<html><head></head><body name="Mail Message Editor"><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><br></span></div><div id="replyPrefaceElement">On Feb 12, 2010, at 12:00:06 PM, cbw_exec-request@tamu-commerce.edu wrote:</div><br><blockquote style="padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: blue; color: blue; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="width: 749px; "><div id="felix-mail-header-block" style="color: black
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est, Vol 23, Issue 5</span></td></tr><tr><td width="70px" style="fo
nt-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 8pt; color: gray; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; font-weight: bold; "><span>Date:</span></td><td style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 8pt; color: black; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; padding-left: 5px; "><span>February 12, 2010 12:00:06 PM CST</span></td></tr><tr><td width="70px" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 8pt; color: gray; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; font-weight: bold; "><span>To:</span></td><td style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 8pt; color: black; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; padding-left: 5px; "><span title="cbw_exec@tamu-commerce.edu">cbw_exec@tamu-commerce.edu</span></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div id="felix-mail-content-block" style="color: black; background-color: white; width: 749px; "><div style="font-family: monospace; color: black; background-color: white; font-size: 8pt; ">Send CBW_Exec mailing list submissions to<br>cbw_exec@tamu-commerc
e.edu<br><br>To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit<br>http://mailman.tamu-commerce.edu/mailman/listinfo/cbw_exec<br>or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to<br>cbw_exec-request@tamu-commerce.edu<br><br>You can reach the person managing the list at<br>cbw_exec-owner@tamu-commerce.edu<br><br>When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific<br>than "Re: Contents of CBW_Exec digest..."<br><br><br>Today's Topics:<br><br>1. Re: Personal/Professional updates (GlsnBarb@aol.com)<br><br><br>----------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>Message: 1<br>Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:11:18 EST<br>From: GlsnBarb@aol.com<br>Subject: Re: [CBW_Exec] Personal/Professional updates<br>To: cbw_exec@tamu-commerce.edu<br>Message-ID: <17e2e.31614ef6.38a5f6a6@aol.com><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"<br><br>Hi! In response to Hannah's request for up-dates on our activities:<br>I continue to admin
ister, develop and assess the MA in Language and<span class="Apple-
converted-space"> </span><br>Literacy<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>CCNYhttp://www1.ccny.cuny.edu/prospective/humanities/english/graduate_language.cfm.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>Lynn Troyka, Jane Maher, Tom Peele, and Kate Garretson have all taught<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>courses for L&L MA students recently. A few months ago, I wrote and submitted a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>self-study report on the L&L MA for Fall 2008/Spring 2009.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>This Spring 2010 semester, I am working together with Amy Dalsimer and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>Wynne Ferdinand (of the La Guardia Com. College Adult & Continuing Education<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>program) to pilot an internship for two graduate students to co-teach in GED<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>
classes in the La Guardia Community College's Adult ACE division. Since the L&<br>L MA's mission is to prepare graduate students to teach adult education,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>basic writing, or college composition and literature courses, I am delighted<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>that two of our L&L grad students (Justin March & Wynne Ferdinand) secured<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>two full-time teaching jobs within CUNY in the past few months. In addition,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>two of our recent graduates (Lauren Ball and John Lyons) have just started<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>doctoral programs (with fellowships) at NYU and at St. John's U.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>This semester, I'm developing a new curriculum for a grad course titled<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>Adult Learners of
Language and Literacy. I'm also teaching an undergrad<span class="A
pple-converted-space"> </span><br>sociolinguistics class for 1st time.<br>For my research on adult undergraduate writers of autobiography in a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>prior learning assessment program, I won a Professional Staff Congress-CUNY<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>research award for this academic year and presented part of my findings at the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>National Institute on the Assessment of Adult Learning in Princeton, NJ in J<br>une '09. Next month, I'll report further on this work at CCCC, where I'll<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>also chair the SIG on Teaching Adult Learners in Diverse Contexts Friday<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>night. We'll be focusing on issues related to teaching and learning on-line.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>Would love for you to attend!!<span class="Apple-converted-space"> 
;</span><br>Looking forward to seeing you all very soon.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>Warmly, Barbara Gleason<br>-------------- next part --------------<br>An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br>URL: http://mailman.tamu-commerce.edu/pipermail/cbw_exec/attachments/20100211/a7970ef6/attachment-0001.htm<br><br>------------------------------<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>CBW_Exec mailing list<br>CBW_Exec@tamu-commerce.edu<br>http://mailman.tamu-commerce.edu/mailman/listinfo/cbw_exec<br><br><br>End of CBW_Exec Digest, Vol 23, Issue 5<br>***************************************<br><br></div></div></div></span></blockquote><div><span class="Apple-style-span">I am sorry to be so out of the loop that I haven't been paying attention to the emails: that's part of the personal update information. I continue to be chair of the communications department (English and speech) at Truman College, as well as Director of Assessment for the college
. I have spent almost all my time since last May, aside from teachi
ng duties, as one of the authors of our self-study for the accreditation visit by the Higher Learning Commission in March (thus the reason I am not attending the C's this year). I am also now officially the most senior faculty member in the Chicago City Colleges (!), in the midst of my 42nd year. I think I will be giving a go for one more year but am keeping open the option of retiring this year. <div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><br></span></div><div>My work with assessment, both in the college and in the department, has been extensive in the last year. College-wide, we completed our first reading of the General Education portfolio, encompassing four college-wide goals tied to weighted rubrics, all based on papers from students who had completed at least thirty hours of coursework. The results showed that students (and assignments) fell slightly below expectations in critical thinking (I know that will come a shock to everyone). Thus the feedback loop project
required every department to engage in assessment projects for both an entry-level and an upper-level course, targeted toward improving critical thinking. We are extending the portfolio this year to examine the work of students in first-year courses, and next year to the work of developmental courses. The whole activity has been especially useful in tearing down silos within the institution, for the readers of the portfolios involved faculty, support staff and administrators (including the president, vice president, and dean of instruction!). <div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><br></span></div><div>My department is also engaged in the critical thinking initiative, with a focus on our lower-level developmental reading/writing course and on English 102. Additionally, we have revised our SLO's for all courses and our requirements for the papers to include in the departmental portfolios (for developmental, we now require a reflective introduction, an three-hour ex
it writing of summary and response, and two papers that must incorp
orate at least two sources in their arguments, with one of the papers begun in class. We also meet in teams with our 46 adjuncts (compared to 20 full-time faculty members) at the beginning of the term, at mid-term, and in grading sessions on the portfolios at end of term. Mentoring has become a priority. <div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="">Off the top of my head, that's what's new. <div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="">Alan Meyers<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="">Chair Communication Department and Director of Assessment<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="">Harry S Truman College<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="">Chicago</span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></div></div></span></div><div class="aol_ad_footer" id="u64BD0527F31C45B7A9859C9FFBF1500A"></div></body></html>