MATC Matters

Dear Colleagues:
The Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning encourages you to consider attending the 2007 On Course National Conference.

CETL will accept applications for up to 6 faculty members to attend this national conference. Learning Centers will have to provide 25% of the cost and CETL will cover the remainder of the expenses.

To apply you must email Patrick Barlow by noon on January 30, 2007.

Selection Criteria:

Do not register yourself! Contact CETL and we will review your application and handle the arrangements.

Patrick
Message From On Course Conference Organizers:

About the On Course Conference:

Want to learn proven new strategies to increase student retention and learning? Go to the On Course National Conference this spring. Designed for college educators in all disciplines, the conference offers dozens of sessions featuring innovative best practices in student success…from immediately usable instructional and counseling strategies to campus-wide programs that increase retention and student academic success. Learn great new strategies from educators who are changing the lives of their students and transforming their colleges into learner-centered institutions. Do these approaches work? Yes! See published data at the On Course website.

Best of all, you won’t just hear about how to empower your students to become active, responsible learners. You’ll experience it! Sessions are interactive, designed with active learning in mind: No snoozing through this conference! As a volunteer helping to get out the word about the conference, I’d be happy to answer any questions you have. I’d also appreciate it if you would print and post the attached conference flyer, and forward this email to other faculty, counselors and student service professionals on other college campuses (or a listserv) who’d like to see student success and retention rates increase.

Register before February 1, 2007, to receive the registration Early Bird Discount and a significantly reduced rate on the hotel room! (contact Patrick Barlow about registering for the conference). This conference is offered on March 2-3, 2007, in Dallas, Texas. Discount hotel rooms are available now as well, but are limited.

There is also a special pre-conference session (March 1st), a one-day student success workshop that has limited spaces and is filling very quickly. This workshop will give you a foundation to help you get even more from your conference experience and a whole new batch of empowering learner-centered strategies to add to your tool box. This full-day professional development event, led by On Course Facilitators, will introduce participants to the eight On Course principles and numerous learner-centered strategies for empowering students to become active, responsible learners. It’s a bargain rate for a full-day workshop and not to be missed.

To see a listing of the presentations, go to the conference schedule on the On Conference website.

Wm. Patrick Barlow
Employee Development Coordinator
Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning