Faculty Workshops

Workshop on Innovating Advising at Carleton College
August 30, 2006 and follow up October 3, 2006

Cows, Colleges and Curriculum: Sustainability Issues in the Classroom

June 19-20, 2006; optional follow-up August 28, 2006
Carleton College and St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN
View Website for Cows, Colleges, and Curriculum

First Year Seminars and Moodle/Sakai
August 8-9, 2006

Book Groups

Fall 2006 Book Discussion Groups

Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World (2003), by Tracy Kidder

We think this book about Dr. Paul Farmer will help create rich, humane, interdisciplinary conversation around the issues of public health in poor communities where social and political strategies interface with biological and health issues.

To join this book discussion, please email Stephanie Ewing (spenning@Carleton.edu), administrative assistant for CISMI. She will contact participants when books are ready to be picked up at the Carleton bookstore. Books are free to all participants who sign up. Discussion times are above.

Cosponsors are the Carleton Interdisciplinary Science and Math Initiative (CISMI) and the Perlman Center for Learning and Teaching (LTC), with support from the Mellon Faculty Life Cycles grant and Carleton's Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) grant.

Writing Program Book Discussion Groups:
During fall term, Carleton hosts two authors of books designed to help college writers approach research. Faculty are invited to read and discuss the books and meet the authors. All meetings are on Thursdays at Headley House, 815 East Second Street, 4:30-6 pm, with refreshments provided.

Co-sponsored by the Writing Program and the Perlman LTC, with support from grants through the Bush and Mellon Foundations. To join one or both book discussion groups, please contact Carol Rutz (x4082 or ). Books are provided to participants.

September 21 and October 5: We discuss Joseph Harris' new book, Rewriting, just out from Utah State University Press. Harris, Director of the University Writing Program at Duke University, will join us on October 5.
October 26 and November 9: We turn to a classic, The Craft of Research, by Wayne Booth, Greg Colomb, and Joseph Williams, University of Chicago Press, 2003 (2nd ed.). Colomb, Professor of English at the University of Virginia, will be on campus November 9.