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The Association for Integrative Studies (AIS), whose national headquarters is on Miami University’s Oxford campus, has been formally recognized by the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) as the academic partner for its upcoming Network for Academic Renewal conference on “Integrative Learning: Addressing the Complexities.”
The conference will be held Oct. 22-24, 2009, at the Westin Peachtree Plaza in Atlanta, Georgia. For information, registration and the preliminary program, visit integrativelearning.
Among the AIS members who will be involved in the sessions are William Newell, professor in the Western College Program at Miami and executive director of AIS, and Carolyn Haynes, director of the Honors and Scholars Program at Miami and AIS past president.
Newell will lead a workshop on “Integrating Integrative Learning” with Allen Repko of the University of Texas at Arlington and Rick Szostak of the University of Alberta, Canada. Haynes will co-facilitate a pre-conference workshop on “Assessing Faculty Support for Innovative, Collaborative Teaching and Learning.”
“This will be an important conference for interdisciplinarians interested in connecting interdisciplinary studies with a range of innovative pedagogies that have been slowly transforming teaching in higher education over the last quarter century, and to those interested in the application of interdisciplinary knowledge to contemporary real-world problems,” Newell said.
The AIS was founded at Miami in April 1979 during the final session of a national conference on the teaching of interdisciplinary social science.
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