May 16/97

FACULTY DEVELOPMENT

David Jones Committee Chair

The Faculty Development Committee met in April
to adjudicate the Spring 1997 Applications for
conference and research grants. Fifteen of the 16
applications submitted were ruled eligible to
receive funding. Allocations were based on the
criteria in the Faculty Development Handbook
with the usual budgetary maximum of $1000 per
individual. Grant recipients were:

Dileep Athaide, $1000 to attend the 2nd
International Conference on Geoscience
Education in Hilo, Hawaii, where he will co-
present a paper on Earth Sciences Articulation
in the BC postsecondary system.

Don Basham, $900 for attendance at the IEG
Event Marketing Conference in Chicago, Ill.

Louise Cantin Orr-Ewing, $900 to attend the
Centre for Research and Study for the Diffusion
of French, in Montpellier, France.

Nick Collins, $865 to attend and present a
paper (co-authored by Nick and Melanie
FahIman-Reid) at a conference of the
California Teachers of English to Speakers of
other Languages. Their paper is concerned with
the workings of the Capilano Writing Centre,
with a special focus on ESL use.

Susan Gardner, $1000 to attend and present
two papers at the International Conference on
Philosophy for Children in Iceland. One of her
papers will report on the possible adaptation to
primary and secondary levels of education of a
critical thinking manual (written by Sue) which
has already been used successfully at the college
level. The second paper reports on a _ research
project on teaching philosophy to children.

Stan Greenspoon, $470 to attend and present a
paper at the Summer Meeting of the American
Association of Physics Teachers at the
University of Denver in Colorado.

Rita Isola, $720 to attend the Economic
Sociology and Anthropology Annual Conference
on Globalization in Lake Chapala, Mexico.

Dorothy Jantzen, $900 to pursue a course of
study in Chinese language and literature at
Suzhou University in Suzchou, China.

Helen (Towser) Jones, $355 to attend the
1997 BC Studies Conference in Nanaimo.

Marlene Legates, $900 for two activities: (1)
to give a paper "Putting Feminists in their
Place" at the Annual Conference of the Western
Association of Women Historians, in Asilomar,
Calif. ; and (2) for research towards the
production of a video on "learned women and
women writers and artists from the 16th through
18th centuries."

Annette Lorek, $1000 to attend and present at
the Canadian Library Association Annual
Conference in Ottawa. Annette's paper is
entitled "Library Instruction and the Creative
Use of Information Technology" and will include
a demonstration of The Research Skills Tutor
developed by Capilano Library faculty.

Jenny Penberthy, $1000 to present a paper at
the Louis Zukofsky Conference at the State
University of New York at Buffalo. Her Paper will
focus on the work of American poet Lorine
Niedecker and her relationship with Zukofsky.

John Sayre, $500 to support his stay as the
College's representative at Aichi Gakusan
College in Japan.

Azza Sedky, $458 for attendance at TRI-TESOL
96: A Global Perspective on Language, in Seattle.
Azza served as conference co-chair and
organizer.

Peggy Shannon, $1000 to attend and co-
present a paper on "Preparing First Nations
Students for College" at the International
Reading Association Conference in Atlanta.

Congratulations to all recipients. Whoops - out
of space. Have a great summer.

Faculty Development Committee: Leslie
Baker, Jolene Bordewick, Rick Brewster,
Chris Gratham, Jan Shiell, Anne Watson.

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