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Environmental Science (EVS) 612
Leadership Retreat
A Coastal Institute IGERT Project Class
16 January - 21 January 2006

Monday through Friday meetings are in the large conference room at the Coastal Institute on the Bay Campus.

Saturday meeting is in the CI Auditorium

 

 
TOPIC
CONTENT and
SKILL EMPHASIS
Facilitator or Presentation
Monday
16 January
SOCIAL EQUITY
   
9:00 - 9:30

Overview of Week's Schedule

Overview of Projected Outcomes

 

Cheryl

Judith

9:30 - 10:30

Rules for Good Reasoning - Rulebook ix - 9

Informal Reasoning - Rulebook 10 - 39

Reasoning (R)
Cheryl
10:30 - 10:40
BREAK
 
a
 
10:40 - 12:00

Organizational Models and Associated Leadership Styles

Leadership (L)
Communications (C)
Judith
12:00 - 1:00
LUNCH
 
a
 
1:00 - 2:30

Narratives of Disenfranchisement

Review of Bullard Article

Case Study Discussion: Social Equity

Social Equity (SE)

Judith

Cheryl

Cheryl and Judith

2:30 - 2:40

BREAK

 
 
2:40 - 4:00

Integration: Content and Skill

Corporate/Government Cases: Tuskegee, Bridgestone, Timberland, and Tylenol - see links below for readings on these cases

Exercise: Analysis of cases drawing on social equity, communication, and leadership themes, and using informal logic skills

(SE)

(R) (L) (C)

Judith

Cheryl

4:00 - 4:45

Presentation of Critical Case Analyses

(C)
Fellows
4:45 - 5:00

Outcomes and the Day's Work

Thematic Threads to Tomorrow

 

Judith

Cheryl

Tuesday
17 January

ETHICS
 
 
9:00 - 9:15

Overview of the day

Outcomes review

 

Cheryl

Judith

9:15 - 10:30

Review Informal Reasoning

Deductive Reasoning - Rulebook pp. 40 - 52; also see p. 74 and p. 76

(R)
Cheryl
10:30 - 10:40
BREAK
a
 
a
 
10:40 - 12:00

Feedback loop on social equity case presentations from Monday

Identifying personal communications styles

(L) (C)

Judith
12:00 - 1:00
LUNCH
 
 
1:00 - 2:00

Ethics Primer: Classic Theories and Common Challenges

Ethics (E)
Dr. Lynn Pasquerella
2:00 - 2:15

Review of Rolston Article

 
Cheryl
2:15 - 2:30
BREAK
 
 
2:30 - 3:30

Integration: Content and Skill

Case Analysis: Environmental Ethics

(E) (R)
Cheryl
3:30 - 4:20

Presentation of Critical Case Analyses using deductive argument skill and communication skill

(C) (R)
Fellows
4:20 - 5:00

Feedback loop on ethics case analyses

Outcomes and the Day's Work

Thematic Thread toTomorrow

 

Judith

Judith

Cheryl

Wednesday 18 January

HUMAN VALUES
 
 
9:00 - 9:15

Overview of the day

Outcomes review

 

Cheryl

Judith

9:15 - 10:30
Review Informal and Deductive Reasoning

Fallacies - Rulebook pp. 71 - 78
(R)
Cheryl
10:30 - 10:40
BREAK
 
 
10:40 - 12:00

Intercultural Communication: Class, Ethnicity, Race, and Gender

(L) (C)
Judith
12:00 - 1:00
LUNCH
 
 
1:00 - 3:00

Science, Stories, and Coastal Change

Human Values (HV)
Stephen Olsen
3:00 - 3:15
BREAK
 
 
3:15 - 4:15
Narratives vs. Ambience: review of theories - Foster
Integration: Skill and Content
Small group application of frameworks to Olsen's presentation
(HV)

Cheryl


Judith and Cheryl

4:15 - 4:45

Group Summaries of frameworks functioning in Olsen

(C) (L)
Fellows
4:45 - 5:00
Outcomes and the Day's Work
Thematic Threads to Tomorrow
 

Judith

Cheryl

EVENING
HOMEWORK: write a letter to the editor on topic of your own expertise using recently reviewed reasoning skills
 
Fellows
Thursday
19 January
COMMUNICATION
 
 
9:00 - 9:15
Overview of the day

Outcomes review
 

Cheryl

Judith

9:15 - 10:45
Fellow analyses of letters using reasoning skills and considerations of
(R) (C) (L)
(SE) (E)
(HV)
Judith, Cheryl,
and Fellows
10:45 - 11:00
BREAK
 
 
11:00 - 12:00

Different Lens: Professional critique of letters to the editor

(L) (C)
Chip Young
12:00 - 1:00
LUNCH
 
 
1:00 - 3:00

Contemporary Challenges in Leadership: The New Orleans Economic Plan

NYTimes Article: New Orleans Panel Begins Releasing Recovery Proposals

(L) (C)
(SE) (E)
(HV)
Doug Ahlers
3:00 - 3:15
BREAK
 
 
3:15 - 4:45

Contemporary Challenges in Communications: Emergent Applications of Technology

(C) (L) (SE) (E) (HV)
Doug Ahlers
4:45 - 5:00

Outcomes and the Day's Work

Thematic Threads to Tomorrow

 

Judith

Cheryl

EVENING
GOING TO CAMP LIST: Things to pack and bring to Friday's session
 
Judith and Cheryl
Friday
20 January
LEADERSHIP
 
 
9:00 - 10:00

Master List: Skill and Content Outcomes of the Week

 
Fellows
10:00 - 10:15
BREAK
 
 
10:15 - 12:15

Leadership Styles and Group Communication

(L) (C)
Gene Knott
12:15 - 12:45
Group Project Directives
(R) (L) (C)
(SE) (E)
(HV)
Judith and Cheryl
12:45 - 1:45
LUNCH
 
 
1:45 - ?
Fellows Work on Project
(R) (L) (C)
(SE) (E)
(HV)
Fellows
Saturday
21 January
CIIP FELLOWS PROJECT PRESENTATION
 
 
8:00 - 8:30

Technology setup

 
Pete August and Fellows
8:30 - 9:00

Coffee and Pastries

 
Fellows and Audience
9:00 - 10:00

Project Presentation

 
 
10:00 - 10:45

Question and Answer Period

 
 
10:45 - 11:00
BREAK
 
 
11:00 - 1:00

Discussion of Presentation

 
 
12:00 - 1:00
LUNCH (overlap with Discussion)
 
 

Readings:

Bullard, R.D. [From] Environmental Blackmail in Minority Communities.

Foster, C. 1998. The Narrative and the Ambient in Environmental Aesthetics. The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 56:127-137.

Rolston, H. Environmental Ethics: Values in and Duties to the Natural World.

Weston, A. 2003. A Rulebook for Arguments (3rd edition). -- Available at the URI Bookstore

Speaking Anxiety: A Primer on Alleviating the Horrors of Public Address

PowerPoint: Advice on the Design of PowerPoint Presentations

Tuskegee Case:

"Bad Blood": A Case Study of the Tuskegee Syphilis Project

Tuskegee Syphilis Study

Bridgestone Case:

Ford: A Crisis of Confidence

Danger on the Highway: Bridgestone/Firestone's Tire Recall

Ford and Firestone Point Fingers

Firestone Tire Recall: Congressional Hearings Likely

Timberland Case:

Walking the Walk

The Shoe-in

Tylenol Case:

Johnson & Johnson and the Tylenol Murders

 

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