3:00 - 6:00 p.m. Early Registration for Participants in Preseminar Workshops (Lobby)

Thursday, 17 June
7:30-8:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast for Participants in Preseminar Workshops (Prefunctioin Room)

8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Workshop for New Chairs (Dean A)
Workshop leaders: Bernard Duyfhuizen (Univ. of Wisconsin, Eau Claire) and Adalaide Morris (Univ. of Iowa)

8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Workshop for Directors of Graduate Studies (Dean B)
Moderator: David Laurence

1:00-4:00 p.m. Registration (Prefunction Room)

4:00-5:30 p.m. Plenary Session I: The Situation of the Humanities (Dean CD)
Speaker: Robert Scholes (Brown Univ.)

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

6:15 p.m. Dinner (Dean A)
Speaker: J. Lawrence Mitchell (Texas A&M Univ.)

8:00 p.m. Nightcaps

Friday, 18 June
8:30-10:00 a.m. Plenary Session II: Processes and Standards for Evaluation in Humanistic Inquiry
Speakers:
Jay Semel (Univ. of Iowa)
Sidonie Smith (Univ. of Michigan)
Iain Crawford (The College of Wooster)

10:30 a.m.-12:15 Working Groups I
1. Standards for promotion and tenure in the changing landscape of scholarly publishing and higher education
David Laurence (ADE)
2. Guidelines and standards for hiring and employment of non-tenure-track faculty members
John Gage (Univ. of Oregon)
3. Hiring new faculty members: conducting successful job searches/ mentoring new faculty members
Patrick O'Donnell (Michigan State Univ.)

12:15-1:30 p.m. Lunch

1:30–2:30 p.m. Plenary Session III: Benchmarking: Measures and Criteria in Program Evaluation
Michael Middaugh (Univ. of Delaware)

2:45-4:30 p.m. Working Groups II
1. Measures and criteria for benchmarking and assessment of academic programs, evaluation of faculty members, and assessment of student learning
Marilyn Kurata (Univ. of Alabama, Birmingham)
2. Future directions for terminal Master’s degree programs
Suellen Rundquist (Saint Cloud State Univ.)
3. Guidelines and standards for hiring and employment of non-tenure-track faculty members
John Gage (Univ. of Oregon)

4:30 p.m. Free Time

6:30 - 7:15 p.m. Reception

7:15 p.m. Dinner
Speaker: Robin Hemley (Univ. of Iowa)

9:00 p.m. Nightcaps

Saturday, 19 June
8:30-10:00 a.m. Plenary Session IV: Undergraduate Writing: the Place of Creative Non-Fiction
Speakers:
Robin Hemley (Univ. of Iowa)
Elizabeth Sargent (Univ. of Alberta)
Bonnie Sunstein (Univ. of Iowa)

10:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Working Groups III
1. Teaching literature online
Ian Lancashire (Univ. of Toronto)
2. Widening the MA career horizon: assisting Master’s degree students with the non-academic job search
Howard Figler (Career Consultant, Orangevale, California)
3. Getting the most from your budget
Linda Ray Pratt (Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln) and J. Lawrence Mitchell (Texas A&M Univ.)

Saturday afternoon excursion

5:30 p.m. Dinner (prior sign-up required)

Sunday, 20 June
9:00-11:30 a.m. Plenary Session V: Reports from the Working Groups

12:00 noon Checkout