New Faculty Orientation
Collins Building, room 278   10 a.m.-1:30 p.m.   M. Grabarek

New full-and part-time faculty members will meet to learn about Durham Tech and receive valuable information about teaching and learning at the college.

New Faculty Orientation
Collins Building, room 278   5-8:30 p.m.   M. Grabarek

New full-and part-time faculty members will meet to learn about Durham Tech and receive valuable information about teaching and learning at the college.

Mentor Partners
Phillips Building, room 309   2:30-3:30 p.m.  M. Grabarek

This meeting is for mentors and mentoring partners (new full-time faculty members).

NC.NET
Tech Center, room 974   3-4 p.m.   K. Cantwell

Kerry Cantwell will introduce interested faculty to the excellent online professional development resource, NC.NET.

Frontline Spanish (1st of 6)
Continuing Education Center, TBA   11:30-12:30 a.m.   P. Senegal

We owe it to our many Hispanic students to develop some ability to comprehend and make ourselves understood. Learn how to converse in Spanish through a basic working knowledge of conversational Spanish. This class will focus on key phrases through phonetic repetition that will help you communicate with students and parents in our community college environment.

Frontline Spanish #2
Continuing Education Building, TBA   11:30-12:30 a.m.   P. Senegal

Frontline Spanish #3
Continuing Education Building, TBA   11:30-12:30 a.m.   P. Senegal

Is it Legal? Enforceable?
Phillips Building, room 381   10-11 a.m.   C. Kelly-Kleese

Christine Kelly-Kleese will lead a discussion about faculty policies in the classroom.

"Is it Legal?" PowerPoint presentation
"Is it Legal?" quiz

AtD: Success Literacy: Critical Advising Skills: Helping Students with Time Management
Collins Building, room 235  2-3:30 p.m.   T. Jaynes

Effective time management skills are important for all students. In this session, Tom Jaynes will present some quick questions, resources, and strategies that advisors, faculty, or staff might use to help students further develop the necessary skills to be more organized, efficient, and focused.

Frontline Spanish #4
Continuing Education Building, TBA   11:30-12:30 a.m.   P. Senegal

ATD: Survey of Non-returning Students
Collins Building, room 235   2 - 3 p.m.   S. Healy

Adjunct faculty member Sheza Healy will share her findings and observations about why students who enrolled in classes in fall 2004 did not return in spring 2005.

Program Review
Tech Center, room 947   11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.    R. Miller

Richard Miller, a recent veteran of program review, will discuss the ins and outs of the new program review system. Particular emphasis will be placed on modifying our internal evaluation instruments to work in programs that do not report to an outside accreditation agency. This session is open to everyone, but all program directors and department heads are especially encouraged to attend.

Multiple Choices: Writing Test Questions
White Building, room 50      2:30-3:30 p.m.       M. Henderson

Mack Henderson will discuss the "art" of writing test questions, the purpose of testing, and types of test questions. Participants will have the opportunity to apply what they have learned in the session.

Einstein on Bowling, Digital Cameras and Double Vision
Phillips Building, room 381   2 - 3 p.m.    M. Falbo

Practically everyone has heard of Einstein and his “Theory of Relativity.” But did you know that Einstein was famous for much more than relativity? In fact, in 1905 Einstein published 3 papers that helped change some very basic assumptions about the physical world and only one of these papers had anything to do with relativity! Hands-on demonstrations and non-technical discussion related to Einstein’s 1905 papers will be presented.

Frontline Spanish #5
Continuing Education Building, TBA   11:30-12:30 a.m.   P. Senegal

Socrates B&G
Phillips Building, room 307      4-5 p.m.   Tilson/Wooldridge/Grabarek

This is the first of two fall semester discussions on questions of deep meaning. All members of the college community, including students, are invited to attend. The fare is strictly philosophical, though. No bar and grill fare included!

CD Burning: The Basics
Tech Center, room 952     11a.m. - noon      W. Durkee

As new (and re-assigned) computers arrive on (and under) our desks so does the ability to “burn” CD’s. This class will provide an introduction to the process of creating a compact disk (CD). These high capacity disks provide the ability to back up large amounts of data, make copies of valuable disks (archive copies), and many other uses.

Latin American Films
Tech Center, room 900      3:30-5 p.m.   H. Castillo

Sharon Mujica, the UNC coordinator for the Latin American Film festival, will present information on the latest trends in Latin American films.

Frontline Spanish #5
Continuing Education Building, TBA   11:30-12:30 a.m.   P. Senegal

Excellence in Teaching
Phillips Building, room 307      3-4 p.m.       S. Whitlow

Faculty members are invited to learn more about how to develop their teaching portfolios at this popular event. Materials will be provided. This will be our only EIT workshop this semester.

