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Conference at a glance 2007 (pdf)

Wednesday, July 4

9:00 am – 7:30 pm Registration

3:30 pm – 5:00 pm 90 Minute Workshops

5:00 pm – 5:30 pm Break

5:30 pm – 7:30 pm 120 Minute Workshops

7:30 pm – 9:30 pm Opening Keynote

Jesús M. Nieto García

Dr. Jesús M. Nieto García has been a lecturer in English language and literature for the last eighteen years at the English Department in the Faculty of Humanities and Education at Jaén University. He holds a PhD on English Philology, has published extensively on English stylistics, drama and theatre and the teaching of English pronunciation, and has supervised or is at present supervising different PhD dissertations in the fields of English and Caribbean literature and English discourse analysis. Currently he holds the chair of English language and literature at Jaén University, within which he has undertaken several responsibilities connected to European Higher Education programmes –he is currently in charge of the plan for the implementation of the European Credit Transfer System in the English Philology course–, to new views on English as a discipline within the curriculum –he is the general coordinator of MIVCI, the Master’s Degree on English as a Means of Intercultural Communication– and to general teaching and learning programmes in foreign languages –he has been recently appointed the President’s delegate for the Centre of Modern Languages at Jaén University–.

Jesús López-Peláez Casellas

Dr López-Peláez is Associate Professor (tenured) at the Universidad de Jaén, where he currently teaches English and Comparative literature. He has also taught at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, University of Paris XII, and Tartu University (Estonia), and has been visiting scholar at Arizona State Univ., Michigan State Univ. and Penn State Univ. (US). He has been Director of University of Jaén Drama and Cinema (1997-99); Director for International Relations (1999.2003) and Vice-rector for International Relations (2003-2007) at the University of Jaén. He has published articles and books in journals and University Presses from Spain, the US, Germany, France, Estonia and Poland.

European Higher Education and Student International Mobility: A Challenge for the New Millennium

The waves of change that are currently affecting the European Higher University system in many countries, and the Spanish public universities as a case in point, are intended to make all higher teaching and learning processes more transparent, student-centred and effective. Among the challenges facing European universities in the near future, we find a certain globalisation process, which has characteristically been defined in mutually cancelling terms such as ‘threat’ and ‘opportunity’. Indeed, we all know that too often the benefits of (supposedly) increased economic and social efficiency are shared by just a few. In the context of the radical changes produced by the so called ‘European Common Space for Education’, we will attempt to explore the innovative ways in which globalization may be used in order to improve our teaching and to enrich the education of our students, providing them –and us- with a global perspective by means of the introduction of the international dimension of university education. As a case study we will analyze the ERASMUS Program, although there will be references to other programs elsewhere in the world. The need to develop more pro-active and really forming –rather than merely informing– teaching methodologies will be highlighted, along with the vital importance that foreign language use for academic and scientific purposes is sure to take in a multilingual and multicultural setting.

9:30 pm Opening Reception and Dinner at Caserío de las Palmeras (transportation provided)

Thursday, July 5

9:00 am – 2:00 pm Late Registration

9:30 am – 10:15 am Ice Breaker Activity - John Zubizarreta
“Welcome! Let’s Start Learning!” Creative Strategies on the First Day of Class

10:30 am – Noon Concurrent Sessions #1

Innovative Faculty Roles – Robert Pithers, Moderator

Building Great Students – Marisa Pérez-Cañado, Moderator

Noon – 12:30 pm Break

12:30 pm – 2:00 pm 90 minute Workshops

2:00 pm – 3:30 pm Lunch (provided)

3:30 pm – 5:30 pm 120 Minute Workshops

5:30 pm – 6:00 pm Break

6:00 pm – 8:30 pm Poster Sessions

8:30 pm – 9:00 pm Transition to Reception (transportation provided)

9:00 pm – 10:00 pm Wine & Cheese Reception at San Juan de Dios (dinner on your own)

Friday, July 6

9:00 am – 10:00 am 60 minute Workshops

10:00 am – 10:30 am Break

10:30 am – Noon Concurrent Sessions #2

Enhancing Creative Responses – John Zubizarreta, Moderator

Creativity In Cyberspace – Anna Kwan, Moderator

Noon – 12:30 pm Break

12:30 pm – 2:00 pm Concurrent Session #3

Solving Faculty Problems – Peter Seldin, Moderator

Strategies to Motivate Students – Monie Naidoo, Moderator

2:00 pm – 3:30 pm Lunch (provided)

