January 15 - John Brittain, Dean of the Chapel:  Discussion:  Spiritual Life and Hospitality
*January 22 - Glen Avery, Instructional Technology“How College Affects Students for Smarties: Compressing a Horrid, but Important Book"
January 29 - David Lewis, Phys Ed/Rec:  Getting A Foot in the Door: Sports Ministry as a Relational Ministry Tool
*February 5 - Laurie Dashnau, Professor of Writing:  Writing Letters of Recommendation for Students
February 12 - David Huth, Communications:  "Facebook and Stuff"  (has been moved back into Lennox Dining Room)
*February 19 - Margery Avery, Academic Records: Integrative Studies, transition rules, and help for course selection
February 26 - February Break
*March 5 - President Mullen
March 12 - Terry Paige, Religion/Philosophy:  The Aristocratic Women of Thessalonica
*March 19 - Matt Pelletier, Biology:  "Mendel in the Kitchen: Are Genetically-Modified Crops Safe?” (from book by the same title)
March 26 - Mark Yuly:  Physics:  Horses and buggies, here we come: the future of energy for transportation
*April 2 - Kulli Toniste, Religion/Philosophy:  Latest Discussions in Bible and Archaeology
April 9 - Marcus Dean:  What's New with Off Campus Programs?
*April 16 - Cathy Freytag & Sunshine Sullivan:  Faculty/Student Collaborative Research:  Zambia
April 23 - President Mullen:  Program Development
April 30 - Glen Avery, Library  Synapse and Copyright: Rules That You Should Know

September 4 -    Marge Avery: "IQ Web for Faculty: Finding what you need"
September 11 -  John Brittain, Ben Lipscomb: "Welcoming the Stranger." Report on collaboration:  Praxis.  Dialogue and brainstorm about events and discussion topics
September 18 - Bob Black: "Economic Efficiency of the OT Commercial Code"
September 25 - Bob Black/Ron Mahurin: Discussion, Implications of Current Economy
October 2 -    Lisa Arensen (Anthropology):  "Sacred Bones & Disposable Bodies"
October 9 -    Ted Murphy: Painting in Europe and Asia
October 16 - October Break
October 23 - President Shirley Mullen
October 30 - Linda Mills Woolsey, Ron Mahurin: Continuing the Conversation, Stewardship of Professional Life"
November 6 - Connie Finney: Buechner, BOCES and Botany:  A Sabbatical Report
November 13 - Justin Niati:  Research on African Folktale
November 20 -  Mike Lastoria: Boundary Issues in Professor-Student Relationships
November 27 - Thanksgiving
December 4 -  Max Malikow: "Suicidal Thoughts: Essays on Self-Determined Death"  An anthology of essays that will be in print in Oct/Nov
December 11 -Tim Nichols:  A brief history of Christmas, Part II: Forgive us our Christmases as we forgive those who Christmas against us

SPRING SEMESTER, 2008
January 10 - Forum -- James Zoller: "Van Gordon Chair"
January 17 - Forum -- Laurie Dashnau: "Designing Effective Writing Assignments"
January 24 - Forum -- Ron Oakerson & Jim Wolfe: "tbd"
January 31 - Forum -- Shake and Bake groups: "tbd" (south end)
February 7 - Forum -- Jack Leax: "Writing the Gospel Slant"
February 14 - Forum -- Susan Lipscomb: "Introducing Gilbert White"
February 21 - Forum -- Darlene Bressler: "tbd"
March 6 - Forum -- Shake and Bake groups: "tbd" (south end)
March 13 - Forum -- Wilderness Adventures: "tbd"
March 20 - Forum -- Nan Hussey: "The German Lebensborn Subsidiary of the SS: More Information Comes to Light"
April 3 - Forum -- President Mullen: "tbd"
April 10 - Forum -- Jon Bradshaw: "Dick & Jane are Different: Faculty Motivation in Christian Higher Ed."
April 17 - Forum -- Shake and Bake groups: "tbd" (south end)
April 24 - Forum -- David Huth: "What Revolution? Dispatches from the Million Media March"

