Featured Speaker:
Debra Humphreys
Dr. Humphreys currently serves as Vice President for Communications and Public Affairs at the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) - a position she assumed in January 2001. Prior to that, she served as Director of Programs in the Office of Diversity, Equity and Global Initiatives at AAC&U where she directed programs on women’s issues and diversity in higher education. She also served as Executive Editor of AAC&U’s quarterly publication, On Campus with Women and Editor of the quarterly Diversity Digest.
She is currently leading national advocacy efforts as part of AAC&U’s campaign, Liberal Education and America’s Promise: Excellence for Everyone as a nation Goes to College. Through this effort, she is helping to build communications capacity on the part of college and university leaders and faculty members and educate the public about the value of engaged liberal education to prepare for the changing global economy.
Before assuming her current position at AAC&U, she served as Project Director of two of AAC&U’s national diversity initiatives, Racial Legacies and Learning: An American Dialogue and Diversity Works. Dr. Humphreys also served as Associate Director of AAC&U’s other national initiative, American Commitment: Diversity, Democracy and Liberal Learning which involved more than 100 institutions working to transform their general education curricula to address issues of American diversity and democracy. She is the author of the project’s report, General Education and American Commitments: A National Report on Diversity Courses and Requirements.
Before coming to AAC&U in 1992, she had experience teaching Women’s Studies and English at Rutgers University, Towson State University and at the University of Maryland at Baltimore County. She also served as Program Associate at the National Women’s Studies Association. Dr. Humphreys has been a communications and educational consultant at numerous colleges and universities with a special interest in internal communications, communicating with students, and faculty and curriculum development. She has conducted faculty workshops on teaching and learning issues and especially on the process of general education reform and developing diversity courses and requirements. In addition to her expertise on general education and campus diversity issues, she has written, taught, and published on African American women’s literature, immigrant women’s literature, and women and American film history.
Dr. Humphreys received her BA from Williams College and her PhD in English from Rutgers University.
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Engaging the Spirit:
Rethinking the Core Curriculum
August 21, 2009
Full-time and part-time faculty, Academic Affairs Professional Staff and Student Affairs Professional Staff are invited to attend this WKU conference.
The schedule of events is as follows:
7:30 – 8:00 am Packet Distribution and Continental Breakfast - Garrett Ballroom
8:00 – 9:30 am Opening Plenary Session – Garrett Ballroom
Opening Remarks - Dr. Barbara Burch
Context for the Day - Dr. Larry Snyder
Speaker: Dr. Debra Humphreys
Engaging Their Spirits and Helping Students Connect: What the Core and Liberal Education Can and Must Do
9:45 – 11:15 am Break-out Engagement Sessions
11:30 – 12:30 pm Lunch and Socializing – Garrett Ballroom
12:45 – 2:15 pm Break-out Engagement Sessions
2:30 – 3:45 pm Closing Plenary & Awards – Garrett Ballroom
Where have we been and where are we going?
Panel: Robert Dietle, Michelle Trawick, Jane Olmsted, Andrew Wulff
Recognition of University Award Winners & University Distinguished Professors
Join us for an exciting opportunity to participate in our Engaging the Spirit: Rethinking the Core Curriculum Conference.
Break out Session Agenda
Links to Documents for the Conference
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