FIG #1 - For the Future: Grand Challenges for STEM and Humanities - Meeting 2 of 3
Date and time
Location
McMullen-Connally Faculty Center
Green Room #207Description
2016 Faculty Interest Groups (FIG)
The Academy for Teaching and Learning (ATL) is pleased to announce the theme for our Spring 2016 Faculty Interest Groups (FIG): For the Future.
Why “For the Future” and why now? Educators can no longer look only to the past or present to resolve the challenges facing higher education. These challenges include changing student demographics,unsustainable financial models, and shifting paradigms of discovery and creativity. How might we respond to these challenges?
Each FIG will introduce new ways to imagine and undertake our tasks as educators.
Please join your colleagues for one or more of these exciting and important conversations. Books will be provided for participants.
For the Future: Grand Challenges for STEM and Humanities
February 24, March 23, April 20: 12:15-1:15pm
Facilitated by Dr. Heidi Bostic (Director of Interdisciplinary Programs, College of Arts & Sciences and Chair, Modern Languages and Cultures) and Dr. George Cobb (Chair, Environmental Science Department)
Participants will explore ways for STEM and Humanities to collaborate in order to address grand challenges of our age (e.g. health care, environmental sustainability).
Discussion will be guided by Bruno Latour’s Politics of Nature: How to Bring the Sciences into Democracy.
Wednesdays - 12:15 –1:15pm - Faculty Center #207 (Green Room)
Registration:
Feb. 24 http://fig1a.eventbrite.com
Mar. 23 http://fig1b.eventbrite.com
Apr. 20 http://fig1c.eventbrite.com