Call for Proposals: 20th Georgia Conference On College & University Teaching

The 20th Georgia Conference On College & University Teaching
February 15 - 16, 2013
Kennesaw, GA 30144
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Call for Proposals
Submission Deadline: Friday, January 11, 2013 no later than 11:59 pm
Notifications of acceptance or rejections: Friday, January 18, 2013

Keynote Spearkers:

Improving College Teaching: What Really Works Today?

Peter Seldin

Peter Seldin is Distinguished Professor of Management Emeritus at Pace University in Pleasantville, New York. He has been a consultant on higher education issues to more than 350 colleges and universities throughout the United States and in 45 countries around the world. He was named by the World Bank as a Visiting Scholar to Indonesia, and he was elected a fellow of the College of Preceptors in London, England. For his contributions to the scholarship of teaching, he has received honorary degrees from Keystone College and Columbia College (South Carolina).

J. Elizabeth Miller

J. Elizabeth Miller is Associate Professor of Family and Child Studies at Northern Illinois University. Previously, she was the university Director of the Teaching Assistant and Training Development Office, where she established and ran the training program for more than 800 teaching assistants. She is a consultant in higher education and has mentored hundreds of faculty on portfolio development in the United States and abroad. She is the recipient of several teaching awards, and her research focuses on the interplay between feminist teaching and learner-centered teaching. They are the authors of the The Academic Portfolio, 2008 and The Teaching Portfolio (2010, 4th edition) along with Clement Seldin, published by Jossey-Bass. Their work together focuses on portfolio development and implementation, faculty evaluation, improvement of teaching, and building strategies for maintaining institutional integrity.

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Behind the Fig Leaf: Faculty Preconceptions of Student Achievement

David A. Green

David A Green is Director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning and affiliated faculty in International Studies at Seattle University, WA. Before becoming a faculty developer, David was chair of Languages and International Business at Birmingham City University (UK) and has taught at the graduate and undergraduate level in foreign language, literature, cross-cultural management, communication, and higher education. He publishes on academic identity and faculty perceptions of both student characteristics and the field of higher education pedagogy. David is co-editor of the International Journal for Academic Development and co-author (with Celia Popovic) of Understanding Undergraduates: Challenging Our Preconceptions of Student Success, published in the USA and UK by Routledge (Behind the fig leaf: Faculty preconceptions of student achievement).