Professional Development Lunches

Thursdays, 12-12:45pm in the Tartan Room (Lunch Tickets @ 11:45am)
All Faculty & Staff are invited!
Resources for each event will be available in the Academic Professional Development (APD) Microsoft Team. You can also use the APD Team Calendar tab to see future event topics and add individual events to your calendar (or the full series).

November 2024 Professional Development Lunches
November 7: Liberal Arts for Lifelong Success. Ashleigh Best & Meagen Pollock. How might you leverage your classes and co-curricular activities to help your students articulate the value of their liberal arts experience? Small tweaks in the way you teach, advise, and talk with students can make a big impact. Join us to learn how. 
November 14: Bringing Experience into the Classroom. Ashleigh Best & Steve Crawford. Wooster alumni have a wealth of experiences to share out and enrich the experiences of our students in and out of the classroom, while also showcasing to students what can be next. Learn about resources to support connecting with alumni, such as framings for career conversations and features of the Ask a Scot platform. 
November 21: Connections between Athletics & Faculty. Lynn Holleran, Andy Zidron & Shelley Judge. How can technology be used to enhance and innovate our work in the classroom? See examples of how faculty are utilizing digital pedagogies in their work and learn about the support that our education technology professionals can provide to do this. 
November 28 - No PDL

Celebration of Scholarship Series

Faculty Research Gatherings
Select Fridays, 4-6pm, Kauke 305

2024-2025 Schedule

September 6: Lee McBride (Philosophy)
Creative Rebelliousness and Method-Making

October 4: Alfredo Zúñiga (Neuroscience)
Deciphering the Hippocampal Code: Investigating Memory Mechanisms at the College of Wooster

November 1: Sofia Visa (Computer Science)
Modeling the Shapes of Eggplant Fruits in 278 Cultivars

February 7: Beth Muellner (German Studies)
On the Possibility of Sympathetic Collaboration at Court: Carmen Sylva and Mite Kremnitz

March 7: Erum Haider (Political Science & Environmental Studies)

April 4: Matthew Broda (Education)

May 2: Senior Research Symposium (all day)

* All faculty, and staff in APEX, CDI, Academic Affairs, Student Affairs, Educational Technology, and the Wellness Center receive announcements about professional development events in the DFD Digest newsletter. If you are a staff member outside of these offices & would like to receive more information, we’re happy to add you! Please let the DFD know, and we’ll add you to our Professional Development list.

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