Center for Faculty Excellence 2008 Events

[NOTE: Althogh the title says faculty, these are open to graduate students, and in fact many of the attendees are teaching assistants.]

The Center for Faculty Excellence invites you to join us for our Fall 2008 events. We offer open-enrollment workshops throughout the semester, addressing a wide variety of teaching topics. This semester we are holding 3 series of workshops:

Teaching @ Carolina
This series of workshops provides new teachers at Carolina with the basic steps involved in designing an effective course. These interactive sessions will engage teachers with some of the research on a specific topic and a discussion of the issues associated with practice in teaching and learning at Carolina.

Explorations in Teaching
The Explorations in Teaching Series will facilitate conversations about a variety of topics related to teaching and learning. Areas of concentration include teaching strategies, issues specifically related to our students, assessing student learning, and professional development. Selected teachers from across Carolina will be participating as facilitators.

Talking About Teaching
"Talking About Teaching" is a workshop series designed to engage participants in discussions on timely topics in teaching and learning. This semester the topical focus is on two areas of teaching: The Inner Life of a Teacher and Games and Simulation in Higher Education. Each workshop will include introductory remarks, video-viewing, and follow-up discussion. The discussions will offer participants a chance to reflect on issues presented and collaborate on the content of the video and text and broader issues of teaching and learning.

Please visit our website (http://cfe.unc.edu/events.html) for descriptions of the open-enrollment workshops, and to register for events.

(Note: No food or drink is allowed in the House Undergraduate Library rooms where these workshops take place.)

Grad School Workshops

These are sponsored by the Graduate School as part of the Graduate Professional Development Program. A complete list of workshops for the Fall semester is posted at: http://gradschool.unc.edu/student/profdev/events.html (updates ongoing).



Non-partisan Voter Registration Drive

Graduate Student Center, 211A West Cameron Ave.

August 19, 3:00–5:00 p.m.

August 20, 10:00–12:00 p.m.

August 21, 11:00–1:00 p.m.



Establishing North Carolina Residency for Tuition Purposes

Monday, September 8, 2008, 4:00–5:00 p.m.

Graduate Student Center, 211A West Cameron Ave.

Register: http://cfx.research.unc.edu/res_classreg/browse_single.cfm?New=1&event_id=21668



Health Insurance Information Session

Hill, Chesson, & Woody

Tuesday, September 9, 2008, 5:00–6:30 p.m.

Graduate Student Center, 211A West Cameron Ave.

Register: http://cfx.research.unc.edu/res_classreg/browse_single.cfm?New=1&event_id=21669



CV and Cover Letter Writing Workshop

Wednesday, September 10, 2008, noon–1:30 p.m.

Lunch provided

Graduate Student Center, 211A West Cameron Ave.

Register: http://cfx.research.unc.edu/res_classreg/browse_single.cfm?New=1&event_id=21670



Graduate Funding 101– Social Sciences & Humanities

Friday, September 12, 2008, 9:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.

Davis Library 247

Register: http://cfx.research.unc.edu/res_classreg/browse_single.cfm?New=1&event_id=21671



How to Feel as Bright and Capable As Everyone Seems to Think You Are

Dr. Valerie Young, http://www.impostersyndrome.com/

Wednesday, September 17, 2008, 9:00 a.m.–noon

Bondurant Hall, G-100

Register: http://cfx.research.unc.edu/res_classreg/browse_single.cfm?New=1&event_id=21666



Graduate Funding 101– Sciences & Health Sciences

Friday, September 26, 2008, 9:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.

Health Sciences Library 307

Register: http://cfx.research.unc.edu/res_classreg/browse_single.cfm?New=1&event_id=21672



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Curriculum Q&A Session, Wed 8/20 in SN011

I plan to have an open session to field questions on the curriculum. Come if you have questions about topics such as course selection, admission to PhD, writing requirement, exams, use of courses taken elsewhere, etc.

Research Ethics course

GRAD 721 - Research Ethics, Fall 2008

Instructor: Doug MacLean, PhD (Philosophy department)

Thursdays, 4:00 – 6:00; Graduate Student Center; 211A West Cameron Ave

Class meets: Aug 21, 28, Sept 4, 11, 18, 25, Oct 2

Carries 1 semester hour of credit

Registration via the University Registrar

The purpose of this course is to discuss in serious and systematic ways some of the important issues in research ethics. This is not a course in moral theory, and neither is it a course that aims only to review rules and codes of conduct. Rather, the aim is to increase our awareness of the nature of ethical issues in research and some ways and methods for reasoning constructively about them. The topics we will address include (but are not restricted to): falsification of data, plagiarism, professional codes of ethics, issues in mentoring, peer review and authorship, the use of statistics, intellectual property, conflicts of interest, the use of human and animal subjects in research, environmental ethics, issues involving women and under-represented minorities in the professions, and the social responsibilities of researchers.

This graduate level course will be conducted as a seminar and will meet seven times during the semester beginning August 21, 2008. All readings, case studies, and instructional material are available online. Participants will do the readings for each topic and take a self-paced quiz to test their comprehension of the material before the meeting in which the material is discussed. The class/seminar sessions will be devoted to a discussion of the principles relevant to the specific topics and a discussion of the complexities and difficulties of the cases. The requirements of the course are to do the online material before each seminar and to attend the seminars. There will be no additional exams or papers.