You are invited to attend:

The 4th Annual POD/AAC&U Organizational Development Institute

Navigating in the Seas of Change: Leading Curricular and Institutional Reform

Tuesday, January 24, 2012, 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Wednesday, January 25, 2012, 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Washington, DC | Grand Hyatt Hilton

Register HERE for the 2012 POD/AACU OD Institute.

As the director or staff member of a teaching center or someone with faculty development responsibilities on your campus, are you confused about how to move forward with meaningful change at your institution? Is your campus anticipating a revision of its liberal (general) education curriculum? Do you want to be involved? If "yes" is your answer to these questions, this institute is designed for you. At institutions of various sizes and structures, the "stories" of change are diverse. This institute helps participants to clarify their own "stories" of involvement with change and to consider systematically a range of factors and issues that affect most campuses. Complex change in higher education requires careful planning and gradual implementation to build successful courses, programs, and institutions.

During this one-and-a-half day institute, participants will have opportunities to consider institutional readiness for change and curriculum reform, plan a foundation for change that makes sense for your specific context, and consider how learner-centered assessment practices have potential for both initiating and sustaining changes. Upon completion of the institute, participants will have developed a plan for a specific change project on their campus.

Institute Facilitators:

Margaret W. Cohen. Peggy Cohen is the Associate Provost for Professional Development and the founding Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. The CTL offers orientations and programs that support campus initiatives and the professional development of full and part-time faculty, academic leaders, graduate assistants, and undergraduate learning assistants. Under Cohen's leadership administrative and academic program reviews have transitioned from a compliance to an assessment model. Her efforts to align events and courses with the campus goals for civic and economic development contributed to UMSL's recent recognition by Carnegie as a community-engaged campus. She is the co-author of The Course Syllabus: A Learning-Centered Approach.

Susan Gano-Phillips. Susan Gano-Phillips is a Professor of Psychology and former director of the Center for Learning and Teaching (CLT) at the University of Michigan – Flint. Her work in the CLT focused on changing the culture of teaching and learning by emphasizing new faculty mentoring, high impact practices in teaching and learning, and meaningful student assessment. She has been actively involved in the reform and implementation of the general education program at UM-Flint and has published on this topic (A Process Approach to GE Reform, with R.W. Barnett, 2010), as well as on organizational change (Coming in from the Margins: Faculty Development's Emerging Organizational Development Role in Institutional Change (Schroeder & Associates, 2011); Liberal Education, 2008) and leadership (JGE: The Journal of General Education, in press) in higher education. She completed a Fulbright Fellowship at City University of Hong Kong in the 2008-2009 academic year, during which she worked to facilitate system-level curriculum reform which initiated 4 year degree programs including general education.

Erik Palmore. Erik Palmore heads the Faculty Development Center (FDC) at Webster University in St. Louis, MO, which provides professional development and support for the teaching efforts of faculty located throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. The FDC constructs training and development programs to advance major university initiatives, including accelerating the integration of technologies for learning, promoting academic integrity, and implementing new academic programs at the University's multiple campuses. Webster's efforts to develop its Global Citizenship Program of general education has been strengthened by faculty development experiences that foster the understanding and development of program outcomes and practices.

James A. Therrell. Jim Therrell is the Director of the Faculty Center for Innovative Teaching (FaCIT) at Central Michigan University. He has taught and worked administratively for over 30 years at a wide variety of institutions, now working with 2,000 faculty instructors, and teaching assistants. Under his leadership, FaCIT has moved strategically from the periphery into a pivotal role with how CMU moves forward in relation to its teaching/learning mission. After winning last year's POD Innovation Award, his efforts at institutional change continue to rise from a foundation of organizational vision, fresh ideas, and collaborations across campus.

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Fees:
By December 2: $200
By December 23: $220
After December 23: $240

REGISTER HERE TO ALSO ATTEND THE AACU ANNUAL MEETING

HOTEL:

Grand Hyatt Hotel
1000 H Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001
888-421-1442

All meeting sessions will take place at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Washington, DC. Located in Penn Quarter in downtown Washington, the Grand Hyatt is within walking distance of the National Mall and convenient to DC's many museums and monuments. All guest rooms have access to Wireless High Speed Internet.

A block of rooms has been reserved for AAC&U and ACAD meeting participants with the special conference rate of $194 for a single occupancy room and $204 for double occupancy. Please be certain to tell the hotel that you are with AAC&U to receive this special rate.

This conference rate is available only until December 16, 2011, but we encourage participants to make hotel reservations as soon as possible. Once the AAC&U room block is sold out – often in early to mid-November and well before the cut-off date – the discounted rate will no longer apply. We cannot guarantee that an overflow hotel will offer the same low rate.

Transportation
The Grand Hyatt is 15 minutes from Reagan Washington National Airport by car or by the metro subway system (accessible from the Grand Hyatt's lobby); and approximately one hour from the Baltimore-Washington International Airport or Dulles International Airport. Washington is also easily accessible by Amtrak, and Union Station is less than 10 minutes from the Grand Hyatt by car or by metro.

Additional Hotel Options
Anticipating that the Grand Hyatt Hotel–site of all conference activities–will sell out, AAC&U has reserved a block of rooms at two other hotels. These hotels were selected to provide AAC&U registrants convenient options for lodging at a lower cost. Both are within walking distance, although one – the Renaissance – is closer to the Grand Hyatt. The other – the Hamilton Crowne Plaza – is a slightly longer walk, but is also accessible via quick Metro ride.

RENAISSANCE WASHINGTON DC DOWNTOWN HOTEL (Marriott)
999 Ninth Street NW Washington, DC 20001 Reservations: 800-228-9290
Single/Double: $185
Walking distance to the Grand Hyatt: 0.2 miles / 5 minutes

HAMILTON CROWNE PLAZA
14th and K Street NW Washington, DC 20005 Reservations: 800-263-9802
Single/Double Room: $179
Walking distance from the Grand Hyatt: 0.5 miles / 10 minute walk