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Arts & Humanities: Toward a Flourishing State?

Network for Academic Renewal Conference
November 3-5, 2011
Providence, Rhode Island

Conference Evaluation

Thank you for attending the 2011 Arts & Humanities: Toward a Flourishing State? conference.  We appreciate you completing the conference evaluation form to help us improve upon future Network events.

Contact Siah Annand at Annand@aacu.org with any questions or additional comments you might like to offer.

1) What was the primary reason for your participation?

2) To what extent did the conference program help you achieve your participation goals?

1- Met few if any

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3 - Met some

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5 - Met almost all goals

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3. Please indicate your most valuable learning experience and how you might apply it when you return.

 

4. What topics would you like to see addressed in future Network conferences?

 

 5. Please rate the following plenary sessions on a scale of 5-0 with 5 being very valuable to your work and 1 of no value.  

What the Arts and Humanities Can Teach Us About the American Citizenry and Democracy of the Future; Nell Irvin Painter

Valuing Humanistic and Cultural Knowledge in a Global Society; Robert J. Thompson and Raymond Tymas-Jones

Community-Based Arts Organizations: Where Students, Mentors, Dreams, and Talents Coverge; New Urban Arts, Community Music Works, Youth in Action, AS220, Voices Encouraging Nonviolent Thinking, Open Door, Community Lens, Providence After School Alliance, College Unbound

Reception and Community Conversation: Participatory Democracy and Reinvigorating the Commons; Kevin Bott, Adam Bush, Dana Edell, Dennis Littky

Giving Voice to the Future: Students Take the Mic; Rachel Benoit, Jason Furbish, Ellen Gianakis, Jake Monaghan, Andre Diaz, and Rebecca Townsend

Film Screening: Soul of a People: Writing America's Story

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6. Comments on poster sessions (please include poster number or presenter name):

 

7. Please select the session in which you participated and rate them on a scale of 5-0 with 5 being very valuable to your work and 1 of no value.  

Friday, November 4, 2011, 8:00 - 9:00 a.m.
Concurrent Sessions - select one

CS 1: The Role of Undergraduate Research in Revisioning the Humanities

CS 2: Creative Tensions, Challenging Environments: The Arts & Humanities as Drivers of Interdisciplinary Change

CS 3: LEAP: Turning Ideas into Action with AAC&U Resources

CS 4: A Multidisciplinary Learning Community for Adult Learners

CS 5: Integrating Art-Making into the Research University: Strategies and Dialogue

CS 6: Supporting Engaged Scholarship in a Liberal Arts Context

CS 7: Disciplinary Expertise in an Interdisciplinary, Transdisciplinary, and Multidisciplinary World

CS 8: Proximity Research and Campus/Community Engagement

Please rate the discussion you attended

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Friday, November 4, 2011, 10:45 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Concurrent Sessions - select one

CS 9: Creating Across the Curriculum: An Intercollege Degree Program

CS 10: Integrative Curricular Models in the Humanities, Arts, and Other Academic Domains

CS 11: Enhancing Understanding of Local and Global Community Challenges through Arts and Humanities

CS 12: Service Learning in the Arts and Humanities

CS 13: Reflect on This: The Humanities as Resources for Campus and Community Service

CS 14: Immersive Learning in the Arts and Humanities

CS 15: Arts and Humanities as a Vehicle for Retention and Institutional Transformation

CS 16: Crafting a Student Services Pedagogy: Generative Practices from the Arts and Humanities

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Friday, November 4, 2011, 2:15 – 3:45 p.m.
Concurrent Sessions - select one

CS 17: Toward a Flourishing State: Connecting the Great Works of Our Country

CS 18: Innovation and Design for an Intentional Curriculum

CS 19: Engaging Students in Big Questions in the Humanities and the Arts

CS 20: Revamping General Education using Arts and Humanities: Two Case Studies

CS 21: Addressing “Academically Adrift”: Redefining Expectations through Curricular Redesign

CS 22: The Campus as a Cultural Catalyst

CS 23: Cultivating the Citizen-Artist: Integrating Social and Personal Responsbility into Undergraduate Arts Education

CS 24: Mentoring and Campus/Community Conversation

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Friday, November 4, 2011, 4:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Concurrent Sessions - select one

CS 25: Bringing Humanities Faculty from Specialization to Integrative Learning

CS 26: Using a Shared Theme to Bridge the Campus and Community Gap

CS 27: Art Alive: Teaching Art History Beyond the Classroom

CS 28: The Creative Research Center: A Virtual Community

CS 29: Connecting the Arts and Humanities through Shakespeare

CS 30: The Culture and Practice of Engaged Scholarship: A Case Study

CS 31: Reimagining Curricula: Educating Students for Personal and Social Responsibility

CS 32: Reacting to the Past: When the Curriculum Gets in the Way of Good Pedagogy

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Saturday, November 5, 2011, 8:15 – 9:15 a.m.
Concurrent Sessions – select one

CS 33: Fostering Interdisciplinary Collaborations across Varying Institutional Contexts and Cultures

CS 34: Humanistic Mathematics: Charting a Path toward a New Transdiscipline

CS 35: Applied Learning for Today's Humanities Majors

CS 36: Transforming Your Campus into a Center of Engagement, Enlightenment, and Inspiration

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Saturday, November 5, 2011, 9:30 – 10:45 a.m.
Concurrent Sessions – select one

CS 37: Arts and Humanities in the Web's Second Decade: New Textuality and Emergent Literacies

CS 38: Funding Programs of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

CS 39: Creative Assignments: Student Learning and Assessment through Art, Music, Literature, and Cartoons

CS 40: Integrating the Humanities: Connections and Infusion in the Core Curriculum

CS 41: Communicating Effectively about the Value of the Arts and Humanities for Work, Life, and Citizenship

CS 42: Empowering English Language Learners through Campus/Community Partnerships

CS 43: Interactive Theatre as a Tool for Civic Dialogue and Action

CS 44: Assessment as Innovation: Involving Learners in Reflective Thinking and Practice

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8. Please share any general comments about the conference that you might like to offer.

Thank you.  Please feel free to contact Siah Annand at annnand@aacu.org if you have any questions or have additional feedback.

 

 

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