Minutes for CITLA Advisory Board Meeting
February 20, 2014 from 1:00-2:15 pm
Warwick: 4560, teleconferencing available
1. Welcome
2. CITLA Award—Thanks again to committee led by Candace Grist. At the suggestion of one of the nominees, the
committee will consider how to simplify the nomination process for next year.
3. Fall 2014—Wendy Aronoff will lead an FLC entitled “Giving and Getting Feedback from Students.” Kick-off
workshops in late August will be offered on the Lincoln and Warwick campuses.
4. Spring 2014 events overview
a. Read More About It
b. Teaching Tips--Cecile Roberti will contact Shawn Parker to see if he’d like to write a tip based on his
brown bag session about using critical thinking techniques in the art classroom.
c. Spring book club—Suzanne McCormack (Teaching First-Year College Students)
“At Flanagan we had five participants at the first meeting, including myself. I have recently learned from Michele that we have
additional people/persons coming to the next meeting in March. Everyone there but me was new to CCRI within the last two
years. I know that they were all attracted to the idea of discussing first-year students, but the conversation veered off of the
book fairly quick as people were interested in hearing other faculty members’ experiences in the classroom. A lot of our
discussion, therefore, was based loosely on the book and more specifically on challenges faced here at CCRI. More than once I
asked if people wanted to talk more directly about the book/reading but they seemed relieved to be sharing difficult
experiences with other new faculty. The greatest benefit, therefore, of the “book club” meetings – so far at least – is having a
common purpose for which to bring people together who otherwise might never meet. We had 4 different departments
represented by the 5 participants. Overall, it was a very positive first meeting and I know that the people who attended are
planning to participate in March as well.”
d. Brown Bag Workshops-i. To Text or Not To Text, Eylana Goffe Liston Campus, 4/4/14 (Thanks to Laurie Sherman for
recruiting Eylana.)
ii. Veterans in the Classroom, Micaela Black, Liston and Knight Campuses, 3/6/14, 4/8/14
e. Making the Transparent Apparent: a video of Marc-Boots-Ebenfield’s keynote address at CIT’s Faculty
Technology Day on January 9 will be shown on March 5-7 in the DL rooms on all campuses
f.
PDD sessions:
i.
What is a Faculty Learning Community?: Wendy Aronoff
ii. Improving Student Achievement with Effective Learning Techniques: Rachel Rogers
iii. Active Critical Thinking: Shawn Parker
iv. Creating a Philosophy of Teaching: Cecile Roberti and Jeanne Mullaney
g. Topic of motivation for CITLA event (request from Connect to College)
i. Speaker ideas?
h. Spring Symposium
i. Innovation, motivation
1. Motivation: multiple ways to support students, how can we create the kind of
community necessary? How can we engage students in the community?
ii. Recognize those who have facilitated brown bags
i.
Marketing events: always looking for new ways to publicize
5. Ideas from the Board
a. Faculty Teas on all campuses?
b. “Hack days” to encourage creativity
c. How to encourage faculty to continue learning?
d. FLC on interdisciplinary topic
e. New project for students: sample college experiences with 10 sessions in different disciplines in
summer or on Saturday
6. Adjournment