Western Regional Center

NC-NET’s Western Regional Center is led by Southwestern Community College in Sylva. The center is responsible for leading the development of Teaching and Learning as well as Career and Personal Development resources.

Spring 2011 Professional Development Workshop

Behavior Matters by Scott Lewis
Friday, January 28, 2011
9 a.m. - 3:15 p.m.

Southwestern Community College • Jackson Campus • Balsam Center, Myers Auditorium
(Lunch will be provided)

Topics:

• Behavioral Intervention Team (BIT) Training for Faculty and Staff
• Law 101 for Faculty - Avoiding Lawsuits
• Stay Centered - Preventing and Responding to Disruptive Behaviors

Review the Complete Workshop Agenda

About the Presenter:

W. Scott Lewis, JD is a partner with the National Center for Higher Education Risk Management and a faculty member at the USC Daniel-Mickell School for Executive Education. He recently served as the Assistant Vice Provost at the University of South Carolina. Scott brings over 15 years of experience as a student affairs administrator, faculty member, and consultant in higher education. He is a frequent keynote and plenary speaker, nationally recognized for his work on Behavioral Intervention for students in crisis and distress.

Lewis is noted as well for his work in the area of classroom management and dealing with disruptive students. He presents regularly throughout the country, assisting colleges and universities with legal, judicial, and risk management issues, as well as policy development and implementation. He serves as an author and editor in a number of areas including legal issues in higher education, campus safety and student development, campus conduct board training, and other higher education issues.

Lewis did his undergraduate work in Psychology and his graduate work in Higher Education Administration at Texas A&M University and received his Law degree and mediation training from the University of Houston. He has served as clinical and adjunct faculty, teaching in the colleges of Education, Political Science, and Business.

The workshop is free but registration is required. Please Register Online now.

Questions about the workshop should be directed to Barb Putman at BPutman@southwesterncc.edu.

Directions to Southwestern can be found at: http://www.southwesterncc.edu/centers/jackson.htm.

The following video from the Western Regional Center's 2006 Teaching and Learning Conference requires the use of Real Player™. (If you do not have Real Player™ installed on your computer, please click here to download a free copy.)

The NC-NET team at Southwestern has developed three self-paced online courses for community college educators, Best Practices in Teaching and Learning for the Community College Classroom, Leadership Development for the Community College Educator, and Writing Across the Curriculum.

All self-paced modules can be accessed through the NC-NET Blackboard server. Log in with the user name faculty and the password nc-net. Once connected, you can view the courses by topic or alphabetically by title.

For more information about the Western Regional Center and its activities, contact:

Barb Putman
Western Regional Center Director
Southwestern Community College
447 College Drive
Sylva, NC 28779
E-mail: BPutman@southwesterncc.edu