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Greetings! Karen Yanowitz and Ruth Owens, Faculty Fellows, 2007-08 welcome you to the Faculty Center for Learning and Teaching website. Our mission remains to help faculty members use and enhance their learning experiences for our students. Toward that end, our Center will endeavor to provide information to faculty campus-wide on how they may best use their talents, the technology available to them, or to benefit from the expertise of nationally-known scholars in the field of educational research.
The Faculty Center for Learning and Teaching supports excellence in teaching through a collaborative interaction among faculty, encourages student/faculty retention through a scholarship of teaching, and makes possible the resources necessary to achieve these goals.
Besides inviting these scholars to campus, the Center provides an extensive list of materials available to teachers on how to improve the classroom experience, both for students and themselves. In addition, we offer peer review for faculty who wish to make use of classroom critiques (always valuable for the awareness of what the student sees, as well as for advancement through the promotion and tenure process).
In sum, the purpose of the Faculty Center remains to advance the educational, learning environment at all levels at Arkansas State University. In our inaugural year, we hope to define and to provide a communication between the Center and faculty as to what constitutes "good," effective teaching. In years to come, we hope that the Center will provide the campus resource for those who contribute to, or wish to learn from, new, innovative teaching and proven methods of conveying the best of our knowledge to our students.
Your input and suggestions will be most welcome. Visit us in the Dean B. Ellis Library, by email, or the occasional visit to our website for the latest information on seminars, lectures, publications, and all matters pertaining to the achievement of excellence in learning and teaching.
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welcome your questions, comments, or suggestions;
please contact us--
Fellows for the 2007-08 semesters: Drs. Ruth Owens and Karen Yanowitz. Contact us for information, seminars, suggestions, article feed-back, or advice. We appreciate your efforts in a collaborative environment to achieve what we would all wish as the best means for teaching, for what we wish for the classroom, and what benefits both student and teacher alike.
Dr. Ruth Owens, Fellow (2007-08), rsupko@astate.edu
Dr. Karen
Yanowitz, Fellow (2007-08)
kyanowit@astate.edu
General questions? Email ASU_FacultyCenter@yahoo.com