Peer Review: Assignments
Phillips Building, room 373     3-4 p.m.     P. Wooldridge

Can faculty improve their assignments for clarity and optimum student learning? This session will show how collaboration among colleagues can enhance assignments and maximize student learning. Faculty may bring an assignment they would like to work on to the session.

International Student Update
Phillips Building, room 373    3-4 p.m.  Abell/Barclay-Toy/Newhouse/Fraser-Molina

This session will review the major reasons DTCC subscribes to a need for Global Ed., highlight on-going initiatives in different program areas (e.g. international student services, study abroad, faculty/staff development, internationalizing the curriculum), and provide an opportunity for participants to provide input and share ideas for future program enhancement.

Durham Tech Writes
Phillips Building, room 309      11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.     T. Constantine

Orchestrating the Multicultural Story
Phillips Building, room 381          3 - 4 p.m.            Humanities Group

Six DTCC faculty members (P. Wooldridge, B. Tilson, L. Penton, T. Constantine, and M.Grabarek, J. Gray) will present classroom techniques to aid students in discerning differing voices and reading lists for specific topics in art, philosophy, and the study of American culture.

Advising Developmental Studies Students
Phillips Building, room 381         11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.          Smith/KellyKleese

Advising often requires attention specific to developmental student needs. Come and discuss the potential peril or payoff that various approaches to working with developmental students can offer.

AtD: Student Success: Critical Advising Skills: Helping Students with Financial Concerns
Collins Building, room 235   2-3:30 p.m.   T. Jaynes

Durham Tech students indicate that financial stress is a significant barrier to persistence in college. In this session, Tom Jaynes will present some quick questions, resources, and strategies that advisors, faculty, or staff might use to help students connect to appropriate resources and make informed decisions about the cost of attending college.

HRD: DTCC’s Resource for Student Success
TBA      11-12 a.m.    B. Weber

The Human Resource Development (HRD) Program offers short-term training in computers, career pathways, and job seeking skills. Attend this interactive session to learn what DTCC's HRD Program has to offer students, unemployed, and underemployed individuals.

Best Practices: Technology
Tech Center, room 981   10-11 a.m.   T. Murphy

Tom Murphy will explore new uses of technology tools used in teaching today’s students.

Socrates B&G
Phillips Building, room 307      4-5 p.m.      Wooldridge/Grabarek/Tilson

This is the second fall 2005 gathering to discuss topics of deep meaning. The entire campus community is invited to participate.

Achievement in Higher Ed. Mathematics
Phillips Building, room 381      3-4 p.m.    E. Ridley

Elecia Ridley will share some insights into the rate and level of achievement for higher education students in mathematics.

Teaching Non-Native English Speakers Effectively
Phillips Building, room 307    3-4 p.m.       K. Abell

Do some of your students have a first language other than English? At this workshop you will learn some of the strategies ESL instructors use to help students understand course material.

The Art of the Ancient Kingdom of Benin
Phillips Building, room 307    3:30-4:30 p.m.       L. Penton

Liz Penton will give us some insight into the ancient West African kingdom of Benin (located in modern-day Nigeria) through a glimpse of the artwork from that time and place.

Three Mathematical Proofs Everyone Should Know
Collins Building, room 235    3:30-4:30 p.m.       C. Wessell

To a mathematician, nothing is more beautiful than an elegant proof. In this talk we’ll consider the Pythagorean Theorem, the fact that the square root of 2 can not be written as a fraction, and the fact that there are an infinite number of prime numbers. All of the proofs are short. The proof of the Pythagorean Theorem is hands-on, so bring a pair of scissors.

AtD: Data
Collins Building, room 235    2-3 p.m.  Bridges/Jaynes

Are you wondering where Durham Tech stands with the "culture of evidence" that's central to AtD? Are you concerned about student performance, persistence, and attainment? Come and partake in a discussion about the real data that has an impact on the success of our students.

Instructional CD’s
Tech Center, room 952       11 a.m.-12 p.m.      W. Durkee

How can we supply all of our students with the information we want them to have without killing more trees? Instructional CD’s can contain all of the handouts we may want our students to have. The structure and contents of these disks will be discussed as well as how to have these disks duplicated for students.

AtD: Challenging Students to Accept Responsibility For their Learning
Phillips Building, room 307     4-5 p.m.  M. Grabarek

This roundtable discussion will focus on how to encourage students to make a connection between the grades they are making and their student behaviors such as attendance, note taking, class participation, and performance on class assignments.