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Thursday Lunch Presentations
Tuesday & Thursday Faculty Lunches: Carry-your-tray-lunch provided in the Dining Hall from 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. and scheduled discussions led by colleagues on specific topics in WCC231. Topics may include evidence-based approaches to teaching and learning, diversity and inclusion, updates on faculty-driven initiatives, and other professional development issues in liberal arts and higher education. On the first Thursday of every month, separate lunch discussions are held for new faculty, faculty in their third to fifth years, and post-Tenure faculty. Lunch begins at 11 a.m., and discussion starts at 11:30 a.m.
Thursday Johnson Center Program
Spring 2023
February 2 – New, Visiting, and Pre-tenure Faculty: Creating a Network of Mentors and Professional Support
February 9 – Cultivating Joy in Academia – Andrea Overbay
February 16 – Western Intellectual Traditions Week – Tom Blake
February 23 – Conversation about Chat GPT and AI in the Classroom
March 2 – New, Visiting, and Pre-Tenure Faculty: Creating a Network of Mentors and Professional Support – Kelli Carroll and Kate Bowman
March 9 – Educational Technology at Austin College – Rosie Fasullo
March 23 – CREATE@AC: Traveling to Conferences with Students – Renee Countryman
March 30 – Research and Pedagogy Talk | Reflections on Teaching post-COVID – Ryan Felix
April 6 – New, Visiting, and Pre-Tenure Faculty: New Course Proposal Considerations – Clair Wolnisty
April 20 – Strategies for Inclusive Teaching – Tom Blake, Kelli Carroll, Rüçhan Kaya, Liz Preas, Julia Shahid
April 27 – Cross Talk Panel | Justice – Lisa Brown, Mari-Elise Ewing, Felix Harcourt , Julie Macpherson, Brian Watkins
May 4 – New, Visiting, and Pre-Tenure Faculty: Making Notes to Your Future Self – Huy Nguyen
Fall 2022
September 1 – New, Visiting, and Re-tenure Faculty: Getting Started: Questions, Resources, and Opportunists
September 8 – Supporting Students through the Center for Student Success and Access Services – Traci Howard Moore and James Reed
September 15 – Strategies to Increase Student Engagement
September 22 – 2022-23 DEI Initiatives and Programming at Austin College – Carllos Lassiter
September 29 – Research and Pedagogy Talk – Teaching & Myth Busting in the Age of COVID-19: An Epidemiologist’s Perspective – Sarita Bangara
October 6 – New, Visiting, and Pre-Tenure Faculty | Mid-term Evaluations – Claire Wolnisty, Kelli Carroll, Ruchan Kaya
October 13 – Engaging New Data on Social Justice Issues – Julie Macpherson
October 20 – Mentoring: An Update and Discussion – Stephanie Gould
October 27 – Research and Pedagogy Talk | Pirates, Pedagogy, and Primary Sources – Claire Wolnisty
November 3 – New, Visiting, and Pre-Tenure Faculty | Work-Life Balance
November 10 – Learning in an Age of Distraction: Research on the Impacts of Technology and Media on Studying, in-Class Attention, and Achievement – Petr Marks
November 17 – JanTerm: Dream it, Plan it, Promote it – Bob Cape, Cheryl Marcelo, & Ivette Vargas-O’Bryan
December 6 – New, Visiting, and Pre-Tenure Faculty | End-of-Year Reports – Lisa Brown, Michael Higgs, & Greg Kinzer
Spring 2022
February 3 – New, Visiting, and Re-tenure Faculty: Teaching JanTerm for the First Time
February 10 – Decolonizing Syllabi – Tom Blake, Cate Bowman, Elham Dehghanipour, Colin Foss
February 17 – Introducing the Mellon Grant: Pathways to a Just Society – Nate Bigelow, Lisa Emery, Jennifer Johnson-Cooper, Jeremy Posadas
February 24 – Research and Pedagogy: Writing Education in Action – Lisha Daniels Storey
March 3 – New, Visiting, and Re-tenure Faculty: Getting Students Involved in Research Opportunities – Daniel Nuckols, David Whelan
March 10 – Balancing Flexibility and Accountability. – Aaron Block, Mindy Landeck
March 24 – Cross Talk Panel, Risk: The Weather – David Baker, Victoria Cummins, Kevin Simmons
March 31 – Supporting Student Community Building at Austin College –
Michael Deen, David Norman, CeCe O’Day, Andrea Restrepo
April 7 – New, Visiting, and Re-tenure Faculty: New Course Proposal Considerations – Colin Foss, Jim Hebda, Claire Wolnisty
April 14 – No Johnson Center Program: Posey Leadership Award Convocation
April 21 – Research and Pedagogy Talk: Writing Education in Action – Lisha Daniels Storey
April 28 – Celebrating our Successes – Roundtable Discussion
May 5 – New, Visiting, and Pre-tenure Faculty: Reflecting on the Year and Setting Goals for the Summer
Fall 2021
August 26 – Welcome Back: Considerations in Our Return to Campus – Cate
Bowman, Michael Deen, Andrea Overbay, and Kim Powell
September 2 – New, Visiting, and Pre-tenure Faculty: Questions, Opportunities, and Resources – Cate Bowman and Jim Hebda
September 9 – Supporting First-Gen Students – Danielle Franks, Ryan Felix, and Traci Howard Moore
September 16 – Is Rigor a Barrier to Accomplishing Our Goals? – Lance Barton
September 23 – Supporting Students on the Spectrum through Accommodations and Awareness – Laura Marquez Ramsey
September 30 – Research and Pedagogy Talk – Liz Banks
October 7, WCC254 – 3rd to 5th Year Faculty: Finding Your Service Identity – Tom Blake, Mari Elise Ewing, and Brian Watkins
October 7, WCC231 – 1st and 2nd Year Faculty: Mid Semester Evalua
tions – Kelli Carroll, Ruchan Kaya, and Claire Wolnisty
October 14 – Academic Bullying – Renee Countryman
October 14, Ida Green Theatre – A.J. Carlson Lecture at 5 p.m., Dr. Lori White
October 21 – Response to A.J. Carlson Lecture
October 28 – Research & Pedagogy Talk: Numerical Partial Differential Equations: An Invitation to Undergraduate Research in Applied Mathematics – Huy Nguyen
November 4, WCC254 – New, Visiting, and Pre-tenure Faculty: Work-Life Balance – Stephanie Gould, Jim Hebda, and Marty Wells
November 4, WCC231 – Post-tenure Faculty: Re-inventing Your Academic Life Post-tenure – Jeremy Posadas, Kelly Reed, and Pete Schulze
November 11 – Cross Talk Panel, Risk: The Body – Mathias Akuoko, Saritha Bangara, and Colin Foss
November 18 – The Ins and Outs of Recommendation Letter Writing, Nate’s Thoughts – David Aiello and Nate Bigelow
December 2 – New, Visiting, and Pre-tenure Faculty: End of the Year Evaluations – Cate Bowman, Lisa Brown, Michael Higgs and Greg Kinzer