24th Annual POD Conference 

Pathways Through the Field

October 13-17, 1999 

The Resort at Split Rock 

Lake Harmony, Pennsylvania 

Professional & Organizational Development Network in Higher Education

Dear Colleagues, 

We cordially and enthusiastically invite you to the 24th annual conference of the POD Network, an organization that supports a network of over 1100 members in North American and nations beyond. Many people are at work planning this exciting event that will bring together colleagues with a diversity of backgrounds, disciplines, and experiences. Participants will include faculty and instructional developers, organizational developers, teaching assistant developers, faculty members, administrators, consultants, and others who have responsibilities relating to the POD mission. 

While our activities during this conference will invite us to think about the overall mission of our organization, our focus for this year is on the theme "Pathways Through the Field." As you look at the topics of plenary sessions and the list of possible concurrent sessions, you will note a wide variety of thoughts on this theme. We will consider pathways through the fields of teaching and faculty development, traditional and nontraditional pathways, obstacles around us and before us, and changes in the pathways from which we might choose. Sometimes we follow pathways that others have forged, but often we plunge off the beaten track and forge new pathways of leadership and inspiration for our campus colleagues, students, and others. Five ways of approaching this theme are: 1) tending the path, 2) clearing the path, 3) taking different pathways, 4) stirring up the field, and 5) building electronic pathways. 

In addition to a fine selection of pre-conference workshops, participants in the 1999 POD Conference are provided with a rich variety of plenary and concurrent sessions. We will have presentation and discussion sessions, consultation sessions, advance paper/book sessions, demonstrations sessions, roundtable sessions, poster sessions, and our well received materials information fair. We also offer educational expeditions to explore the region and continue to build networks through another kind of experience. This variety of formats will enrich your experience and provide many opportunities and choices for your active participation in the conference. 

Our 1999 conference will be held at The Resort at Split Rock in the beautiful Pocono Mountains in Lake Harmony, Pennsylvania. Opening activities begin on Wednesday evening, October 13, and pre-conference workshops are offered on Thursday morning and afternoon, October 14. The conference proper begins on Thursday evening, and concludes on Sunday, October 17. 

We look forward to seeing you in October! 
 

Sincerely, 

Laura L. B. Border, Conference Coordinator 

Virleen Carlson, Program Chair 

James Eison, President 

Collaborations, Connections, and Community: 

Wednesday, October 13
9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Core Committee Meeting 
3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Registration 
6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. Reception 
7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Dinner & Welcome Activities, President's Address 
9:00 p.m. - ??? Music & Dancing 

Thursday, October 14
7:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast 
8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Conference Registration 
8:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Core Committee Meeting 
9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Pre-conference Workshops 
12:00 p.m. - 1:15 p.m. Lunch 
1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Pre-Conference Workshops 
1:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Educational Expeditions
5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Newcomer's Orientation 
5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. Reception (hosted by the Diversity Commission) 
6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Opening Dinner & Official Welcome Activities 
8:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Plenary session -- Speakers: Ted Marchese and James Rhem 
9:00 p.m. - ??? Music & Dancing 

Friday, October 15
7:00 a.m. - 8:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast 
7:15 a.m. - 8:15 a.m. Round Table Sessions 
8:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Conference Registration 
8:15 a.m. - 9:15 a.m. Concurrent Sessions A 
9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Concurrent Sessions B 
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Plenary Session -- Keynote Address: Patricia Raybon 
12:15 p.m. - 1:15 p.m. Lunch & Business Meeting 
1:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Conference Registration 
1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Concurrent Sessions C 
3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Concurrent Sessions D 
4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Concurrent Sessions E 
5:30 p.m. - 6:15 p.m. Set up for Materials & Resource Fair 
6:15 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Materials & Resource Fair 
7:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. Dinner 
8:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. Plenary session -- Speakers: Kaylynn TwoTrees & Naomi Okumura Story 
9:00 p.m. - ??? Music & Dancing 

Saturday, October 16
7:00 a.m. - 8:15 a.m. Continental Breakfast and POD Committee Meetings 
8:00 a.m. - noon Conference Registration 
8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Concurrent Sessions F 
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. SELECT A SESSION G: Carnegie Program OR Speak Out 
11:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. Educational Expedition Hawk Mountain 
12:00 p.m. - 1:15 p.m. Lunch 
1:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Educational Expeditions 
1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Concurrent Sessions H 
3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Concurrent Sessions I 
4:45 p.m. - 5:45 p.m. Roundtable Sessions 2 
6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. Reception 
7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Dinner & Celebratory events 
9:00 p.m. - midnight POD Music & Entertainment 

