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Attended academic, athletic and social events
Commencement,
Convocation, and Honors ceremonies
all
the women's home basketball games, two away games, and both NCAA tournament
games
the
men's soccer games at the end of the season
both
the end-of-semester off campus banquets
the
Alumni Reunion dinner
several
readings in the library, events in the Campus Center, etc.
MBA
Student Organization's final events: June picnic and December happy hour
Volunteered for all the open houses and accepted students' dinners. I was the
only faculty member who participated in all five Connection 2006 summer
orientation sessions.
Volunteered to work at the Reindeer Run
Re-elected to P&T
Volunteered for the mentoring subcommittee of the Faculty Development Committee
Appointed to Business Department search committee for a new chair
Appointed to the internationalization task force, currently developing learning outcomes and foreign internship information
Continued and finally abandoned the Dohuk project to organize a group of Western New Yorkers, including Medaille faculty, to travel to Dohuk, Iraq, for a week-long conference on what the Kurds could do next to develop their economy and encourage foreign direct investment
Bought US Army sgt. (and ex-student) Mike Hughes to campus
Corresponded frequently with University of Dohuk faculty and administrators
Initiated, got Faculty to vote on, and spearheaded the ad-hoc faculty committee on internationalization
Installed and maintained MI2's blog and discussion forum, both now inactive
Wrote, administered, and analyzed MI2's survey of students and inventory of community resources
Wrote "Islands in the Stream," the Medaille Internationalization Initiative's final report
Settled on the Netherlands, probably Leiden, as where my wife, daughter, and I will live from January to August 2008 while I'm on sabbatical
Began learning Dutch language, geography, and culture
Wrote the business communications course that passed Curriculum Committee and will run in Spring 2007 as a 298 Special Topics course
Wrote the revised Intro to Management course to include business communications; it passed Curriculum Committee
Contributed to the Business Department program review and the ongoing discussions of curricular revision
Contributed to the Gen Ed Department re-write of GEN 230 Creative Expression
Continued to assist faculty who use my sever and Ricci Street for their course webs and company webs; Stephanie Argentine/BerginaDesigns.com, Walt Kolt/AccessSolutionsInc.org, Uhuru Watson/DrUhuru.net, and Lonni Wilson received the bulk of that assistance
Participated in the Faculty Development Committee's mentoring sub-committee's task force on program format
Granted leave with pay for Spring 2009 based on banked hours under the old handbook
Applied for sabbatical leave (granted January 15, 2007) - application
Began working with other faculty on the portfolios mandated in the new handbook
Guest teacher in Walt Kolt's ENG 260 Writing for Business classes; spoke about the Internet and critiqued student web projects
Attended conferences and seminars, especially on topics that can assist my teaching and service responsibilities
Integrative
Learning Workshop, Niagara University (January)
Regis
Online Consortium, demo (April)
MI2
- Medaille Internationalization Initiative poster session, Faculty Development
Fair
(April)
Effectively
Recruiting and Retaining Today's Adult Students, with Carol Aslanian, webinar
(May)
Outcomes
Based Design for Online Programs, with Gary Brown, webinar (May)
Internationalization
of a Small College Campus, with Joseph Tullbane, audio conference (July)
Fall
Assessment Conference, Center for Tomorrow, University at Buffalo (October)
Dangers
in the Spellings Report, State AAUP Fall Conference, Daemen College (October)
Organized Sgt. Mike Hughes' presentation on economic development opportunities in Dohuk, Iraq, attended by two dozen faculty and staff (January)
Participated in online discussions and mailing lists on web design, information design, marketing with new media, and technology in teaching.
Continued as state AAUP webmaster. (old domain: nysc-aaup.org; new domain at nysaaup.org, on a new server, scheduled to go live in late Spring 2007.)
I am active on campus. The little feedback I get indicates that I am among the more active faculty members. We don't keep score, so I'll leave it anecdotal. While I could be more active, I feel as though I do more than my share.
I contributed to getting more attention to international efforts.
While I can see a lot of value in face-to-face professional conferences and meetings and in periodical publications, I feel as though my online participation in the mailing lists of web designers, marketing specialists, and curriculum developers is an ongoing and cost-effective way to accomplish the same objective, that is, to keep current.
I was not able to keep business communications in the curriculum.
Involvement in WNY community
Faculty portfolios
A small group of faculty supported the Dohuk project. However, most of the feedback did not support it. On the Kurdish side, while they were very supportive, their rudimentary English and my non-existent Kurdish made communication very difficult. It was thus easier to make the difficult decision of abandoning the project, which I did in June 2006.
In contrast, I have received a lot of positive feedback about our proposed seven-month sojourn in the Netherlands. Some has come from family and colleagues here, some from newly found email correspondents in the Netherlands.
I have received negative feedback about my curriculum development efforts in the Business Department from the administrators on Curriculum Committee and from an outside consultant. The Business faculty are competing among themselves for a limited number of course sections. The two largest casualties are human resources courses and business communications courses, which has caused Stephanie to leave the College for employment with a French company and has forced me to teach English and Gen Ed courses lest I displace other Business faculty with fewer options.
I have received negative feedback from faculty colleagues about the portfolio requirement in the new handbook. It has made me more conscious of my own portfolio, including this self-assessment, as a model. It has also made me eager to cooperate with Faculty Council or the VPAA's office or anyone else who wants to organize a more formal portfolio development process.
The Sabbatical Committee's recommendation and the administration's granting of a sabbatical for Spring 2008 gives me positive formative feedback on the worth of the scholarship projects that I propose in my sabbatical application. It's full steam ahead!
The NY State Conference of the AAUP lost both its executive director and its longtime newsquarterly editor this year. I received a lot of positive feedback from the state president and other Executive Committee members about the importance of the state AAUP's web site and their desire that I continue as webmaster. Tom Policano, the newly appointed executive director, has met with me twice to explore what we can do to take the organization's online presence to the next level.
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Continue my level of participation; try to attend more sports events
Adapting from grads to undergrads, from night to day
I don't want to make too much of the differences here because students are
students, and at my age, everyone younger than forty is just young. Nor do I
anticipate difficulties in adapting. For me, the biggest difference are the
marginal students who aren't fitting in to college at this point in their lives.
Those students didn't start our MBA program or if they did, they soon dropped
out and we let them go.
However, in the undergraduate school, there is great emphasis on retention, and
the students I am describing are most at-risk. Some are under-prepared.
The rest belong in college but have other life imperatives
that demand their attention.
Personally, I would advise them to drop out, but institutionally, I am
encouraged to do more to retain them. In the graduate program, we called
attrition rigor
and in the undergraduate program, we're calling it failure to serve, but neither
rationalization is entirely true. Both are artifacts of the factory system of
education that I think does more harm than good to our society. In spite of
that, I will participate in the institutional effort to increase undergraduate
retention.
There is no doubt in my mind that the best way to increase retention is through
extracurricular activities and non-classroom, non-library facilities. Faculty
can best contribute to outside the classroom, not in our offices, but in those
non-classroom, non-library facilities and events.
Continue participation on the committee led by Dr. Muir to further internationalize the campus
Prepare for an extended stay in the Netherlands
Continue working on re-writing the GEN 230 course outline
Continue to assist faculty who want to use my web server for their course materials
Work with faculty colleagues to help them put together their portfolios; maintain my own portfolio as a model
Assist the state conference's new executive director, Tom Policano, a faculty member at RIT, in his ambitious plans to make the state web site more active and more interactive
modified: January 2007
by Douglas Anderson
http://toLearn.net/portfolio/selfeval/2006/service.htm