Professional Education Program - Outreach

Chautauqua 2009
Three-Day Short Courses College Teachers

Stony Brook University’s 2009 Chautauqua Program features 12 short courses taught by scholars at the frontiers of various disciplines communicating new knowledge, concepts, and techniques directly to college and university teachers in the natural and social sciences, engineering, and mathematics in ways which are immediately beneficial to undergraduate instruction. The program’s primary aim is to enable undergraduate teachers to keep their teaching current with respect to both content and pedagogy.

Stony Brook’s courses are offered at three sites in the U.S. and abroad. Our Manhattan site is located in a new facility at Park Avenue South and 28th Street, that is convenient to all transportation (walk to Penn Station), many tourist locations, and in a neighborhood noted for its inexpensive and moderately priced restaurants.

Stony Brook's Southampton campus is located in an internationally known ocean resort on the South Fork of Long Island, and directly accessible by train or bus from Manhattan. Southampton is 35 minutes from Long Island Macarthur Airport and about an hour and forty-five minutes from LaGuardia or JFK airports. Inexpensive space is available in the university's newly refurbished dormitories.

Foreign Affairs University in Beijing is centrally located in a district featuring many shops and restaurants. Inexpensive housing (about $55 per night) is available in a modern university building reserved for international visiting scholars or in a nearby hotel.  Participants seeking a longer tourist experience in China may make special arrangements with the university to arrive before the course begins or stay after it ends, subject to space availability. It is also easy to arrange tours to other parts of China.  If you have always wanted to see China and would like a chance to engage directly with Chinese diplomats, military officials, and scholars specializing in defense policy, this is an extraordinary opportunity at a bargain price. Faculty from the U.S. Naval War College and other institutions who have taken part in this course give it very high ratings.

Our course in Washington D.C. will be held at a central northwest location only a short taxi ride from the White House, Smithsonian, and other important sites. Past participants say that it combines a superb faculty development experience with after-class opportunities to see part of their nation's history.

The State University of New York at Stony Brook has participated in the Chautauqua Three-Day Short Courses College Teachers for nearly 20 years and believes that it makes an important contribution to the improvement of U.S. undergraduate education in the sciences, as evidenced by the overwhelmingly positive feedback from participants and their supervisors. Stony Brook’s program is coordinated by the Professional Education Program - Outreach Office’s Program Administrator & Outreach Coordinator, Ms. Chandrani Roy and Staff Assistant, Ms. Patricia Dixon, and directed by Distinguished Service Professor Les Paldy.

For further information contact Patricia Dixon at 631-632-7696.