Please join us for the JCCC Faculty Symposium!  Schedule below:

12:00 pm

How to Foster Productive Disagreements in the Classroom

Terri Easley-Giraldo

Communication Studies

With an increasingly polarized American society, disagreements can often lead to uncivil conversations and heated arguments. This session will focus on how to introduce and foster productive disagreements in your classrooms whether they be virtual or in person courses.

1:00 pm

Egyptology State of the Field Project

Stacy Davidson

History & Continuing Education

Description: Understanding the nature and demographic makeup of an academic field is vital in terms of diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts, pedagogical reform, outreach and access, preparing graduate students and early career scholars for the job market, and more. The field of Egyptology is currently in a state of flux, and no comprehensive survey of the educational and occupational backgrounds of Egyptologists has been conducted in the United States. During the summer of 2020, Stacy Davidson (Adjunct faculty, History and Egyptologist, Continuing Education) assembled a team of colleagues to create a project that will include a long-overdue survey as well as a chance for extended follow-up interviews with the goal of improving how Egyptology is taught in the United States, preparing students for careers in alt-ac as well as more traditional academic jobs, and isolating problem areas that must be improved upon in terms of demographics and pedagogy. This session will touch on the historical development of Egyptology, highlight current conflicts, and describe how an independent, collaborative, (currently) unfunded project went from a ""big dream"" to reality.

2:00 pm

The Ecology of a Facebook Based Writing Support Group

Beth Gulley

English

In this session, the presenter will discuss her study of the Kansas City based Facebook Group 365 Poems/365 Days. She will share the results of extensive interviews with the poets who formed the group as well as a survey of group members. She will use the ecological theory of writing systems to analyze the way the group formed, the ways it benefits participants, and the impact it has on local writing culture

3:00pm

Solar energetic particle composition over two solar cycles from Ulysses and ACE

J. Douglas Patterson

Astronomy

We present the compositional variation in the Solar Energetic Particle (SEP) population in the inner heliosphere over two solar cycles using data from the Ulysses Heliospheric Instrument for Spectra, Composition, and Anisotropy at Low Energies (HISCALE) and Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) Electron Proton Alpha Monitor (EPAM). The Ulysses mission was active from late 1990 to mid-2009 in a heliopolar orbit inclined by 80° with a perihelion of 1.3 AU and an aphelion of 5.4 AU. The ACE mission has been active since its launch in late 1997 and is in a halo orbit about L1 providing 27 years of continuous observation in the inner heliosphere and 12 years of simultaneous observation. From these observations, we demonstrate the significant latitudinal and radial variations in abundance of helium, oxygen, and iron."

4:00 pm

Rethinking Assumptions about Teaching Revision

Ted Rollins

English

Despite our best efforts as teachers, too often students do not take full advantage of opportunities to revise what they write. Why? What motivates students to revise their drafts? What method(s) work best to help college writers learn the importance of revision and learn how to revise their work? In this presentation I will offer some key takeaways based on preliminary results of my evolving Scholarship on Teaching and Learning (SoTL) project focused on discovering (a) what motivates students to revise, (b) how to encourage students to value revision, and (c) how students actually learn to revise.