NEASC IAP Meeting

Yale University

September 20th, 2002

Schedule

Morning Break Out Sessions

Similar to the format at our April meeting at UNH, each institution will have 45 minutes to present their IAP website to other members of the group. In order to avoid any challenges with technology/web access, we encourage you to download two or three levels of your website as a PDF file that can be viewed on any computer from a disk. Computers and projectors will be provided.

Suggested topics to include in your presentation:
· Original vs. revised/current goals related to the project and the website
· Ways in which you are involving faculty
· Ways the website is used on campus and by colleagues at other campuses
· Peers with whom you are seeking feedback from and how you are doing it

Lunch and Discussion

Over lunch we will use the preceding break out sessions as impetus for a dialogue about the peer review of IAP websites. Namely, we will discuss generally what makes a successful and useful IAP website and what would be constructive criteria for peer review. In addition, we will address how IAPs might be used as a stimulus for creating vertical and horizontal consortiums of programs and institutions. We hope to have Peter Davis of the Davis Foundation and Ellen Wert of Pew join us for this discussion.

Student Course Evaluations as an Indirect Measure of Learning

The afternoon session will be organized around student course evaluations, potentially one of the richest indirect measures of student learning. There is widespread consensus that these evaluations need revision and extension to make them more useful. This session may be particularly important at this point in time as current trends have relegated course evaluations primarily to supporting faculty evaluation within course improvement and personnel decision-making contexts. When used as a proxy for student learning, course evaluations can contribute significantly to understanding what impacts student learning.

The afternoon session will consist of two parts:

1. Panel of Yale Faculty
· Don Green - Political Science
· Peter Kindlmann - Engineering

2. Specific Topic Sessions
· Assessment of student learning
· Faculty development as teachers
· Decision making in relation to supporting teaching and learning

Travel & Meeting Logistics

Meeting Locations:

The morning session will be located in GM Room, Horchow Hall, 55 Hillhouse Avenue.
The afternoon session will be in Steinbeck Lounge, 52 Hillhouse Avenue. Click here for a map of Hillhouse Avenue. A map of the full campus is also available.

Lodging:

Rooms have been reserved for the night of September 19th at the Omni Hotel, located approximately 1.5 miles from the meeting site. Cost is $129.00 per night, and rooms must be reserved by Wednesday August 28, 2002. To make a reservation call-800-THE OMNI. When making your reservation please note you are with the NEASC conference group.

Directions to Yale:

For more directions and maps, go to: http://www.yale.edu/visitor/directions.html.

Interstate 95
From north: Connect to I-91 North in New Haven; take Exit 3 (Trumbull Street) and follow directions below for I-91.
From south: Connect to I-91 North in New Haven (left exit); take Exit 3 (Trumbull Street) and follow directions below for I-91.

Interstate 91
From north or south: Take Exit 3 (Trumbull Street). Continue to end of Trumbull Street to the fourth traffic light. Turn left onto Prospect Street and continue for one block. Prospect Street becomes College Street at this point. Continue for 2½ blocks, to Phelps Gate. Enter Phelps Gate. The Visitor Center is directly across the courtyard.

Route 15 (Wilbur Cross/Merritt Parkways)
From north: Take Exit 61. Drive south on Whitney Avenue for approximately five miles. Turn right on Sachem Street at the Peabody Museum traffic light. Continue to next traffic light (at Prospect Street) and turn left. Proceed for two blocks until Prospect Street becomes College Street at the Woolsey Hall Rotunda. Continue for 2½ blocks to Phelps Gate. Enter Phelps Gate. The Visitor Center is directly across the courtyard.

From south: Take Exit 57. Drive east on Route 34 (Derby Avenue) for approximately five miles past the Yale Athletic Fields). Take a left onto Route 10 North, Ella T. Grasso Boulevard. Proceed to fifth traffic light, and turn right onto Whalley Avenue. Continue straight for 1.3 miles. Whalley becomes Broadway, and Broadway becomes Elm Street. Take the third right onto College Street and continue for ½ block to Phelps Gate. Enter Phelps Gate. The Visitor Center is directly across the courtyard.

Route 34
From west: Follow directions from Route 34 above.

Directions to the Omni Hotel:

From New York/Points South: I-95 North to exit 47 (downtown New Haven). Take exit 1 and proceed to the first traffic light. Take a right onto Church Street. Take a left at the third light onto Chapel Street. Take a left at the next traffic light onto Temple Street. The Omni New Haven Hotel at Yale entrance will be on your left.

From Providence, RI: Take I-95 South to exit 47 (downtown) onto Route 34. Follow directions from New York/Points South.

From Hartford/Points North: Take I-91 South to exit 3 Trumbull Street. Stay on Trumbull Street. At the third traffic light turn left onto Temple. Proceed approximately 1 mile. The Omni New Haven Hotel at Yale entrance will be on your left.

Walking Directions from Omni to Horchow Hall:

-From hotel entrance go right on Temple Street, 3 1/2 blocks to Grove Street
-Turn left onto Grove Street, go one half block to Hillhouse Avenue, which begins at Grove Street on your right
-Walk two blocks to Horchow Hall, 55 Hillhouse Avenue, on the right at the corner of Sachem Street
-For a map of the Hillhouse Avenue section log on to http://www.yale.edu/yaleinfo/maps..

Parking:

If you are staying at the Omni Hotel, overnight parking is available in a parking garage under the hotel for $8.00 plus tax per night. There will be a shuttle from the Omni Hotel to the meeting site for those staying over night, so that you do not need to move your car. Details will be provided upon hotel check-in.

Day Parking:

Day parking will be available in the Pierson Sage Garage near the meeting site. The entrance is at Whitney Avenue and Humphrey Street (see map).

Driving Directions to Pierson-Sage Garage:

-From I-91 take exit 3, Trumbull Street, go straight through the light at the end of the exit, to the next stoplight
-Turn right at that light onto Whitney Avenue
-Go to second stoplight on Whitney, turn left at light into Yale parking lot
-Take first right after entrance, proceed to Pierson-Sage Garage at far end of lot
(Note: Park only in Pierson-Sage, not in lots.)

Walking Directions from Pierson-Sage Garage to Horchow Hall:

-From garage, go to lot entrance on Whitney Avenue
-Turn right on Whitney, walk to next intersection which will be Sachem Street (Peabody Museum will be on the corner)
-Turn right on Sachem Street, walk one block to Hillhouse Avenue
-Horchow Hall will be across Sachem Street on the corner
-For a map of the Hillhouse Avenue section and the Science Hill section (which includes Pierson-Sage Garage) log on to http://www.yale.edu/yaleinfo/maps.

Shuttles:

A shuttle will be provided from the Omni Hotel to Horchow Hall prior to the meeting, and from Steinbach Lounge to the Omni following the meeting.

8:30 AM - Omni Hotel to Horchow
2:45 PM - Steinbach Lounge to Omni Hotel

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