May 2007

Tuesday, May 15th

• LTC/Mellon: Encouraging Student Success in the Intercultural Classroom: What works?
  • LTC/Mellon: Encouraging Student Success in the Intercultural Classroom: What works?
  • 12:00 pm, Gould Library Athenaeum
• LTC/Mellon: spring book discussion group--Randall Kennedy
  • Spring 2007 reading and discussion group: Randall Kennedy
  • 4:30 pm, Headley House, 815 East Second St

Thursday, May 24th

• LTC/Mellon: The Future of Civic Engagement at Carleton
  • The Future of Civic Engagement at Carleton: A Conversation
  • 12:00 pm, Alumni Guest House meeting room

September 2007

Thursday, September 20th

• LTC: Moodle turns one!
  • Moodle turns one!
  • 12:00 pm, Alumni Guest House meeting room

Tuesday, September 25th

• LTC: Engaging the classroom: Teaching and Effective Communication
  • 12:00 pm, Alumni Guest House meeting room

Thursday, September 27th

• LTC: Fall 2007 reading and discussion group
  • Accountability in Higher Education: How does Carleton participate in the national conversation?
  • 4:30 pm, Headley House, 815 East Second St

October 2007

Tuesday, October 2nd

• LTC: Critical Thinking About Numbers in the News
  • Critical Thinking About Numbers in the News
  • 12:00 pm, Alumni Guest House meeting room

Thursday, October 11th

• LTC: Faculty Scholarship Forum
  • The Emergence of Decision: Computational Models of Group Decision Making
  • 12:00 pm, Alumni Guest House meeting room
• LTC: Fall 2007 reading and discussion group
  • Accountability in Higher Education: How does Carleton participate in the national conversation?
  • 4:30 pm, Headley House, 815 East Second St

Thursday, October 18th

• LTC: Distinctive Pedagogies: Classes that Click
  • Distinctive Pedagogies: Classes that Click
  • 12:00 pm, Gould Library Athenaeum

Thursday, October 25th

• LTC: Learning Languages at Carleton: Mission, goals, and aspirations
  • Learning Languages at Carleton: Mission, goals, and aspirations
  • 12:00 pm, Alumni Guest House meeting room
• LTC: Fall 2007 reading and discussion group
  • Accountability in Higher Education: How does Carleton participate in the national conversation?
  • 4:30 pm, Headley House, 815 East Second St

November 2007

Thursday, November 1st

• LTC: Academic Civic Engagement at Carleton: a National Perspective
  • Academic Civic Engagement at Carleton: a National Perspective
  • 12:00 pm, Alumni Guest House meeting room

Thursday, November 8th

• LTC: Full Contact II:
  • Full Contact II: Balancing departmental and program goals with institutional goals
  • 12:00 pm, Alumni Guest House meeting room

Tuesday, November 27th

• LTC: Teaching Workshop for New Faculty
  • Perlman LTC: Teaching Workshop for New Faculty
  • 12:00 pm, Sayles-Hill 251; then Leighton 304

Wednesday, November 28th

• LTC: Teaching Workshop for New Faculty
  • LTC: Teaching Workshop for New Faculty
  • 12:00 pm, Sayles-Hill 251; then Leighton 304

Thursday, November 29th

• LTC: Teaching Workshop for New Faculty
  • Perlman LTC: Teaching Workshop for New Faculty
  • 1:00 pm, Leighton 304

Friday, November 30th

• LTC: Teaching Workshop for New Faculty
  • LTC: Teaching Workshop for New Faculty
  • 8:30 am, Leighton 304

January 2008

Wednesday, January 9th

• LTC/ENTS/Mellon: Human Responses to Climate Change book group with Ken Tape
  • Human Responses to Climate Change book discussion group with Ken Tape
  • 4:30 pm, Gould Library 305

Thursday, January 10th

• LTC: Weasel words: Using QR to teach precision in argumentation
  • Weasel words: Using QR to teach precision in argumentation
  • 12:00 pm, Alumni Guest House meeting room

Wednesday, January 16th

• LTC/ENTS/Mellon: Human Responses to Climate Change book group with Ken Tape
  • Human Responses to Climate Change book discussion group with Ken Tape
  • 4:30 pm, Headley House, 815 East Second St

Thursday, January 17th

• LTC: When You're in the Hot Seat: Talking about your research with the public
  • When You're in the Hot Seat: Talking about your research with the public, Ken Tape, guest lecturer
  • 12:00 pm, Alumni Guest House meeting room

Monday, January 21st

• Tied to the Track? The Career Paths of Women Scientists and Engineers as Seen from Three Vantage Points
  • LTC/CISMI/HHMI/Mellon FLC: Tied to the Track? The Career Paths of Women Scientists and Engineers as Seen from Three Vantage Points, Sandra Laursen, guest.
  • 4:30 pm, Headley House, 815 East Second St

Tuesday, January 22nd

• LTC/CISMI/HHMI/Mellon FLC: How Do Students Benefit from Undergraduate Research in the Sciences?
  • How Do Students Benefit from Undergraduate Research in the Sciences? Sandra Laursen, guest.
  • 12:00 pm, Alumni Guest House meeting room

Thursday, January 31st

• LTC: Diversity in the Sciences: Creating Climates of Success
  • Diversity in the Sciences: Creating Climates of Success
  • 12:00 pm, Alumni Guest House meeting room
• LTC: Stumbling on Happiness book group
  • Winter reading and discussion group 2: Stumbling on Happiness, Daniel Gilbert
  • 4:30 pm, Headley House, 815 East Second St

