The NACTA Conference also includes these six workshops:
- Quality Seed Variety Leads to a Bountiful Harvest: A Look at Internships. Facilitator: Dana Minihan Ladner, Kansas Department of Agriculture
- Assessment – Not A Letter Word! Meaningful and Manageable Strategies for Assessing Student Learning Outcomes. Facilitator: Karen Cachevki Williams, University of Wyoming, Laramie
- Advancing Your Scholarly Teaching into the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL). Facilitators: Ann Marie VanDerZanden and Cindy Haynes, Iowa State University
- Strategic Study Abroad Course Development and Assessment. Facilitator: Laura White, New Mexico State University
- Teaching Indigenous Agriculture: Hawaiian Approaches to Integrate Traditional Crops and Cropping Systems in Today’s Training Programs and Curricula. Facilitator: Tiare Silvasy, University of Hawaii at Manoa
- Boosting Student Enrollment: Successful Recruitment Courses in Food and Agricultural Sciences. Facilitator: Maria Stewart, University of Hawaii at Manoa
This year’s tours include:
- Agritourism and Research Facility
- Organic and GM Agriculture
- Aquaponics and Arboretum
- Research Station and Fishpond
We will also enjoy a Luau at Windward Community College on Wednesday and our annual teaching awards banquet on Friday. The local planning committee at the University of Hawaii, under the direction of Dr. Charles Kinoshita, have done a superb job of planning the conference. See you in Hawaii at the 62nd annual NACTA Conference, June 21-24, 2016.
