Build Skills with Educational Brown Bags

The AHS Teaching Academy, the Center on Health, Aging, and Disability, and the Faculty Mentoring Program have joined forces to present the 2009 – 2010 Educational Brown Bag Series.

This series is intended to provide faculty with a variety of practical skills in three important areas: research, teaching, and mentoring. The sessions address a wide range of topics. Here are the sessions scheduled for fall semester:

Wednesday, September 30: Embracing diversity in the classroom: How I learned to stop worrying and teach for everyone"

• Anna Gonzalez, Associate Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs
• Ross Wantland, Assistant Director of the Office of Inclusion and Intercultural Relations

Thursday October 15: Securing foundation funding

• Janelle Weatherford, Associate Director, Office of Foundation Relations

Monday, October 26: Mysteries of budget justifications unveiled

• Julie Townsend, Grants and Contract Specialist College of Applied Health Sciences

Tuesday, November 10: Online ICES

• Speaker TBA

All sessions will be held from 12:00 noon–1:00 P.M. in Room 114 Huff Hall, 1206 S. Fourth Street.

To register contact Penny Nigh at (217) 333-2131 or nigh@illinois.edu at least two business days prior to the brown bag that you will be attending. Please provide your choice of a boxed lunch and a drink from the choices below.

Boxed Lunch

Drink