Sunday, October 17
7:00 a.m. - 8:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast 
8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. Concurrent Sessions J 
9:15 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. Concurrent Sessions K 
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Conference Summary Activities & Closing 
1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. CORE meeting 

Keynote Address: Patricia Raybon

Forgiveness & Race: Creating Racial Health and Personal Power 

Friday, 11:00a.m. - noon 

Patricia Raybon is an award-winning journalist whose personal essays on race, family and culture have been published in The New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, USA Weekend, USA Today, Guideposts, The Chicago Tribune, The Denver Post, Rocky Mountain News, many other newspapers around the country, and in college writing texts and other publications. She is a contributor to National Public Radio's Weekend Edition. She is also the author of an award-winning book, My First White Friend, a collection of her reflections on racial forgiveness, published in 1996 by Viking/Penguin. 

In 1991, she joined the faculty at the University of Colorado at Boulder as an associate professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication. She teaches magazine and feature writing, public affairs reporting, in-depth reporting, advanced reporting and news editing. Her two workshops - "Race, The Media and Public Perceptions" and "Forgiveness & Race" - have been presented around the country to corporate, nonprofit, religious, educational, and media audiences. 

Patricia Raybon will be available after her address to do a book signing. 

Plenary Session 1: Ted Marchese and James Rhem

Print and Electronic Pathways to Faculty Development: A Discussion 

Thursday evening, 8:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. 
 

Ted Marchese began his teaching career at Barat College in Lake Forest, Illinois, where he taught for fourteen years. He currently serves as the Vice President of the American Association of Higher Education, having joined the AAHE staff in 1982. Since that time Marchese's responsibilities have been in the area of publications and project management. He edits the AAHE Bulletin and is executive editor of Change, higher education's most widely read magazine. In 1987 he wrote AAHE's bestselling "The Search Committee Handbook", and he has written several widely read articles. In 1994-95, Marchese was a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Graduate School of Education, offering a course on "Teaching, Learning, and Assessment." These scholarly interests led to participation in five transnational conferences organized by the 21st Century Learning Initiative, then to Marchese's 1997 interpretive paper, "The New Conversations About Learning." 

James Rhem has been involved with publishing about teaching and learning in higher education since 1983. An award-winning writer, Rhem has created numerous publications, including having a major role in creating the Teaching Professor. In 1989, he created The National Teaching and Learning Forum and in 1998 became the first publisher in the field to offer such a publication to entire campuses via site licensing and the World Wide Web. He has given numerous workshops on "Thinking, Writing, and Publishing about Teaching." In 1996 he delivered the opening keynote at the POD Conference at Snowbird, Utah on "The Teacher in the Movies."

As editors and writers of influential publications, Ted Marchese (CHANGE Magazine) and James Rhem (The National Teaching and Learning Forum) spend much of their time observing the discourse on teaching and learning in higher education. Does that discourse define "a field"? What pathways has it cut? What paths might it cut? What's been left out? Marchese and Rhem will engage in a dialogue about the problems and possibilities they've seen from where they sit . . . and explore with the audience ways in which a freshened discourse can make positive contributions. 

Plenary session 2: Kaylynn TwoTrees and Naomi Okumura Story

Seeing with the Heart: Sustaining a Meaningful Faculty Learning Environment 

Friday evening, 8:30-9:30 p.m.

We search for the poetry of education as faculty developers in many ways and with different voices. How can we use the intuitive and unseen ways people learn to guide our efforts and discourse communities? This session is about shaping an implicit, social and communal dimension and space for faculty learning and valuing so that we can engage diverse and inclusive faculty and students. Presenters will share stories and assumptions to evoke the dialogues that renew the spirit and social habits of teaching and learning we must remember. 

