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We are pleased to announce Joanne Munroe as our keynote speaker.  A Fulbright scholar and cultural anthropologist, JoannJoanne Munroee has taught anthropology, humanities, ethnomathematics, philosophy, and world religions courses in Italy, Malaysia, and Africa.  Viewing academic disciplines as discrete cultures, she uses her knowledge and experiences as an anthropologist to translate from one disciplinary context to another.  Through her training with the Miami University Learning Communities model, she developed a grassroots approach to learning communities and a focus on widening access through designing relevant, accessible, equitable and engaging learning experiences for students, faculty, administrators and executive leadership teams.  In addition to being the Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning at Olympic College, she developed and taught in an interdisciplinary studies program for the past 15 years.  A special emphasis on forwarding promising practices to create infrastructural and pedagogical supports for first generation students has led her to work as a consultant around inclusive excellence.  An example of her work has been the mathematical reasoning courses that later became core requirements and represented a successful effort to address barriers around developmental mathematics.  She considers the Transition Math Project- (http:// www.transitionmathproject.org) as her most rewarding professional accomplishment.

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Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) http://www.aacu.org/about/index.cfm
Global Learning http://www.aacu.org/resources/globallearning/index.cfm
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Making Excellence Inclusive http://www.aacu.org/inclusive_excellence/index.cfm

"Integrative Learning: Opportunities to Connect”  A joint public report by the Association of American Colleges and Universities and The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. 
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