May 17, 2001

State Faculty Group To Meet
In Bowling Green May 20-22

Bowling Green, Ky. - "Building a Scholarly Structure for Teaching and Learning" is the theme of a three-day conference next week in Bowling Green.

Faculty from Kentucky colleges and universities will participate in the Kentucky Conference on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning that begins Sunday afternoon at the University Plaza Hotel and Convention Center. The conference concludes Tuesday.
The Faculty Development Workgroup, an advisory group of the Council on Postsecondary Education, is hosting the conference as part of its effort to enhance teaching and learning by developing a strategic approach to the professional development higher education teachers.

WKU Provost Barbara Burch will open the three-day conference at 1 p.m. Sunday. The conference will feature more than 50 presentations on topics that include student diversity, Web-based instruction, intellectual properties, the role of personal digital assistants in the classroom and teaching group decision-making on the Internet.

Keynote speakers include Toru Iiyoshi, senior scholar at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching; Miko Pattie, director of the Kentucky Virtual Library; Mary Beth Susman, chief executive officer of the Kentucky Virtual University; and Jim Applegate, vice president for academic affairs of the Council on Postsecondary Education.

Other speakers include Ben Boggs, CPE senior associate; Kazi Javed, associate professor of chemistry at Kentucky State University and chair of the Faculty Development Workgroup; and Sally Kuhlenschmidt, director of WKU's Center for Teaching and Learning and a psychology professor.

The Faculty Development Workgroup consists of one member from each of Kentucky's public postsecondary institutions and one member from the Association of Independent Kentucky Colleges and Universities.

The conference agenda is available online at http://www.cpe.state.ky.us/kfdw/agenda.htm

For more information, contact Jan Meek Phillips at the WKU Center for Teaching & Learning at (270) 745-6507. More WKU news is available on the World Wide Web at www.wku.edu. If you'd like to receive WKU news via E-mail, send a message to WKUNews@wku.edu.