February 2008

Tuesday, February 5th

• LTC: Faculty/staff Chili Night
  • Faculty/staff Chili Night
  • 4:30 pm, Alumni Guest House meeting room

Thursday, February 7th

• LTC: Faculty Scholarship Forum--Deborah Appleman
  • Faculty Scholarship Forum by Deborah Appleman, Liberatory Education Behind Bars: Teaching Literary Theory in Prison
  • 12:00 pm, Gould Library Athenaeum

Wednesday, February 13th

• LTC/ENTS/Mellon: Human Responses to Climate Change book group
  • Human Responses to Climate Change book discussion group
  • 4:30 pm, Headley House, 815 East Second St

Thursday, February 14th

• LTC: Politics in the Classroom: Do we have a problem here?
  • Politics in the Classroom: Do we have a problem here?
  • 12:00 pm, Alumni Guest House meeting room

Thursday, February 21st

• LTC: Googled: What research reveals about how we use the web
  • 12:00 pm, Alumni Guest House meeting room
• LTC: Stumbling on Happiness book group
  • Winter reading and discussion group 2: Stumbling on Happiness, Daniel Gilbert
  • 4:30 pm, Headley House, 815 East Second St

Tuesday, February 26th

• LTC: The Faculty Role in Providing Access to a Carleton Education
  • The Faculty Role in Providing Access to a Carleton Education
  • 12:00 pm, Alumni Guest House meeting room

March 2008

Thursday, March 6th

• LTC: Curry@Noon
  • Curry at Noon: Continue the conversation from our first faculty/staff Chili Night on Thursday, March 6 at noon, Alumni Guest House meeting room
  • 12:00 pm, Alumni Guest House meeting room

April 2008

Tuesday, April 8th

• LTC: Eric Clarke--empirical methods in humanities research - and music in particular
  • Eric Clarke:Empirical methods in humanities research - and music in particular
  • 12:00 pm, Alumni Guest House meeting room

Thursday, April 10th

• LTC/Mellon: Baldwin reading/discussion group for faculty/staff
  • Harry McKinley Williams, Bryn-Jones Distinguished Teaching Professor of History, will lead this spring faculty/staff discussion. Part of the Baldwin Symposium series of events.
  • 4:30 pm, Headley House, 815 East Second St

Thursday, April 17th

• LTC/Bryn-Jones Baldwin Lecture: Lawrie Balfour
  • Lawrie Balfour, Associate Professor in the Department of Politics at the University of Virginia, presents Innocence in the Age of Apology: Why James Baldwin Now?
  • 12:00 pm, Gould Library Athenaeum
• LTC/Mellon: Baldwin reading/discussion group for faculty/staff
  • Lawrie Balfour, guest lecturer on James Baldwin, will lead this spring faculty/staff discussion. Part of the Baldwin Symposium series of events.
  • 4:30 pm, Headley House, 815 East Second St

Friday, April 18th

• Baldwin Lecture: Joshua Miller
  • Joshua Miller, Assistant Professor in the Department of English Language & Literature at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, presents The Corroboration of that Eye: Photonarrativity and Intergenerational Memory
  • 4:00 pm, Gould Library Athenaeum

Saturday, April 19th

• LTC/Mellon/Bryn-Jones: James Baldwin Across the Disciplines: A Colloquium
  • James Baldwin Across the Disciplines: A Colloquium for faculty and staff, part of the Contemplating James Baldwin symposium, Spring term, 2008
  • 8:30 am, Leighton 304
• James Baldwin: Down from the Mountaintop, public performance
  • The James Baldwin Symposium presents James Baldwin: Down from the Mountaintop. Public performance; ticketed event
  • 7:30 pm, Concert Hall

Tuesday, April 22nd

• LTC: Chili at Noon
  • Continue the conversation...Chili at Noon
  • 12:00 pm, Alumni Guest House meeting room
• LTC/Mellon: Diversity and the STEM Disciplines: A Conversation with Rick Reis
  • Diversity and the STEM Disciplines: A Conversation with Rick Reis
  • 4:30 pm, Headley House, 815 East Second St

Thursday, April 24th

• LTC: How do we Teach Quantitative Reasoning? Foster a Curricular Conspiracy
  • How do we Teach Quantitative Reasoning? Foster a Curricular Conspiracy
  • 12:00 pm, Alumni Guest House meeting room

Tuesday, April 29th

• LTC/Mellon: Baldwin reading/discussion group for faculty/staff
  • [Re]reading James Baldwin: On Education and Manhood, a spring faculty/staff discussion.
  • 4:30 pm, Headley House, 815 East Second St

May 2008

Thursday, May 1st

• LTC: He Said, She Said: Teaching Citation and Academic Honesty to Today's Students
  • He Said, She Said: Teaching Citation and Academic Honesty to Today's Students
  • 12:00 pm, Alumni Guest House meeting room

Thursday, May 8th

• LTC: The Program on Intergroup Relations: Lessons from a social justice education program
  • The Program on Intergroup Relations: Lessons from a social justice education program
  • 12:00 pm, Alumni Guest House meeting room

Thursday, May 15th

• LTC: Visualizing the Victorian Novel
  • Visualizing the Victorian Novel
  • 12:00 pm, Gould Library Athenaeum