Faculty Mini Retreats

Strategies for Faculty: Understanding and Reacting to Student Behavior

Please join Erik Kneubuehl, Student Affairs, and Deborah Klesenski-Rispoli, Academic Affairs, for this CET mini-retreat breakfast. Topics such as understanding the difference between classroom management and student crisis and strategies for responding to challenging situations are addressed. FERPA (Family Educational Rights and Privacy) information is presented and campus resources are explored.

Social Networking Tools: Expanding Teaching and Learning with Global Outreach

Ruben Quinones, Director of New Media @ Path Interactive, and an adjunct at NYU explores the role of social networking in education and its potential to promote inclusivity by bringing distant and diverse populations into a collaborative academic dialogue. Guided lab time with Jeffrey Riman, CET; Kurt Vega, Computer Graphics; Meredith Perkins, Patricia Krakow and James Pearce, TDT

Featuring a Clicker Presentation with both Student and Faculty Responses

Please join Erik Kneubuehl, Dean for Student Development, and faculty facilitators, Susan Breton, Counseling Center, Charlotte Brown, Educational Skills, Philip Milio, Student Life, Carmita Sanchez Fong, Interior Design, Nancy Sheridan, FMM, and Samantha Kloeckener, student leader, for a mini-retreat conversation and exchange of ideas. Topics will include new challenges on today's college campus, maintaining a student-centered classroom, and the impact of ever-evolving technology on academic life.

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Mini-Retreat Sharing Knowledge on a Global Scale
Friday May 1st, 2010 | 9:00 am - 1pm

CET is proud to announce a presentation by Laurie Everett, Director of MIT World. Please join Ms. Everett and FIT panelists Leslie Blum and C.J. Yeh, Communication Design; Greta Earnest, Library; Erika Muhammad, Art & Design; Karen Pearson, Science, and Mathematics; Jeffrey Riman, CET; and Robert Vassalotti, Fashion Merchandising Management. Topics will include the history of MIT World, website aggregators, linking department web pages to outside resources and tools to share and publish, including their relevance to FIT.