We look forward to hosting Dr. Ray Schroeder for the first Discovery Series speaker of the new year. Please join us!
Discovery Series with Ray Schroeder
Associate Vice Chancellor of Online Learning, University of Illinois Springfield
Presentation Topics: Artificial Intelligence, The Workforce, and the Future of Higher Education
Wednesday, January 30, 2019, 10:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Learning Technologies Agora
Room G150
Discovery Park
3940 North Elm Street
Denton, TX 76207
Dr. Sylvia Hall-Ellis for visiting with Kinshuk and Dr. Chen in the IS Department. She is the Director, Grants & Resource Development at Colorado Community College System and an expert in cataloging. Dr. Hall-Ellis toured several labs and reconnected with faculty members.
Congratulations to the BAS and the Learning Technologies Department for being featured in the Texas Community College Teachers Association conference and newsletter. The TCCTA has a membership of more than six thousand.
Boston, a Marine Corps Veteran, decided to create the display after personally experiencing and seeing an increase in the quality of care since first utilizing the Medical Center. Boston describes the project as “a community conversation between veterans, those who love and support us, and the staff members at our Houston VA.” The full article is attached to the link above.
Congratulations to Dr. Rose Bake of the Learning Technologies Department who was featured in the UNT Faculty newsletter as the January 2019 Teaching Excellence Spotlight awardee. Baker, an Assistant Professor in the Department is a lifelong educator, Dr. Baker has been teaching since she was a child when she taught her sibling and other neighborhood children how to count and has not stopped since.
Dr. Shobhana Chelliah and Mary Burke Ph.D. student traveled to Berkley, California to visit the home archives of Dr. James Matisoff. Matisoff recently visited UNT as a guest speaker for the annual CoRSAL Linguistics conference last Fall. He as a collection of rare books and bibles which he is donating to the CoRSAL project and UNT. “The amount of materials Dr. Matisoff has accumulated over his career was impressive. What’s even more remarkable is that he had a fairly detailed system for organizing it all—by year, conference, topic, language family, or colleague. Transporting the materials, we made sure to keep them organized and, most importantly, safe,” says Burke. Chelliah confirmed Dr. Matisoff’s materials are in excellent condition and a welcomed contribution to the CoRSAL (Computation Resource for South Asian Languages) collection at the UNT Digital Library.
This January, Dr. Kinshuk reinstated the Staff Operations Committee, a college-wide, staff-only committee that serves to advise the Dean about issues related to college operations, policies, and procedures. This committee also provides the opportunity for staff as a whole to work with administrators on staff development, one of the initiatives that came out of November's faculty & staff meeting. The committee leadership team is comprised of:
Austin Hammond as Chairperson
Caley Barnhart as Vice-Chairperson
Trevor Sisk as Recorder
Stephen Lancaster as Parliamentarian
Janenne Pryce-Henry as Communications Coordinator
All regular staff members, as defined by UNT policy, are members of the Staff Operations Committee. We are excited to work with COI on the many opportunities to benefit our staff and the COI community.
