November 12, 2007
- Jillian Lane, Campus Advocate for the Women's Center of Greater Danbury
individual counseling services, community education for the campus, classroom presentations on appropriate issues, contact info: cards provided and flier distributed; works cooperatively with university counseling center; advocacy for domestic violence survivors; works with res life for training; certification training at downtown women's center
- Advising for first year students: remind students that they need to enroll in FY section(s) for spring
- Spring 2008 FY sections
- Book selections: add End of Faith by Samuel Harris, A Thousand Splendid Suns by Hosseini
- Conference opportunity
- How are classes going? significantly less content, but what they're getting may be more important... i.e. creating habits of mind vs. dispensing information; taking time out of class to invite people from other areas may not be appropriate or useful; content vs. process - very time consuming; set aside some class time to do some Univ. 101 type things to get them ready; having upperclassmen in the classroom may help; students and attendance? is there a law about student attendance? some FY sections are more difficult than regular; sharing written work with the rest of the class;