OPA Program

Guest Speaker(s): Tiffany Lieuw, Associate Director, Student Technology, VPTL and Susan Stephens, Professor, Classics

Topic: Trigger Warnings: A Discussion of the Culture of Safety in Higher Education

Required Reading:

Lukianoff, G., & Haidt, J. (2015). The coddling of the American mind. The Atlantic.-- LINK

Topic: Travails of Compulsory Attendance in Teaching and Learning: Why Do Students Skip Class?

Required Reading:

Fryer, L. K., Ginns, P., Howarth, M., Anderson, C., & Ozono, S. (2018). Individual differences and course attendance: why do students skip class?. Educational Psychology, 38(4), 470-486. -- LINK

Topic: Ethical Dilemmas in Teaching

Required Reading:

Gunnel Colnerud (2006) Teacher ethics as a research problem: syntheses achieved and new issues, Teachers and Teaching: theory and practice, 12:3, 365-385, DOI:10.1080/13450600500467704 -- LINK

Recommended Reading:

Guest Speaker(s):

Guest Speaker(s): Patricia Burchat, Professor, Physics and Kritika Kanchana Yegnashankaran, Associate Director, Faculty and Lecture Programs (VPTL)

Guest Speaker(s): Carolina Tropini, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Microbiology and Immunology and Lorraine Ling, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Genetics

Guest Speaker(s): John L. Hennessy, President Emeritus, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Polly M. Fordyce, Assistant Professor, Genetics and Bioengineering

Guest Speaker(s): Alexandra Konings, Assistant Professor, Earth System Science and Erin MacDonald, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering

Guest Speaker(s): Bruce A. Wooley, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Sarah Heilshorn, Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering