From STEM to STEAM - Keeping the Arts in the Instruction of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math

Friday, November 19th, 2010

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - Troy, New York

Registration is open for the North Atlantic Region's exciting upcoming one-day conference at Rensselaer. Conference Co-Chairs and Regional Council members Bob Joy and Tom Rathbone have assembled a great program. Our sessions will be held in the dramatic Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC), designed by the renowned British firm Grimshaw Architects with Davis Brody Bond Aedas. Don't miss out!

For full details including registration, and travel information, visit the Conference Website

 

"Very little about the American classroom has changed since Laura Ingalls sat in one more than a century ago. In her school, children sat in a rectangular room at rows of desks, a teacher up front. At most American schools, they still do." Slate magazine's got a contest going on until the end of October. It is asking people to describe or design the ideal fifth-grade classroom for today, This article describes the contest and spends some time critizing the failure to markedly change classroom design. "Education has changed even if the room has not, and if you go into most schools, you are likely to see teachers and students chafing against the rectangle."

Oh, no! You won't be getting a printed SCUP–45 Preliminary Program in the mail this year. Instead, SCUP is going green and regularly updating this digital version (PDF), which you can download at any time. We're only 14 weeks-out now!

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SCUP Link

In this series of three videos, Roxane Assaf, director of teaching and learning programs for the Studio Classroom Project at Truman College, Chicago, interviews attendees at SCUP–43 in Montreal, in 2008. Her focus is on learning space design, including learning theory and the integration of technology. Her selection of interviewees demonstrates both the diverse array of very thoughtful people who plan on campus, and the professionalism of SCUPers from campuses and from companies that service campuses.
She concludes: "This SCUP conference was tremendously productive—the people that I've met, their insights their input—the collective experience was invaluable."

Part 1 (6:01)



Part 2 (7:12)



Part 3 (8:01)

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SCUP's Planning Institute: Enjoy the F2F company of your colleagues and peers while you engage in one of the three SCUP Planning Institute Steps. In addition to being offered on demand, on campuses to teams of campus leaders, the institute steps are also offered to all professionals at varying times and venues. Currently scheduled are:

• May 22–23, Ann Arbor, MI - Step I
• July 10, Minneapolis, MN - Step I (in conjunction with SCUP–45)
• October 2, Ann Arbor, MI - Step I
• January 21–22, Tuscon, AZ - Step II and Step III

http://www.youtube.com/v/0V5mzHREF6s&hl=en_US&fs=1&

At SCUP-43 in Montreal, long time SCUP leader Roland Prouxl was named the city's Ambassador to SCUP's conference. Now, there is a brick in the Montreal Conference Center's 'Walk of Fame" acknowledging SCUP's conference in 2008 and Proulx's role. (Proulx, emeritus professor from the University of Montreal, was also recently named 2009 Higher Education Professional of the Year by Strathmore's Who's Who.) Thanks for ensuring that Montreal will always remember SCUP-43, Roland!