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Take Aways Form Campa's Coffee Hour on Work-Life Balance

Submitted by RobinGreenler on Mon, 03/04/2013 - 3:09pm

For the last two weeks, Rique Campa has recorded his day’s activities and reflected on how he spends his time, makes time management decisions, and how it all works in a blog at http://www.cirtl.net/learningcommunities/academiccareer. This blog provided a rare glimpse into the professional and personal daily life of a tenured faculty member. Campa drew on this experience in his recent Coffee Hour, “Developing a work-life balance for sustaining a productive career and your sanity.” In the session an Read More »

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Work-Life Balance: Wrapping up the blogs and bringing it home at tomorrow's CIRTL Coffee Hour

Submitted by RobinGreenler on Tue, 02/26/2013 - 3:37pm

Have you been following MSU faculty Rique Camp's blog reflections on how he maintains a healthy personal and professional life balance. As an experiemnt, Campa has, over the last two weeks, recorded each day's time management choices, personal/professional priorities, considerations of what worked, and how he juggled it all. It is a glimpse into the life a a successful tenured faculty member and Associate Dean as well as father, husband, runner and indivudal striving for a rich life with balance. Read More »

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Upcoming Coffee Hour: Weds., Feb. 27 1PM CT "Developing a Work-Life Balance for sustaining a productive career and your sanity"

Submitted by herbert2 on Mon, 02/25/2013 - 11:33am

Join us as we continue our Building an Academic Career Coffee Hour series on Wednesday, February 27 at 1PM CT with “Developing a Work-Life Balance for sustaining a productive career and your sanity.” This discussion, facilitated by Dr. Rique Campa of Michigan State University, will be centered on the issues, strategies and approaches to balancing your professional and personal needs. Participants will be invited track how they spend their time the following week and reflect on what they see. Read More »

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Work-Life Balance, Campa Blog #8: Packed Uninterrupted Days

Submitted by Rique Campa on Wed, 02/20/2013 - 9:06pm

Up at 5:00 a.m., running gear on, out the door by 5:35. Drove to campus to the indoor track, did some stretching and a few exercises, out the door for a run by 6:15a.m. Weather today, 15^oF, partly cloudy and a brisk NW wind. The workout for today was 50 solid minutes at a consistent pace with some strides at the end. After finishing the run, I did some post-running stretches, a few exercises, showered, grabbed a coffee and I was at my office by 8:00a.m. Read More »

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Wednesday, February 20: Coffee Hour: “Teaching in Diverse Classrooms”

Submitted by herbert2 on Thu, 02/14/2013 - 4:29pm

Join us as we continue our Teaching and Learning in the STEM Classroom Coffee Hour series on Wednesday, February 20 at 1PM CT with “Teaching in Diverse Classrooms.” This discussion, facilitated by A. T. Miller and Yanqiao Chen from Cornell University, will center on how to engage and build on the tremendous resource of diversity in the classroom as well as how our pedagogy and classroom approaches can make STEM classrooms more open to the stimulating and enriching experience for all participating students from a wide diversity of perspectives and life experiences.

For more information on this and other upcoming CIRTL Online Coffee Hours, as well as information on how to attend a Coffee Hour, visit the Coffee Hour website.
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