Friday, January 27, 2012
9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Bovee University Center

 

"The Teaching and Learning Collective Responds to Academically Adrift" is co-sponsored by the College of Humanities and Social and Behavioral Sciences (CHSBS) and the Faculty Center for Innovative Teaching (FaCIT). The conference is free and open to CMU faculty and teaching graduate students. Registration is required.

 

The Teaching and Learning Collective is a grassroots CHSBS faculty initiative aimed at improving students' academic performance by integrating effective learning strategies into existing classes.

 

Wednesday, February 1
7:00 p.m.
Bovee U.C. Auditorium

 

Forum facilitator is Thomas Greitens (PSC). "Speak Up, Speak Out: The Current Events Series" is not a lecture series - it's more like a town hall meeting called to discuss important events and topics in the news. Each forum is an opportunity for all participants to collaborate in thinking through the issues, identify problems, and consider solutions.

 

Featuring: Keith Taylor
Monday, February 6
7 to 8:30 p.m.
The Art Reach Center (111 E. Broadway St.)

 

Keith Taylor published two books in 2011, Ghost Writers and Anthology of Contemporary Michigan Ghost Stories co-edited with Laura Kasischke and Marginalia for a Natural History, a longish chapbook of very short poems, most having to do with the natural sciences. KT is coordinator of undergraduate creative writing at the University of Michigan, director of the Bear River Writers Conference, a lecturer at the University of Michigan Biological Station in northern Michigan, an adjunct faculty member for UM's Master of Fine Arts program and recently assumed duties as poetry editor for Michigan Quarterly Review. His master's degree is from Central Michigan University.

 

The Wellspring Literary Series provides a forum for the Mt. Pleasant and Central Michigan University community to hear the work of established and emerging regional writers as well as works-in-progress by CMU graduate writing students and faculty writers. Created and facilitated by Robert Fanning, a poet and CMU professor, Wellspring is a partnership between the English Department at CMU and the Art Reach Center of Mid Michigan. For more information, contact Robert.fanning@cmich.edu or call 989-774-3172.

 

R They Watching U? Technology, Privacy and Identity
Wednesday, February 29
7:00 p.m.
Bovee U.C. Auditorium

 

Forum facilitator is Justin Hayes-Smith (SASW). "Speak Up, Speak Out: The Current Events Series" is not a lecture series - it's more like a town hall meeting called to discuss important events and topics in the news. Each forum is an opportunity for all participants to collaborate in thinking through the issues, identify problems, and consider solutions.

 

Featuring: Caitlin Horrocks
Monday, March 12
7 to 8:30 p.m.
The Art Reach Center (111 E. Broadway St.)

 

Caitlin Horrocks is author of the short story collection This is Not Your City, a Barnes and Noble "Discover Great New Writers" selection and a New York Times Editor's Choice. Her work appears in The Best American Short Stories 2011, The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2009, The Pushcart Prize XXXV, The Paris Review, Tin House, One Story and elsewhere. Her awards include the Plimpton Prize and a Bread Loaf Writers Conference fellowship. She lives in Grand Rapids where she is an assistant professor of writing at Grand Valley State University.

 

The Wellspring Literary Series provides a forum for the Mt. Pleasant and Central Michigan University community to hear the work of established and emerging regional writers as well as works-in-progress by CMU graduate writing students and faculty writers. Created and facilitated by Robert Fanning, a poet and CMU professor, Wellspring is a partnership between the English Department at CMU and the Art Reach Center of Mid Michigan. For more information, contact Robert.fanning@cmich.edu or call 989-774-3172.

 

Elections 2012: The Power of the Primaries
Tuesday, March 27
7:00 p.m.
Bovee U.C. Auditorium

 

Forum facilitator is Jeffrey Drury (CDA). "Speak Up, Speak Out: The Current Events Series" is not a lecture series - it's more like a town hall meeting called to discuss important events and topics in the news. Each forum is an opportunity for all participants to collaborate in thinking through the issues, identify problems, and consider solutions.

 

Thursday, November 3
Additional details TBA

 

This presentation is hosted by the CHSBS Visiting Writers Series.

 

Featuring: Jack Ridl
Monday, April 9
7 to 8:30 p.m.
The Art Reach Center (111 E. Broadway St.)

 

Jack Ridl's newest collection, Losing Season (September, 2009, CavanKerry Press), chronicles a year of hope and defeat on and off the basketball court in a small town. Ridl grew up in both the world of basketball, where his father was a well-known head coach at Westminster College and the University of Pittsburgh and the world of circus, inherited from his mother's family. Ridl is the author of Broken Symmetry (Wayne State University Press, 2006), Outside the Center Ring, from Puddinghouse Publications, and Against Elegies, which was selected by Sharon Dolin and former Poet Laureate Billy Collins for the 2001 Chapbook Award from The Center for Book Arts in New York. Ridl recently retired from teaching at Hope College for more than 37 years. Ridl lives along a creek that winds into Lake Michigan with his wife, Julie, two dogs and two cats. His daughter is the artist, Meredith Ridl.

 

The Wellspring Literary Series provides a forum for the Mt. Pleasant and Central Michigan University community to hear the work of established and emerging regional writers as well as works-in-progress by CMU graduate writing students and faculty writers. Created and facilitated by Robert Fanning, a poet and CMU professor, Wellspring is a partnership between the English Department at CMU and the Art Reach Center of Mid Michigan. For more information, contact Robert.fanning@cmich.edu or call 989-774-3172.