As Fall Semester Nears, Adjunct Faculty Members Enhance Survival Skills

Published 07.27.2013

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    Tom Gregory, associate vice president for instruction, welcomes adjunct faculty members in Penn's Inn.Kay E. Dunkleberger, coordinator of disability services, preps her audience for the diversity of students – and the accompanying variety of instructional challenges – they'll encounter in the classroom.In a presentation on classroom safety and emergency response, James E. Bies, assistant chief of Penn College Police, details the "Five Outs" that faculty should remember in the event of an active shooter on campus.A helpful outline of P.L.A.T.O. – the Platform for Learning and Teaching-Online – is offered by coordinator Kim E. Shipman and other representatives of the Office of Instructional Technology.Part-time Penn College faculty attended an Adjunct Professional Development Day on campus Saturday, absorbing a wide range of information to better equip them for the year ahead. The daylong agenda included such topics as student privacy, social media, security, academic dishonesty, distance learning, college policy and first-year instruction. A number of college faculty and staff were presenters for sessions in the Bush Campus Center and Madigan Library, and Tom Gregory, associate vice president for instruction, was the keynote speaker.

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