coe-fac: Opportunity to share your knowledge and expertise

[Brigid Flannery]

Faculty,
We have a chance to get perspective undergraduate students excited about all the great work being done in the COE and all they can learn if they chose the UO! Please review and let us know if you are willing to help.
Duck Preview is major recruiting activity here at UO and one of the events is 20-minute Catalytic Learning Sessions (see below).  If you scan the list below you will see last year Leslie Leve did a session on Prevention Science in Action and Atika Khurana on Understanding and Preventing Adolescent Risk Behaviors.
These sessions will be in the afternoon of October 4 & 21 and November 4 & 19 and are looking for  a commitment of 1 hour. They are hoping that interested faculty can commit to at least 2 of the 4 dates.
We would like to have a strong COE representation at these sessions because it can help attract high caliber students to our COE undergraduate majors. Please look at your calendar and let Brigid (brigidf at uoregon.edu<mailto:brigidf at uoregon.edu>) know if you are available. She will share your names and they will then contact you directly to answer questions and obtain information your availability.
Thanks and we hope you can represent the COE at Duck Preview Days!
Leslie Leve and Brigid Flannery
Subject: FW: Catalytic Learning Sessions - Duck Preview

Duck Preview, the University of Oregon's fall open house events for prospective students, will take place on October 4 & 21 and November 4 & 19. I'm writing on behalf of my assistant director in charge of visit programs, Allyson Tróchez.

We are looking for faculty from all schools and colleges to provide dynamic and engaging, lecture-style presentations to our prospective students and their families. The goals of these lectures, or Catalytic Learning sessions (as we like to call them), are:
1.     Showcase research top faculty are conducting at the UO in various fields of study and how it benefits undergraduate students;
2.     Demonstrate an engaging lecture and get students excited about studying at the UO;
3.     Most importantly, share how students can gain transferrable skills with nearly any degree.

We had a tremendous response from visitors about last year's selection of Catalytic Learning Sessions, which were:


·         Japanese Literature and Film, Alisa Freedman, East Asian Languages

·         Understanding and Preventing Adolescent Risk Behaviors, Atika Khurana, Family and Human Services

·         What is Comics Studies?, Ben Saunders, English/Comic Studies

·         Creativity and the Performing Arts: How to Save the World while Losing All Respect for Yourself, Brian McWhorter, Music

·         What can a liberal arts education do for you?, Chris Chavez, Journalism and Communication

·         Dance Dance Revolution: Bloodsport, Politics, and American Sports Poetry, Corbett Upton, English

·         Legal Studies, David J Koller, Law

·         Environmental Impacts of Everyday Objects, David Tyler, Chemistry

·         The Grimms' Fairy Tales: Portals between Fantasy and Reality,Dorothee Ostmeier, German and Scandinavian Studies

·         Psychology of Group Dynamics, Holly Arrow, Psychology

·         Engaging the First-Year Experience with Art and Science, Julie Voelker-Morris, Arts and Administration

·         Free Speech in America in the 21st Century: A UO Professor's Unending Real-Life Passion, Kyu Ho Youm, Journalism and Communication

·         Affinity and Inspiration: Why I Teach Literature, Leah Middlebrook, Comparative Literature

·         From War Games to Warfare: An anthropological exploration, Marcela Mendoza, Education

·         Harlem Hellfighters: World War One and African American Literature, Mark Whalan, English

·         German Language and Culture, Matthias Vogel, German and Scandinavian Studies

·         Breaking Language Barriers: How we learn language throughout life, Melissa Baese-Berk, Linguistics

·         Are economists right about ANYTHING?, Mike Urbancic, Economics

·         A Forward Look for Astronomy at the UO, Scott Fisher, Physics

·         Social Identity: Predicting Consumer and Audience Attitudes In The 21st Century, Troy Elias, Journalism and Communication

·         Prevention Science in Action, Leslie Leve, Prevention Science

Here is a little more information about Duck Preview:

Duck Preview aims help prospective high school seniors and transfer students, and their families, get to know the university. For a vast majority of prospective students, college selection is predicated on one very important question: does the institution offer the academic programs I am interested in? Our aim for Duck Preview is to give them the opportunity to answer that question, and discover how the university's liberal arts education will benefit them for years to come. On average, 20% of the prospective students who attend Duck Preview will apply the week following Duck Preview and ultimately half of the prospective students who attend Duck Preview will apply for freshman admission.
  If you have questions regarding any of the information here, please contact Allyson by telephone at 6-1248 or via email at trochez at uoregon.edu<mailto:trochez at uoregon.edu>.

Cora Bennett
Director, Student Orientation Programs
Address :: Ford Alumni Center, Suite 119 | 1720 E. 13th Avenue | Eugene, OR 97403
ph ::  541-346-1142 | e :: corab at uoregon.edu<mailto:corab at uoregon.edu>
w :: http://orientation.uoregon.edu<http://orientation.uoregon.edu/> and http://visit.uoregon.edu

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