Faculty Development

Coordinator: Timothy J. Evans November, 2001

Faculty Activities:

Michelle Delano has been working with Opportunity Knocks, a program funded by RCAP Community Projects Grants. She has directed ten sessions of entrepreneurial training for low income women. Michelle has also been developing a mentoring program for extended micro-enterprise projects.

Math Mondays continue. November presenters were Elizabeth Rescher, with “Brought to Book: 18^th and 19^th Century Schooling,” and Michelle Delano on “The Creative Process.”

“Various Voices,” a program examining African American women writers held the third of four presentations. Elizabeth Rescher discussed Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved. The program is coordinated by Williabel Davis, and sponsored in part by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities. The final program will feature Nikki Giovanni discussing her poetry. It will be held December 6 at Petersburg High School.

Upcoming opportunities:

First Aid and CPR classes will be offered to faculty and staff in January during the week we return for the faculty meeting. All faculty and staff are invited, and faculty who conduct field trips or sponsor student clubs are encouraged to attend. Details will be forthcoming.

The Petersburg Area Art League is sponsoring a one person show of the artwork of Michelle Delano. The show will run December 8 through December 31 at the PAAL gallery at #7 E. Old Street in Petersburg. A summer grant from Faculty Development helped Michelle purchase materials used in creating some of the works included in this exhibit. Admission to the gallery is free.

Response to forming a book discussion group has been quite good. I will try to move up the selection date from January to December 10, so that interested faculty and staff can, if they choose, begin reading over the Christmas break.

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Reminders:

Faculty who anticipate requesting release time for the Fall, 2002, should submit their proposals by January 18, 2002 so that scheduling can take these requests into account.

Faculty who are taking graduate courses in the Spring semester and desire for the College to pay the tuition should fill out a tuition request form as soon as possible. Forms can be picked up from either Margery Young or Tim Evans.