Kaylynn Sullivan TwoTrees is a Scholar in Residence and an Associate in Academic Affairs for Faculty Development at the Cleveland Institute of Art. Kaylynn is also the founding director of Earthtime Ranch, a facility offering independent study and intern opportunities for students in the arts, environmental studies, and education as well as faculty development retreats. Her "Seven Directions" method for human interaction promotes effective communication and is based on indigenous models of social interaction. She has done training for colleges, universities, businesses, prisons, and mental institutions and has used her Seven Directions training as a method of mediation in highly charged cultural and social disputes. 

Her teaching at Miami University has included such undergraduate courses as "Social Responsibility and the Artist: Redefining Fine Arts in a Mulitcultural World," and graduate courses such as "Working Outside the Paradigm: Non Dominant Perspective Philosophies and Academe." She is an award-winning film maker, performer, and international negotiator. 

Naomi Story is a member of the executive committee of the American Association of Higher Education (AAHE) APA Caucus. She is a founding member of the Maricopa Community Colleges Asian and Pacific Islander Association and is a member of the Arizona State University Asian American Advisory Board to the President. 

Naomi Okumura Story has spent over 25 years in education as a teacher and administrator in secondary and post-secondary settings. Currently, Naomi is the Maricopa Community College District Director of Learning, Instruction, and Assessment. She also directs the Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction, which is a national model in community college instructional innovation and faculty learning. Dr. Story is nationally recognized and published in her field of instructional design and technology and has made numerous presentations and written in the areas of leadership, systemic change, teaching and learning, faculty development, and diversity. 

Born and reared on the island of Maui in Hawaii, Naomi currently lives in Arizona with her husband and two daughters. She is a "san-sei" Japanese-American. She has aspirations of being a full-time writer in the next stage of her career. 

The titles of some of the concurrent sessions under review for the conference are listed below. 

A Faculty Developer Profile: What We Know, What We Value, What We Do 

A New "Taxonomy of Significant Learning": A Successor to Bloom? 

An Interdisciplinary Management Model to Promote Cultural Competence Among a Diverse Student Population 

Clearing the Boulders from the Pathway: Consultation in Conflict Management 

Clearing the Path to the 21st Century: Preparing Graduate Students as Prospective Teaching Scholars 

Collaborative Learning Groups: Taking a Different Path to the Scholarship of Teaching 

Confessions of a "Guerilla Technologist" 

Constructing Departmental TA Training Programs: Ideas and Practices from a Campus in the Initial Stages of Development 

Consulting For New and Future Faculty As They Transform Teaching and Learning Through Technology 

Copyright, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and Faculty: Impacts on Faculty Teaching, Research, and Writing 

Dancing with the Devil: The Teaching/Learning Center and Institutional Assessment 

Designing a Course of Faculty Development: Content, Pedagogy and Bibliography 

Designing a Teaching Certificate Program for Graduate Students 

Distance Education into the Mainstream: A Holistic Approach to Faculty Development and Technology Training for the 21st Century 

Electronic Collaboration: Building Collegial Pathways to Better Teaching 

Evaluating Online Instructional Pathways 

Evaluating Web-Based Course Management (WBCM) Systems 

Facilitating Faculty Leadership to Promote Improvement in Teaching and Learning 

Faculty Development at the Center of Campus-Wide Learning Initiatives: A Case Study of Learning Communities 

Faculty Development From an Adult Learning Perspective 

Forces in Faculty Development 

Getting Administrative Support for Your Project-Why? Who? How? 

Getting Departments Engaged in Discussion about Teaching, Learning, and Teaching Portfolios 

Guidelines for Creating and Evaluating Scholarly Instruction in Internet-based Courses 

Harmony Amongst Diversity: Maximizing Cultural Perspective 

Helping Faculty Become "Y2K Compliant" 

Identifying Faculty and Units that Are Ripe for Innovation in Teaching 

Improving Large Class Sections 

Incivility and Other Challenges of Electronic Communication 

Inter-institutional Pathways to Future Faculty Development 

Leading Change on Campus: Roles for Faculty Developers 

Learning to Teach at a Distance: Applying the Research for Faculty Development 

Managing Creative Destruction: Providing Support for Faculty Engaged in the Transformation of Teaching and Learning 

Meeting the Professional Development Needs of Non-Tenure Track Faculty 

Nurturing the Spirit: The faculty Developer as Regenerative Agent 

On the Path Toward Effective Faculty Development Workshops 

Order Out of Chaos: Pathway Portfolios for Instructional Developers 

Organizing for Impact: Structuring and Administering a Center for Support of Teaching and Learning 

Pathways to Student Collaboration in Faculty Development: Promises, Pitfalls, and Principles 

Pathways Toward Effective Faculty Development: Identifying Success Factors 

Professional Development for Adjunct/Temporary Full-Time Faculty 

Professional and Ethical Baselines: What Informs Our Practice? 

