12:00-12:30 pm
Trabant West Lobby

Registration
Posters on display throughout the afternoon
Light lunch refreshments available throughout the afternoon

12:30-1:45
Trabant C

Possible Approaches to Capstone Courses and Making Them Work
Hands on session for 30 faculty and course instructors (session repeated later)
Hands on sessions are planned for faculty to work with course syllabi and materials.

Design curriculum approaches for your capstone course.
Determine appropriate assessment measures for your capstone course.

Facilitator
Jean M. Henscheid, Ph.D.
Fellow, National Resource Center
University of South Carolina
Managing Editor, About Campus

Goal #6: Develop the intellectual curiosity, confidence, and engagement that will lead to lifelong learning

2:00-3:15
Trabant AB

Capstone Experience: The Bridge from Here to There
Click here to access Jean's Power Point presentation

Open session for the University community

What do you want students to have learned across a curriculum of study?
Identify learning opportunities for students to integrate, synthesize, and reflect.
Determine how students will demonstrate knowledge in your capstone course.
Resolve how to measure capstone realizations in your course.
Consider how to use assessment results from your capstone course.

Moderator
Jean M. Henscheid, Ph.D.
Fellow, National Resource Center
University of South Carolina
Managing Editor, About Campus

Goal #6: Develop the intellectual curiosity, confidence, and engagement that will lead to lifelong learning

3:30-4:45
Trabant C

Possible Approaches to Capstone Courses and Making Them Work
Hands on session for 30 faculty and course instructors (repeat of earlier session)
Hands on sessions are planned for faculty to work with course syllabi and materials.

Construct curricular strategies for your capstone course.
Select ways to measure capstone effectiveness in your course.

Facilitator
Jean M. Henscheid, Ph.D.
Fellow, National Resource Center
University of South Carolina
Managing Editor, About Campus

Goal #6: Develop the intellectual curiosity, confidence, and engagement that will lead to lifelong learning

8:00-8:30 am
Trabant West Lobby

Registration
Posters on display throughout the morning
Light brunch refreshments available throughout the morning

8:30-9:45
Trabant C

Quantitative Reasoning Is Doable in Your Course
Hands on session for 30 faculty and course instructors
Hands on sessions are planned for faculty to work with course syllabi and materials.

Build a quantitative reasoning component into your course content.
Choose how to measure the effectiveness of quantitative reasoning in your course.

Facilitator
Lynn Narasimhan, Ph.D.
Associate Dean
College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
DePaul University

Goal #1: Attain effective skills in quantitative reasoning.

10:00-11:15
Trabant AB

Quantitative Reasoning Across Disciplines: It's Not Just Math 114
Click here to access Lynn's Power Point presentation

Open session for the University community

How do you want students to make sense of quantitative information?
Determine learning opportunities for students to work with quantitative information.
Infuse quantitative reasoning within your course content.
Measure quantitative reasoning attainment in your course.
Consider how to use assessment results of quantitative reasoning in your course.

Moderator
Lynn Narasimhan, Ph.D.
Associate Dean
College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
DePaul University

Goal #1: Attain effective skills in quantitative reasoning.

11:30-12:45
Trabant AB

Concrete Ways to Embed Gen Ed Goals Within Your Curriculum
Click here to access Patricia's Power Point presentation

Open session for the University community

Which Gen Ed Goals are most appropriately integrated within your course?
Identify learning opportunities for students to accomplish Gen Ed Goals in your course.
Easily embed Gen Ed Goals within your course content.
Measure the extent to which Gen Ed Goals are achieved in your course.
What are you going to do with this this information?
Link Gen Ed Goals assessment results directly to your department's programmatic assessment .

Moderator
Patricia Francis, Ph.D.
Assistant Provost
SUNY Assessment Initiative
The State University of New York

Goals #1-10

12:45-1:45
Trabant AB

Buffet Lunch
Provost Dan Rich
Poster session with poster presenters.

2:00-3:15
Trabant A

Easily Infuse and Measure Gen Ed Goals Within Your Course
Click here to access Patricia's Power Point presentation

Hands on session for 30 faculty and course instructors
Hands on sessions are planned for faculty to work with course syllabi and materials.

Build Gen Ed Goals into your course content
Measure the effectiveness of Gen Ed Goals in your course.

Facilitator
Patricia Francis, Ph.D.
Assistant Provost
SUNY Assessment Initiative
The State University of New York

Goals #1-10

3:30-4:45
Trabant A

Curriculum Mapping: An Effective Way to Track and Assess Gen Ed Goals
Click here to access Patricia's Power Point presentation

Hands on session for OEA Fellows/Teams

Facilitator
Patricia Francis, Ph.D.
Assistant Provost
SUNY Assessment Initiative
The State University of New York

Goals #1-10