August 31 - Forum -- Jonathan Case/Michael Lastoria: "Millenials"
September 7 - Forum -- Jon Bradshaw: "Triangulating Houghton's Purpose"
September 14 - Forum -- Sharon Hibbard: "Upward Bound: inspiring first generation college students in our own back yard"
September 21 - Forum -- Jon Arensen: "Eating Orchids"
September 28 - Forum -- Faculty Discussion Group on Plagiarism: "Plagiarism"
October 5 - Forum -- Faculty: "Open Forum"
October 12 - Forum -- Intercultural Studies Dept: "International Development"
October 19 - October Break
October 26 - Forum -- Ron Oakerson with Andrew Gaerte & Will Airhart: "Ratification Debate: Publius vs. the Federal Farmer"  (South End Dining Room)
November 2 - Forum -- Susan Lipscomb: "Victorian Natural History and a Christian Natural Imagination"
November 9 - Forum -- Chris Stewart: "Theism, Naturalism, and the Sciences"
November 16 - Forum -- Glen Avery: "The Inca Trail:  Pathway to a Mountaintop Citadel (Machu Picchu)"
November 23 - Thanksgiving
November 30 - Forum -- Cathy Freytag/Dan Woolsey: "Zambia:  Lessons in Culture, Literacy and Life"
December 7 - Forum -- Perkins: "Searching the Ocean with Bayes"

SPRING SEMESTER, 2006

January 19 - Forum -- Wei Hu: "Studying Biology in Computer Science at Houghton"
January 26 - Forum* -- Carlton Fisher: "Looking Both Ways: Curriculua for Scholar-Servants"
February 2 - Forum -- Glen Avery/Gary Baxter: "Climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro: Cultural Interaction in the Rarefied Air"
February 9 - Forum* -- Kristina LaCelle-Peterson: "Child or Stepchild? The Wesleyan-Holiness Movement's Relationship with American Evangelicalism"
February 16 - Forum* -- Mark Hijleh: "Sound Service: The Christ-like Musician"
February 23 - Forum -- Dan Woolsey/Cathy Freytag: "Service Learning in Zambia"
March 2 - BREAK
March 9 - Forum -- Mike Walters: "Lord of the Flings: Spiritual Exercises in Middle Earth"
March 16 - Forum -- Library Staff: "Online Resources/The Library in Transition"
March 23 - Forum -- Irmgard Howard: "Is it a Good Thing in the Lord's Sight? Principles and Paradigms of Wilson Greatbatch for Nurturing Scholar-Servants in Science"
March 30 - Forum -- Guest: John Wilson: "Books and Culture"
April 6 - Forum* -- Dick Halberg: "Doing Business with a Servant's Heart"
April 13 - BREAK
April 20 - Forum -- Jean-Louis Roederer: "The 'Roads' of France: A Sabbatical Report"
April 27 - Forum* -- Mark LaCelle-Peterson/Darlene Bressler: "Scholarship Shaping Service: Implications of the Educational Imperative in Wesley's Thought and Practice"
*Scholar-Servant paper presentation

FALL SEMESTER, 2005

September 1 - Forum -- Glen Avery/Susan Hice: “Assistive Technology for Learning Disabled Students: A primer”
September 8 - Forum -- Degree Structure Task Force: A Report
September 15 - Forum -- Degree Structure Task Force: A Report
September 22 - Forum -- David Lewis: Sports Ministry in a Third World Country: An Ethiopian Paradigm"
September 29 - Forum* -- Carl Schultz: "Orienting the Scholar-Servant Concept in Scripture"
October 6 - Forum -- Degree Structure Task Force: A Report
October 13 - October Break
October 20 - Forum -- Matt Pelletier: "CSI Houghton: DNA Fingerprinting in the Undergraduate Lab"
October 27 - Forum* -- Terry Paige/Chris Stewart: "Where is the Scholar?"
November 3 - Forum* -- Peter Meilaender "Without a Higher Purpose in Mind"
November 10 - Forum -- Cathy Freytag: "Meeting the Needs of Diverse Learners in the College Classroom"
November 17 - Forum -- Education Department: "21st Century Learning Grant"
November 24 - Thanksgiving Break
December 1 - Forum* -- Ben Lipscomb: "Whose Scholar? Which Servant?"
December 8 - Forum* -- Meic Pearse: "A Pedagogy for Scholar-Servants"
    *Scholar-Servant paper presentation

