Service

Club Ed volunteers playing musical chairs with Longfellow students. Club Ed organized five days of academic and recreational activities for the children during Longfellow’s fall break in October 2011. The week-long “day camp” provided worthwhile activities for the children while providing community parents with a free, safe place to drop off their kids. Club Ed’s work was featured in the “Field Notes” section of the October 2011 ACknowledge Newsletter.

Service (2011)

Mike Egan

Assistant Professor of Education

This page highlights my Service-related activities since the 2009 pre-tenure review. Service-related activities that occurred prior to the 2009 review are found here.

Committee Work

· General Education Committee (Term: 2010-2013)

· Academic Computer Committee (Term: 2009-2012)

· Faculty Senator (2011-2012 Academic Year)

Advising

· Advisor to secondary mathematics teaching majors since the spring of 2009

· Advisor to first-year students since the fall of 2009. Quality of my first-year advising has been recognized by my advisees and Augustana’s Director of Advising.

· Faculty Advisor to Club Ed since fall 2010

Faculty Development

· At the request of the Academic Affairs office, I co-led a Friday Conversation on the topic of integrating teaching and scholarship on March 12, 2010

· At the request of the Augustana Center for Teaching and Learning (ACTL), I co-led faculty workshops on building e-portfolios on March 17, 2010 and April 7, 2011

College-Wide Curricular/Programmatic Development

· During the 2010-2011 year I co-developed, along with Rick Jaeschke of the music department, an international program (Jamaica) for Augustana students. The program has full approval from faculty governance. We are recruiting student participants during the current 2011-2012 year, and the trip will occur in the winter of 2012-2013.

· As of November 2011, I am in the process of advocating for a curricular amendment to the LSFY program. I have submitted a proposal to the Gen Ed committee requesting that they declare LSFY courses eligible for Augustana’s Service-Learning (S-L) course designation. The proposal is fed by selfish motives as I have developed my own spring 2012 LSFY 103 section so that it involves service-learning. While I plan to engage with this service-learning whether the course is granted the official designation or not, I would like for the College to grant full recognition of the service-learning involved in the course. I have already completed Augustana’s service-learning application form for this course, and will submit it to Darrin Good and EPC if and when Gen Ed gives the go-ahead.

Student Recruitment

Participated in all recruitment efforts listed below:

· 2008-2009: Admissions Department Scholarship Competition (1/24/09); Admissions Department Scholarship Reception (3/15/09); Admissions Department Luncheon for Prospective Students and Parents (3/23/09); Admissions Department Visit Day (4/25/09); Education Department Visit Day (6/25/09); Called Prospective Students at the Request of the Admissions Department (Spring, 2009); Interviewed 4 Prospective Honors Students (Spring, 2009); Prospective Student Attended My Class (4/6/09); Met with a Prospective Student and Her Parents over the summer (7/28/09)

· 2009-2010: Admissions Department Scholarship Competition (1/16/10); Admissions Department Scholarship Reception (3/14/10); Met individually with our prospective students and their families during the year; Interviewed 7 Prospective Honors Students (Spring, 2010); Admissions Department Summer Visit Day (7/27/10)

· 2010-2011: Personally invited by the Admissions Department to lead a recruiting event for transfer students interested in the Education major….the event never occurred due to lack of numbers, but I was one of four faculty members to be invited to the event and the only non-tenured faculty member invited; Interviewed 7 Prospective Honors Students (Spring, 2011); Welcomed several prospective students into my spring 2011 class and spoke with them individually; Admissions Department Scholarship Competition (1/15/11)

· 2011-2012: Admissions Fair (10/31/11); Welcomed a women’s lacrosse recruit to an NSP kindergarten teaching session, met with her individually afterward (Fall 2011); Met with a second women’s lacrosse recruit and her parents in my office (Fall 2011)

Other Forms of Service to the College

· Held individual interviews with three candidates for an assistant professorship position with the Economics department in the spring of 2011. My role in the interview process was largely to address interviewees’ questions about “life on the tenure track” for new faculty at Augustana.

· Contributed to the Advising Department’s external review in the spring of 2011 by interviewing with reviewers during their campus visit.

· Contributed to Education Department’s National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) review, writing required reports for the secondary mathematics teacher education program.

Service in the Rock Island Community

· St. Pius X Parish Council Member since 2010; Secretary of the Council since 2011 (duties include writing meeting agendas, keeping minutes, and maintaining the Council Google site that I created).

· Chairman of the St. Pius X Faith in Action Committee since 2010.

· St. Pius Volunteer Coordinator since 2010.

· Coach of Jordan Catholic School girls’ softball teams since the spring of 2009

· Serve on the Jordan School Grant-Writing Committee

· Parent leader of the recent Jordan School Capital Campaign that successfully raised over $1.9 million in order to build an extension to the school campus