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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Learning and Teaching Conference Features Nature Preserve Trips, Governance Session, Workshops California State University, Chico's seventh annual Conference on Excellence in Learning and Teaching will be held on campus tomorrow, Sept. 20, and Friday, Sept. 21.Among the 37 sessions for CSU, Chico faculty, staff and students to attend are trips to the university's Chico Creek and Butte Creek ecological preserves, to explore future educational uses of the land, and a panel discussion of shared governance among faculty and administrators in the CSU. CSU, Chico geography professors Don Holtgrieve and Mark Stemen and biology professor Paul Maslin will lead the trips to the preserves. Political science professor Paul Persons, chair of the CSU, Chico Academic Senate; David Spence, CSU executive vice chancellor; Jacquelyn Kegley, chair, Statewide Academic Senate; CSU, Chico sociology chair Kathleen Kaiser, member of the Executive Committee, Statewide Academic Senate; and CSU Trustee Debra Farar are scheduled to be on the panel for the shared governance program. Other CELT programs tomorrow and Friday are Internet Magic: Pulling Documents Out of the Invisible Web, Service Learning on the Engaged Campus, Seven Habits of Highly Effective Smart Classroom Users, Hail and Beware: Alcohol and Sexual Behaviors of College Freshmen, and Diverse Classrooms: Strategies to Meet Students' Learning Styles. Another important element of the CELT conference is recognition of the outstanding teacher and adviser award recipients. Professor Russell Mills, civil engineering, is the Outstanding Teacher for 2000-2001, and professor Ernst Schoen-Rene, English, is the Outstanding Academic Adviser. On Friday at 1 p.m., both will deliver addresses in PAC 134. The conference is a major program of the Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT), which is operated by the Office of the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs. CELT is also responsible for awarding grants and sponsoring other conferences. The mission statement of CELT is: "We recognize that teaching effectiveness is the first, minimum, and indispensable requirement for faculty on this campus. Effective teaching is inseparable from a quality learning environment. Seeking to enhance the quality of our academic environment, the Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching at California State University, Chico is committed to rewarding and promoting the ability of our faculty to teach well, to finding ways to improve the learning process, and to providing support, training, and mentoring." For more information about the conference, check the CELT Web page at www.csuchico.edu/celt, or contact the Office of the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at 898-6101. ### 
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