Welcome to the Johnson Center! We offer programs throughout the year to our faculty to help us develop as teachers, 作为学者, 作为人们. The Johnson Center is dedicated to encouraging conversations and the sharing of ideas that help us be our best as individuals and as a whole faculty. Johnson Center programs not only promote career development for the faculty, but also uphold the spirit of the liberal arts tradition at ONE体育网站.
关于约翰逊中心
A.J. Carlson Lecture on the Liberal Arts
“Hope Among the Heartless: The Fierce Urgency of the Liberal Arts in a Time of Crisis”
Dr. Kevin Gannon, Professor of 历史, Grand View University
柏妮丝年代. Melvin 休假系列 Lecture
“Threats to the Canadian Boreal Forest: My Sabbatical with the Natural 资源 Defense Council”
Dr. Keith Kisselle, Associate Professor of Biology & Environmental Science, ONE体育网站
任务 & 目的
罗伯特 & Joyce Johnson Center for 教师发展 and Excellence in Teaching advances the mission of ONE体育网站 by fostering lively intellectual dialogue within and across academic disciplines. Nourishing a collegiate environment of passionate inquiry and free expression, the Johnson Center supports faculty initiatives, both intramural and extramural, that explore questions fundamental to the continued vitality of the liberal arts tradition at ONE体育网站. As means to these ends, alongside broader campus-wide programming, the Johnson Center facilitates:
- Colloquia exploring questions vital to the liberal arts
- Interdisciplinary reading groups
- 教师 participation in regional, national, and international liberal arts conferences
- 活动 in support of the scholarship of teaching and learning
- Informal gatherings devoted to intellectual inquiry and exchange
- Career development workshops related to the liberal arts for faculty at early, 中期, 职业生涯后期
- 教师 development programs to complement activities supported by the Cullen and Richardson endowments
委员会成员:
Please contact the Director or Committee members for additional information about center programs and activities.