{"id":2489,"date":"2026-01-26T11:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T16:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inside.wooster.edu\/academic-affairs\/?p=2489"},"modified":"2026-02-02T16:05:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T21:05:31","slug":"february-professional-development-lunches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside.wooster.edu\/academic-affairs\/february-professional-development-lunches\/","title":{"rendered":"February Professional Development Lunches"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p id=\"_seQBSMLU7RP3n5\"><strong><em>Weekly PDLs are open to all interested Staff &amp; Faculty and a great way to connect with colleagues and meet new ones.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"_5dVA2W9Sc7c3Jt\">Look for us every Thursday in the Tartan Room (Lowry Center), 12-1pm, with lunch tickets available at 11:45am (if you can\u2019t get there in time to pick one up before the event, you can get one afterwards for future use).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"_riEo7LLFE26wXx\"><strong>February 5: Closing the Loop on W: Helping Students Evaluate Writing<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Join us to discuss ways we can close the loop on the findings from the W assessment. We will collaborate on&nbsp;practical strategies to strengthen our students\u2019 ability to&nbsp;evaluate written&nbsp;work and improve their own writing.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"_0idYnSUqrFL95v\"><em>Missy Schen, Director of Educational Assessment<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"_qlSFKcERBwq7Ak\"><em>Alicia Brazeau, Writing Center Director<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"_hsophwwv4iLfq4\"><strong>February 12: Student Partnerships in Research<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"_k7GLAP1GAesgAN\">Join us for a dynamic conversation on building meaningful student-faculty research collaborations. This PDL will highlight strategies for integrating students into your research and showcase inspiring interdisciplinary projects happening across campus. Come learn about innovative approaches and share ideas for strengthening these partnerships to advance faculty and student research goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"_OULta5tpoaJICj\"><strong>February 19: From FYS to IS<\/strong>: <strong>Building Connections<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The journey from First-Year Seminar (FYS) to Independent Study (IS) highlights the Wooster student experience. These high-impact practices draw upon our strengths in independent undergraduate research and mentoring. Join members of the strategic working group as they share updates, lead activities, and encourage discussions\u00a0on this key initiative.\u00a0Come learn and be part of envisioning the next phase of a transformative Wooster education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"_O3xk0w0oFMCV31\"><em>Kara Morrow, Professor of Art &amp; Art History<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"_7bigwWOL8Y2YMk\"><strong>February 26: No PDL<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"_qbxfF9A2ZGR7qm\">Join us for Research &#8220;Speed Dating&#8221; on February 23!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"_seQBSMLU7RP3n5\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weekly PDLs are open to all interested Staff &amp; Faculty and a great way to connect with colleagues and meet new ones. Look for us every Thursday in the Tartan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":753,"featured_media":2537,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-professional-development-lunches"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.wooster.edu\/academic-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.wooster.edu\/academic-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.wooster.edu\/academic-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.wooster.edu\/academic-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/753"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.wooster.edu\/academic-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2489"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/inside.wooster.edu\/academic-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2619,"href":"https:\/\/inside.wooster.edu\/academic-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2489\/revisions\/2619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.wooster.edu\/academic-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.wooster.edu\/academic-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.wooster.edu\/academic-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.wooster.edu\/academic-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}