We Want YOU to Welcome Students!

If you had a captive audience of hundreds of brand new freshmen students, what would you say? Would you offer some advice to avoid pitfalls? Share something exciting from your classroom or your work on campus? Or would you give a few words of inspiration?

Well, guess what? You'll have that captive audience at New Student Convocation on Thursday, August 15!

We're looking for faculty members interested in giving their own or a collaborative short welcome segment (2 - 5 minutes) at the Convocation ceremony. Each of the four short segments will exemplify our fantastic faculty here at the College by focusing on one of the four tenants of Excellence in Teaching: Subject Matter, Pedagogy, Assessment, and Professionalism.

So if you're a willing and able faculty member, we want you! Please contact Laura Power (that's me!) with the following:

• Your E.T.* tenant (will you talk about an exciting classroom project or technique, your work with students outside of the classroom, research in your field, or the transformations you're making in your classroom or department? whatever it is, we'll take it!)
• Your format (Ignite-style presentation [it's a built in five minutes!], speech, or something else altogether?)
• Your time preference (if you want 5 minutes, you've got it, but you're welcome to write and perform a 2-minute ditty about assessment [music department and Robert McCord, I'm looking at you…])
• Your buddy (this one's optional, but if you'd like to do a presentation with a colleague, go for it! [although that doesn't mean you get twice as much time. sorry.])

 Please contact me with your information by Friday, April 19, and thanks!

*You thought we couldn't possibly come up with another acronym here at MCC, didn't you? Well, we did. And it's E.T.