Overview & Preparation

March 26, 2007

 

 "First Generation Urban Learners and the Trinity Experience"

 Presenter: Dr. Alma Clayton-Pedersen

 Vice President

 Office Education and Institutional Renewal

 Association of American Colleges and Universities

          Time: 3:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

          Location: Social Hall

 

 Overview and Preparation

Dr. Alma Clayton-Pedersen will facilitate a workshop entitled "First-Generation Urban Learners and the Trinity Experience" on March 26, 2007, 3:00-5:30, in Trinity’s Social Hall. Dr. Clayton-Pedersen serves as Vice President for Education and Institutional Renewal at the Association of American Colleges & Universities (AAC&U).  Dr. Clayton-Pedersen, who worked with several Trinity faculty at the Greater Expectations Institute in the summer of 2006, is a national leader on issues of institutional change, particularly sustainability, diversity and excellence, and collaborative leadership. Her consulting expertise includes work on diversity, success of underrepresented students, policy, organizational learning, and program development and evaluation. Having served at AAC&U since 2001, she has fifteen years of campus-based experience, including directing a significant number of studies on student engagement and campus services.

 

Dr. Clayton-Pedersen is invested in ensuring that actual experiences inform a workshop we expect to be both dynamic and fulfilling.  She asks for your participation in advance to achieve this goal.  Full-time faculty participants are asked to contemplate the following, submitting responses to broaddusv@trinitydc.edu no later than March 1, 2007:

Please contemplate any challenges you have encountered in your work with underserved students (broadly defined).

·    What was the nature of the challenge (e.g., was it related to the student’s transition from their communities to college generally or Trinity specifically, being under prepared for the academic rigor, with race/ethnicity and/or identity or interracial/ethnic interaction among students, or in conversation with you and colleagues)?

·    Please then describe the situation, indicating what you were trying to teach and how the challenge manifested. This is, what was the specific problem you encountered, how did you handle it, and how well do you think you handled it?

·    Describe how the situation made you feel. 

·    What knowledge, skills, or capacities do you think would have helped you make the situation turn out more satisfactorily?

These do not have to be long descriptions—you can simply tell a story, but try covering the points above to help Dr. Clayton-Pedersen better understand how our time together can be most productive for you.