Faculty Meeting – IV15 4/3/15
McDowell Hall 112, 1:00 p.m. Friday
Agenda
1) Next session’s enrollment: 698
2) Professional Development Retreat: Carolina Correa and Mark Smith
3) Committee Reports (links to reports in Program Planning)
- Testing – presented by Walt Babich
- Technology – presented by Scott Duarte
- Textbook – presented by Nonie Bell on behalf of Mikie Sarmiento
- Library – presented by Walt Babich
- Professional Development Taskforce – presented by Carolina Correa
4) ADS Search Update
5) Final Listening Test schedule
6) The Delaware Chapter of People to People International 30th Anniversary Dinner. ELI is sponsoring (paying for) several seats at the event. Please contact Baerbel Schumacher if you would like to attend. Keynote speaker: Senator Chris Coons. He will honor Deogratians Niyizonkiza, Founder of Village Health Works. “Deo” escaped the genocide of Ruwanda and Berundi, making it to NYC. His life-affirming story was told in the book What Remains. He graduated from Harvard’s School of Public Health and Dartmouth Medical School, returning to Barundi to establish a medical clinic. Date of dinner: Saturday, April 18, 6:00 – 8:00, Ed Oliver Golf Club, Wilmington.
Order of Business
Joe Matterer went over the agenda items.
Committee reports were presented.
Carolina Correa gave a brief overview of next week’s Professional Development Retreat. The morning will have a mixture of presentations and faculty and choose the workshop they would like to attend. In the afternoon, first Phil Rice will present on one method of dealing with vowels that can be integrated into all ELI classes. Then, Dr. Stevens and Joe Matterer will run a workshop on strategic interaction.