The Professor in the Classroom 15:2 arrived on Saturday and is available in the three wall pocket locations. Its title is "Relationships Always Come First." This tri-fold also contains tips on student relationships. The focus is on motivating students by treating them as individuals whose abilities we believe in. The ideal situation is to touch every student even in very large classes. If we become advocates for students we stand a much better chance of reaching them. If a student sees a teacher as an advocate the teacher has, in effect opened many doors for the student/teacher relationship. This number is worth a look as e begin a new semester and start forging new relationships with students new to our University, new to our classes and new to our disciplines. This number also includes three tips on motivating students. The simplest is that "seeking students' suggestions is an effective motivating technique." Do consider checking it out.

Back issues of the Center's publications are kept in the lattice door shelves in the far northwest corner of the first floor of the SAU library.

SOME TECHNOLOGY ADDITIONS

At the end of last school year the Center underwrote the cost of a new laptop computer for check-out through Deb Duley in the media services office in the library. We also underwrote the purchase of a high quality video camera available for faculty check-out and use. (Ask Sandy Quinn in the Criminal Justice Department about the camera. She christened it over the summer.)

If you want your words to carry weight, never qualify them. For instance, don't say "If you want a professor's opinion" or "If you want a graduate student's feelings" or "I can tell you what a math professor thinks." Qualifying your statements is almost always guaranteed to lessen their weight, whether you're speaking to students or colleagues. You'll be much more effective if you just speak, and let your message carry the power necessary to gain the desired results.

MIDWEST FACULTY SEMINAR ANNOUNCES SEMINAR TOPICS FOR THE YEAR

The Midwest Faculty Seminar (at the University of Chicago) has announced the four seminar topics and their dates fore the current school year. They are: "American Empire and the Exportation of Democracy" on November 6-8, 2008, "The Dialectic of Enlightenment" on January 15-17, 2009, "Troubled Waters" (re: water scarcity) on March 5-7, 2009, and "Religion and Morality" on April 16-18 2009. St. Ambrose has four spaces for faculty to attend these seminars at the University of Chicago. More information about the MFS seminars and information about applications to attend will be sent in future numbers of the News from the Center.

CTE PERIODICAL SUBSCRIPTIONS ALWAYS AVAILABLE

Three other publications subscribed to by the Center are available in several places on campus.  The Teaching Professor, The Professor in the Classroom and the National Teaching and Learning Forum are available as they arrive in three wall pocket locations: in the old snack bar area in Ambrose Hall (in Stingers, near the elevator, ground level), in the Cosgrove Hall private dining room near the drink dispenser, and in the coffee shop on Harrison St.-- as well as at ACCEL with Neala McCarthy and through Allison Ambrose in the College of Business.

Back issues of these publications are kept in the shelves in the Library on the first floor, northwest corner (along with the Center's book collection). All of the Center's subscription materials are available during the hours the St. Ambrose Library is open. Most of the Center's book collection has been catalogued into the general library collection but it is still kept in the latice-doored shelves.

Please contact any member of the CTE Advisory Committee with your suggestions or evaluations of our sponsored events, publications and programs. The members of the Center's advisory committee for the 2008-2009 school year are:

Shannon Mackie, Biology Brenda Peters, Biology

Sandra Quinn, Criminal Justice David O'Connell, Management

Christine Urish, Occupational Therapy Paul Jacobson, Philosophy (Director)