ACA Soundscape Field Station at Canaveral National Seashore is a partnership between Atlantic Center for the Arts and Canaveral National Seashore. It is the first of its kind in the United States dedicated to preservation of natural sound, following in the tradition of other types of successful U.S. National Park Service artist-in-residence programs located in more than 100 parks throughout the country. 

Dr. Nathan Wolek, Professor of Digital Arts at Stetson and formerly Interim Director of the Brown Center, is the artist-in-residence for this program in 2020. He explains, “As a sound artist, I have been using audio field recording since 2005. I am very excited for the opportunity to apply these methods while working at the Canaveral National Seashore. I was born and raised in Central Florida, so I have many fond memories of traveling to the beaches in Volusia and Brevard counties throughout my life. I know it will be a fertile location to document and explore via sound.”

The Stetson community is invited to following public events: 

November 14, 2020 – Outdoor Soundwalk with 2020 AIR, Dr. Nathan Wolek
11AM at Canaveral National Seashore Apollo Beach North District. Meet at Visitor’s Center.

December 5, 2020 – Opening Reception for sound art exhibition by 2020 AIR, Dr. Nathan Wolek

4PM to 7PM at ACA Harris House (214 S. Riverside Dr., New Smyrna Beach)
The exhibition will continue to be on display December 7-11, 2020 from 10AM-4PM 

CDC guidelines about face coverings and social distancing will be followed for all events.

The National symposium for the Faculty Resource Network is taking place in November. It is free to all Stetson faculty and staff as we are a member of the Network. Details are below:

VIRTUAL 2020 NATIONAL SYMPOSIUM

Curriculum Innovation for Transformative Learning

When: Thursday, November 19, 2020 (Welcome and Symposium Kick-off)
              Friday, November 20, 2020 (panels, presentations, and posters)

*Where: EVERYWHERE! The symposium will be delivered remotely.

Dr. Michael Eskenazi and Dr. Chaz Underriner were invited to hold a panel around their experiences with online learning as a professor in the classroom. The Brown Center Director Harry Price worked with them to moderate the session which occurred on June 30, 2020. This is the third panel in a series we are doing around the experiences of professors working in an online format to discover best practices for teaching in an online format.

Last Friday, the Brown Center for Faculty Innovation and Excellence and the Office of Diversity and Inclusion hosted a virtual panel discussion titled, “Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation as a Campus Community”, which you can find the recording to at the link above. 

The discussion was powerful and we are grateful to the panelists for sharing their truths with the Stetson Community. Towards the end of the panel we asked participants to respond to the following question anonymously:

How have you been IMPACTED BY or PARTICIPATED IN ANTI-BLACKNESS and systemic racism? What is YOUR truth to this question?

You can find the responses to this question on the Brown Center Website, below the panel recording. The question form is still open and we encourage Stetson community members to participate in responding by following the below instructions. Responses to the question will be updated daily.

• Go to: https://b.socrative.com/login/student/
• Room Name: Griffin9570

Thank you to all that attended the webinar today the following is the link to the recording of the session along with all resources discussed. https://us-lti.bbcollab.com/recording/8bfc8bdc45a642e3906a3d51218fda79

Below, we’ve included the documents that were presented during this session for you to view and/or download, as promised.

Innovation and Change

The Brown Center for Faculty Innovation and Excellence invites proposals for presentations, panel discussions, and interactive workshops that share successes and challenges associated with the colloquium theme, “Innovation and Change.” What are you doing differently than you used to do? What impact has it had as you support student learning or shape professional development? We seek proposals from all disciplines about changes to single courses or larger curricula, new programs that responded to a need, innovative approaches that have shown promise, and cautionary tales about experiments that didn’t work out. We hope to create a space where we can share stories about change and learn from each other about the process of innovating at institutions of higher education. Most importantly, we want a diversity of perspectives from a variety of faculty and staff in higher education working with students from their first week on campus to their final walk across the graduation stage.

Important Dates

• Submission Deadline: March 8, 2020
• Notification of Acceptance: March 13, 2020

Due to the rapidly evolving situation with the COVID-19 pandemic and current CDC guidance about the size of gatherings, we are canceling the 2020 Colloquium on Teaching and Learning. Thanks for your interest in our 2020 Colloquium on Teaching and Learning, and we hope to connect after things return to normal. Take care.