Conference Presenters

Session 1

Assessment

• Elizabeth Ciner (Carleton College) - CLA in the Classroom
• Rachel Ragland (Lake Forest College) - Faculty Assessment of Student Learning, Department by Department
• Natalie Gummer (Beloit College), Monica Rico (Lawrence University), and Rich Eichhorn (Coe College) - Developing Student Agency Through Community Exploration, Reflection, and Engagement
• Charlotte Mendoza (Colorado College) and Kerry Bostwick (Cornell College) - Transformative Learning Experiences for New Teachers

Expanding Disciplinary Boundaries

• Sylvia Lopez (Beloit College), Gizella Meneses (Lake Forest Colleges), and Marcela Ochoa-Shivapour (Cornell College) - The Teaching of Latino Studies
• Mike Flynn (Carleton College) - Linguistics Programs in Undergraduate Education
• Robert Shedinger (Luther College) and Noah Salomon (Carleton College) - Teaching Islam in the Liberal Arts Curriculum
• Elizabeth Carlin-Metz (Knox College) and Shawn Womack (Colorado College) - Performance Educators Conference

Session 2

International 1: Off-Campus Programs

• Katherine Adelsberger and Danielle Fatkin (Knox College) - The Dhiban Excavation and Development Project
• Cameron Davidson (Carleton College) and Jeff Clark (Lawrence University) - Earth and the Environment in Italy
• Deborah Norland (Luther College) - Global Citizenship
• Mike Taber (Colorado College) - Approaches to Research and Learning about the Environment

Institutional Structures

• James Swartz (Grinnell College) - Project Kaleidoscope
• Marie Baehr and John Chandler (Coe College) - Intentional Integration of Academic and Athletic Programs
• Siobhan Moroney (Lake Forest College) and Heather Campbell (St. Olaf College) - Women and the Academy: Defining Our Roles
• Ruth Kath (Luther College) - Integrating Sustainability into the Undergraduate Curriculum

Session 3: Posters

New Pedagogies and New Media

• Jeff Clark (Lawrence University) and Sue Swanson (Beloit College) - The Outdoor Classroom: Recent Advances in Mobile Computing for the Field Sciences
• Rachael Neal (Coe College) and Ryan Sheppard (St. Olaf College) - The Impact of Student Social Networks on Classroom Participation, Student Learning, and Student Satisfaction
• Christine Wolfe and Lisa Stroschine (Coe College) - e:Portfolios: Electronic Pasta
• Devan Baty, Jen Rouse, and Rebecca Wines (Cornell College) - Information Literacy in the Foreign Languages

Projects In-Progress

• Jo Beld (St. Olaf College) - Protecting Human Subjects in Student Inquiry Projects
• Tom Sienkewicz (Monmouth College), Diane Mockridge (Ripon College), and Tim Chasson (Grinnell College) - The Power of Place: Facing the Challenges of On-Site Teaching and Researching
• Laura Nichols (Macalester College) - High Stakes Performance: Understanding and Coping with Anxiety

Session 4

International 2: Integrating Study Abroad

• Carolyn Zerbe Enns and Erin Davis (Cornell College), Joan Ericson (Colorado College) - The Creation of Short-Term International Study Courses
• Elizabeth Brewer (Beloit College) - Integrating Study Abroad into the Undergraduate Curriculum: Transforming Teaching and Learning
• Kenneth Abrams (Carleton College) and Dana Gross (St. Olaf College) - Finding Our Way: Strategies for Internationalizing Undergraduate Psychology
• Jennifer Esperanza (Beloit College) - Making Critical Connections: Workshops on Teaching International Development in the Liberal Arts

New Models of Faculty-Student Research

• Andrew Civettini (Knox College) and Matthew Richey (St. Olaf College) - Fostering Best Practices in Mentoring Advanced Undergraduate Research
• Loren Toussaint (Luther College) and Asani Seawell (Grinnell College) - A Collaborative Scholarship Model for Liberal Arts Colleges: Applications for the Psychology of Forgiveness
• Gereon Kopf and Ben Moore (Luther College) - Zen Stories for Today: A Collaborative Model of Research Mentorship
• Devorah Heitner (Lake Forest College) - Mediating Shifting Identities: A Multi-Year Collaborative New Media Ethnography