Save the Date and Register! The VCU Online Learning Summit is an inaugural event! The Center for Teaching Excellence is sponsoring the first of its kind dialogue about online learning among VCU faculty members. The Summit, held May 14 at the Monroe Campus Student Commons, will be a forum for identifying, sharing and discussing key issues about teaching and learning online. Bill Pelz, our keynote speaker, will describe his Principles of Effective Online Teaching. Following the keynote, a panel of VCU faculty will present topics related to Making the Transition to Teaching Online. These presentations will be followed by a roundtable session where the panelists join a table of audience members to extend the dialogue and discuss more fully the presented topics. After the (free!) lunch, a second group of faculty will present topics focused on Effective Teaching Practice in the Online Environment, followed again by roundtable discussions. The last session will aggregate the day's discussions to see what issues and questions emerged from the dialogue. Go to http://wp.vcu.edu/online-learning-summit to learn more and register!

The Center for Teaching Excellence is pleased to announce the recipients of funding from the CTE Small Grants Program for the 2011-2012 award cycle:

• Dina Bangdel (School of the Arts--Department of Art History), Developing Effective Teaching Practices in Art History: Graduate Teaching Associate (GTA) Enhancement Workshops
• Corin H. Hewitt (School of the Arts--Department of Sculpture and Extended Media), Chromotheater - A Course in the Theater of Color
• Heather A. Jones (College of Humanities and Sciences--Department of Psychology), Using Bug-in-the-Ear Technology to Improve Graduate Student Therapist Skills
• Christian A. Mason (College of Humanities and Sciences--Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics), Rethinking Precalculus: An Inverted Classroom
• Bernard K. Means (School of World Studies--Anthropology), Virtual Artifact Curation and Archaeological Field Schools: Three-Dimensional Digital Data Collection for Artifact Analysis and Interpretation
• Kristin E. Reed (University College--Focused Inquiry), Inside Out Richmond
• Rebecca A. Segal (College of Humanities and Sciences--Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics), Implementation of Skills Support in Lon-CAPA for Math 141: College Algebra
• Amy Rector Verrelli (School of World Studies--Anthropology), Active Learning and Student Engagement in Biological Anthropology

There are currently nearly 1.8 million living women military veterans in this country and over 103,000 have been deployed to Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom. Women in the military and most especially those deployed to an operation where they may be exposed to combat, creates unique issues and concerns on college campuses. The first half of this webinar is an in-depth exploration of those issues and concerns that seem to be gender specific for the women veterans returning to college campuses.

In the second half, Supportive Education for the Returning Veteran (SERV) will provide insight into what today`s women veterans need, and how to create and run an effective women veterans program. SERV will provide the background information from women veteran peer support personnel so that campuses will know what some women go through while they are in the military and the impact it has on their beliefs, fears, expectations and overall transition to the college campus. This data is critical to understanding the gender specific physical, cognitive, emotional, behavioral, and spiritual (P.C.E.B.S.) reactions women veterans bring to your college campus.

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