Full-time faculty had the opportunity to learn from Dr. 桑德拉McGuire, award-winning teacher, nationally recognized speaker, and author of Teach Students How to Learn: Strategies You Can Incorporate into Any Course to Improve Student Metacognition, 学习技巧, 和动力. Dr. McGuire的演讲 provided faculty with practical strategies for increasing 学生参与 and enhancing student learning. Dr. 桑德拉·扬西·麦奎尔 is the Director Emerita of the Center for Academic Success and retired Assistant Vice Chancellor and Professor of Chemistry at LSU. 在加入路易斯安那州立大学之前, she spent eleven years at Cornell University, where she received the coveted Clark Distinguished Teaching Award. She has delivered keynote addresses or presented 车间s at over 400 institutions in 46 states and ten countries. 她的书, Teach Students How to Learn: Strategies You Can Incorporate into Any Course to Improve Student Metacognition, 学习技巧, 和动力, was released in October 2015 and is a Stylus Publishing bestseller. The student version of this book, Teach Yourself How to Learn: Strategies You Can Use to Ace Any Course at Any Level，于2018年1月上映.The most recent of her honors include the 2017 American Chemical Society (ACS) Award for Encouraging Disadvantaged Students to Pursue Careers in the Chemical Sciences and induction into the LSU College of Science Hall of Distinction. She also received the 2015 American Association for the Advancement of Science (美国科学促进会) Lifetime Mentor Award and the 2014 Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers (NOBCChE). She is an elected Fellow of the ACS, 美国科学促进会, and Council of Learning Assistance and Developmental Education Associations (CLADEA). In November 2007 the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, 数学, and Engineering Mentoring was presented to her in a White House Oval Office Ceremony. 另外, she has achieved Level Four Lifetime Learning Center 领导 Certification through the National College Learning Center Association (NCLCA).她得了B.S. 学位, 优等生, from Southern University in Baton Rouge, LA, her Master's 学位 from Cornell and her Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, where she received the Chancellor's Citation for Exceptional Professional Promise. 她嫁给了博士. 斯蒂芬·C. McGuire, a professor of physics at Southern. 他们是博士的父母. 卡拉·麦奎尔·戴维斯博士. Stephanie McGuire, and the doting grandparents of Joshua, Ruth, Daniel, and Joseph Davis.

全体教员参加了 市政厅 in which they heard more about 增加项目 plans (including those for RISE research studies), 事件, and resources and had the opportunity to ask questions.