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Judith Eaton’s topic for the Louise McBee Lecture--making the accreditation process an instrument for useful change--is especially relevant to the University of Georgia because of the self-study now under way.
Immediately following her lecture, Eaton will join with members of the university and Clarke County communities in an interactive forum aimed at generating ideas about how the self-study can be a “living document” for improving the undergraduate experience at UGA. The forum will be from 2 to 5 p.m. in the same location as the lecture--rooms K and L of the Georgia Center for Continuing Education.
UGA is using an alternate self-study model that allows it to focus on a topic of strategic importance to the university. UGA’s self-study is exploring the relationship of the undergraduate experience to the mission of a public research institution.
Peggy Kreshel, associate director and editor of the self-study, says Eaton’s lecture will be a springboard for forum participants to “brainstorm about how our self-study will remain useful for many years, how it can be a living document envisioning the future of the undergraduate experience at UGA.”
Hal Kolb, an English professor at the University of Virginia who directed UVa’s alternative self-study, titled “Targeting Excellence,” will also participate in the forum. James T. Rogers, executive director of the SACS commission on colleges, will join Kolb in discussing how the alternate model can be used most effectively.
The format for the forum will be a process called the “mobile local area network,” in which participants input ideas and comments on computers. The information is immediately displayed on a large screen, allowing participants to engage in a real-time “visual discussion.” The forum will be led by Steve Dempsey and Wes Wynens of the J.W. Fanning Institute for Leadership and Community Development.
All faculty and staff members, as well as students and members of the Athens community, are welcome to participate in the forum, Kreshel says.
In order to assure adequate equipment, those planning to participate are asked to contact Margey McQuilkin, self-study coordinator, in advance--either by e-mail (mcquilki@uga.edu) or telephone (583-0241).
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