Promoting Deep Learning: Ways Faculty Developers Can Assist Faculty 

Putting Real Value in Student Evaluations 

Recruiting and Hiring New Faculty: Lessons and Strategies Based upon National Study 

Renovating and Designing Classrooms for New Learning Paradigms: Lessons from the Field 

Sharing Effective Faculty Development Practices at Small, Independent Colleges and Universities 

Stress Management for Stressed (or even Semi-Stressed) Faculty Developers and College Teachers 

Support Programs for Tenure-Track Junior Faculty: What Works and What Doesn't 

Teacher Know Thyself: A Path to Empowerment 

Teaching Partnership: A Shared Journey Toward Long-Term Faculty Growth 

Teaching Trust: Building a Faculty Development Program that Promotes and Rewards Risk-Taking and Innovation 

The Course Syllabus as a Tool for Organizational Development 

The Evolution of Faculty-Driven Faculty Development at a Community College 

The Road Less Traveled: Effecting Organizational Change and Development Through Strategic Partnerships 

The Roles of Professional Development in Stimulating, Supporting, and Evaluating Organizational Change: What's Still Missing in the Big Picture? 

Twelve-step Recovery Program for Professors Addicted to Lecturing 

Visionary Learning: Reinventing Undergraduate Education 

What Happens When the Generation X Professor Meets the Millennial Student and the Antediluvian Administrator: Paths that Clash or Converge? 

For the second time, two sessions are offered for which participants have read a particular book as a basis for discussion during the session. In offering this format, the 1999 Call for Proposals described an advance book session: 

This format is especially useful for topics that are leading edge, controversial, or associated with policy development and implementation. The session is designed as an in-depth discussion of a key topic, with active engagement of colleagues who have reviewed a paper or book prior to the conference. The prior reading of the paper or book is considered to be a ticket of admission to the session. The author(s) of the reading may wish to make a brief opening statement, followed (or preceded) by brief remarks from one or more discussants. The large majority of session time should be allocated to discussion and the exchange of idea and questions around the advance reading. A session chair, not an author or discussant, could engage all participants in the discussion. A recorder might be designated for the session to identify and summarize the main points emerging from the discussion. A potential product of this session could be a reflective paper on the session topic and its related discussion. 

The two advance book sessions offered at the 1999 POD Conference are as follows: 

In Over Our Heads: The Mental Demands of Modern Life

In his book, In Over Our Heads: The Mental Demands of Modern Life (1994), Robert Kegan argues that we are just begininng to understand that adulthood is "not an end state but a vast evolutionary expanse encompassing a variety of capacities of mind." Those capacities of mind are developed as we experience the "curriculum" of adult life _ including partnering, parenting, paid employment, and self-sponsored education. Through a series of conversations and exchanges, we will reflect on the implications of Kegan's work for ourselves as well as for the people with whom we work. This session will be facilitated by Emily Decker of Evergreen State College who has taught using this as a text. 90 minute session. 

To order this book direct from Harvard University Press call 1-800-448-2242. 

Discussion as a Way of Teaching: Tools and Techniques for Democratic Classrooms

This session explores Discussion as a Way of Teaching (1999) by Stephen Brookfield and Stephen Preskill with the authors in attendance. Despite the popularity of the discussion method, this is one of the few book-length treatments of why and how the method should be used, and of the pitfalls as well as the promises it contains. It does not claim that discussion should replace all other teaching approaches; rather it tries to understand the particular uses for which discussion is most appropriate and the ways it can complement and be integrated with other teaching approaches. The session will use critical incidents and the circular response method described in the book. 90 minute session. 

To order this book direct from Jossey-Bass call customer service 1-800-956-7739. 

This information is provided in the Advance Program and Registration Materials to prepare conference participants for the readings. If you plan to attend either of these sessions, please read the appropriate book(s) before the October conference.

Pre-Conference Workshops

You are invited to register for the following workshops offered on Thursday morning and afternoon, October 14, prior to the formal beginning of the conference. 

