNIX application training services. She has a bachelor's degree in
English with Distinction from UC-Berkeley, and a master's and PhD from
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Paul Bodmer
Dr. Lynda Milne
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