Building Capacity and Expertise in Establishing and Assessing Student Learning Outcomes
Richard P. Keeling, M.D.
Hazel Scott, Georgia State University

National Association of Student Personnel Administrators
June 3, 2005
National Student Affairs Assessment & Retention Conference
Atlanta, Georgia

Georgia State University, working in partnership with K&A, has created new capacity among student services staff members and units to define, assess, and document student learning outcomes through processes that strengthen evaluation of institutional effectiveness and demonstrate the value and efficacy of the work done in student services.

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Systems-Based Primary Prevention for College Drinking
Richard P. Keeling, M.D.

Pennsylvania Department Health
Public Health Institute 2005

Speaking to a broad audience of public health professionals, Dr. Keeling's presentation was one of the daily keynote addresses at this year's PHI. In his presentation, Dr. Keeling uses the public health problem of high risk drinking in college to illustrate various prevention approaches with a focus on (1) the systems issues that must be recognized and addressed to permit the development and implementation of an effective prevention strategy and (2) the use of large scale population-level prevention methods that produce both individual behavior change and improvements in campus culture.

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Subjects, Objects, Targets, & Assets: Students, Health, & Higher Education
Richard P. Keeling, M.D.

Society for Adolescent Medicine
Gallagher Lecture 2005

The theme of the 2005 Annual Meeting of the Society for Adolescent Medicine was "The Older Adolescent/Young Adult." Dr. Keeling presented an opening Gallagher Lecture entitled "Subjects, Objects, Targets, & Assets: Students, Health, & Higher Education." His lecture emphasized these points:

• College students of traditional age [18-24] comprise a unique population with specific health-related assets and vulnerabilities.
• College is a unique health environment that creates both risks and opportunities.
• The primary health challenges in college are behavioral, contextual, and integrated.
• Improving population health in college requires syndemic models, social and environmental approaches, theoretical and practical linkages between health and learning, synergy in research and practice, and balanced clinical and prevention services.

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Learning Reconsidered: Implementation, Conversation and Assessment - Part II
Workshop
Richard P. Keeling, M.D.

National Association of Student Personnel Administrators
March 19-23, 2005
2005 Annual Conference
Tampa, FL

Learning Reconsidered, published by NASPA and ACPA in March 2004, presents a vision of learning that fully engages students in the learning process using all of the resources on campus to help them learn in meaningful, transformative ways. This approach provides many opportunities thorough which collaborative programs can be structured to enhance student learning and integrate student development learning goals into campus planning and priorities. This workshop was delivered by Dr. Richard Keeling at NASPA's 2005 Annual Conference where an executive summary of learning theory was followed by practical tools for program design, implementation and assessment. Participants mapped campus resources, learning sites and collaborative opportunities and structures so that an integrated approach to student learning could be initiated. Participants also learned how to develop collaborative relationships with faculty colleagues using language that integrates the work of student affairs with the work of faculty members around helping students learn in all domains of their lives. This workshop exposed participants to the language, processes, techniques and organizational support systems necessary to bring life to this new approach to teaching and learning. This was the second of a double session program.

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Now That You Know: The Opportunities and Obligations of Learning
Keynote Address
Richard P. Keeling, M.D.

American Association of Colleges & Universities (AAC&U)
April 15-17, 2004
Network for Academic Renewal Meeting Pedagogies of Engagement: New Designs for Learning In and Across the Disciplines
Chicago, IL

In his keynote address for AAC&U's conference, Pedagogies of Engagement, Dr. Keeling argues for a comprehensive, campus-wide approach to providing transformative liberal education for all students. Focusing on changes in our understanding of the dynamics and determinants of learning, he encourages all campus educators to approach students as whole people whose learning occurs in multiple contexts, formats, and methods. His message is both pedagogical and political; he emphasizes the change in our relationship with students that is necessarily at the heart of reform in higher education.

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Remembering the Human and Preserving the Humane in Science Education
Richard P. Keeling, M.D.

Science Education for New Civic Engagments and Responsibilities (SENCER)
August 10, 2004
SENCER Summer Institute IV
Santa Clara, CA

In his presentation at the SENCER Summer Institute, Dr. Keeling argues for a new approach to providing science education and encouraging students to become engaged in the sciences. Demonstrating the ways in which new technologies and media have changed the way today's students learn and understand, Dr. Keeling offers up new strategies for engaging and educating students.

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