INSIDE DOUGLAS COLLEGE / January 21, 1992 completion, it appears as though this project would be extremely demanding for the instructor. It isn’t. Both the highly-motivated and the less-motivated students [In our newsletter] we used our own experi- ences which are real, not only to us, but to others as well. My younger brother read ee liked the idea of a completed project they could take ours and related well to what each para- sew home to show to their families, and it also served as a graph said. He won't be coming to college remembrance of a semester past. From the comments I for a couple of years, but now he knows received from the students, I could tell they were what to expect, and he looks forward to especially fond of the idea of helping other students coming! who might be as terrified as they were when first beginning their college careers. They were no longer Laura L. Jorde, Instructor, English just the passive consumers of information; they were the active producers of information. For further information, contact the author at the The cooperative newsletter began as a critical Department of English, Clovis Community College, thinking exercise, but now, after reading student 417 Schepps Boulevard, Clovis, NM 88101. comments, I find it has touched students much more deeply than I ever expected. An excerpt from one student’s paragraph says it well: ECCS Have You Mabe PLANS TO ATTEND? ANNOUNCING NISOD'S FOURTEENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON TEACHING EXCELLENCE AND CONFERENCE OF ADMINISTRATORS, May 24-27, 1992, AusTIN, TEXAS Pre-Conference Sessions (Sunday, May 24): Featured Speakers: Q wal ° Models for Student Development Programs— ¢ Donald Phelps, Chancellor, Los Angeles Community | Walter Bumphus, President, Brookhaven College, Texas College District, California | * Staff Development Programs That Work—Roy ¢ Beverly Simone, President and District Director, Giroux, Vice President, Education and Faculty Services, Madisoi: \-ea Technical College, Wisconsin Humber College, Canada ° Juliet Garci«, resident, Texas Southmost College * Marketing Strategies for Community College ¢ Allen Edwards, President, Lexington Community Environments—Dennis Johnson, President, Johnson College; and Ron Horvath, President, Jefferson Commu- Associates, Illinois nity College, Kentucky ° Critical Classroom Strategies—John E. Roueche, * Carl Kuttler, President, St. Petersburg Junior College, Sid W. Richardson Regents Chair, Community College Florida Leadership Program, The University of Texas at Austin * How to Charge Up Instead of Burn Out!—Debra Excellence Award Winners Celebration (Wednesday, Sikes, Instructor, Grayson County College, Texas May 27), hosted by John E. and Suanne D. Roueche * Faculty Mentors: New Roles, Shared Success— Mimi Valek, Vice President for Academic Affairs, Scheduled Tours: Arizona Western College Austin and LBJ Library—Saturday, May 23 ¢ Heel & Toe (little or no dance experience required) LBJ Ranch/Hill Country—Saturday, May 23 and Texas Two-Step (some dance experience recom- San Antonio and the Riverwalk—Tuesday, May 26 mended )—Wally Cox, Professor, Computer Science and Country-Western Dancing, College of the Canyons, Mexican Buffet Dinner & Dancing to Texas Fever, California Monday, May 25 eo. Suanne D. Roueche, Editor October 4, 1991, Vol XH, No. 22 ©The University of Texas at Austin, 1991 Departm Further duplication is permitted by MEMBER institutions for their own personnel. INNOVATION ABSTRACTS is a publication of the National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development (NISOD), ent of Educational Administration, College of Education, EDB 348, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, (512) 471-7545. Funding in part by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation and the Sid W. Richardson Foundation. issued weekly when classes are in session during fall and spring terms. ISSN 0199-106X.