Full-Day Workshops

W1: Getting Started in Faculty Development
L. Dee Fink, University of Oklahoma, Mary Deane Sorcinelli, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and POD Colleagues 
6 hours: Thursday, October 14, 9:00 a.m. - Noon, 1:30-4:30 p.m.
This workshop is for persons who are new to instructional, faculty, or organizational development. It is applicable for a variety of audiences: people who are starting (or considering starting) a new program at their institution, people who are joining existing programs as professional staff, and members of faculty advisory committees. This workshop will (a) provide an overview of the field of instructional and faculty development; (b) look at possible program activities; (c) address organizational, political, and financial issues in program operation; and, (d) identify resources for additional learning on this topic. Participants will receive a copy of the POD Handbook for New Practitioners and a new videotape about the field of faculty development. Workshop Fee: $70. Materials Fee: $30. Total: $100. 

W2: Building Socially and Culturally Diverse Learning Communities: A Model that Promotes the Value of Diversity
Judy A. Greene & Judith Gibson, University of Delaware
6 hours: Thursday, October 14, 9:00 a.m. - Noon, 1:30-4:30 p.m.
Students, faculty, and staff often experience powerlessness in the face of increasing intergroup tensions. One strategy to increase positive dialogue and combat all forms of oppression is to empower people through practical, concrete, replicable skills. This interactive, experiential workshop will demonstrate an award-winning model for building strong intergroup relationships on campus. Based on the theory that all of our groups count and that we must work to heal painful experiences around various forms of discrimination, this model creates the listening, pride, and appreciation that welcome inclusiveness. Hopeful, upbeat, "blame-free" (and fun) diversity workshops are an effective organizational strategy and teaching method. Participants will receive the book, Healing into Action: A Leadership Guide for Creating Diverse Communities. Workshop Fee: $70. Materials Fee: $16. Total: $86.

W3: A Center Without Walls: Building Electronic Pathways for Faculty Development
Anita Gandolfo and Eugene K. Ressler, United States Military Academy
6 hours: Thursday, October 14, 9:00 a.m. - Noon, 1:30-4:30 p.m.
Do faculty developers who help teachers to use instructional technology also model its use in their programs and services? This workshop examines a faculty development unit that employs technology in a variety of ways to guide faculty learning. Through interactive discussion and small group activities, participants will analyze and critique technology use and reflect on ways to create a system that meets campus needs. They will (a) develop an appreciation for suitable uses of technology for faculty development; (b) identify technology they can adapt to their own situation; and (c) gain expertise in supporting faculty members' technology use for instruction. Technological expertise is not required. Fee: $70. 

W4: Getting Started with Active Learning: Simple Strategies Any Instructor Can Use To Break Away From Straight Lecture 
Mel Silberman, Temple University
6 hours: Thursday, October 14, 9:00 a.m. - Noon, 1:30-4:30 p.m.
Most college instructors know that learning must be active, but they are stymied by such barriers as coverage, class size, and student resistance. This workshop will show participants how to wean instructors away from straight lecture in a way that is non-threatening and immediately usable. Participants will experience and apply active learning strategies that instructors can use to conduct full class learning and small group learning, stimulate discussion and debate, practice skills, prompt questions, and get students to teach each other. This workshop will be useful for both instructors and the faculty developers who coach them. Participants will receive a copy of Silberman's book, Active Learning. Workshop Fee: $70. Materials Fee: $20. Total: $90.

Half-Day Workshops

W5: Using Student Ratings of Instruction: A Mini Course for Faculty Developers 
Jennifer Franklin, University of Arizona
3 hours: Thursday, October 14, 9:00 a.m. - Noon
In this hands-on-workshop participants will work in small groups to develop knowledge and skills needed for appropriate and effective use of student ratings of instruction. Key goals will be understanding the unique characteristics of ratings and acquiring quantitative methods for "reading" ratings that can be easily applied by non-statisticians. Emphasized will be issues of interest to faculty developers, including the value of ratings in the teaching consultation process, research findings that have implications for good practice, and the role of the faculty developer in fostering good practice in the use of ratings in faculty performance appraisal. Workshop Fee: $35. 

