Note: Below is the announcement posted prior to this workshop. This activity was part of the FaCE Project Phase I, which operated from Fall 2004 through Spring 2008. For information about current FaCE Project Phase II activities, go to the FaCE home page.

Preparing Students for Responsible Citizenship

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• A Common Interest Workshop funded by the ACM Mellon FaCE Project
• This workshop will held be in conjunction with Beloit College's conference on "Humanitarian Relief in the Wake of Manmade and Natural Disasters"
• Dates: April 4-5, 2008
• Host: Beloit College in Beloit, WI
• Deadline to identify participants: February 20, 2008

A workshop on Preparing Students for Responsible Citizenship will be held at Beloit College on April 4 and 5, 2008. The workshop will bring together faculty from ACM institutions to discuss their teaching and advising related to the workshop topic.

Presentations will focus on examples from current teaching, conceptual questions faced when teaching difficult topics, and concrete examples of the different pathways students may take as they prepare for responsible citizenship.

The workshop sessions will be followed by a conference on Humanitarian Relief in the Wake of Manmade and Natural Disasters, held in conjunction with the 2008 Weissberg Chair Residency at Beloit College of Jan Egeland, former chief humanitarian relief coordinator for the United Nations and currently advisor to the U.N. on conflict mediation.

Egeland is the author of the forthcoming book A Billion Lives: An Eyewitness Report from the Frontlines of Humanity and in 2006 was named by Time Magazine as one of "the 100 most influential people of the 20th century."

Further information on Egeland's residency is at: http://www.beloit.edu/~oie/campus_internat/egeland.htm

Schedule

The workshop will begin at 4:00 p.m. on Friday, April 4.

Three panel discussions will take place the afternoon of April 4 and morning of April 5:

• Examples from our teaching;
• Examples of texts to use in our teaching; and
• Pathways for preparing for ethical citizenship.

These workshop sessions will be followed on Saturday afternoon by a conference on Humanitarian Relief in the Wake of Manmade and Natural Disasters

The event will conclude in the late afternoon on Saturday, April 5.

To participate in the workshop

ACM campuses are invited to nominate one or two faculty members to participate in the workshop. Participants should be identified to Betsy Hutula at ACM by February 20, 2008.

FaCE and ACM will cover travel and lodging (at the conference hotel) for up to two people per campus.

Faculty interested in making a presentation should contact Beth Dougherty at Beloit College by February 8.