Colloquium

18th Annual Faculty Colloquium
Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2022

Overview

Cuyahoga Community College’s annual Faculty Colloquium provides an opportunity for faculty to engage in a day of professional development through dialogue and sharing of research, scholarly pursuits and effective teaching strategies. Due to the virtual environment this year, the event was open to faculty from Ohio's two and four year institutions!

This year’s theme was Critical Thinking: It's Good for You, It's Good for Me and provided an opportunity for faculty to engage with one another and demonstrate or share how they incorporate critical thinking within their classes or how critical thinking transcends the classroom environment. As faculty, we continue to find ways to cultivate our students’ critical thinking skills. Through presentations and collective experiences, this year’s Faculty Colloquium explored ways to create a body of learners who will critically explore society and will work to enhance our communities.

Program:

Click here to view the program with session recordings. 

Keynote Speaker: 

Bradley Lipinski is an associate professor of philosophy and humanities at Cuyahoga Community College. He holds a Master of Arts degree in ethics from Cleveland State University and a Juris Doctor from the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law. Lipinski is a member of University Hospitals Case Medical Center’s ethics committee and a voting member of the Institutional Review Board at the Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center.

Keynote Address: Critical Thinking and the Pursuit of Happiness
We are all endowed, the United States Declaration of Independence tells us, with certain unalienable rights. Among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It seems fitting, on this occasion, for us to consider how critical thinking prepares us for the pursuit of happiness. Although critical thinking is not something one acquires externally like a market good. It is, instead, a metamorphosis of a person’s mind and character, a transformation which can be effected only through their own activity. It’s an invitation to the pain of learning. What? Critical thinking: pain or pleasure, which is it?