Author: Brynn Boyer

The Center for Teaching Excellence and The Center for Honor, Leadership and Service were awarded a 2012-2014 service-learning seminar grant through the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AACU) and the Bringing Theory to Practice Project.

Dr. Mary Kayler (Director, Center for Teaching Excellence and Innovation), Dr. John P. Broome (Assistant Professor, College of Education) and Christina Eggenberger (Director of Service, Center for Honor, Leadership, and Service) received funding to host a seminar entitled, “Civic Engagement: Recasting and Drawing Upon a Wider Net.”

The seminar to be held in late January is designed to bring together faculty from the College of Arts and Sciences, College of Education, and College of Business along with UMW students and local community members to explore and strengthen the role of civic engagement within UMW and with the broader community.

For more information, contact Dr. Mary Kayler, mkayler@umw.edu

Xiaofeng Zhao, assistant professor in the College of Business, presented “Implementing Statistical Process Control for Customer Waiting Time” at the Decision Science Institute’s annual meeting in San Francisco on Nov. 18. The paper, co-authored with Hui Zhao, has been published in the peer reviewed proceedings. Xiaofeng Zhao also chaired the session on quality management tools.

Susan Knick, director of conferences and scheduling, and Abbie McGhee, coordinator of community events, recently delivered presentations at the 2012 Regional Summit of the Association of College Conferences and Events Directors – International. The summit was attended by members of institutions of higher education from Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Delaware and D.C.

Knick’s presentation, “9-1-1, What’s Your Emergency?” focused on emergency planning and preparations for events and conferences.  She has been invited to deliver an extended version of this presentation to the 33rd Annual International Conference of the association this March in Toronto, Canada.

McGhee’s presentation, “No Money, no problem, free online resources, tips and tricks,” focused on free online software that can be used in every day applications.