Faculty Mini Retreats

Past Retreats

Faculty Mini-Retreat: Strategies for Faculty
Friday, April 27, 2012 | 9:15 AM-12:00 PM

Strategies for Faculty: Understanding and Reacting to Student Behavior

Please join Erik Kneubuehl, Student Affairs, and Deborah Klesenski-Rispoli, Academic Affairs, for this CET mini-retreat breakfast. Topics such as understanding the difference between classroom management and student crisis and strategies for responding to challenging situations are addressed. FERPA (Family Educational Rights and Privacy) information is presented and campus resources are explored.

Strategies for Faculty mini-retreat breakfast

Faculty Mini-Retreat: Social Networking Tools
Friday November 11, 2011| 9:30AM-12:30PM 

Social Networking Tools: Expanding Teaching and Learning with Global Outreach

Ruben Quinones, Director of New Media @ Path Interactive, and an adjunct at NYU explores the role of social networking in education and its potential to promote inclusivity by bringing distant and diverse populations into a collaborative academic dialogue. Guided lab time with Jeffrey Riman, CET; Kurt Vega, Computer Graphics; Meredith Perkins, Patricia Krakow and James Pearce, TDT

Social Networking Tools mini-retreat breakfast

Student/Faculty Mini-Retreat: A Campus Conversation
Wednesday April 6, 2011 | 10:00AM - 12:00PM

Featuring a Clicker Presentation with both Student and Faculty Responses

Please join Erik Kneubuehl, Dean for Student Development, and faculty facilitators, Susan Breton, Counseling Center, Charlotte Brown, Educational Skills, Philip Milio, Student Life, Carmita Sanchez Fong, Interior Design, Nancy Sheridan, FMM, and Samantha Kloeckener, student leader, for a mini-retreat conversation and exchange of ideas. Topics will include new challenges on today's college campus, maintaining a student-centered classroom, and the impact of ever-evolving technology on academic life.

A Campus Conversation: student/faculty mini-retreat

Faculty Mini-Retreat Luncheon: Toward a Greener, Sustainable, More Eco-responsible Curriculum (Part 2 of 2)
Friday, March 4, 2011 | 12noon-3pm Friday, March 4th, 2011 | 12noon-3pm 

Faculty Mini-Retreat Breakfast: Toward a Greener, Sustainable, More Eco-responsible Curriculum (Part 1 of 2)
Friday, November 12, 2010 | 9:00 am-Noon 

Please join guest speaker, Scott Boylston, Savannah College of Art & Design, and FIT faculty Arthur Kopelman, Sandra Krasovec, Karen Pearson, Shireen Musa, Grazyna Pilatowicz, and Scott Lundberg in an exploration of "greening the curriculum". This event has been made possible by grants from the NSF and the FIT Sustainability Council in cooperation with the CET. Breakfast will be provided. Download Scott's Presentation

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Green, Sustainable Curriculum faculty mini-retreat

Mini-Retreat Breakfast: Blended Learning - Classrooms Without Walls...sometimes
Friday, April 16th, 2010 | 9:00 am-Noon

Join Tamara Cupples, David Drogin, Jeffrey Riman, Elaine Maldonado, and Karen Pearson, for the final mini-retreat of the academic year. Explore the possibilities of teaching a class partially online and partially face-to-face. Talk to FIT faculty who currently teach blended courses and learn more about this innovative approach to teaching and learning. Breakfast will be provided. Blended Learning mini-retreat

Mini-Retreat Sharing Knowledge on a Global Scale
Friday May 1st, 2010 | 9:00 am - 1pm

CET is proud to announce a presentation by Laurie Everett, Director of MIT World. Please join Ms. Everett and FIT panelists Leslie Blum and C.J. Yeh, Communication Design; Greta Earnest, Library; Erika Muhammad, Art & Design; Karen Pearson, Science, and Mathematics; Jeffrey Riman, CET; and Robert Vassalotti, Fashion Merchandising Management. Topics will include the history of MIT World, website aggregators, linking department web pages to outside resources and tools to share and publish, including their relevance to FIT.

Sharing Knowledge on a Global Scale Mini Retreat


Mini-Retreat Luncheon: Fulbright Scholars Change the World
Tuesday, February 9, 2010, | Noon - 3:00 pm


The Economy's Impact on Fashion, Business, and Design: What are the Implications for FIT's Programs and Curriculum?
Friday, November 20, 2009


Separating Fact from Fiction on the Web: Information Literacy and Research: Evaluating Web-based Resources
Friday, October 16, 2009 

Archived Mini-Retreats