Greetings from CETL!
We continue to look for new ways to aid our MSU faculty. The latest is an attempt to find out which faculty are using active learning strategies in their classroom. We are asking any faculty who have found effective active learning activities to nominate themselves as "faculty fellows" and send us their best practices. We will then feature them with a photo and article on the CETL website.
We are currently meeting with faculty interested in peer faculty consultations during the middle of the semester. If you have not yet contacted our office and have an interest in this valuable evaluation tool, please contact us in the next couple of week. A trained peer faculty consultant will be assigned and you will soon learn what your students are thinking while getting helpful comments from a fellow faculty member.
Finally, we are working hard on a number of conferences and workshops that will be announced shortly. Stay tuned.
Please read on to learn more about some of our wonderful new faculty members!
Meet David Karwoski--David is married to Vernett and has two sons, Jason and Jacob. But wait he also has three dogs, three cats, PLUS a llama, sheep, goats, ducks and geese.
David teaches Criminal and Traffic Code, Patrol Operations and Senior Seminar. He previously was a professor at Metropolitan State U. where he received his B.S. in Law Enforcement and MMA in Law Enforcement. David is an avid bicycle rider. Last summer he rode from Indianapolis to Washington D.C. to raise money for the Law Enforcement Memorial among other looooong rides! As you may have guessed by now, David is a retired policeman.
He claims to have not seen a movie in the past year but does watch two HBO shows (The Sopranos and The Wire). He is presently reading "The Da Vinci Code" by Dan Brown. He enjoys woodworking and making custom furniture and has had no real problem so far at MSU. I guess it helps if you were a policeman before coming here! Welcome, David.
Welcome to another new faculty member at MSU--Nancy Drescher. Nancy is married to Lesili Tonga and has a daughter, Elise, who is 18 months old. She also has a dog named Lilu. She teaches Methods and Theories of Teaching ESL, freshman composition for non-native speakers of English and Advanced ESL Writing.
Nancy has a BA from the University of Northern Colorado and an MA from the Regis University. She is working on a Ph.D. in applied linguistics at Northern Arizona University. Her favorite recent movie was Baby Shakespeare and the book she last read was White Teeth by Zadie Smith.
Her most confusing moments are finding rooms and people in Armstrong Hall (join the club Nancy!) By the way, like all MSU faculty, Nancy speaks fluent Togan!
Our next new faculty member featured this week is Sue Fredstrom. Sue is married to Eric Holterman and has a daughter, Reidan. Reidan is a recent Metropolitan State University graduate who lives in Boston. She also has a daughter named Heide who is a first year student at the University of British Columbia.
Sue has an old "grandma kitty" named "Grady." She teaches Nutrition I, Nutrition II, Clinical Dietetics, Dietetics Seminar and Food Service Systems I and II.
She has all three of her degrees from the University of Minnesota. Her favorite movie during the past year was Pirates of the Caribbean. Her favorite book was a Tony Hillerman mystery.
The most confusing thing for Sue so far at MSU (Mankato in general) are the streets that end and pick up somewhere else with no warning. She says she spends some time wandering around, trying to develop a sense of direction (won't help, Sue, not in Mankato!) She is a downhill skier and is hoping to have office hours this winter at Mt. Kato. She is also a rugby fan--sorry Vikings!
Welcome Luis Posas! Luis teaches American Racial Minority and Race Culture and Ethnicity. He holds degrees from Southern Illinois University and Kansas State University where he received a Ph.D.
