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Nationally Known Chemist and Professor to Lecture at Saint Xavier University
CHICAGO (September 19, 2001) – Saint Xavier University welcomes nationally known chemist, scholar, and educator Dr. Brian Coppola. Dr. Coppola will deliver a lecture entitled “Scholarship Developed: An Argument and Architecture for Preparing the Next Generation of Faculty Members” at Saint Xavier’s Main Campus on Tuesday, September 25 at 3:30 p.m. in the Board Room of the Warde Academic Center.
Dr. Coppola, who is an Arthur Thurnau Professor, Associate Professor of Chemistry at the University of Michigan, and Faculty Associate at the University of Michigan Center for Research, will address the concerns of teacher preparation and the training of the next generation of educators.
“Dr. Coppola’s work affirms the importance of the efforts of faculty members who, unfortunately, often gain far less notoriety from their practice of the scholarship of teaching and learning than do researchers at what we call “Research I” institutions such as the University of Chicago or Northwestern,” said Dr. Nancy Lockie, Professor of Nursing and Director of Saint Xavier’s Center for Educational Practice. “Small private colleges and universities – and there are many of them in the Chicago area – can be proud of their teachers whose pedagogy is grounded in the scholarship of teaching and learning as well as basic research,” added Lockie.