"Submitted by Jo Sarzotti"

Notes from the CLEA Conference-Planning Session October 16, 2006

Submitted by Jo Sarzotti

The following is a list of individual topics which came up. Some might create sessions in themselves; others could be combined for panels or sessions.


 Dissection of one institution’s department, its circumstances, objectives & practices.
 Presentation of who teaches Liberal Arts in our institutions, i.e., what the backgrounds, interests, professional status, etc., of our peers are.
 Reports on the institutions that have thus far been evaluated by a CLEA team: Cornish, Peabody, Columbia.
 Presentation of Freshman Seminars from various institutions.
 Presentation by the U of A writing director, John Russo, perhaps combined with reports from other institutions with developed programs, like Cornish
 A panel presenting how different schools handle teaching ESL, focusing on those with a full program of evaluation & leveling.
 Discussion of a website enabling the posting of teaching models, curricula, etc.
 Presentation of Intranet teaching experiences.
 Panel on what works, what doesn’t in interdisciplinary teaching.
 “Advocacy for Liberal Arts training” – don’t remember what this refers to.

So that’s what I have, along with Peter’s arranging for John Monceri to be a guest dignitary, haing David Krause moderate & titling the whole event “Continuities in CLEA” ( I added the last part)