2012 ADFL Summer Seminar West

Eugene, Oregon

7–10 June

Host: Barbara K. Altmann, University of Oregon

Wednesday, 6 June

7:00–9:00 p.m.

Workshop for New Chairs I

Leaders: 

Susan G. Polansky, Carnegie Mellon Univ.

Timothy Jon Scheie, Eastman School of Music

Workshop for Department Reviewers I

Leaders: 

Nelly Furman, MLA

Luiz Fernando Valente, Brown Univ.

Thursday, 7 June

9:00 a.m.–12:00 noon

Workshop for New Chairs II

Workshop for Department Reviewers II

2:00–3:30 p.m.

Plenary Session I: Institutional Contexts

Speakers: 

Eloise Angela Brière, Univ. at Albany, State Univ. of New York

Susana Rivera Mills, Oregon State Univ.

Jenifer K. Ward, Cornish Coll.

4:00–5:30 p.m.

Discussion Groups I

7:00–7:30 p.m.

Keynote Address I

Speaker:  Joseph R. Urgo, Saint Mary’s Coll. of Maryland

Friday, 8 June

8:30–10:00 a.m.

Discussion Groups II

11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m.

Plenary Session II: What Every Department Chair Should Know: Strategies and Resources for Managing Faculty Performance

Speakers: 

Dawn E. Bratsch-Prince, Iowa State Univ.

Russell Tomlin, Univ. of Oregon

2:00–2:30 p.m.

Keynote Address II

Speaker:  Michael Nugent, Natl. Educ. Security Program

2:30–4:00 p.m.

Plenary Session III: What Drives the Curriculum?

Speakers: 

Robert L. Davis, Univ. of Oregon

Stacey Lee Donohue, Central Oregon Community Coll.

Saturday, 9 June

9:00–11:00 a.m.

Plenary Session IV: Assessment in the Humanities

Speakers: 

Lance Askildson, Univ. of Notre Dame

Theodore Joseph Cachey, Univ. of Notre Dame

Wendy Freeman, Rice Univ.

Hiram Maxim, Emory Univ.

Peter C. Pfeiffer, Georgetown Univ.

11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.

Discussion Groups III

2:00–3:30 p.m.

Plenary Session V: Points of Articulation with International Studies: A Roundtable

Speakers: 

Jane Hacking, Univ. of Utah

Rosmarie T. Morewedge, Binghamton Univ., State Univ. of New York

Susan G. Polansky, Carnegie Mellon Univ.

Peter Richardson, Linfield Coll.

Bruce Suttmeier, Lewis and Clark Univ.

Luiz Fernando Valente, Brown Univ.

Lisa Vollendorf, California State Univ., Long Beach

4:00–5:00 p.m.

Workshop for New Chairs III

Sunday, 10 June

9:00–10:30 a.m.

Reports from Discussion Groups and Concluding Discussion