January Professional Development: A Social Justice Primer

January Professional Development: A Social Justice Primer

As part of the Embracing the Dream initiative and in keeping with the college’s new DEI strategic direction, CIE is bringing in the Justice Leaders Collaborative, a Michigan-based DEI educational group, for the January Conference. The Justice Leaders...
Interactive Lectures – Friday Connect

Interactive Lectures – Friday Connect

Interactive Lectures: Are assignments/quizzes/tests the only way of gauging student understanding?  The answer is no! Join us this Friday to discuss interactive lectures and the use of classroom polling. Maritime faculty and CIE Board member Scott Powell won the...
Another Successful October Conference

Another Successful October Conference

A team building committee, a deep dive into the Comp sequence, new OER textbooks, a design your life course, a chart of suggestions for an autism-friendly Testing Center, schedules for new co-requisite math classes, new online chemistry lab procedures . . . and so...
October Conference: The Best of Both Worlds

October Conference: The Best of Both Worlds

This year’s October Conference takes the best of last year’s FedEx day–the opportunity to focus all day on one project–and combines it with our previous way of doing October Conference–having a variety of sessions to choose from. We are...
Can Your Students Hear You? Here Are Some Tips To Be Sure They Can

Can Your Students Hear You? Here Are Some Tips To Be Sure They Can

Ryan Corey, Ph.D., post-doctoral fellow and engineer at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has quantified what we have all been experiencing since donning masks at the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. Face covering materials such as masks give all...