2019 Texas Conference on Introductory History Courses

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2019 Texas Conference on Introductory History Courses

The American Historical Association is happy to announce that the 2019 Texas Conference on Introductory History Courses will be held on Friday and Saturday, September 20-21 at the University of Texas at Dallas.

This two-day, statewide conference is for anyone who teaches college-level introductory history courses whether in high schools, community colleges, or four-year universities, and others with an interest in the courses. Together, we will explore disciplinary goals and approaches to teaching and learning history at the college introductory level; share experiences in each of the course topics; discuss the state policy context that sustains them as a graduation requirement for every student at a public college or university in Texas; and consider the challenges and opportunities for high-quality student learning in the state's expanding dual-enrollment programs. There will also be opportunities for participants to share and to receive feedback on their own classroom assignments in an assignment "charrette," or to workshop their program assessment strategies.

The AHA extends its thanks to co-organizer Kimberly Hill, as well as the Historical Studies track, the School of Arts and Humanities, and the Center for Teaching and Learning at the University of Texas at Dallas for their work and support in making this event possible.

The program will run from approximately 9:00 AM-4:30 PM on Friday and 8:30 AM-3:00 PM on Saturday.

Parking at UT Dallas

Please contact Megan Connor at mconnor@historians.org to obtain the conference parking permit. The parking permit is valid for any gold or green space indicated on the campus parking map. PS1 and Lots A, B, C, D, E, and M will be the most convenient parking locations for conference attendees.

Accomodations

While there is no official conference hotel, local accommodations can be found here and here.

Featured Speakers:

Rebecca Leslie is a Program Director in the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB)'s Academic Quality and Workforce Division. Primary among her responsibilities is the coordination of the Lower-Division Academic Course Guide Manual (ACGM) Advisory Committee and the maintenance of the ACGM database of courses. She facilitates the annual Learning Outcomes Project with faculty workgroups to develop courses intended for transfer. Her twenty years of experience in higher education include being director of transfer admission at Texas A&M-Commerce and the coordinator of the Texas Common Course Numbering System during its statewide implementation. She holds a Master of Business Administration and BA in History. Rebecca is the mother of twin daughters; Hillary, a 2018 graduate from Texas A&M University with a PhD in history, holds a tenure track position at University of Central Arkansas. Jessica is a bi-lingual kindergarten teacher with three children, including a set of twins.

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Trinidad Gonzales is a history and Mexican American Studies instructor at South Texas College. He is a co-founder of the award winning public history project Refusing to Forget that aims to bring wider awareness to state sanctioned violence against Mexicans and Mexican Americans in Texas during the 1920s. Gonzales is also a former American Historical Association Teaching Division Councilor.

Trinidad Gonzales

Jeffrey A. Engel is founding director of the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University. A Senior Fellow of the Norwegian Nobel Institute and of the John Goodwin Tower Center for Political Studies, he studied at Cornell University, Oxford University, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, from which he received his PhD in American History in 2001. Having previously taught at Yale University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Texas A&M University where he was the Kruse '52 Professor, Engel is author or editor of twelve books on American foreign policy and the American presidency, including his latest, When the World Seemed New: George H.W. Bush and the End of the Cold War and the co-authored Impeachment: An American History. In 2019 SMU's Resident Life Students named him their campus-wide Professor of the Year.

Jeffrey Engel

Drew Koch is the President and Chief Operating Officer of the John N. Gardner Institute for Excellence in Undergraduate Education. Drew has been with the Gardner Institute since 2010. From 1998-2010, Dr. Koch held a variety of student persistence and completion-related roles at Purdue University including serving as the founding director of the nationally acclaimed Department of Student Access, Transition, and Success Programs. During his tenure at Purdue, the University increased first-to-second year retention rates by over 8 percentage points and six-year graduation rates by more than 6 percentage points. Before working at Purdue, Dr. Koch served as the Director of Freshman Advancement and Associate Dean at Hofstra University, and he also served as Assistant to the Dean of Summer College at the University of Richmond. Dr. Koch holds a BA in history and German and an MA in European history from the University of Richmond, an MA in higher education from the University of South Carolina, and a PhD in American Studies from Purdue University.

Drew Koch

Questions? Email Julia Brookins at jbrookins@historians.org

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This program was made possible in part with a grant from Humanities Texas, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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