Annual Report

Summary: The PETE Committee had an active year, sponsoring 17 luncheon programs with an average attendance of 20. Seventeen travel and material grants were awarded averaging $1098, the adjunct faculty development program was sponsored, and 7 summer grants were awarded.

I. Committee Members

Nezih Altay                        Management

Catherine Bagwell              Psychology

Holly Blake                          WILL

Richard Coughlan               Management

Rafael de Sa                      Biology

Liz Faier                             Leadership

Linda Hobgood                  Rhetoric & Communication Studies

Kibibi Mack-Shelton           History

Emmeline Reeves              Law                

Pat Schoknecht                 Coordinator

John Warrick                     Biology

II. PETE Sponsored Luncheons

Sept 1        New Features in BlackBoard 6.1, Kevin Creamer, 23 attendees

Sept 22      Writing to Learn during Class, Joe Essid, 15 attendees

Sept 29      Who Are These Kids Anyway? Getting to Know Today's Richmond Students, Marilyn Hesser & Peter LeViness, 44 attendees

Oct 1         Building Classroom Community through Classroom Projects, Jane Love, 15 attendees

Oct 20       The Basics of Student Development, Student Life Staff, 28 attendees

Oct 27       How to Grade Written Work, Joe Essid, 17 attendees

Nov 9         New Facilities to Promote Interactive Teaching, Mark Nichols, 21 attendees

Nov 17       Using Performance in the Classroom, Dorothy Holland, 22 attendees

Jan 19        How I Came to Stop Fearing Blackboard and Came to Love (Part of) It, Joe Essid, 17 attendees

Jan 26        Culture Shock: International Students Discuss the Issues, Nuray Grove & Hil Scott, 34 attendees

Feb 9          Library 100/101: Deprogramming the Google Cult, Lucretia McCulley, 17 attendees

Feb 23        Discussion Boards: Choices on Technology & Ideas for Use, Sue McGinnis & Betsy Miles, 18 attendees

Mar 16        Using Opera in any Class: Issues, Methods & Resources, Ruth Longobardi & Linda Fairtile, 9 attendees

Mar 23        Educating in the Digital Age, Mignon Tucker, 11 attendees

Mar 30        E-zines, Terry Dolson, 7 attendees

Apr 8         Incorporating Courses on Sexual Orientation in the Curriculum, Cedric Rucker, 31 attendees

III. Guest Speakers:

Two guest speakers were brought to campus through PETE support.

 October 1^st: Jane Love, Director of the Center for Collaborative Learning & Communication, Furman University in partnership with the WILL Program spoke on building classroom community using group projects.

 April 8^th: Cedric Rucker, Dean of Student Life. University of Mary Washington in partnership with SafeZone spoke on incorporating issues of sexual orientation throughout the curriculum.

 IV. Adjunct Faculty Training

A special program was run between PETE and the School of Continuing Studies to provide specialized training to adjunct faculty. This program was quite a success, enrolling 20 adjunct faculty.

V. Grants

Travel

Mavis Brown, Education, 700

Jeff Riehl, Music, 1450    

Maren Reiner, Biology, 1300   

Archana Bhatt, RHCS, 1925    

Nancy Allen, Theater & Dance, 1300   

Vincent Wang, International Studies, 700

Lee Carleton, English, 1500

Barbara Sholley, Psychology, 325

Hank Selby, Information Systems, 1405                            

Joe Troncale, MLL, 915

Ruth Longobardi, Music, 995

Rafael de Sa/Gary Radice, Biology, 750

Nuray Grove, English, 615

Carol Lawrence, Accounting, 1800

Deborah Peters, Human Resource Management, 1800  

Materials

Olenka Pevny, Art History, 200

Claudia Ferman, MLL, 1000

Summer

Kevin O’Donnell, MLL, 3700

Fiona Ross, Art & Art History, 3700

Carol Summers, History, 3700

Kevin Kuswa, RHCS, 3700

Dana Lascu, Marketing, 3700

Jason Owen, Math & Computer Science, 3700

Catherine Bagwell/Rick Mayes, Psychology/Political Science, 3700