The Womenâs Studies Program at East Tennessee State University will host a two-day institute in January about infusing trauma-informed care principles into strategies for teaching and learning.
Phyllis Thompson, director of the Womenâs Studies Program and associate professor in the Department of Literature and Language, is co-organizing the institute with members of the Womenâs Studies Steering Committee. The project, âTrauma-Informed Strategies for Teaching and Learning: Creating a Culture of Belonging, Fostering Retention, and Increasing Degree Completion,â was one of seven projects funded by ETSUâs Instructional Development Committee.
The online institute will kick off on the evening of Sunday, Jan. 10, from 4-5:30 p.m. and will be followed by a full day of sessions on Monday, Jan. 11, from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. The events are free to attend. Registration can be found at www.etsu.edu/conf/trauma-informed-approaches-teaching-learning/.
MUST Introduces Chinese Language, Culture Resource Centre
December 11, 2020 was an important day in the bilateral relationship between Malawi and the People’s Republic of China through the Malawi University of Science and Technology (MUST) and the Confucius Institute at the University of Malawi (Unima) as the latter launched a Chinese Language and Cultural Resource Centre at the university.
The establishment of the resource centre at MUST is in preparation for MUST’s roll-out of a Bachelor of Arts degree programme in Language, Communication and Culture, which will have modules in Chinese language and culture, among others.
In his remarks, You Yonghong, Chinese director of Confucius Institute (CI) of Unima, thanked MUST Vice Chancellor Professor Address Malata for her support to allow for establishment of a Chinese language teaching site at MUST not long after the establishment of CI at Unima in August 2016.