Crisis in the Academy

APRIL 21 2006

The Program in Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Connecticut presents its fourth annual conference

Heafner, Chris	University of South Carolina	“Academic Hazing: How Education as Job Training Distorts the Purposes of Non-major Classes”
Martinez-Saenz, Miguel	Wittenberg University	“Academic Excellence: Diversity Anyone?”
Roberts, Elaine	Wheaton College	“Changing the Post-College Economy”
Newhouse, Dollie	Francis Marion University	“Money for Nothing: What Happens when Remedial Students are Shuffled into First-year Courses?”

Branch, Erin	University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill	“? Renewing Composition, Revitalizing Literature?”
Mendoza, Michael	University of Connecticut	“Graphic Thinking: Incorporating Graphic Novels into Teaching Argumentative Writing”
Parent, Richard	University of Vermont	“? We assign Essays, but Students Turn in Web Pages (or Worse): Thinking Pragmatically about 21st Century Multimodal Composition?”

Woodward, Walter	University of Connecticut	“In the Beginning was the Word”
Zeigler, Molly	SUNY College @ Buffalo	“Will in Our World – Why and How do we teach Shakespeare – A Voice from the Multidisciplinary Trenches”
Neden, Joel	SUNY Brockport	“Music as Literacy”
Sokol, Alina	Dartmouth	“The Extent of Compromise”

12:00-1:00 Lunch Break

(Lunch on Your Own)

Suggestions Provided

Carson, Benjamin	Bridgewater State College	“Teaching the ‘gentle arts of the spirit’ in the Age of Multinational Capitalism”
English, Gary	University of Connecticut	“The University as Polis – The Image of Society at Large”
Fynn, Jeffrey Paul	University of Toronto	“Deconstruction and the Public’s Perception of the Liberal Arts.”
Sunderbruch, Joshua	Harper College	“Our Own Worst Enemy: Saving the Academy from the Academics”

Harriston, Ryan	Independent Scholar	“Educating for a New World”
Kuzmich, Kenneth	University of Connecticut	“Myth and Liberal Arts Education? Is Such a Thing Obsolete?”
Batzer, Anastasia	University of Connecticut	“Reading India: Manjula Padmanabhan”

Orsitto, Fulvio	University of Connecticut	“The Use of Media in the Italian Studies Curriculum”
Trubiano, Antonio	University of Connecticut	“Building the Italian Community at the University of Connecticut”
Ventura, Renato	University of Connecticut	“Italian American Cinema within the Italian Studies Curriculum”
Beneduce, Felice	University of Rhode Island	“Italian American Literature within the Italian Studies Curriculum”

Bushnell, Cameron	University of Maryland	“Interdisciplinarity: Practice in Exile”
Fuchsman, Kenneth	University of Connecticut	“The Fragmented Undergraduate Curriculum: Diagnosis and Proposal for Integration”
Larkosh, Christopher	University of Connecticut	“South/South Transcultural Studies”
Winslow, Peter	University of Connecticut	“Academic Worries and Accusations: Or, Where am I? Where am I to Go?”

Closing Remarks:
Lucy McNeece
Chair of the Program in Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies

University of Connecticut

Reception at the Alumni House from 5.30 – 7.30 pm