Christopher Long commented on the post, Cultivating a GenEd@PSU Community, on...
Great question, Susan. We have been talking about this on the GenEd Task Force, but no final decisions have been made, so I’d be interested in your thoughts. Right now, we are considering an idea that...
View ArticleChristopher Long commented on the post, What Might a #PSUGenEd Theme Look...
Thanks, Katie, for these reflections. Let me see if I can address some of them here. First, you suggest that themes seem random, arbitrary, vague and irrelevant. I have heard students describe the...
View ArticleChristopher Long commented on the post, Instructional Space Problem...
Thanks for the comment, Geoff. We will be posting a list of the scheduled town hall style meetings we will be facilitating as a Task Force over the next few months. The hope is that we will have a...
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Christopher Long wrote a new post, Meeting with Penn State Registrars, on the...
On November 1, 2011, the Instructional Space Task Force met with the conference of Registrars from Penn State’s campuses. We facilitated a discussion about instructional space, focusing on three […]
View ArticleChristopher Long wrote a new post, Why Blog Instructional Space @ Penn State,...
In May 2011, Provost Rod Erickson charged the Instructional Space Task Force with the instructions “to develop and communicate a shared set of norms and expectations for scheduling classes” at Penn...
View ArticleChristopher Long commented on the post, First Instructional Space Town Hall...
It was great to see a relatively diverse turnout at the first Instructional Space Town Hall meeting today. We still have some work to do to engage the students, but I was glad to have some faculty,...
View ArticleChristopher Long wrote a new post, A Faculty Perspective, on the site...
We received an email from Linda Treviño, Distinguished Professor of Organizational Behavior and Ethics in the Smeal College of Business, that outlined a strong case for the Task Force to give faculty...
View ArticleChristopher Long wrote a new post, First Instructional Space Town Hall at UP,...
On Tuesday, January 31st, 3-5pm, the first town hall meeting of the Instructional Space Task Force will be held in Heritage Hall in the HUB. This is part of a wider approach to the question of...
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Christopher Long wrote a new post, First Instructional Space Town Hall...
On January 31, 2012, 38 members of the Penn State community at University Park gathered in Heritage Hall with members of the Instructional Space Task Force to discuss our scheduling priorities as a...
View ArticleChristopher Long wrote a new post, UStream Recording of Second Instructional...
Today the Instructional Space Task Force held a very successful town hall meeting in Heritage Hall. It was very well attended. We will post notes from that event in due course, but for now, here is a...
View ArticleChristopher Long wrote a new post, UP Town Hall II, on the site Instructional...
On February 15th, 2012, the Instructional Space Task Force held its second town hall meeting on instructional space. Eighty-three (83) members from across 18 Penn State units attended the event. There...
View ArticleChristopher Long wrote a new post, Town Hall at Wilkes-Barre, on the site...
On February 21, 2012, the Wilkes-Barre campus held a town hall meeting on instructional space. There were four students, five faculty members and two staff members present. They responded to the three...
View ArticleChristopher Long wrote a new post, Town Hall at York, on the site...
On February 28, 2012, the York campus held a town hall meeting on instructional space. There were about 20 faculty in attendance, the Chancellor, the Dean for Academic Affairs (DAA), Instructional...
View ArticleChristopher Long wrote a new post, Town Hall at Penn State Behrend, on the...
Penn State Behrend held Instructional Space Town Hall meetings on February 13 and 16th, with a total of 19 individual in attendance. They responded to the three questions we have asked at each Town...
View ArticleChristopher Long wrote a new post, Town Hall at Beaver Campus, on the site...
Penn State Beaver held an Instructional Space Town Hall meeting in late February. They responded to the three questions we have asked at each Town Hall meeting: What elements of the current model […]
View ArticleChristopher Long wrote a new post, Town Hall at Berks, on the site...
On March 12, 2012, the Berks campus held a town hall meeting on instructional space. There were 12 faculty and 5 staff present. The student government association was invited to participate, but no...
View ArticleChristopher Long wrote a new post, Town Hall at Brandywine, on the site...
In late February, 2012, the Brandywine campus held a town hall meeting on instructional space. They responded to the three questions we have asked at each Town Hall meeting: What elements of the...
View ArticleChristopher Long wrote a new post, Talking with Students, on the site...
Over the past few weeks, the Instructional Space Task Force has sought substantive discussions with students on the issue of scheduling. On March 14th, we met with UPUA and on March 24th, we met with...
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Christopher Long wrote a new post, The Humanities in a Digital Age...
The Humanities in a Digital Age (HDA) initiative is a collaborative endeavor between the College of the Liberal Arts and the University Libraries at the Pennsylvania State University to enrich and...
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Christopher Long wrote a new post, Emerging Digital Humanities Culture, on...
The third Liberal Arts Scholarship and Technology Summit held August 16-17, 2012, focused on the Digital Humanities. We had a very good turnout and discussion that illustrates how far we have come in...
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