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Visiting Scholar to Speak on Adjusting Teaching Styles for Multicultural Students

January 8, 2007

On Thursday, January 25 USM’s Visiting Libra Scholar, Dr. L. Lee Knefelkamp, will present “Adjusting Our Teaching Styles to the Learning Styles of Our Students.” She will discuss the ways in which teaching methods can be diversified to improve connections with students of varied backgrounds.

The lecture is free and open to the public and will take place from 12p.m. to 3 p.m. in Room 110 of the Abromson Community Education Center on USM’s Portland campus. Seating is limited. For more information and RSVP, please call 780-5373 or visit www.usm.maine.edu/cehd/libra.htm.

“USM is so fortunate to have Dr. Knefelkamp join our community as this year’s Libra professor,” said Betty Lou Whitford, professor and dean of the USM College of Education and Human Development. “She is one of the nation’s leading scholars on issues of diversity and multiculturalism in learning environments.”

Knefelkamp, a professor of psychology and education at Columbia University Teacher’s College, has taught at the University of Maryland, American University, Macalester College, and is a former Peace Corps volunteer. She has written on the intellectual and identity development of college students; intercultural issues on campus; multicultural curricular transformation; and moral and ethical development in the context of race, ethnicity and sexual orientation.

The Libra professorships were established in 1989 to attract well-known scholars to University of Maine System Campuses. The professorships are endowed by a gift of $5 million to the University of Maine System by the late Elizabeth B. Noyce.

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