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Renowned guest speaker to offer learning strategies to students, faculty
October 12, 2018
Georgia Southern University’s Center for Teaching Excellence, First-Year Experience (FYE), Academic Success Center, Housing and Campus Life Enrichment Committee will host Saundra McGuire, Ph.D., as a guest speaker at Georgia Southern Oct. 16-17.
McGuire’s student talk, “Metacognition: The Key to Acing Courses!” outlines learning strategies based on cognitive science principles. It will be presented Tuesday, Oct. 16, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. and 8 to 9:30 p.m. in the Nessmith-Lane Auditorium on the Statesboro Campus, and again on Wednesday, Oct. 17, from 2:30 to 4 p.m. in the Ogeechee Theatre on the Armstrong Campus. The student presentations are a component of the FYE Student Success Series.
The faculty presentation, “Get Students to Focus on Learning Instead of Grades,” will be held Wednesday, Oct. 17, at 12:20 p.m. in the Ogeechee Theatre on the Armstrong Campus and live streamed to the Statesboro Campus in Cone Hall, Room 2029, and on the Liberty Campus in Room 108.
McGuire is the director emerita of the Center for Academic Success and retired assistant vice chancellor and chemistry professor at Louisiana State University (LSU). She has delivered keynote addresses or presented workshops on effective learning strategies at more than 400 institutions in 46 states and nine countries. Prior to joining LSU, she spent 11 years at Cornell University, where she received the coveted Clark Distinguished Teaching Award. Her bestselling book, Teach Students How to Learn, was published by Stylus in 2015 and the student version of the same title was released in January 2018.
McGuire, who holds a Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, earned the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring in a White House Oval office ceremony. In 2017, she was inducted into the LSU College of Science Hall of Distinction and received the 2016 American Association for the Advancement of Science Lifetime Mentoring Award. She is an elected Fellow of the American Chemical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Council of Learning Assistance and Developmental Education Associations.
For more information, visit the University’s Event Calendar.
