Ohio Association of Two-Year Colleges
Conference 2010 --
Teaching and Learning in the Social Media Age
Mark your calendars now and plan to join us at
Central Ohio Technical
College (COTC) on Friday, October 22, 2010, as we discuss
“Teaching and Learning in the Social
Media Age.”
Kim Goudy, COTC Professor of Business,
is Conference Chair. Mark your calendars now and plan to be
a presenter (see below).
Call for Proposals
Have an experience with Social Media you'd like to share? Now
is the time!
The conference theme is
“Teaching and Learning in the Social
Media Age.” Email us your proposal before April 9. Proposals should
reflect the conference theme, which may include topics as:
-Opportunities for electronic collaboration
-Changes to program design/delivery
-Web 2.0
-Impacts on faculty load
-New teaching tools
-Social media/social media
marketing
Proposal Deadline: Emailed by Friday, April 9, 2010.
Submit proposals to:
Kimberly Goudy (740-366-9436) kgoudy@cotc.edu
Proposal Guidelines Please submit the following:
• Title and a one-sentence description of your presentation along with
the
name,
institution, address, phone number and e-mail of all participants.
(E-mailed proposals must be Microsoft Word compatible)
• 100-word summary of proposal, linking presentation goals with
conference theme
• Specific equipment and/or audio-visual requests
•Presentations
are 50 minutes in length.
Please note: presenters register at the full registration rate.
Teaching
Awards--Nominate a Colleague by May 1, 2010
Please consider nominating an outstanding teacher from your
college/university. The OATYC recognizes and celebrates
outstanding teachers each year at our annual conference. Click
here for more information and to download
nomination forms, which are due by May 1, 2010.
Rhodes State College made a remarkable sweep of the annual Outstanding
Teacher Awards this past October. Deb Geis, Nursing Instructor at
Rhodes, won Teacher of the Year; and Judy Giffin, Mathematics
Instructor, won for Outstanding Adjunct Teacher of the Year.
Congratulations to Deb and Judy, as well as all 22 outstanding
teacher nominees, all of whom were recognized
and celebrated at Rio Grande on October 16, 2009.
 Teaching
Grant -- Applications due April 1
The
Board of Directors of the Ohio Association of Two-Year Colleges (OATYC)
is pleased to announce a Call for Proposals, due April 1, 2010, for the
2010 “Teaching Grant.” This award is available to any two-year college
professor, full- or part-time, who is member of the OATYC or whose
Institution is a member of the Ohio Association for Two Year Colleges.
The OATYC Teaching Grant will be given to the faculty member who submits
a proposal that best enhances teaching and learning in his or her
classroom. Here are the
key dates and
application form.
The
2009 winner of the OATYC Teaching Grant was
Professor Adrienne Cassel from Sinclair Community College.
Professor Cassel's project is entitled,
"Writing
in the Weathered World: Using Place-Based Education to Improve Student
Learning, Increase Environmental Awareness, and Foster Community
Involvement."
Professor Cassel will present the outcomes from her project
during an educational session
at the 2010 OATYC Conference at Central Ohio Technical College.
Journal
The OATYC annually publishes a refereed journal.
Please consider
submitting your research and/or conference paper to our refereed
journal. Submissions are accepted year-round, and proposals are
blind reviewed for acceptance. Submission
information is available.
Newsletter
The latest newsletter, Spring 2010 comes out in hard copy in February
2010. An
electronic copy is available now. The
current issue of the newsletter focuses on our 43rd Annual Conference
being held on October 22, 2010, at
Central Ohio Technical
College.
University System of
Ohio
The
University System
of Ohio was
launched in August 2007 to promote Ohio's network of public colleges
and universities--which includes 13 universities with 24 branch
campuses, a public medical school, and 23 two-year technical and
community colleges--working in a collaborative, cooperative environment
across the state.
OACC
Information for trustees of Ohio's two-year colleges is provided by
the Ohio Association of Community
Colleges
which was founded in 1993 as a forum for sound trustee training,
communication, and trustee-president cooperation. The OACC Faculty
Symposium is being held on March 4 and 5 of this year in Dublin, OH.
See the web site for more information.
OFSCTC
The Ohio Faculty Senate of
Community and Technical Colleges, established in 1995, is made up of
representatives chosen by the faculty from each two-year college in
Ohio. The OFSCTC, which meets five times annually in the
offices of the Regents, provides the voice and perspective of the
two-year faculty to the Chancellor and Regents on the relevant issues
facing higher education.
AACC
The American Association of
Community Colleges is the primary national advocacy organization for
community colleges, with the mission of "building a nation of learners."
Historical Slide Show
Please enjoy a short
historical slide show of photos showing the growth of Ohio's
two-year college system. This slide show was compiled for our 40th anniversary
conference (2007) by Board member Vicki Rostedt and her team at Summit
College of the University of Akron.
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