{"id":18807,"date":"2024-06-25T15:25:06","date_gmt":"2024-06-25T19:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/?post_type=event&p=18807"},"modified":"2024-11-07T14:10:56","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T19:10:56","slug":"2024-texas-conference-on-introductory-history-courses","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/event\/2024-texas-conference-on-introductory-history-courses\/","title":{"rendered":"2024 Texas Conference on Introductory History Courses"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 2024 Texas Conference on Introductory History Courses will take place\u00a0Friday, October 4\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Saturday, October 5<\/strong> at Texas State University in San Marcos, TX. This statewide conference will focus on issues, challenges, and opportunities associated with introductory courses in US and world history that many students will encounter at several stages in their education, whether in middle and high schools, community colleges, or four-year universities. Attendees will be able to participate in workshops, network with colleagues from across the region, and hear from leading history educators. We invite educators at all levels to join us in discussing our shared interest in student success.<\/p>\n

The conference is free to attend and meals are provided.<\/p>\n

Register here<\/a><\/p>\n

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View Program<\/a><\/p>\n

Assignment Workshop<\/h4>\n

An assignment workshop will take place at the conference on the morning of Saturday, October 5. This event offers any attendee the chance to workshop an assignment with other instructors. Participants read each other’s teaching assignments in advance and then meet in small groups at the conference, with an experienced facilitator. Each participant gets time to present their assignment orally, discuss with others how the assignment works with students, and receive written feedback to take home. Workshop attendance\u00a0requires separate registration.Submit your materials by September 25 to participate.<\/a> Confirmation of your workshop participation will be made by September 29.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Featured Speakers<\/h4>\n

\"\"Rebecca Bell-Metereau<\/strong> teaches film and English at Texas State University, where she directs Media Studies Minor, which she developed. She earned her BA, MA, and PhD from Indiana University. She and her husband served from 1973-75 in Peace Corps K-12, and as interpreter for Air Force relief to Chad, Fulbright scholar Senegal, and taught at University of Nebraska. She produced educational videos titled Children & Pregnant Women, Worth the Wait, and has written four books, 18 chapters, 32 articles, 12 references, over 100 papers. She served as Special Assistant to the President at Texas State University, directed a Ford Foundation grant on diversity, media literacy, K-12 workshops, received presidential teaching and service awards, served as Faculty Senator, and Texas Faculty Association board member. She and her husband raised two daughters, and she volunteered at San Marcos Consolidated Independent School District, for interdisciplinarity, diversity, critical thinking, civics, research, vocational education, art, and climate science teaching. She serves on the Committee for School Initiatives of Texas State Board of Education, representing District 5.\u00a0She represents Bastrop, Blanco, Caldwell, Guadalupe, Hays, Travis counties, and parts of Williamson county.<\/p>\n

\"\"Kyle Longley<\/strong> is the Henry Salvatori Professor of American Values and Traditions and Professor of History at Chapman University as well as the Executive Director of the Society of Military History. He is the author of nine books including Grunts: The American Combat Soldier in Vietnam<\/em> (2008), LBJ\u2019s 1968: Power, Politics, and the Presidency in America\u2019s Year of Upheaval<\/em> (2018), and prize winning, The Sparrow<\/em> and the Hawk: Costa Rica and the United States during the Rise of Jose Figueres and The Morenci Marines: A Tale of Small Town America and the Vietnam War<\/em>. His new works include the forthcoming The Forever Soldiers: Americans at War in Afghanistan and Iraq<\/em> (University of North Carolina Press in 2025) and The Death of LBJ: Days in the Life<\/em> (for Cambridge University Press in 2026). He is also a prize-winning teacher and has received numerous awards including the Associated Students for Arizona State University Professor for outstanding teacher and the Zebulon Pearce Teaching Award for Outstanding Professor in the Humanities.<\/p>\n

\"\"Elizabeth Mayer<\/strong>\u00a0joined the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board in May 2020 as its Director of Policy and in February 2022, became its Assistant Commissioner for Academic and Health Affairs. Ms. Mayer leads the Academic Health Affairs (AHA) Division, which provides leadership, guidance, expertise, and resources to improve the efficiency and quality of higher education in Texas. The AHA Division promotes the goals of the agency\u2019s refreshed strategic plan,\u00a0Building a Talent Strong Texas, and facilitates collaborative solutions with Texas higher education institutions. Under her leadership, the division develops new degree and certificate programs that are responsive to workforce needs, encourages quality and equity across the higher education landscape, and drives student completion. AHA is also responsible for the administration and management of more than $200 million in grant funding to support Texas public higher education.\u00a0Ms. Mayer began her career in higher education at the Coordinating Board in 2008 as a Program Director. In 2013, she joined the staff at UT System where she served as a Senior Research and Policy Analyst focusing on issues of affordability, dual credit, transfer, and educator preparation. Ms. Mayer has a Master\u2019s in Public Affairs from the LBJ School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin and a bachelor\u2019s degree in International Relations and Diplomacy from Seton Hall University.<\/p>\n

Conference Features<\/h4>\n