2009-2010 FYW Faculty Meetings and
Events
Tuesday, August 25: FYW Fall
2009 Orientation
Thursday, August 26: FYW Fall 2009
Orientation
Tuesday, September 1: ICS Meeting @9am. New Student
Convocation @noon.Faculty Convocation @5pm
Wednesday, September 2: Classes begin following Monday
schedule. Welcome Back Pizza Party for Tutors and Faculty!!
Friday, September 4: Syllabi
Due (Submit electronic version to Shared Drive in Fall 2009
folder and to Dorothy Bukay)
Wednesday, September 9: First FYW Meeting: Election of
“Coming to Writing” Chair (nominations due on September 9);
Discussion of Fall 2009 FYW Meetings; Reflections of Spring 2009
Descriptive Reviews
Wednesday, September 16: First
FYW Committee Meetings
Wednesday, September 23: FYW Meeting: The
Program Learning Objectives and Our Classrooms (facilitated by
Professor Octavia Davis)
Wednesday, September 30: FYW Committee Meeting
#2
Wednesday, October 7: FYW
Meeting: Midterm Planning (Midterms are October 13-19). Portfolio
Overviews Due (Submit electronic version to Shared Drive and
to Dorothy Buay)
Thursday, October 8: ICS Meeting
(5-7pm in Faculty Club)
Wednesday, October 14: FYW Meeting: Tutor-Faculty
Collaborative Meeting (Midterms, portfolios, etc)
Wednesday, October 21: FYW Meeting: What Are Our
Writing Assignments and What Do they Accomplish? (facilitated by
Professor Sean Murray)
Wednesday, October 28: FYW Committee Meeting #3
Wednesday, November 4: FYW Meeting: Panel Presentation
on Program Learning Objective #1 (Recognize that writing is a mode
of communication and a social activity, a matter of negotiating the
expectations of different audiences and rhetorical conventions of
different genres.)
Wednesday, November 11: FYW Committee Meeting #4
Wednesday, November 18: FYW Meeting: Panel
Presentation on Program Learning Objective #3 (Make inferences,
take mental risks, and develop complex ideas through abstract and
critical thinking, reading, and writing.)
Wednesday, December 2: Last FYW
Committee Meeting… Committee Reports (Plans and Accomplishments)
Due (Submit electronic version to Shared Drive and to Dorothy). ICS
Meeting (5-7pm in Faculty Club)
Wednesday, December 9: IWS WINTER HOLIDAYS PARTY
Monday, December 14: Final Exams Begin; Collect FYW
Portfolios (FYW classes do not meet); Begin Writing Descriptive
Reviews
Thursday, December 17: Fall 2009
Portfolio/Assessment Seminar--- Day I (10am-2:30pm)
Friday, December 18: Fall 2009 Portfolio/Assessment
Seminar--- Day II (10am-2:30pm)
Spring 2010 FYW Meetings will
include:
• Panel Discussion on Program Learning Objective
#5 (Use the basic elements of effective arguments---claims,
defining terms, evidence, counter-arguments--- and demonstrate how
logical fallacies can undermine positions.)
• Panel Discussion on Program Learning Objective
#7 (Understand the need to negotiate, analyze and problem-solve
technological interfaces for a variety of disciplinary, rhetorical,
and writing needs.)
• Workshop/Discussion organized by the Retention
and Engagement Committee
• Workshop on Response Theory and Practices