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Annual Faculty DayTo start the new academic year, faculty at The College of The Bahamas participated in the annual Faculty Day. Faculty were engaged in several seminars and they were addressed by President, Dr. Earla Carey-Baines, who reported on the focus for 2010-2011, the progress of The College's Capital Projects and introduced eleven new full-time faculty members. The president reviewed the changes in the last academic year and expressed the College's commitment to continuing its drive for excellence this academic year. "For faculty, the start of a new year signals its own set of opportunities and challenges" the president observed, "…the opportunity to reflect on and modify teaching strategies that may not have worked as well as you had anticipated; to continue to effect the research agenda you have identified; to continue to create a classroom environment that engages the student focused solely on the final grade and the working parent who is distracted by worries of home. Also, a new year means that continue to be challenged by the need to balance the teaching, research and service components of your academic life with that of your personal life." This year, The College launches its first graduate programme, the Master of Business Administration. The president shared that, "The Master of Business Administration combines practical course work, research, experiential and team-based learning into a 19 month programme that also includes an off-island intensive where students study at a host institution abroad." After the president's report Dr. Marcella Elliott, Assistant Professor, School of Education; Dr. Daphne Grace, Associate Professor, School of English Studies and Ms. Virginia Ballance, Hilda Bowen Library gave presentations focused on faculty research. Ms. Ballance, in particular, focused on the process for submitting research essays to scholarly journals. In the afternoon there were two concurrent sessions, offering faculty the opportunity to participate in two seminars of their choice, out of seven. The seminars were, Navigating the Ethics Committee; Health and Wellness: Survival Skills for the Academic; Research and the Academic; Engaging Students in Science Research; Research: The Creative Arts Approach; Student Research Across the Curriculum and Preparing the Professional Portfolio. Christy Lee, Chris Justilien and John Cox, all Assistant Professors in the School of Communication and Creative Arts (SCCA), gave an excellent presentation on the creative arts approach to research. Lee and Justilien, along with Chrsitine Gangelhoff, also an Associate Professor in SCCA are the C-Force, the College's chamber music group. They have, as their creative research, recorded a CD of music with Bahamian, Haitian and classical influences among others. They researched old folk songs and melodies from Haiti and Guadeloupe as a part of this project and collaborated with John Cox, who did the album artwork. Both Lee and Justilien said that collaborations across creative disciplines can be a good way to include faculty from other disciplines. All three presenters also shared that doing creative research is different from the research of more conventional subjects and that ways of evaluating creative research is therefore different. The C- Force will release their CD this Fall and have a launch planned. The day was also a chance for faculty to fellowship together and get acquainted with the new faculty members. The new faculty members are Dr. Peter Bailey and Dr. Ian Bethel-Bennett, in the school of English Studies, both of whom have had part-time teaching appointments in English. Also, Bridget Cooper and Natasha Jones-Swann in the School of Education; Christoper Lobas, Architecture and Kevin Ruth, Mathematics, in the School of Mathematics, Physics and Technology; Dr. Radhika Makecha, Psychology, in Social Sciences; Dr. Robert Nieschwietz, Accounting, School of Business; Dr. Craig Smith, English Studies; Dr. Wallace Turner, Music and Technology, a joint appointment in the School of Communication and Creative Arts and Mathematics, Physics and Technology; and Cristina Herrera Hernandez, Spanish, School of Communication and Creative Arts. Classes for the new academic year start on August 23rd.
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