2017-2018 Programs and Events

Featured Events |  For New Faculty  |  Department Chairs/Program Directors 

Workshops and Faculty Development

 

Workshops and Faculty Development Opportunities

August   |  September  |  October   |  November   |  December/January

August

Summer "Writing/Scholarship/Get Work Done" group
Date: August 2017, Tuesdays
Time: Noon
Location: Scribner Library, Weller Room (212)

 

September

CAPT workshop with Dr. Linda Tropp (closed event)
Date: September 12, 2017

Where Do We Fit In? How Whites Respond to Growing Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the United States
Lecture with Dr. Linda Tropp
Date: September 12, 2017
Time: 7–8 p.m.
Location: Davis Auditorium

As the United States becomes a more racially and ethnically diverse society than ever before, white people are beginning to ask new questions regarding their role and status in American society. In this presentation, Tropp will summarize emerging perspectives and research from social psychology to illustrate the constellation of ways in which white people might perceive and experience living in an increasingly diverse society, ranging from gaining awareness of racial difference, to experiencing concerns about exclusion, to enhancing their commitment to racial justice.

Linda Tropp
Linda R. Tropp PhD is professor of social psychology in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. For more than two decades she has studied how members of different groups experience contact with each other and how group differences in status affect cross-group relations. She has worked with national organizations on court cases relevant to racial integration, on national initiatives to improve interracial relations in schools, and with nongovernmental organizations to evaluate applied programs designed to reduce racial conflict. A fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Society of Experimental Social Psychology, Tropp has received distinguished research and teaching awards from the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues and the International Society of Political Psychology. Tropp is coauthor of When Groups Meet: The Dynamics of Intergroup Contact (2011) and editor of several books, including Moving Beyond Prejudice Reduction: Pathways to Positive Intergroup Relations (2011) and Making Research Matter: A Psychologist’s Guide to Public Engagement (forthcoming).

Lunch with Associate Professors (Maria Lander and Kristie Ford)
Date: September 15, 2017
Time: 12–1:30 p.m.
Location: Scribner Library, Weller Room (212)

Teaching in a Time of Turmoil (Kristie Ford and Grace Burton)
Date: September 18, 2017
Time: 3–4:30 p.m.
Location: Scribner Library, Weller Room (212)

ELL at Skidmore
Date: September 19, 2017
Time: 12:45–1:45 p.m.
Location: Bolton 101

Come to learn more ELL at a small liberal arts school, including our unique student profile, special challenges and limitations, support options available, and some very basic guidelines for getting the most from your work with ELL's. 

Turnitin plagiarism detection training (webinar)
Date: September 20, 2017
Time: 9–11 a.m.

In response to your requests for a more effective plagiarism detection tool, the Academic Technologies office has purchased an institutional license for Turnitin. As SafeAssign is built-in to Blackboard, we will now have two options when it comes to automated plagiarism detection. The training presentation will last approximately one hour, with the remaining time left for questions. Click here for the Zoom link to the webinar.   The session will be recorded and made available from the Academic Technologies office should you want to request a copy. We will also be conducting follow-up training session later in the semester, stay tuned for the full training schedule coming soon.

Health Professions Advisory Committee (HPAC) Workshop
What to Know about Writing Letters of Recommendation on behalf of Pre-Health Students
Date: September 22, 2017
Time: 2:30–3:30 p.m.
Location: TLC 201
 
Questions we will address at this workshop:

• What conversation should I have with the student prior to writing my letter of recommendation?
• What core competencies should I address in my letter? Do I need to address all the competencies that health graduate programs emphasize?
• How should I frame my letter and how can I construct a narrative that best serves the candidate?
• How should I address weaknesses in the candidate’s file?
• How does HPAC use the individual letter that I write to write a summary letter for the candidate?
• What if I only have limited information about the student (e.g., have only had her/him in one class)?
• What information is not helpful to include in my recommendation?
• When will students generally request these letters, and when are they due to the committee?

Please email devert@skidmore.edu if you plan to attend and if you have any other specific questions you would like addressed.

