Please join us at the Faculty Commons for the Brown Bag: Classroom Groups for Fun and Profit, facilitated by Dr. Kevin Decker. In most classes and across every discipline, small group work can be a high-impact practice when designed, monitored, carried out and graded effectively. This brown bag will present two methods for establishing balanced, permanent groups in quarter-based courses and utilizing them effectively in ways that allow students to learn effectively from each other and be graded for their…

Master of Your Domain: Claiming Your Digital Identity Google search results are the new CV--what do yours look like? In this two-hour workshop, facilitated by Larry Cebula (History) and Danny Messina (EWU IT Innovation Center), participants will claim their digital identities by creating a professional website that is easy to expand and maintain. Don't let Rate My Professor tell the world who you are! Participants should bring a USB drive with a photograph, a copy of your CV, a course…

Writing for Love, Money, and Applause Facilitated by Rachel Toor, Professor, Creative Writing As with weather, everyone talks about how bad academic writing is but no one does anything about it. In this session, Rachel Toor will give her top ten tips on how to write better academic prose. Participants are encouraged to bring the first few pages of an article or book manuscript they’re working on. Handout

Culture plays a large role in our classrooms—it shapes instructors’ and students’ expectations, behaviors, and attitudes. By raising our awareness of the ways that our and others’ cultural backgrounds may impact effective instruction, we can begin to widen our teaching repertoire to include approaches that are more likely to be successful with a wide range of students. In this session, we will reflect on our own experiences with culture in the classroom, widen our understanding of cultural impacts, and brainstorm…

Understanding Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) Facilitated by Dr. Nydia Martinez , Assistant Professor, Department of History and Chicana/o Studies Program Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) is an immigration policy ordered by President Obama in 2012 as an executive action to grant work permits and immigration deferment to individuals who arrived as undocumented children before June 2007. EWU, like campuses across the country, serves many DACA and undocumented students who come from around the globe and actively contribute to…

The Dos and Don’ts of Graduate Admissions Interviews Chelsea Lamberson, Policy Administrator and University Compliance Officer, will be discussing fair and unfair question topics related to admissions interviews in regards to laws and policies. Kim Davis, Human Resources Associate, will provide some practical examples. Thu Jan 19 12 -1p Faculty Commons