Closing Plenary
Agenda for January 27, 2021
1:00pm-4:00 pm ET | 12:00pm-3:00pm CT | 11:00am-2:00pm MT | 10:00am-1:00am PT
1:00 pm ET Cross-cutting Challenges and Opportunities to Improving Teaching Evaluation
Reflections on themes emerging from the posters and office hours
Pat Hutchings, Senior Scholar, BayView Alliance, and Senior Scholar, National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment
Mark Lee, Associate Professor of Biology and Trustee, Spelman College
Victoria Sork, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles
Moderator: Noah Finkelstein, University of Colorado, Boulder
1:40 pm ET Breakout Discussions to Further Explore Emerging Themes
Topic A: Engaging more people in campus conversations
Topic B: Aligning new approaches, policies, and reward structures
Topic C: Making evaluation more equitable for faculty
Topic D: Thinking about the impacts of COVID on faculty evaluation
Moderated by Ann Austin, Michigan State University and Andrea Follmer Greenhoot, University of Kansas
2:45 pm ET Exploring Emerging Themes: Ideas from Breakout Groups
Moderated by Ann Austin, Michigan State University and Andrea Follmer Greenhoot, University of Kansas
3:10 pm ET Campus Perspectives on Transforming STEM Teaching Evaluation in Higher Education
Annette Parker, President, South Central College
Laurie Leshin, President, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Joan Ferrini-Mundy, President, University of Maine
Moderator: Gabriela Weaver, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
3:40pm ET National Perspectives on Transforming STEM Teaching Evaluation in Higher Education and Closing Remarks
Emily Miller, Association of American Universities
Christine Broussard, University of LaVerne
Heidi Schweingruber, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
4:00 pm ET Adjourn