Meeting with Chris Long and Kathleen Brown

Today, I met Chris Long and Kathleen Brown, two of the faculty who are being highlighted as part of our Symposium materials that highlight faculty success stories. I was struck by how enthusiastic and open both of them were to talking about their use of technology to enrich their teaching and research.

Kathleen said that she just published an article about students and community engagement as a way to retain students -- so you have a benefit to the students, community, and campus. She also said that her dissertation looked at teacher development when a school introduced laptops to their K-12 system and she is interested in faculty development issues. She may be a good person to work with if I explore training/development issues with tenure track faculty as part of my dissertation.