ONEONTA _ Professor Candace Young of the political-science department at Truman State University will present the keynote address at the sixth annual Celebration of Teaching today in the Hunt College Union at the State University College at Oneonta.
At the event, several SUNY Oneonta faculty and staff will offer workshops and poster presentations related to teaching. The program is free and open to the public.
Young will present her keynote address, titled "Thinking Strategically: How Assessment Can Advance Teaching and Learning," at 2:15 p.m. in the Hunt Union Ballroom. Young, who holds a doctorate from the University of Missouri and has taught at Truman State since 1980, conducts research on higher-education policy, assessment of student learning, program evaluation and legislators' use of information.
SUNY Oneonta faculty and staff participation will include:
10 a.m., Leatherstocking Room: "Talking About Writing: A Roundtable Discussion" by William Benedict, Suzanne Black, Richard Lee, Anna Stave, Moussa Traore and Steven Walsh.
10 a.m., Union Square: "International Faculty Teaching at U.S. Colleges" by Dale Capristo, Hanfu Mi, Nithya Iyer, Ho Hon Leung and Penina Kamina.
11:15 a.m., Waterfront Cafe: "Should We Develop a Faculty Center for Academic Excellence?" by Jacqueline Bennett, Gwen Crane, Jim Greenberg, Doug Shrader and Donna Vogler.
1 p.m., Waterfront Cafe: "Student Retention: Using Data from Withdrawal Surveys, NSSE and the Student Opinion Survey to Inform Practice" by Steve Perry.
3:45 to 5 p.m., Ballroom: Poster sessions.
At noon Friday, Savannah Bao and Carol Mandzik of SUNY Oneonta will present "The Internationalization of U.S. Higher Education" in Union Square.
More information on the Celebration of Teaching is available at www.oneonta.edu/cot.