3:30 pm – 5:00 pm Concurrent Session #4

Improving Classroom Engagement – Barbara Smith, Moderator

Innovative Faculty Development Ideas – Carol Harvey, Moderator

Creative Community Connections – Jane Halonen, Moderator

5:00 – 5:30 pm Break

5:30 pm – 6:30 pm 60 Minute Workshops

6:30 pm – 7:00 pm Break

7:00 pm – 8:00 pm Closing Keynote

John Cavanaugh

Dr. John Cavanaugh is the fourth president of the University of West Florida and the first to be selected by the local board of trustees. John Cavanaugh received his baccalaureate degree in psychology with high honors from the University of Delaware and his master’s and doctoral degrees in psychology from the University of Notre Dame.

John Cavanaugh is a fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Gerontological Society of America and a charter fellow of the Association for Psychological Science. He was an American Council on Education Fellow. He is the author or coauthor of 12 books and more than 70 articles and chapters on topics in aging, teaching, information technology and higher education. He served as the chair of the State University President’s Association for the state of Florida, and as president of the Florida Association of Colleges and Universities.

Prior to assuming the presidency at UWF, Cavanaugh held faculty and administrative positions at Bowling Green State University, the Medical College of Ohio, the University of Delaware and the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, and was a visiting professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Currently, John Cavanaugh serves as chair of the National Flight Academy Board of Advisors and is a member of the International Education Committee of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities, the Executive Council of the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, the Board of Trustees for Marygrove College (Detroit, MI) and the Advisory Board for the Walt Disney World College Program.

The Seven Storey Mountain of Administrative Creativity (pdf)

Myths are useful in providing guidance in people’s lives. In many cases, belief in myth occurs irrespective of whether the facts support it or not. One of the key guiding questions of the conference is whether there is room for creativity in administrative life. According to myth, academic administrators are a uniformly uncreative group who reside in the Ninth Circle of Hell. Is this really true? Using the approach taken by Thomas Merton in his autobiography The Seven Storey Mountain, I examine this myth in detail. I begin by carefully examining the basis of the myth concerning academic administrators as having abandoned their careers for a life of mindless bureaucracy. As Merton did in drawing a connection between the seven terraces of purgatory (corresponding to the seven deadly sins) with his life, I draw a similar analogy with the trials academic administrators face. Based on this analysis, the myth that creative academic administrators is an oxymoron is rejected. I conclude with a list of the seven steps I use in ensuring room for creativity in my own experience of academic administration.

8:00 pm – 9:00 pm (Change attire and transportation to Parador)

9:00 pm – 10:30 pm Closing Dinner at the Parador de Santa Catalina

Saturday, July 7

9:30 am – 11:00 am 90 Minute Workshops

11:00 am – 11:30 am Break

11:30 am – 1:00 pm Conference Closing and Advance on Scotland!
Jane Halonen, Peter Seldin, Ray Land

1:00 pm – 2:30 pm Closing Wine & Cheese Reception

2:30 pm – 6:00 pm Free-time and Lunch (on your own)

6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tour of Jaén

9:00 pm Dinner (on your own)

 

Sunday, July 8 - Post Conference Tour ($50 USD)

These cities are considered to be classic examples of 16th century Renaissance architecture and the best examples of Renaissance town planning in Spain. These cities lived in great prosperity and competed with each other to build better and purer Renaissance style buildings. The result is a pure classicism that has been compared to Italian Renaissance cities.

In Úbeda, the aristocracy behaved as real Renaissance patrons and imitated Italian families such as the Medici from Firenze, filling Úbeda with sumptuous palaces. By contrast, Baeza had a powerful town council that decided to show its power with beautiful publics works, such as the pósito (public granary), the alhóndiga (corn exchange), the meat market, the prison, etc. The Catholic Church also decided to beautify its more important buildings, like the Church of St. Mary in Úbeda and the Cathedral of Baeza.

This tour will depart for Baeza between 9:00 and 10:00 a.m. with lunch in this city. The tour will then move to Úbeda in the afternoon and return around 6:00 p.m.

Monday, July 9 - Post Conference Tour ($50 USD)

The Jaén region is the olive oil capitol of the world, so it is fitting that the July 9th tour will be of the olive oil processing plant in Lopera. In addition, this tour will also visit a wine cellar, vineyards and Civil War trenches. This tour will depart between 9:00 and 10:00 a.m. and return around 6:00 p.m.

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