It’s new faculty orientation here at the University. This is the busiest time of year for those of us who work in faculty development. It’s…
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It’s new faculty orientation here at the University. This is the busiest time of year for those of us who work in faculty development. It’s…
Today makes ten years I’ve been working here at the University. Somehow this seems more significant than marking ten years in New Orleans. Not sure…
After a month of cajoling on my part, I’m happy to report my co-worker Nancy Hampton has finally launched the Xavier Library Blog. Please check…
I’ve been working over the past few months to get a new podcast launched here at work, and I think we’ve finally gotten to the point of promoting it. Here’s our formal announcement, more comments follow.
The Center for the Advancement of Teaching (CAT) at Xavier University of Louisiana is pleased to announce the official launch of our new podcast series, Teaching, Learning, and Everything Else.
Each episode is a conversation with a teacher in higher education, in which we examine how teaching intersects with a diverse range of topics. So far we have completed four episodes and touched on issues relating to technology, service learning, master teachers and dealing with personal problems of students. But we’re just getting started, and hope to continue branching out and exploring new topics with each episode. It’s a fresh and personal approach to faculty development that will appeal to anyone who teaches at the college level, regardless of discipline or rank.
The series is produced by Bart Everson, Media Artist at CAT. Dr. Elizabeth Yost Hammer is the Director of CAT and host of the show.
For more information, and to listen to the show, please visit our website at cat.xula.edu/podcast
Last Friday I noticed a new sculpture in the quad. Then I saw another, not too far away. What’s going on here? Could it be…
WWL 870-AM is broadcasting from our campus today. The office of University Media Relations asked me to sit in for a while, so I did.…
The biggest single thing my department does every year is New Faculty Orientation, which is today. This year we’ve got the biggest crop of new…
Busier than usual; things always get kinda crazy here just before classes begin.
No school today, so quiet — and then the machinery.
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