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Critical Inquiry: The Brooklyn College SEEK Model
Disseminating a Proven FIPSE-Funded Reform
A Culminating Conference
June 9th, 10th, and 11th, 2004
Student Union Building (SUBO)
Brooklyn College
2900 Bedford Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11210
718-951-5738
Overview of the Conference
The conference will present the results of nearly a decade of analysis and
work which constituted the three FIPSE grants (DEP I, II, & III: Making the
Core a Reality for Disadvantaged Students). This conference provides a setting
for the sharing and extension of our work and its results. Faculty across the
nation have joined Brooklyn College over the past 9 years in the enterprise
and have forged a common bond based on similar professional needs to meet the
challenge of helping at-risk students succeed in evermore-rigorous core curriculum
and general education courses.
We, at Brooklyn College, believe that through our work promising solutions
to the problems of underpreparation, especially in basic skills are attainable
using multicultural perspectives and core materials. We have developed a model
curriculum and a curriculum/ faculty development process that have been adapted
on thirteen campuses. Further, we believe that no campus can adopt a curriculum
unmodified that is not sensitive to the needs and goals of the campus.
Nine transportable elements have been identified as well as a process for adapting
them. Key among them is Critical Inquiry (which is not synonymous with critical
thinking). Critical Inquiry is a methodology requiring close reading, annotation,
and questioning which enables students to gain control over their own learning.
The Brooklyn College SEEK Department invites you and your colleagues to join
us and our colleagues from our 13 disseminating institutions to learn of our
experiences—our successes and discoveries.
Conference Organization
The conference will be organized to allow each team to learn about the features
of the Brooklyn College SEEK Model. The first session will be a history, overview
and presentations of the research data. A plenary session will focus on how
to make successful adaptations of proven reforms. The Keynote peaker at this session
will be Rosemary Wolfe, Chaminade University (former FIPSE program officer). Sessions
will follow on the primary elements of the Brooklyn College SEEK Model, Critical
Inquiry and Benchmarks for Success.
Team members will then follow their own interests in strands focusing
on faculty development, summer programs, administration, assessment, and other
transportable elements. Follow-up concurrent sessions will afford opportunities
to attend student panels, demonstration classes, workshops and presentations
that explicate the application of the model on various disseminating campuses.
Breakout sessions will be interspersed with “Team Time” facilitated
by members of the faculty and staff of the original disseminating colleges.
Time for questions and discussion of the applicability of the Brooklyn College
Model to the attendees' home campus have been built into the schedule.
Download a copy of the Conference Program:
PDF
format (1.15 MB)
MS
Word format (78 KB)
Read the League for Innovation's profile
of DEP III
Brooklyn College SEEK Department's DEP
III/FIPSE project.
For further information, contact Dr. Martha J. Bell
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