SPRING SEMESTER, 2005

January 13 - Forum -- Glen Avery: "Synapse"
January 20 - - Forum -- Jim Wolfe & students: "Student Research in the Adirondacks"
January 27 - - Forum -- Paul Watson "Using History to Teach Mathematics"
February 3 - - Forum -- Jim Zoller: "Studies in Genesee River Poetic Realism"
February 10 - - Forum -- Matt Pelletier: "Collaborative Research"
February 17 - - Dialogue -- Rich Stegen: "Advising Review Committee Report"
February 24 - - Forum -- Judy Congdon: "A Peace Treaty for the Worship Wars? Recent Publications on Worship Renewal"
March 3 - - Forum -- Marcus Dean: "Off-campus Programs: There and Back Again"
March 10 - - Dialogue -- Wayne MacBeth: "Student Life issues: Q&A"
March 17 - - Forum -- Mike Lastoria: "The Truth about Suicide: Real stories of depression in college"
March 24 - - Forum -- Jack Leax: "Adirondack Suite"
March 31 - - Easter BREAK
April 7 - - Forum -- Lisa Bennett: "Public Relations and Organizational Learning"
April 14 - - Forum -- Paul Shea/Ben Hegeman: "Missions and Houghton's Mission"
April 21 - - Forum -- Jon Bradshaw: "Accounting 4 the Liberal Arts"

September 2 - Forum - Marge Avery: "New developments in academic advising"
September 9 - Forum - Andy Gallman: "Ebonic(s) vs AAVE - Language or Dialect?"
September 16 - Forum - Anthony Petrillo: "Integrated Studies and Missions, Developing Curriculum for New Colleges"
September 23 - Forum - Ted Murphy: "A painting sabbatical"
September 30 - Dialogue - Karl Eastlack: "Leadership Succession Documents"
October 7 - Forum - Jo-Anne Young: "Equestrian studies as part of a liberal arts education"
October 14 - Forum - Carl Schultz: "Religion, Scholarship, and the Postmodern University"
October 21 - Forum - Daryl Stevenson: "Middle States Association Self-Study Process: Where are we?"
October 28 - Forum - Irmgard Howard: "Playing with water: How hard can it be?"
November 4 - Forum - Chuck Massey/Janelle Potts: "Creating Service Learning Opportunities through AmeriCorps"
November 11 - Forum - David Benedict: "Sabbatical report: Armenia and the Caucasus"
November 18 - Forum - Tim Fuller: "Admission and Confession"
November 25 - HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
December 2 - Forum - Thom Kettelkamp: "Sabbatical report: poverty and the environment"
December 9 - Forum - Ron Rohe: "Demos for Deo: Exploring Biblical instruction using physics demonstrations"

SPRING SEMESTER, 2004

January 22 - - Forum -- Jake Jacobson & Dave Perkins: "Selecting random soil samples for EPA"
January 29 - - Forum -- Jim Wolfe & Ron Oakerson: "Houghton in Adirondack Park: Update"
February 5 - - Forum -- Jayne Maugans: "Lay Pastoring and Teaching"
February 12 - - Forum -- Paul Shea: "CLOSE ENCOUNTERS WITH MUSLIMS:  Study of Islam in Houghton Curriculum"
February 19 - - Forum -- Irmgard Howard: "Killing us sweetly: Sugars in America"
February 26 - - BREAK
March 4 - - Forum -- John Brittain: "William Arthur's The Tongue of Fire: Implications for 2004"
March 11 - - Forum -- Marge Avery: "Finding what you need - faster and easier"
March 18 - - Forum -- Jack Leax: "New Stuff: a sabbatical report"
March 25 - - Forum -- Bill Doezema: "In and Out of Context: Lincoln, Emancipation, and African-Americans"
April 1 - - Forum -- Michael Walters (and students): "Foster Kids Don't Go to the Family Reunions!" (Report on Faculty/Student Youth Ministry Research Project)
April 8 - - BREAK
April 15 - - Dialogue -- President Chamberlain: "A Trap, a horn, and a crane: A Dialogue about Houghton's Future
April 22 - - Forum -- Glen Avery/Ken Bates: "Synapse, the Course Management System: One Faculty Member's Experience"
April 29 - - Forum -- Matt Pelletier: "Genetic Mapping of the Transparent Testa 9 locus of Arabidopsis thaliana: Involving Students in Biological Research"

