CTA workshops are open to all GU faculty, including adjuncts, terms, and other non-tenure-track hires. A list of our Spring 2007 events as they occur in consecutive order is as follows:

1. Faculty Evaluation in the Classroom: Making the Experience a Productive One
Facilitators: Dr. Tom McKenzie, Dr. Steve Balzarini, and Dr. Dean Larson
Date: Friday, February 9, 2:00 – 3:00 p.m., CTA (Foley 106)
Event Type: Conversational forum
This event is an informal, “open-floor” discussion about the faculty observation process, focusing on strategies and ideas for making that process a successful one. Refreshments provided.

2. How Should We Value and Evaluate Advising?
Facilitator: Dr. Tom Jeannot
Date: Thursday, February 22, 3:00 – 4:00 p.m., CTA (Foley 106)
Event Type: Conversational forum
This event is an informal, “open-floor” discussion about what we value in student advising and how student advising should be formally evaluated. Refreshments provided.

3. What Makes Us GU? Incorporating Gonzaga’s Mission into Classroom Instruction
Workshop Leads: Fr. Rick Ganz and Fr. Scott Coble
Date: Monday, February 26, 3:30 – 5:00 p.m., ACT Lab Foley
Event Type: Workshop
Most of us are not only strong supporters of the mission of Gonzaga but also strong proponents of the idea that Gonzaga’s mission should factor into our classroom teaching in explicit, deliberate, and instructive ways. The gap between intention and practice in this regard, however, is considerable. How is it that we are to incorporate Gonzaga’s mission into our teaching? What makes a course in philosophy, economics, or exercise science at this institution different from the same course offered at another institution? The purpose of this workshop is to take up these questions and to present ideas about how Gonzaga’s identity as a humanistic, Catholic, and Jesuit institution may be more usefully and explicitly incorporated into the work that we do as instructors.

4. Supporting Academic Honesty
Facilitators: Susan Foster-Dow, Dr. Cindy Fitzgerald, and Dr. Mike Pringle
Date: Thursday, March 29, 4:00 – 5:00 p.m., CTA (Foley 106)
Event Type: Conversational forum
This event is an informal, “open-floor” discussion about academic honesty, the new academic honesty policy, and ways to address academic honesty issues on campus. Refreshments provided.

5. Integrating Career and Grad School Advising into Undergraduate Academic Advising
Workshop Leads: Dr. Mary Heitkemper and Dr. Mark Alfino
Date: Friday, March 30, 1:00 -2:30 p.m., ACT Lab Foley
Event Type: Workshop
The purpose of this workshop is to equip faculty with ideas and tips about how to incorporate career search information and graduate school advising into undergraduate advising and curriculum design at the freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior levels. Specific topics to be addressed will include information about current job trends, salary expectations by field and region, skills and qualifications employers are seeking, effective ways students can articulate their liberal arts education, and when and how to address career issues with advisees. Participants will also learn about the numerous career resources available to advising faculty, including resources faculty have on hand already (although they may not know it) as well as resources in other campus departments that faculty can refer students to.

6. Culturally-Responsive Instruction: Addressing the Needs of Minority & International Students
Workshop Leads: Dr. Raymond Reyes and James Hunter
Date: Thursday, April 5, 4:00 – 5:30 p.m., ACT Lab Foley
Event Type: Workshop
Good teaching involves understanding and responding to the unique needs and opportunities presented by our students. This workshop offers faculty an occasion to deepen their awareness of the cultural, social, and linguistic issues that often present themselves as obstacles to success for many of our Native American and international students. Presenters of this session will address specific ways instructors can adapt and develop teaching practices to be more responsive to the needs of these students, including ways to rethink lecturing techniques, classroom discussions, group work, student sharing, language proficiency expectations, and grading.