In her first appearance before an SFA audience, Zoe Weil, co-founder and president of the Institute for Humane Education, will present “The World Becomes What We Teach: A Solutionary Approach to Humane Education.”

The presentation, the second in the series, is made possible by SFA’s Montgomery Professorship for Humane Education. The professorship was awarded to Dr. Sarah Straub, associate professor in the Department of Education Studies, in October 2020. The professorship was established by the late Charlotte Baker Montgomery in memory of her husband, Roger, to encourage and perpetuate the teaching of humane education in elementary and secondary schools, both public and private, through the support of teacher preparation in humane education.

The January edition of the Employee Assistance Program newsletter, which places a spotlight on the value of self-awareness, has been released. It and all previous monthly editions can be found on the EAP webpage by clicking the “Newsletters” link in the bottom left gray box.

SFA’s Core Curriculum Committee and Office of Institutional Effectiveness will host a core curriculum assessment town hall from 2 to 4 p.m. today in the McGee Business Building, Room 133, and via Zoom. The Zoom link will be distributed by email prior to the meeting.

SFA’s core assessment process, the Faculty Trust Model, allows for the evaluation of the core objectives as students progress from lower-level to upper-level courses. Capstone course faculty members assess students' attainment of the six core objectives. That assessment rating is compared to aggregated grades from core curriculum courses related to each objective. Additionally, graduating seniors participate in a senior exit survey that seeks their personal assessment of core objective attainment.

Each semester, the results of the three data sets are presented to faculty members in a town hall meeting to determine opportunities for improving core objective attainment. The data sets include faculty assessment, course grades and the senior exit survey, along with previous year comparisons.

Guest artist Dr. Kyung-A Yoo, associate professor of collaborative piano at Mercer University, will join SFA piano faculty members to present “Eight-Hands Piano Concert” at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in Cole Concert Hall.

Piano professors Drs. Ronald Petti, Mario Ajero and Minhae Lee will collaborate with Yoo to perform “Danse Macabre” by Camille Saint-Saëns; "Souvenirs, Op. 28" by Samuel Barber; "Four Piece Suite" by Richard Rodney Bennett; "Fantasy on the Themes" from Georges Bizet’s “Carmen”; and “Stars and Stripes Forever” by John Philip Sousa.

The School of Music will present the 2023 Pineywoods Horn Day featuring Dr. Eldon Matlick Saturday, Jan. 21, in the Wright Music Building.

The second annual Horn Day targets horn players in middle school, high school and college as well as semi-professional performers. There will be presentations, rehearsals, a master class with Matlick, a horn maintenance clinic and more.

Registration the day of the event is $20 but does not guarantee a T-shirt. The registration form can be accessed at music.sfasu.edu/hornday. For more information about Pineywoods Horn Day, contact Andrea Denis at andrea.denis@sfasu.edu.

A reception to mark the closing of the exhibition “Jennings Tofel: Drawing Genesis” is planned for 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. tonight at The Cole Art Center @ The Old Opera House in downtown Nacogdoches.

The “Drawing Genesis” exhibition is curated by Dr. David A. Lewis, professor of art history. Tofel was a well-respected avant-garde American artist who regularly exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in New York and Chicago, as well as Paris, France, according to Lewis.

Admission to the exhibition and reception is free.

A collection of posters that commemorate milestones of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts is displayed at The Cole Art Center @ The Old Opera House through tomorrow.

The “Lincoln Center Posters” exhibition features premium limited-edition prints designed to commemorate Lincoln Center’s greatest events, from film screenings to operas. The initiative highlights the contribution made by philanthropist and art collector Vera List, who in 1962 created a poster program advertising the new Lincoln Center complex.

Do you ever think about what you looked like in a certain school grade, a year or even a day?

For Jordan Wilson, it’s not as far-fetched as you might think. Wilson began taking a photo of himself in the same pose every day for 15 years and compiled the photos into a video to show an intimate documentation of growth and life. Check out the article and watch the incredible video.