February Events in the Center for Leadership, Teaching, and Learning
New Faculty Learning Community
Date: Wednesday, February 1, 2016
Time: 4:00 - 5:15 p.m.
Location: Weller Room (212 Library)
For first-year faculty, please come and share in the conversation about student evaluations
and starting a new semester.
Sustainability Lunch Series: Sustainability and Justice
Date: Wednesday, February 8, 2017
Time: 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Location: Dining Hall Test Kitchen
The Office of Sustainability and the CLTL are very pleased to be collaborating on
a lunch series during spring semester with the intention of bringing faculty together
who are interested in talking about sustainability from integrative and interdisciplinary
perspectives. As the Campus Sustainability Plan and the Strategic Plan articulate,
Skidmore embraces “the more comprehensive definition of sustainability that includes
the interconnected spheres of the environment, the economy, and society.”
Our first lunch, Sustainability and Justice, will be from 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. on Wednesday,
February 8th. We will have lunch tickets for all participants. Later lunchtime topics
will include: Sustainability and Business (March 3rd), Sustainability and Science
(March 8th), and Sustainability and Food (March 22nd). If you would like more information,
or if you would like to join us, please RSVP to kkellogg@skidmore.edu or bastress@skidmore.edu. Please join us for what will likely be very lively conversations.
Worst Class Scenarios
Date: Friday, February 17, 2017
Time: 3:30 - 5:00 p.m.
Location: Surrey Williamson Inn
Please join the Office of the FYE and the CLTL for an afternoon of fun and discussion
around the topic of classes that didn’t go according to plan. We have a panel of faculty
(and one associate dean!) ready to share their most disastrous moments in the classroom
and how they worked through them. There will be time for questions and discussion,
followed by a reception in the newly renovated Surrey Williamson Inn.
The Open Classroom Week
Date: February 20th-24th
On behalf of Michael Arnush, Chair of Classics, Bill Duffy, Chief Technology Officer,
and the CLTL, I’m delighted to announce the third annual Open Classroom Week.
Once again we are asking interested faculty to open one class (or more!) during the
week of February 20-24 to faculty, staff, trustees, and administrators who would like
to sit in. This is an opportunity for the community to learn with our students and
to engage with the many varied and exciting pedagogies that are going on every day
on campus. If you would like to open your classroom, please email me, bastress@skidmore.edu with the following information: Title of your class, the time, day, location, and
how many visitors you are willing to welcome. Thank you to those who have already
offered to open your classes.
Faculty Writing Group
Location: Dining hall test kitchen
Writing groups will meet again this semester every Monday and Tuesday starting the
week of January 30th. Monday lunches will be from 12:00 - 1:00 p.m., Tuesday lunches
will be from 12:45 - 1:45 p.m. If you have any questions about writing groups, please
email me, bastress@skidmore.edu.
Erica Bastress-Dukehart
Associate Professor, History
Director, Center for Leadership, Teaching, and Learning
518 580 5265
Email: bastress@skidmore.edu
Website: https://www.skidmore.edu/center-leadership/Index.php