Newsletter of the Association of Faculties for the Advancement of Community College Teaching Volume 18, Number 1 September 2008 CONTENTS A Note From Your Coordinator Dr. Richard Siciliano College of Southern Maryland La Plata, Maryland 1 A Note From Your
[email protected] Coordinator Dr. Richard Siciliano Welcome to Communitas, the official College of Southern Maryland newsletter of Maryland’s Association of Dr. Richard Siciliano Faculty for Advancement of Community 2 Welcome to Anne Arundel College Teaching (AFACCT). For faculty new Community College to Maryland’s community college system, Dr. Suzanne J. Spoor Richard Siciliano Anne Arundel CC allow me to introduce AFACCT and explain the role we play. During its 24 years of existence, Arundel Community College, in Arnold, 3 Meet the Newest AFACCT has provided opportunities for Maryland. Conference’09 will focus on the AFACCT Rep professional development throughout the theme “Living and Learning: The Dynamic state. At the start of every year, and before Interplay Between Life Experience and 4 Teaching and Learning faculty return to their campuses for their spring Learning,” a particularly intriguing topic and in China semester, AFACCT organizes a statewide quite different from previous conference Dr. Juliet Smith conference and holds it at a centrally located themes. Our first keynote speaker is Dr. Ray Chesapeake College community college campus. For hundreds of Johns, retired professor of Economics, whose 5 Using the Distinction faculty members throughout Maryland, the passion for both world travel and teaching led Between Fact and annual AFACCT conference represents an him this past winter to Ukraine, where he Interpretation to opportunity to develop their professional skills taught university courses in Environmental Promote Intellectual and knowledge, to share research and expertise, Economics, Research Methods, and American Development and to network with others in their teaching Cultural History.