The 22nd Annual Fall Campuswide Workshops for Graduate Teaching Assistants, sponsored by the Office of Graduate Studies, is scheduled for Tuesday, August 14, 2012, in the Nebraska Union. The program will feature various teaching skills sessions, a lunch buffet—compliments of the Office of Graduate Studies—and a set of disciplinary breakout sessions.
Keynote
This year's keynote speaker is Dr. James M. Lang, Associate Professor of English and Director of the College Honors Program at Assumption College in Worcester, MA. He earned his BA from the University of Notre Dame, his MA from St. Louis University, and his Ph.D. in English literature from Northwestern University.
He has been studying and writing about teaching and learning in higher education for the past dozen years. He first began exploring the scholarship on teaching and learning during the three years he served as the Assistant Director of the Searle Center for Teaching Excellence at Northwestern University, where he advised graduate students and new faculty on teaching and learning issues.
In the fall of 2000, when he left Northwestern for a faculty position at Assumption College, he began writing a column on his life as a tenure-track faculty member for The Chronicle of Higher Education. That column eventually became the source of his book Life on the Tenure Track: Lessons from the First Year (Johns Hopkins UP, 2005).
After earning tenure, he shifted the focus of his Chronicle column to teaching and learning in higher education, which led to the publication of his next book, On Course: A Week-by-Week Guide to Your First Semester of College Teaching (Harvard UP, 2008).
Learn more about Dr. Lang and On Course below:
