Teaching, Learning and Innovation Summer Institute

12:00-1:40 - One hour forty minute session

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Professors Marcia Chatelain and Adam Rothman, both from Georgetown University's Department of History, will discuss their experiences on the Georgetown University’s Working Group on Slavery, Memory and Reconciliation. Learn about how they are bringing the research and deliberation process of the Working Group into courses and communities. Chatelain and Rothman will focus on their specific roles in helping the Working Group and situate this work among a history of universities grappling with their pasts and the way peer institutions have created similar initiatives recently.

9:50-12:00 - Two hour session
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As Georgetown students prepare to transition into life after graduation, many struggle to “connect the dots” between transformative experiences inside and outside the classroom in a way that allows them to thrive professionally.

In this three-part presentation, staff from two campus career centers will share information on where graduates are going with their degree, an intervention to help students make sense of their experiences, and a core competency model to address the gap between academic skills and soft skills. During this interactive presentation, attendees will be asked to share perspectives, participate in reflective activities, and consider future collaborations to support students as they integrate their academic and professional selves.

• First Destination Outcomes for Georgetown Undergraduates: What Does the Data Tell Us? – Matt Maples, Cawley Career Education Center
• Career Contemplation in Action: Do Students Know Why? – Beth Harlan & Kendra Northington, Cawley Career Education Center
• 9 Core Competencies to Engage Millennials: Are They Prepared? - Rebecca Bonco, SFS Graduate Career Center

9:50-12:00 - Two hour session

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The Georgetown Sexual Misconduct Survey: A Report on Survey Findings, our Task Force, and Our Work Going Forward- Laura Cutway, Rosemary Kilkenny, Todd Olson, Michael Tartaglia
This reporting session will provide participants with a more in-depth understanding of the institutional work and conversations about the critical issue of sexual misconduct. A group of administrators, faculty, and students have spent this academic year working intensively in response to the results of Georgetown's first Sexual Misconduct Climate Survey. The survey revealed a set of challenging facts about the impact of this phenomenon on our campus, and provided a call for us to strengthen and broaden our efforts to respond. The areas we have discussed include our campus culture, policy issues, support programs for survivors, reporting mechanisms, a range of educational programs and engagements, the role of alcohol and drugs, and the needs of several vulnerable populations. The intended audience is all faculty and administrators interested in engaging this topic more deeply. The outcome is simply to broaden awareness and help bring about positive change on the several dimensions of this complex problem.

Don't Build a Ladder, Tear Down the Wall: Reporting out from the Advisory Board for Affordability and Access- Andria Wisler
We will provide an overview of the Advisory Board for Access and Affordability and our year's community-building and work process towards the final outcome of a report presented to senior leadership. The report details the 35-member Board's vision and action plans for a Georgetown in which access and affordability are prioritized for all at a moment when parallel structures (work-arounds and special forms) footnote our processes and policies. The presenters, co-Chairs of the Board, will share how we stressed a vision that embodied a whole institution approach in order to displace the burden for coping away from the student. Such a transformational strategy encourages a commitment to further learning diverse educational histories and trajectories. It implicates all members of our community into a shared responsibility for creating a Georgetown experience, environment, and culture that uplifts the human dignity of all faculty, staff, and students. The paramount objective of the Advisory Board for Affordability and Access is to demolish barriers that prevent students from fully embracing all aspects of the Georgetown experience—and avoid building ladders, which workaround existing university policies and structures.

Undocumented Students Working Group Report- Angel Garcia
This session will highlight the experiences of undocumented students at Georgetown University and the ways in which faculty and staff can be allies to both undocumented students and students from mixed status families. We will share an overview of the national landscape in regards to undocumented students at universities nationwide, with a focus on what Georgetown is currently doing to support their respective journies. The Undocumented Student Task Force is comprised of students, faculty, and staff from across campus whose mission is to support undocumented students and the unique challenges they may face while at the university. The audience for this session is for anyone on campus - faculty, staff, administrator - who wants to learn more about supporting undocumented students at Georgetown. We strongly believe it is everyone's responsibility to be aware of the resources that exist on campus so that if a faculty or staff member becomes aware of a student's (or their family's) status, they are equipped with the necessary tools, knowledge and resources to support that student in a way that holds their humanity.

1:50-2:50 - One hour session
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This roundtable discussion will highlight the ways in which humanities scholars can add value to firms and organizations outside the academy, and the value humanities scholars can find in careers beyond academia. The roundtable will feature the perspectives of university administrators, humanities scholars working beyond the academy, and employers who have hired humanities scholars.

3:00-4:15 One hour fifteen minute session 
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The Georgetown University Scholarly Communication Committee, in collaboration with University Information Services, is hosting a faculty workshop, Introducing GUFaculty360: Enhancing Your Public Intellectual Presence. In this workshop, you will learn more about GUFaculty360, Georgetown’s new faculty portal which will replace Explore later this year. We will have a preview of GUFaculty360 from UIS. The Scholarly Communication Committee will highlight how you can use GUFaculty360 to extend the reach of your research and scholarship. Topics include: promoting yourself as an author; negotiating publication contracts; open access publishing; and submitting works to our institutional repository.

11:00-12:00 - One hour session
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In recent years, Georgetown students have begun to talk of an increase in the exclusivity of co-curricular organizations and experiences. Students are faced with increasing opportunities for engagement, yet many are gated by applications, interviews, and ultimately selection by their slightly older peers at rates that rival the Georgetown admission rate. Some selectivity is necessary; there are very real constraints on resources that create boundaries for participation. Similarly, students should be discouraged from spreading their time and attention across too many experiences. However, the selectivity models seen in both university-sponsored programming and student-created organizations may contribute to the perception that engagement on campus is exclusionary. For students, notably those in their first or second year at Georgetown, the backdrop of this narrative creates another level of insecurity and hyper-activity that may be detrimental to their early adjustment experiences and academic success.

What is actually happening with exclusionary co-curricular experiences? Does this impact students’ classroom experiences and learning outcomes? How do students make sense of this phenomenon? And what can be done about it? This round table discussion is structured to provide context for a conversation about student experiences with exclusionary structures at Georgetown, consider the impact on academic success, and explore the strategies to address this phenomenon.