Presenters: Nicole Curvin (Admissions), Jeanne Albert, (CTLR) and Susan DeSimone (Biology)

Wednesday, Jan. 16th, 10:45-1:00, CTLR, lunch included

What expectations do we have of our students, and how are those expectations shaped?  Do they align with the reality of student preparedness? What are the consequences – for us and for them – when they struggle to achieve the goals we have set in our courses?  How do we address the gaps between the faculty’s goals and what students are prepared to do, how they learn, and what they want to learn?

Nicole Curvin, Director of Admissions, Jeanne Albert, Director of CTLR’s Office of STEM & Quantitative Support, and Susan DeSimone, Associate Lab Professor in Biology, will use their own informed perspectives to address these questions and discuss them with the audience.  This conversation is intended to help faculty take a hard look at their own expectations of students and the approaches they currently use to make learning an enriching, not demoralizing, struggle.

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