Dean, Center for Innovation and Learning
Reeves Family Professor of French
Director for Institutional Effectiveness                                                                   

Olin Building 211B
wisemandm@wofford.edu
tel: 864-597-4509
fax: 864-597-4549
Office Hours: M-F 8:30-5:00

Spring 2013 Degree Qualifications Profile, CIC/Lumina Association of International Education Administrators, New Orleans Institut français d'Amérique, Chapel Hill Summer 2013 Degree Qualifications Profile Conference, CIC / Lumina, Indianapolis Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Summer Institute, Daytona Beach

                                                                                                                                                                     

Center for Innovation and Learning The staff of the Center are responsible for developing pedagogical initiatives and faculty development opportunities that enhance the professional lives of our distinguished faculty.  With this in mind, this is the program of events for the Center this spring 2013: January 16:  NITLE Webinar: "Women's Studies, Gender Studies, Digital Humanities" January 22:  Inside Higher Ed Webinar: "MOOCs for the Rest of Us" February 12:  Wofford OneSource: TNT lunch on new research search engine OneSource, with Tim Brown February 21:  Dr. C. Dinkins will present her initial findings from her fall 2012 Center for Innovation and Learning Fellows project: "Wofford Across the Disciplines: The Lived Experience of Teaching and Learning on a Liberal Arts Campus" March 7:  The Center will host a mini-workshop on course evaluations for untenured or non-tenure track faculty March 19: The Center will host a mini-workshop on how faculty can reflect on their course and teaching in the middle of a semester March 26: The Center will host the second Open Classrooms lunch for discussion and comparison of pedagogical methodologies across disciplines April 16: Dr. G.R. Davis will present on his sabbatical experience at Africa University in the Spring of 2012 in a talk entitled: “Dreams and Nightmares, Poems and Promises:  A Sabbatical Semester at Africa University” April 23: Dr. John Miles, Director of the Writing Center will lead a team of Wofford faculty to attend the Writing Project Conference on "Are We Ready? Connecting Learning & Learners K – College Classroom at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte May 22: The Center for Innovation and Learning and the Office of International Programs at Wofford College will host a workshop presented by English for Life (Greenville SC), focusing on TESOL/ESL assistance for teaching & advising students for whom English is not their first language May 23: The Center for Innovation and Learning and the Interfaith Youth Corps, in conjunction with the Wofford College & Elon University Teagle project ("Using Assessment Evidence to Improve Programs and Promote Shared Responsibility for Mission-based Outcomes") will host a workshop intended to increase staff and faculty religious literacy, present a snapshot of the religious and spiritual campus climate at Wofford, offer techniques for constructively engaging worldview identity in student programming and in the classroom, and offer space for faculty and staff to share best practices and workshop challenging situations with one another.