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Faculty Workshop: January 27 The College of Arts and Sciences and the Learning Resources Center will co-sponsor a faculty workshop on advising undergraduate students experiencing academic difficulties. The workshop is open to all faculty members and will be centered on group discussions of anonymous sample cases. Join members of the College advising staff as well as representatives from many of the academic support offices on campus to share experiences, strategies for eliciting information from students, and resources available to provide help with a wide range of personal and academic problems. The workshop will take place from 4 to 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, January 27 in the Ben Franklin Room in Houston Hall. RSVP to Niel McDowell at nm@sas.upenn.edu.
Almanac, Vol. 50, No. 18, January 20, 2004 |
ISSUE HIGHLIGHTS: Tuesday, Vice
President and Chief of Staff Pedro Ramos will be leaving College Hall
for City Hall. The President
and Provost outline the university's
economic outlook. A senior
from Bermuda majoring in political science, philosophy, and
economics has won a Rhodes
Scholarship he's the first Penn
student to win a non-U.S. Rhodes. Dr.
Mauro Guillén holds the Dr. Felix Zandman Endowed Chair of International
Management. Penn's
Cancer Network--totally 29 hospitals now extends to Hackettstown, New
Jersey. AWFA
hosts a Breakfast Meeting featuring Penn's latest MacArthur Fellow,
Dr. Sarah Kagan. The Diversity
Fund's annual call for proposals: due March 15. Honors recognize
several professors' emeriti for awards. Research
Roundup: Baboons, Nanotubes, Adulthood, Mortality. ISC
Networking and Telecommunications services and rates for FY 2005. Discounts
for Faculty and Staff Night at Basketball Game vs. Dartmouth. Need a sign
of spring? Check out the Artifacts
in Bloom at UPM. |
