Ross Haenfler, Associate Professor of Sociology, recently led a Faculty Development Workshop hosted by the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning.  If you happened to miss the workshop, “Simple Steps Towards Transformative Teaching,”  you can still download the handout or view the presentation through an iTunes U Podcast.  To view the podcast, click here and then select “Launch Public Site.”  Once the University of Mississippi iTunes U opens, you will should see “Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning” on the list.  Please see a summary of the event below.

Teaching can be transformative, making, in the words of teaching scholar Ken Bain, “a sustained, substantial, and positive influence on how students think, act, and feel.” Yet too often both students and professors leave the college classroom dissatisfied, and large, research-oriented state universities pose barriers to transformative teaching. This presentation will provide practical, actionable ideas towards the goal of encouraging deep learning and creating a more fulfilling experience for students and teachers. Topics will include building rapport, practicing humane teaching, generating excitement and discussion, making lessons relevant, and tapping into our and our students’ creative potential.

The final event in the year-long lecture series, “Intertwining Legacies:  Jews and African Americans in the Deep South” is quickly approaching.  In this presentation, a Holocaust survivor and a former Tuskegee Airman will discuss antisemitism, racism, and the relationship between Jews and African-Americans during World War II.  Mr. Fred Terna is a survivor of Auschwitz who watched African-American troops liberate Jews, only to return to Jim Crow oppression back home.  Dr. Eugene Richardson, an African-American fighter pilot who trained at four military bases in the South, served at a time when many white soldiers were openly antisemitic and racist. The talk is part of the lecture series, “Intertwining Legacies: Jews and African-Americans in the South,” organized by the Critical Race Studies Group and the Department of Sociology and Anthropology.The presentation will take place on Tuesday, April 30th at 5:00 pm in the Overby Center Auditorium.   A reception will follow.

For more information about the event, please see the official University of Mississippi press release.

For more information o on the Association for Jewish Studies-Legacy Heritage Jewish Studies Project, see http://www.ajsnet.org/legacy.htm

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Dr. Nylander with students from the University of Mississippi and Mississippi State University on the Alternative Spring Break trip in the Mississippi Delta.

Alternative Spring Break students volunteering at Mississippians Engaging in Greener Agriculture (MEGA) in Shelby, MS. Photo by Robert Jordan/ The University of Mississippi

Ole Miss and State students spent Spring Break learning about social issues through service and reflection in the Delta. Photo by Robert Jordan/The University of Mississippi

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Dr. Thayer Scudder, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the California Institute of Technology will present “Global Threats, Global Futures:  Learning to Live with Declining Living Standards” on Monday, March 25th at 5:30 pm in the Tupelo Room of the Barnard Observatory.  The event is sponsored by Phi Beta Kappa, Beta of Mississippi, the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, the College of Liberal Arts, and the Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College.  We hope you can join us for this lecture.

To read more about Mr. Kaufman’s lecture and visit, click here.

The presentation will take place on Thursday, March 21st from 12:00 pm- 1:30 pm in Odom 101.  Coffee and dessert will be provided.  We hope you can join us!!

Click here to read a full description of the book.

For more information about the McLean Lectures or the McLean Institute, click here.

Congratulations to University of Mississippi students and faculty who won awards at the annual meeting of the Alabama-Mississippi Sociological Association in Montgomery, Alabama on February 21-22, 2013!

Sociology graduate student, Danielle Kerr, won the Best Graduate Student Paper Award for her paper, “Housing: Affordable and Accessible or Not?  A Closer Look at a Mississippi Town’s Shift in Housing Tenure.”

Mary Margaret Saulters, an Anthropology and Biology double major, won the Best Undergraduate Paper Award for her paper, “Farmers Markets and Food Security:  A Critical Evaluation of the Sociodemographic Factors Influencing Market Patronage in the Mississippi Delta.”

Dr. John Green, Director of the Center for Populations Studies and Associate Professor of Sociology, was honored with the Distinguished Service Award for his consistent support of the work of the Alabama- Mississippi Sociological Association over the years.

Congratulations Danielle, Mary Margaret, and John!

Trip Dates:  Sunday, March 10-Friday, March 15

Interested students should send the following to rjparson@go.olemiss.edu as soon as possible:

• A brief statement (150 words) about your experience with service and Mississippi
• A one page resume
• T-shirt size

Please see the flyer below for more information.

For more information regarding the symposium or the Historic New Orleans Collection, visit http://www.hnoc.org/symposiu/.

Mr. Jonathan Kaufman, a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter, author, and Managing Editor at Bloomberg News will be the next speaker for the Intertwining Legacies Lecture Series sponsored by the Critical Race Studies Group and generously funded by the Association for Jewish Studies–Legacy Heritage Jewish Studies Project grant.  Mr. Kaufman’s lecture title is “African Americans and Jews in the Age of Obama.”  The lecture is scheduled for Thursday evening, February 7th at 5:30 pm at Overby Auditorium (Room 147).  Please join us!

For more information about Mr. Kaufman and his upcoming lecture, please see the official University of Mississippi press release.

This is the third public lecture of the year-long series entitled “Intertwining Legacies: Jews and African Americans in the Deep South.”

For more information about the previous lectures in the series, please see the story in the College of Liberal Arts Newsletter, “View from Ventress” by clicking here.

For more information on the Association for Jewish Studies-Legacy Heritage Jewish Studies Project, see http://www.ajsnet.org/legacy.htm

Photographs from Mr. Kaufman’s Visit

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