Educational Effectiveness Closing the Loop: Brown Bag Conversations

Faculty Workshops

2022-2023

Faculty of Color Recruitment and Retention
3/30 Workshop for faculty and administrators. Facilitators: California Lutheran University team.

2019-2020

Critical Thinking Workshops for Faculty

9/17 Facilitator: Jim Taylor
10/22 Facilitator: Jim Taylor

2018-2019

LARA Method: Managing difficult conversations in the classroom (and beyond)

11/9 Facilitators: Caryn Reeder and Steve Contakes, attendees of the Faculty Diversity Institute at Cornell University

2017–2018

Communication Principles for Teaching Communication Skills Seminar

10/25 Facilitator: Greg Spenser
10/26 Facilitator: Greg Spenser
10/27 Facilitator: Greg Spenser

Faculty Diversity Reading and Discussion Groups

Spring 2019
Jemar Tisby's book The Color of Compromise (2019)
George  M. Fredrickson's book Racism: A Short History (2015)

3/ 29 Facilitators: Mark Nelson, Chris Hoeckley, Cheri Larson Hockley, Kya Mangrum
4/ 5 Facilitators: Mark Nelson, Chris Hoeckley, Cheri Larson Hoeckley, Kya Mangrum

Fall 2018
Ta-Nehisi Coates's book Between the World and Me (2015)

10/2 Facilitators: Dinora Cardoso, Jason Cha, Mary Docter, Tatiana Nazarenko.
10/16 Facilitators: Toya Cooper, Jason Cha, Dinora Cardoso, Lauren Kelly
11/20 Facilitators: Meredith Whitnah, Sameer Yadav, Toya Cooper

Brown Bag Conversations

All conversations take place on Tuesdays, between noon and 1:00 pm.

2016–2017

2/14 in Founders: Actively learning Quantitative and Analytical Reasoning. Facilitator: Michael Everest
3/21 in Alumni Gallery: Quantitative and Analytical Reasoning: The Modified Moore Method and Class Wikis. Facilitator: David Hunter

2015–2016

9/15 in Founders: Faith-Learning in the GE Understanding Society Courses
10/6 in Alumni: Information Literacy. Facilitator: Molly Riley
11/3 in Alumni Gallery: Critical Thinking Pedagogy. Facilitator: Jim Taylor
11/20 in Alumni Gallery: Thinking Historically. Facilitator: Rick Pointer
11/10 in Founders: Information Literacy. Facilitator: Molly Riley
12/1 in Founders: Critical Thinking Pedagogy. Facilitator: Jim Taylor
1/26 in Alumni: Biblical and Theological Literacy. Facilitator: Sameer Yadav
3/8 in Alumni: Information Literacy. Facilitator: Molly Riley
4/12 in Founders: Thinking Historically. Facilitator: Rick Pointer