Panel discussion with student government leaders about the role of student government at RVCC.

 

Identifying Students in Crisis                                      Presenter:  Barbara Luby
                                                                                       
September 23     12:10 - 1:20P     C08/C10                  
 

 

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Karen Zumbrunn Jazz Trio                             
                                                                                       
October  14     12:00 - 1:20P     Welpe Theater                 
 

 

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You Can Get There From Here: RVCC Faculty Discuss Professional Development No Matter Where You Stand                                             
                                                                                            Presenters: Kevin Hinkle          Paul Schueler
                                                                                                              Maria DeFilippis    Karen Gutshall    

October 28    12:10 - 1:20P     C08/C10

Assessment is very important to the success and growth of Raritan Valley Community College, yet most of us have no idea how to go about doing an assessment.  This workshop will highlight several types of assessment that are currently being done on campus.  This workshop will consist of representatives from several different departments explaining how their department views assessment and what assessment plans are currently in place.  The goal of this workshop will be to give an idea of what assessment tools could be employed in their departments. 

This brown bag discussion will review current strategies and resources available to faculty to help our students to become more successful. These include: the early alert system and individualized academic planning. A demonstration of the early alert system will also be provided. Attendees will be invited to brainstorm ideas that can be useful to faculty and students that may not already be in place. 

Join faculty and administrators from RVCC and other colleges in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and New York for an interactive discussion, to learn strategies and hear success stories on how service learning can improve student success. Topics covered will include the development of reflection activities that address academic success, personal and professional development, and community engagement.

The workshop will be facilitated by Dr. Edward Zlotkowski. Edward Zlotkowski (BA in English Yale; MPhil & PhD in Comparative Literature Yale) is a professor of English at Bentley College and the Senior Faculty Fellow at Campus Compact. From 1995-2004, he served as senior associate and general editor of the American Association for Higher Education’s 20-volume series exploring the relationship between service-learning and academic disciplines/disciplinary areas. He has also designed and facilitated professional development opportunities in service-learning for provosts and deans as well as a series of summer institutes for engaged academic departments and has consulted to the Corporation on National Service, the Council of Independent Colleges, the Pew Charitable Trusts, the Policy Center for the First Year of College, regional/state service-learning associations from Maine to Hawaii, and several hundred individual colleges and universities at home and abroad.

Dr. Zlotkowski has written extensively on a range of service-learning topics. In 1997, he edited Successful Service-Learning Programs: A New Model of Excellence in Higher Education, and in 2002, Service-Learning and the First-Year Experience: Preparing Students for Personal Success and Civic Responsibility. In 2004, he served as lead author of The Community’s College: Indicators of Engagement at Two-Year Institutions and, in 2006, of At One with the Community: Indicators of Engagement at Minority-Serving Institutions. Also in 2006 he co-edited Students as Colleagues: Widening the Circle of Service-Learning Leadership. In addition to his service-learning work, Dr. Zlotkowski has written on English and German romanticism and contemporary American poetry. 

Speaker:  Dr. Wil van der Veen: Program Director, NJACE Science Education Institute. Over the last few decades our understanding of how students learn best has increased dramatically.  Unfortunately these findings are rarely applied to the classroom.  Join us and see how even our very best students struggle to understand common concepts.  Experience and discuss strategies to facilitate student learning.  
 

Speaker:  What is one to do in today’s wild investment word?  How should a person allocate their investments?  There is a lot of advice being thrown around and how does one make sense of it all?  This session will cover investment strategies with the goal of giving you the latest concepts being used in finance so that you will be better equipped to guide your financial ship.  The level of discussion will be suitable for everyone; no previous financial background is requires. 

The circular flow model of the economy (the most basic model we use) is shown as a closed system—thereby violating basic laws of physics. Utilizing economic principles and policies that violate the laws of physics are going to reap havoc with the real world. If we realistically present the circular flow model as an open system—with valuable imputs going in and waste being emitted—it’s suddenly obvious that economic growth is the last thing we want. Now, the small minority of economists who are aware of this suggest that we must accept a more modest standard of living. I ARGUE, however that we can reduce production and get more of what we want-even by conventional standards. In fact, the world-class environmental leaders in our own community offer ways to improve material well-being with less production. So not only will my talk be interdisciplinary, it will highlight our community-which might be slightly helpful for a community college.