Sunday, 27 June

3:00–6:00 p.m. Early Registration for Participants in Preseminar Workshops (Ryder Cup Foyer)

6:15 p.m. Reception and Dinner for Participants in Preseminar Workshops (Ryder Cup I)

Monday, 28 June
7:30-8:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast for Participants in Preseminar Workshops (Veranda)

8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Workshop for New Chairs (Ryder Cup I)
Cochairs:
Wendy Moffat (Dickinson Coll.)
Irwin Weiser (Purdue Univ., West Lafayette)

8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Workshop for Directors of Graduate Studies (Ryder Cup II)

2:00-5:30 p.m. Registration (Ryder Cup Foyer)

4:00-5:15 p.m. Plenary Session I: The Situation of the Humanities (World Cup 1-IV)
Speaker: Annette Kolodny (Univ. of Arizona)

5:30-6:15 p.m. Reception (Veranda)

6:15 p.m. Dinner (Ryder Cup I-III)

8:00 p.m. Nightcaps (Veranda)

Tuesday, 29 June
8:30-10:00 a.m. Plenary Session II: Processes and Standards for Evaluation in Humanistic Inquiry
Speakers:
John Guillory (New York Univ.)
Michael Middaugh (Univ. of Delaware)

10:30 a.m.-12:00 noon Working Groups I
1. Measures and criteria for benchmarking and assessment of academic programs, evaluation of faculty, and assessment of student learning

2. Standards for promotion and tenure in the changing landscape of scholarly publishing and higher education

3. Coping with budget cuts

4. Hiring and mentoring minority faculty members

5. Guidelines and standards for hiring and employment of non-tenure-track faculty members

1:00-2:30 p.m. Plenary Session III: Undergraduate Writing: Findings from the Harvard Study of Undergraduate Writing
Speaker: Nancy Sommers (Harvard Univ.)

7:45 p.m. Dinner
Speaker: Janette Turner Hospital (Univ. of South Carolina)

Wednesday, 30 June
8:30-10:00 a.m. Working Groups II
1. Legal issues facing department chairs, part 1
Phyllis Karasov (Moore, Costello & Hart, Minneapolis, Minnesota)

2. Issues and directions for doctoral education, part 1

3. Measures and criteria for benchmarking and assessment of academic programs, evaluation of faculty, and assessment of student learning

4. Hiring and mentoring faculty members with disabilities

10:30 a.m.–12:00 noon Working Groups III
1. Legal issues facing department chairs, part 2
Phyllis Karasov (Moore, Costello & Hart, Minneapolis, Minnesota)

2. Issues and directions for doctoral education, part 2

3. Coping with budget cuts

4. Guidelines and standards for hiring and employment of non-tenure-track faculty members

1:00 p.m. Excursion to Charleston and on-island recreation

Thursday, 1 July
9:00-11:30 a.m. Plenary Session III: Reports from the Working Groups and Open Discussion

1:00 p.m. Checkout