Visual Literary Workshop
Date: September 22, 2017
Time: 2:30–4 p.m.
Location: Scribner Library, Weller Room (212)

Lunch Meeting and Discussion with Non-Tenure Track Faculty
(Kate Paarlberg-Kvam and Kristie Ford)
Date: September 28, 2017
Time: 1–2:30 p.m.
Location: Murray-Aikins Dining Hall, test kitchen

Mass Story Lab Workshop with Piper Anderson
Interviewing and Oral Histories for Social Justice
Date: September 29, 2017
Time: 10 a.m.
Location: Library 113

Twelve seats available; email mdocs@skidmore.edu to reserve your spot.

 

October

ELL Writing Assessment
Date: October 3, 2017
Time: 12:45–2 p.m.
Location: Bolton 101

If you teach a writing-intensive course, this workshop is for you. Assessment remains a controversial issue on this campus and in the field of TESOL, so this workshop aims to review literature and teaching tools to help instructors form a principled, personalized approach to writing assessment. We will cover attempts at defining college writing, thoughts on assessment across the disciplines, and approaches to assessment that may be fruitful when working with ELL’s.

Kress Family Creative Pedagogy Grant
Date: October 13, 2017 (deadline)

Video Interview Setup with Ron Taylor
Date: October 19, 2017
Time: 4–6 p.m.
Location: Scribner Library, Room 113

Twelve seats available; email mdocs@skidmore.edu to reserve your spot.

Author Rights Workshop: Reading Publication Agreements
(Marta Brunner)
Date: October 24, 2017
Time: 4–5 p.m.
Location: Scribner Library, Weller Room (212)

Congratulations! That manuscript you’ve worked so hard on has been accepted for publication. Now it’s time to sign the author’s agreement. But what exactly are you agreeing to? In this hands-on workshop, you’ll learn the basics of reading and understanding standard scholarly publishing agreements so that you can enter into these transactions with eyes wide open. You’ll also be introduced to resources available to help protect your rights as an author.

Visual Literacy Workshop
(Sarah Goodwin, Jeff Segrave, and Katie Hauser)
Date: October 27, 2017
Time: 2–3:15 p.m.
Location: Scribner Library, Weller Room (212)

Anxiety and Depression in the Classroom
Date: October 27, 2017
Time: 3:30–4:30 p.m.
Location: Tang Teaching Museum, Payne Room

Andrew Demaree, director of the counseling center, and Meg Hegener, coordinator of student access services, will provide a framework for understanding the extent of this issue across campus, provide examples of how mental health issues may manifest in the classroom, and then provide faculty with tools to help handle these situations.

Tasty treats and engaging conversation is guaranteed; RSVPs appreciated.

 

November

Applied Civic Engagement Workshop (Eric Morser)

Date: November 16, 2017 (details TBD)

 

December/January

IGR Faculty/Staff Workshops
Date: January 16–19, 2018 (details TBD)

Publishing Workshop
Date: Monday, January 29, 2018
Time: 12-1:30 p.m
Location: Scribner Library, Weller Room (212)

Beth Bouloukos, Senior Acquisition Editor for Lever Press, will be providing a luncheon workshop for faculty on aspects of the scholarly publishing process, focusing on monograph-length scholarship. In this general overview workshop, we will cover the nuts and bolts of going from proposal to bookshelf (or the cloud). We will address the three main areas of book publishing that are of interest to scholars: acquisitions, production, and marketing, although there will be an emphasis on the acquisitions process. Attendees will learn how to know what you can and can’t use from a dissertation in a book manuscript, write an effective proposal, know when it’s time to make contact with a publisher, find the right publisher for them, distinguish the roles of the acquisitions editor and editorial assistant, understand the peer review and board processes, handle rejection, negotiate a contract, prepare their projects for production, approach ideas for a cover, make suggestions for marketing, and promote their books. There will be ample time for questions at the end of the workshop. Space is limited. RSVP by contacting Lori Acee (lacee@skidmore.edu).

Beth Bouloukos attended Hamilton College and received her doctorate from Cornell University where she researched Latin American literature, film, and culture through a feminist lens. Before beginning at Amherst College and Lever Presses, she acquired books in education, Latin American/Latinx studies, and gender and sexuality studies at SUNY Press for seven years. She is particularly interested in projects that link theory to praxis and that give a platform to marginalized voices. In her work outside the press, she has been involved with the New Sanctuary for Immigrants movement since returning to her hometown of Albany seven years ago and has recently been working with ICE-FREE Capital District to defend the right of immigrants. She has also served as a visiting assistant professor at Fairfield University and the University at Albany, SUNY.