W6: Problem-based Learning: Developing Critical Thinking Skills 
Sheella Mierson, Creative Learning Solutions, and Susan S. Evans, Western Wisconsin Technical College
3 hours: Thursday, October 14, 9:00 a.m. - Noon
Problem-based learning (PBL) is an instructional method that helps students think critically, learn how to learn, and acquire team-building and communication skills. The students work cooperatively in groups to solve complex real-world problems. PBL can be integrated at both the course and curricular levels. Workshop participants, who can be faculty, faculty developers, or administrators, will experience PBL from the students' perspective by working on a problem in small groups. The presenters, experienced PBL instructors at both undergraduate and graduate levels, will discuss applications to a variety of disciplines and teaching environments. Workshop Fee: $35. 

W7: Designing and Using Techno-Cats in your Teaching and Faculty Development Activities 
Devorah Lieberman, Portland State University
3 hours: Thursday, October 14, 9:00 a.m. - Noon
Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs) are teaching and learning tools that have become part of the fabric of our classroom environment. With the advent of technological instruments for teaching and learning, the opportunity arises to use technology as a CAT (Techno-Cat) in two very specific venues: (a) in the classroom, and (b) on the Internet. This workshop is designed for faculty developers who are interested in bringing technologically based "classroom assessment techniques" to their campuses. Participants do not need to be fluent in web-based technologies to benefit from this workshop. Workshop Fee: $35. 

W8: Professional Portfolio Development for Faculty Developers 
Clement Seldin, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Peter Seldin, Pace University, and Deborah DeZure, Eastern Michigan University
3 hours: Thursday, October 14, 9:00 a.m. - Noon
Intended for faculty developers and academic administrators, this interactive session will engage participants in how to personally develop an effective faculty developer's portfolio and how to use it for purposes of improvement and/or personnel decisions. The presenters will: (a) discuss what faculty developers across the country value in portfolios; (b) review a model portfolio (both its content and the collaborative process by which it was developed); and (c) assist participants in actually getting started on developing their own portfolios. The program will include short presentations, reflective discussion, small-group interactive exercise, and will emphasize learning-by-doing. Workshop Fee: $35. 

W9: Building a Comprehensive Faculty Evaluation System: Tools and Procedures 
Raoul A. Arreola, The University of Tennessee, Memphis 
3 hours: Thursday, October 14, 1:30-4:30 p.m.
College accrediting agencies are placing ever-increasing emphasis on faculty evaluation systems and their relation to faculty development. There is need for a proven method for constructing such faculty evaluation systems. This workshop, designed for administrators and faculty leaders involved in building or managing faculty evaluation and development programs, presents a proven 8-step process for building a comprehensive faculty evaluation system that is specifically coordinated with, and supports, faculty development. Workshop materials include transparency miniatures from the presentation, tools and worksheets which may be copied for institutional use, and a reference list on faculty evaluation and student rating research. Participants will receive a copy of Arreola's book, Developing a Comprehensive Faculty Evaluation System. Workshop Fee: $35. Materials Fee: $35. Total: $70.

W10: Problems with Learning Groups: An Ounce of Prevention 
Larry Michaelsen, University of Oklahoma
3 hours: Thursday, October 14, 1:30-4:30 p.m.

When you (or faculty who come to you for advice) use learning groups, do students complain about such things as: Having to do more than their fair share of the work? Not being able to keep their group working on the assigned task? One or two members dominating the group? If so, students are not the problem; it's the way in which the groups are being used. In this workshop, designed for anyone who uses group activities in their classes or workshops (or consults with those who do), participants learn what to do, and why, about such problems. Workshop Fee: $35 

W11: Managing Conflict Confidently: Discovering New Pathways for Collaboration and Creativity 
Roseanna G. Ross, St. Cloud State University
3 hours: Thursday, October 14, 1:30-4:30 p.m.
Although conflict is a natural aspect of human interaction, people often feel disempowered and reactive. Using self-assessment tools, experiential and group activities, discussion and mini-lecture, this workshop will give participants and conflict mediators confidence in personal attitudes and behaviors that can transform the elements of conflict. This workshop will address: (a) attitude toward conflict; (b) behavior in conflict, (c) role of power and self-esteem; and (d) choices that can be made during conflict to diffuse defensiveness and move toward collaboration. (Repeat of seminar offered at 1998 conference.) Workshop Fee: $35. 

