AAC&U American Association of Colleges and Universities

Call for Participation: General Education for a Global Century

AAC&U has announced a new project – General Education for a Global Century – funded with a generous grant from the Henry Luce Foundation. The project seeks to build the capacity of colleges and universities to prepare today’s college students to grapple with big global challenges and thrive in a globalized economy as socially responsible and engaged citizens and workers.

Part of AAC&U’s ongoing initiative, Shared Futures: Global Learning and Social Responsibility, this curriculum and faculty development project will build upon innovative efforts to reframe general education courses and programs. Participants will create coherent curricular designs that address complex, global issues across divisions and disciplines.

Teams from thirty colleges and universities will be selected through a nationwide, competitive application process to lead a high-profile, national effort to

articulate essential global learning outcomes for all students;
refine and disseminate models of global general education curricula that can be adapted across all institutional types;
provide faculty development opportunities to assist college faculty in designing and teaching interdisciplinary, integrative courses that focus on real-world global issues; and
develop rubrics to assess global learning outcomes.
The Call for Participation is available online. The deadline for applications is September 15, 2010.

For additional information, please e-mail Chad Anderson or call 202-387-3760. We look forward to reading your applications.

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Utz publishes on the History of Chaucer Studies

Richard Utz recently published "The Colony Writes Back: F.N. Robinson's Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer (1933) and the Translatio of Chaucer Studies to the United States," in the refereed journal Studies in Medievalism 19 (2010), 160-203. The essay, which delineates the genesis and reception of the precursors to the famed Riverside Chaucer of 1987, reveals a number of post-/neo-colonial translationary moves by F.N. Robinson, the editor of the Complete Works, meant to give Chaucer studies a new home in the U.S.

New Play Project Seven Rolls On with Plays By Joseph Sanders and Emilia LaPenta

New Play Project Seven rolls on with two more script-in-hand staged readings of new student written work. Tomorrow night features "An Interesting Man" by WMU MFA playwriting student Joseph Sanders and "Rooted" by Emilia LaPenta, a playwright from Kalamazoo College that is part of our annual playwright exchange with K. All this and you're out in time to see Celtics/Lakers game seven.

The readings are Thursday, June 17th at 7 PM and free and open to the public in the York Arena Theatre in the Gilmore Complex.

Lone Star College Grant Funded Positions

Faculty, Dev. English ~ Anticipated - Multiple Positions (Grant-funded), #40705

Lone Star College-Montgomery (Houston, TX)

Distinguished by excellence in teaching, innovation, and responsiveness to community needs, the Lone Star College System (LSCS) is one of the fastest growing community college systems in the great state of Texas. We are the largest institution of higher education in the greater Houston area and second largest community college in the state, serving over 62,000 credit students each semester.

Lone Star College System is currently seeking applicants for a Developmental English Faculty. This grant-funded temporary position is located at our Montgomery campus. If possible, please distribute to any colleagues, students or alumni that you feel may be interested in this opportunity.

Position Summary:

Teaches full range of developmental English courses. Engages in scholarly activity within English or college English education. Provides learning activities and support that lead to the achievement of course objectives and contribute to the educational environment of the Lone Star College System and the community. Responsibilities include learning facilitation, personal and professional development, and institutional and community service. Primary functions are to plan, develop, and teach courses within the curriculum in a manner that facilitates student learning.

Requirements:

Bachelor's Degree with a major or minor in English or in a related field such as education, reading, writing, linguistics, or language arts; or Master's Degree in English or in a related field such as education, reading, writing, linguistics, or language arts; or Bachelor's degree with related teaching or training experience in one or more of the above mentioned fields.

To apply for any position within the Lone Star College system, simply visit http://jobs.lonestar.edu , review the job details, and if interested, submit your online application to be considered for these positions.

Application Process: For the complete job descriptions, submission requirements, and access to our on-line application, please visit our Web site at www.lonestar.edu click on Employment, Job Seekers, Search & Apply Now, and then Search Postings. All positions are subject to a criminal background check. AA/EEO. There is no contact with applicants unless they are selected for interview. In that event, you will be contacted by a hiring manager or search committee member to schedule an interview. APPLY ON-LINE ONLY. Do not fax, email or mail any documents outside the electronic application process.

Tarbox, LaHaie, Meeusen, and Halko Present at ChLA

On Saturday, June 12, 2010, Gwen Tarbox, doctoral candidate Jeanne LaHaie, and WMU alums Dr. Gabrielle Halko (Assistant Professor, West Chester University) and Meghann Meeusen (doctoral candidate, PhD in Children's Literature program at Illinois State University) presented papers at the Children's Literature Association Conference, hosted this year by Eastern Michigan University. Their panel, "Mommy Dearest, Derailed, or Dangerous: The Maternal Figure in Contemporary Children's and Adolescent Literature," generated lots of lively discussion.

Also presenting at the conference were former visiting Assistant Professors Dr. Lance Weldy (now at Francis Marion University) and Dr. Tammy Mielke (now at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte), as well as WMU English Education alum, Dr. Thomas Crisp (now an Assistant Professor at the University of South Florida).