FALL SEMESTER, 2003

September 4 - - Forum -- Denise Bakerink: "Common Ground: Engaging Students in Learning Outside the Classroom"
September 11 - - Dialogue -- Connie Finney: "Grades and Purposes: determining grading practices for our courses"
September 18 - - Forum -- Peter Meilaender: "Nature, Grace, and Loyalty" 
September 25- - Forum -- Mark Hijleh: "The Journeys and Ravings of a Christian Art Music Advocate"
October 2 - - Forum -- Douglas Gaerte: "Midterm Evaluations: Getting student feedback before it's too late to help"
October 9 - - Forum -- Mike Lastoria: "The New Students...and College Mental Health"
October 16 - - October Break
October 23 - - Forum -- Jonathan Bradshaw: "Theories of Motivation: A Look at Herzberg"
October 30 - - Forum -- Paul Watson: "Game Theory: Death to Dice"
November 6 - - Dialogue -- Connie Finney/Carlton Fisher: "What do these grades mean?" 
November 13 - - Forum -- Tim Fuller: "Enrollment Update - 2003"
November 20 - - Forum -- Jon Arensen: "Which name for God?"
November 27 - - Thanksgiving Break
December 4 - - Dialogue -- President Chamberlain: "NSSE" 
December 11 - - Forum -- Tim Nichols: "It's beginning to look a lot like social engineering: A Brief History of Christmas"

SPRING SEMESTER, 2003

January 16 - - Forum -- Terry Paige: "Roman Corinth: A Century of Archaeology"
January 23 - - Forum -- David Schwert: "The Nutrition of Houghton Students: Thoughts and observations on stewardship"
January 30 - - Forum -- Ron Oakerson: "Houghton in Adirondack Park" 
February 6 - - Forum -- Mark Yuly : "Strong Interactions in Los Alamos: summer physics research with undergraduates"
February 13 - - Forum -- Jack Leax : "Baby Born with Antlers (poems from the tabloid news)"
February 20 - - Forum -- Mike Walters/Paul Young: "Re-visioning the Sunburned Country" Houghton Down Under
February 27 - - Dialogue -- Tim Fuller: "Admission, Marketing, and Student Recruitment”"
March 6 - - "Break" 
March 13 - - Forum -- Angela Tudorii: "The Camisards' Memoirs: A Page from French Protestantism"
March 20 - - Forum -- David Tilley: "You can't say that here! Student Free Expression on Christian College Campuses"
March 27 - - Committee on Opportunity, Equity, and Diversity
April 3 - - Forum -- Terry Paige: "Paul, Judaism, and the Law: A Revolutionary Rethinking"
April 10 - - Dialogue -- Dr. Chamberlain: "tbd"
April 17 - - "Easter Break"
April 24 - - Forum -- David Howard: "A sabbatical report"
May 1 - - Forum -- Matthew Pelletier: "Production of Transgenic Plants Expressing a Mammalian Peptide Hormone"

PAST SCHEDULES
FALL SEMESTER, 2002

September 5 - - Forum -- Wei Hu: "Where is my neighbor?"
September 12 - - Forum -- Bob Black: "Enron 101"
September 19 - - Dialogue -- Jeff Moore/Cindy Bradfield : "Where in the world is Houghton College? - A Paris program for Houghton"
September 26 - - Forum -- Jon Arensen: "The Muslim Messiah" 
October 3 - - Dialogue -- Committee on Harassment Policy and Prevention (Lastoria): "Sexual Harassment Ain't What It Used to Be" 
October 10 - - Forum -- Irmgard Howard: "Worth the Weight: dietary strategies in contemporary America"
October 17 - - Dialogue -- Laurie Dashnau/Becki Ashe: "Upward Bound at Houghton: A Decade in Review"
October 24 - - Dialogue -- David Perkins : "Is God Threatened by Rule 30?" (A new way of looking at the universe.)
October 31 - - Dialogue -- Jim Wolfe: "History of Star Lake"
November 7 - - Dialogue -- Committee on Opportunity, Equity, and Diversity
November 14 - - Forum -- Ted Murphy: "The Language of Modernism"
November 21 - - Forum -- David Benedict: "Was the Persian Gulf War A Just War? "
November 28 - - "Thanksgiving Break"
December 5 - - Forum -- Steven Johnson/David Huth: "Ducks and Duct Tape: creating an independent film in Allegany County" 
December 12 - - Forum -- Glen Avery: "A Techie and the Tetons: Ascending the 'Grand'"