W12: Developing and Coordinating Faculty Learning Communities: Procedures and Materials for Practice 
Milton D. Cox, Philip Cottell, and Martha Stevens, Miami University
3 hours: Thursday, October 14, 1:30-4:30 p.m.
Learning communities, by focusing on similar curriculum or common themes, provide excellent environments for undergraduate teaching and learning. Developers applying the same principles can create faculty learning communities to positively affect faculty participants and campus culture. This workshop will address four types of faculty learning communities: (a) junior faculty; (b) senior faculty; (c) teaching portfolio development; and (d) using diversity to enhance teaching and learning. The practitioners will share successful procedures and materials to enable participants to envision, initiate, and lead faculty learning communities on their campuses. Workshop Fee: $35.

As shown above, the base fee for three hour workshops is $35 per participant and $70 for the six-hour workshops. All workshop materials are offered at a substantial publisher's discount; these Materials Fees are not refundable. Base fees for workshops are refundable only if workshop registration is canceled by October 4, 1999. 

Our educational expeditions provide yet another kind of networking opportunity while participants enjoy scenic and historic sites in the region. The 1999 excursions are scheduled for Thursday, October 14, and Saturday, October 16. These expeditions are scheduled at times when other conference events are also occurring _ pre-conference workshops and concurrent sessions. 

Registration is on a "first come, first served" basis and must be indicated on the registration form when you send it in. 

Because of transportation scheduling and contracts, refunds for expeditions will be honored ONLY if you cancel your entire conference registration before October 4, 1999. An additional fee is collected for on-site expedition registrations.

Thursday, October 14

E1: Hickory Run State Park
Thursday morning, 8:30 - 11:30 a.m.
Fee: $10 Minimum enrollment: 10
Located near Split Rock Resort, Hickory Run has 37 miles of hiking trails that pass through many different natural communities. Known in pre-Civil War times as the Shades of Death because of its dense forests of white pine, eastern hemlock, oaks, and maples, other species of vegetation include blueberry, huckleberry, sheep laurel, rhododendron, American beech, and chestnut oak. On the trails we may see white-tailed deer, black bears, foxes, coyotes, snowshoe hares, porcupines, ruffed grouse, and owls. The remnants of early 1800s saw and brick mills, dams, and villages appear along the trails. The unusual Boulder Field, a National Natural Landmark, has been unchanged for more than 20,000 years, although nearby land has been glaciated. 

E2: Monroe County Environmental Center and Cranberry Bog
Thursday morning, 8:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. (Box lunch will be provided.)
Fee: $25 Minimum enrollment: 15
We will start at the Visitor Center, which has displays of native ecosystems, and then travel to a cranberry bog. A boardwalk will permit us to explore this 150-acre typical glacial relict sphagnum wetland. Species of plants characteristic of this boreal bog include black spruce, leather leaf, bog laurel, and bog rosemary. Trails through the surrounding forest will take us through various habitats and give us an opportunity to observe other types of vegetation and birds and mammals. Time permitting, we may also travel to an ecologically unique barren. 

E3: Carbon County Environmental Education Center
Thursday afternoon, 1:30 - 5:30 p.m.
Fee: $20 Minimum enrollment: 15
Situated on 2.5-mile long Mauch Chunk Lake in picturesque Bloomingdale Valley, the Center and nearby Mauch Chunk Lake Park have hiking trails and a lakeside blind that may provide views of water birds. A particular attraction is a wildlife rehabilitation center with easily observable live animals, including large raptors. 

E4: Steamtown Historic Site
Thursday afternoon: 1:30 - 5:30 p.m.
Fee: $25 Minimum enrollment: 15
Congress created Steamtown National Historic Site in 1986 to interpret the story of main line steam railroading between 1850 and 1950. The park occupies about forty acres of the former Scranton Yards of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, and includes the historic restored 1937 roundhouse, the 1902 roundhouse, visitor center, theater, history museum and technology museum, locomotive shop, and restoration shop. The tour also includes a short train ride in the railroad yard on a historic stem locomotive. (For more information about Steamtown, see <http:///www.nps.gov/stea/) 

