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TO: ALL FACULTY
FROM: HOWARD EATON
SUBJECT: CONFERENCES/SHORT SUBJECTS

DATE: 86/9/26 (Friday)

Conferences

As a part of my duties as Professional Development
Consultant I have agreed to review briefly conference
announcements that appear to be of general interest.
Anyone wishing to get more information can consult the
full conference announcements and schedules, which will
be kept on file in Gerry DellaMattia's office.

Short subjects

Under this heading I would like to pass along to you
anything that might be useful to some of you in your
teaching. Please pass along any item you would like to
see inserted to me, or directly to the Mad Hatter for
inclusion under this heading.

Conference Review: "Quest for Quality," Toronto, Nov.
13-15. This conference has a wide variety of topics
that would offer something to practically any faculty
member or college manager. Writing instruction,
clinical evaluation in the health professions,
competency-based vocational education, computers, career
training for the handicapped, are some of the topics. A
long list of much-discussed topics. The "stars" seem
impressive enough--it's hard to judge the quality of the
presenters, but the variety of institutions represented
is wide and the general qualifications look quite good.
Worth looking over.

sane 86/9/26 (Friday)

Short Subjects

i. Contacting the absent student: Some of you may
recall the discussions in "Innovation Abstracts" of the
practice of telephoning students who are absent. While
I am convinced this is useful, I don't personally like
using the phone, I don't like to take the time, and I

feel a call from me might be intimidating. Because I.
use group work a good deal, I assign this phoning
responsibility to other students in the class. They

have the job of passing on the assignment and any notes,
and of reporting to me if there is an on-going problem
that would make a call from me appropriate. I check
with the responsible students to see if the call has