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LLW 2024 Retreat

Retreat Date
Sep. 20, 2024

Retreat Location
KCAC (Rooms 6 & 7)

Retreat Goals

  • Build community
  • Define the department’s teaching priorities
  • Facilitate collaboration
  • Define the department’s service priorities
  • Identify department goals

Retreat Agenda

8:00 a.m.-8:30 a.m. Breakfast

8:30 a.m.-8:40 a.m. Retreat Overview

  • We have a great opportunity to build a fabulous new department
  • We can promote and support the things we do best and that are the most important to us
  • We can also be innovative and creative in out thinking about how best to build a great new department
  • To start, we need to learn more about who we are and what matters to us
  • This will help us define our common priorities
  • This will also help us build connections with each other

8:40 a.m.-9:00 a.m. Community Building Activity

9:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m. Defining the LLW Department’s Teaching Priorities

  • 9:00 a.m.-9:15 a.m. Teaching Self-Reflection
  • 9:15 a.m.-9:30 a.m. Teaching Curriculum Mapping Activity
  • 9:30 a.m.-10:00 a.m. Small Group Discussion of Key Curriculum Areas
    • Where should we put our resources?
    • What can’t we do?
    • Areas to Consider
      • First Year Learning (FLY) Seminar
      • SOphomore Area Readiness (SOAR)
      • Liberal Studies Crimson Core
        • Written Communication Category: ENGL 101/103, English 202?
        • Oral Communication Category: language courses?
        • Quantitative Reasoning and Data Analysis Category:
        • Human and Creative Inquiry Category: ENGL/FNLG 121?
        • Scientific Reasoning Category:
        • Values and Ethics Category:
        • Civic Engagement/Readiness Category:
        • Global Learning Category:
        • Leadership, Teamwork, & Project Development Category:
      • Big Ideas
      • Honors College
      • B.A. Programs (Majors/Minors)
      • Education
    • Graduate Programs–M.A.
    • Graduate Programs–Ph.D.
    • Other IUP Programs
      • WGS
      • Sustainability Studies

10:00 a.m.-10:15 a.m. Break

10:15 a.m.-11:00 a.m. Defining the LLW Department’s Teaching Priorities–Full Department Discussion

  • What are our teaching priorities as a department?

11:00 a.m.-Noon Scholarly Interests and Departmental Collaboration (Dana Driscoll)

  • 2024 Scholarship Handout
  • Activity 1: Your Elevator Pitch & Keywords
  • Activity 2: Sharing Our Interests and Building Connections
  • Activity 3: Goal Setting

Noon-12:45 p.m. Lunch

12:45 p.m.-2:15 p.m. Defining the LLW Department’s Service Priorities

  • 12:45 p.m.-1:00 p.m. Service Self-Reflection
  • 1:00 p.m.-1:15 p.m. Service Mapping Activity
  • 1:15 p.m.-1:45 a.m. Small Group Discussion of Service Priorities
    • What must we keep?
    • Where could we streamline?
  • 1:45 p.m.-2:15 p.m. Full Department Discussion of Service Priorities
    • What must we keep?
    • Where could we streamline?

12:45 p.m.-2:15 p.m. Setting LLW Goals

  • 2:15 p.m.-2:35 p.m. Small Group Discussion of LLW Goals
    • What are our main departmental priorities for the year?
    • What are the next steps we need to take?
  • 2:35 p.m.-3:00 p.m. Full Department Discussion of LLW Goals
    • What are our main departmental priorities for the year?
    • What are the next steps we need to take?

Retreat Socializing

3:00 p.m.-4:30 p.m. Join us @ the Hilton Garden Inn Lounge