Event Title
Plenary Remarks
Location
Gorecki Center, Room 204
Start Date
10-7-2018 8:30 AM
End Date
10-7-2018 9:15 AM
Description
How do we reframe the current narrative about teaching and learning in our institutions? Specifically, we will discuss efforts to make curricula more inclusive by decentering the curriculum and engaging in experiential learning and other high-impact practices; and, by making explicit the disciplinary links to employment and professional development.
Speaker Bio
L. Lee Knefelkamp, professor of psychology and education, Teachers College, Columbia University, teaches in the programs of social-organizational psychology and higher education, and she has held administrative posts as program coordinator and department chair. For thirty years, she has researched and written about student intellectual, ethical, identity and intercultural development; curriculum transformation; issues of race, ethnicity, and gender; campus climate assessment; and the psychology of organizational change and resistance to change. She is a senior scholar with AAC&U and has been a national panel member for the American Commitments and Greater Expectations initiatives.
Plenary Remarks
Gorecki Center, Room 204
How do we reframe the current narrative about teaching and learning in our institutions? Specifically, we will discuss efforts to make curricula more inclusive by decentering the curriculum and engaging in experiential learning and other high-impact practices; and, by making explicit the disciplinary links to employment and professional development.