The second annual Illinois State University Teaching Symposium on Friday, Oct. 29, will feature guest speaker Raoul Arreola, professor of health sciences administration at the University of Tennessee-Memphis. Teaching in the 21st Century.
Admission is free and open to the public.
The symposium, which takes place from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in various rooms in Bone Student Center, will focus on and celebrate the importance of teaching. It is designed to be of interest to university faculty, graduate and undergraduate students, staff, community members, legislators, trustees and media. Among the objectives of the event are to encourage public discussion on teaching at the university, to strengthen the teaching-learning community at Illinois State, to educate those outside the university about ISU teaching, and to provide a written record of teaching at Illinois State. Arreola received his doctorate in educational psychology from Arizona State University in 1969. He also holds an undergraduate degree in mathematics.