Saturday, October 16 

E5: Hawk Mountain Sanctuary
Saturday afternoon, 11:30 a.m. - 6:30 p.m. (Box lunch will be provided.)
Fee: $25 Minimum enrollment: 18
Founded in 1934 as the world's first refuge for birds of prey, this private preserve annually draws thousands of visitors. Many are prominent international naturalists, giving the Sanctuary the name "Crossroads of Naturalists." Several hiking trails lead to the top of the Kittitinny Ridge, where numerous species of raptors and other animals migrate south. In 1998, 24,200 migrating raptors were counted. In October, the most common are Cooper's, Red-tailed, Sharp-shinned, and Red-shouldered Hawks, and Golden Eagles and Northern Harriers. Several lookouts along the Ridge provide spectacular panoramic views of the Appalachian Ridge-and-Valley Province. The Sanctuary also has a museum, art gallery, and bookstore. (For more information about Hawk Mountain, see <http:www.hawkmountain.org/) 

E6: Jim Thorpe
Saturday afternoon: 1:00-6:00 p.m.
Fee: $25 Minimum enrollment: 15
First named Coalville, then Mauch Chunk, and then Jim Thorpe, this quaint historic town offers a piece of Pennsylvania history. The tour will begin with the Mauch Chunk Museum and Cultural Center, then continue to the historic St. Mark's Episcopal Church. After this tour, participants will be on their own for 11/2 hours and may stroll around the town or choose from several attractions -- the Asa Packer Mansion build in the Italianate style in 1860 as the home of the railroad magnate; the Old Jail Museum famous for the 1878 and 1879 hanging of the Molly Maguires; a hike along the Switchback Gravity Railroad, the second railroad in the U.S. and now a recreational hiking trail; or shopping in the antique stores and other shops along Old Millionaires' Row. Note that it is a 15-20 minute walk to the Packer Mansion, and there is a $5 entrance fee. There is also a $4 entrance fee for the Old Jail Museum. (For more information, see <http://www.jtasd.k12.pa.us/townhomepage.html) 
 

E7: Train Excursion on a Steam Locomotive
Saturday afternoon: 1:30-6:00
Fee: $30 Minimum enrollment: 15
Experience the heyday of steam passenger railroading on this two-hour, 26-mile excursion on the former mainline of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad between Scranton and Moscow, Pennsylvania. It should be a particularly beautiful ride in October at the peak of fall foliage. This excursion is offered by Steamtown National Historic Site, a tour of which is available on Thursday (see E4, above). (For more information about the train excursion, see <http://www.nps.gov/stea/exc.htm)

Airline & Ground Transportation Options

To help make your travel arrangements, we have selected the GTA Travel Center in Allentown, PA to coordinate airline reservations into the Lehigh Valley Airport and ground transportation to the Resort at Split Rock. GTA has arranged special group fares on Continental, Delta, USAir, Northwest & United that will provide discounts starting at 5% off the lowest non-refundable fare. You are encouraged to book your flights early through GTA to ensure best availability. 

To receive a fare quote and flight schedule from your local airport to the Lehigh Valley Airport, please call the GTA Travel Center at 1-800-523-9494 or complete the reservation form below and fax it to the GTA Travel Center at (610) 439-1149. 

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Ground Transportation (Lehigh Valley Airport)

Even if you do not purchase your airline tickets from GTA, if you supply your arrival and departure flights on this form they will arrange ground transportation to and from the Resort. Based on the number of people arriving or departing at any one time, the round trip costs would be as follows: 

oBus (minimum 18) $25.00/person oVan (minimum 9) $37.00/person oLimo (minimum 3) $76.00/person 

Car Rental

If you wish, GTA Travel will provide rates for ocompact, ointermediate, & ofull size cars. Check the appropriate box and the information will be faxed to you. 

By mail: The GTA Travel Center, 1409 N Cedar Crest Blvd, Allentown, PA 18104 (1-800-523-9494) 

Alternate Travel Options

The Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Airport is actually closer to the Resort at Split Rock. However, the flight schedules in and out of this airport are not as frequent as at Lehigh Valley. Your own travel agent will need to check arrangements into/out of this airport. Should you decide to fly into Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, you may make ground transportation arrangements through Airport Limousine and Taxi Service (570-457-8109 or 570-883-0845). The cost is $50.00 one way, but this cost can be shared by up to 4 riders. 

You may also make arrangements to fly into other, larger airports (Newark, Philadelphia, JFK), but please be advised that the POD Network has made no ground transportation arrangements from these locations.