Spring Semester, 2002

January 17 - Forum -- Jon Arensen: "Elephants, hyenas and naked mole-rats"
January 24  - Forum -- Jack Leax: "Border Life"
January 31 - Forum - Tim Nichols: "Marketing tomorrow's Houghton graduates: What faculty need to know"
February 7 - Dialogue - Susan Hice: "Dialogue on Disabilities" 
February 14 - Forum - Judy Congdon: "A Journey of International Adoption"
February 21 - "Break"
February 28 - Forum - Sam Alvord: "A few portraits of the struggles which our students (OE) bring with them"
March 7 - Forum - Paul Shea: "West Africa and Beyond: Wesleyan and Houghton Impact"
March 14 - Forum - Wei Hu: "Where is my neighbor?"
March 21 - Forum - COED Committee
March 28 - "Break"
April 4 - Forum - Tim Nichols: "Oil and Water: The Wesleyans and Higher Education"
April 11 - Forum - Peter Meilaender: "Immigration, National Identity, and the Problem of Preference"
April 18 - Forum - Ron Oakerson: "National Survey of Student Engagement"
April 25 – Forum - Carlton Fisher: “Wesley’s Epistemology”
May 2 - Forum - Matt Pelletier: "Human Cloning: Technological and Ethical Aspects"

September 6 - Dialogue - Ron Oakerson: "The Arts of Liberty"
September 13 - Forum - Jayne Maugans: "Our Maasai Brothers- and Sisters-in-Christ" 
September 20 - Forum - Jim Wolfe: "Houghton in Adirondack Park"
September 27 - Dialogue - Bob Black: "Managing Houghton College: Is the "Business Model" Appropriate?"
October 4 - Wesleyan Tradition Project, Part 1 - Rich Eckley: "Wesleyan Social Ethics: Abstinence--A Case Study"
October 11 - Forum - Mike Lastoria: "Self-Injury"
October 18 - October Break
October 25 - Forum - COED Committee: "A Master Plan for Diversity"
November 1 - Wesleyan Tradition Project, Part 2 - Carl Schultz: "Biblical Hermeneutics in the Wesleyan Tradition"
November 8 - Dialogue - Dan Chamberlain: "Open Mike with the President"
November 15 - Forum - Jim Wolfe: "Global Warming: True? or just a lot of hot air?"
November 22 - Thanksgiving
November 29 - Forum - Irmgard Howard: "Whose word is it anyway?"
December 6 - Forum - Horacio Hernandez: "The Gospel in Latin America"
December 13 - Wesleyan Tradition Project, Part 3 - Mike Walters: "Practice makes Perfect: Revisiting the 'P' Word"

Spring Semester, 2001

January 11 - Forum -- Dick Halberg: "Retirement Planning & Reflections on a Sunny Beach"
January 18 - Forum - Jack Leax: "New Stuff" 
January 25 - Forum– Jameson Kurasha: “The problem of Refugees in Africa - Causal factors and the Hope for the Future” 
February 1 - Forum - Brad Beach: "Intelligent Design" 
February 8 - Dialogue - Dr. Bela Myznikova: "Faith and Learning: student spiritual and moral development in an academic contest" 
February 15 - Forum - Andy Gallman/Steve Doty: "Should English Be Our National Language?"
February 22 - - BREAK 
March 1 - Forum - Connie Finney: "Another Look at Counting" 
March 8 - Forum - Thom Kettelkamp/Chuck Massey: "International Service-Learning internships, independent studies and field placements)" 
March 15 - Forum - Irmgard Howard: "Nuclear Entropy" 
March 22 - Forum - Jeff Moore/Glen Avery/Thom Kettelkamp: "Internet/Web-Driven Teaching Methods" 
March 29 - - Forum - Jake Jacobson: “Stuttering... cause and prevention by a lifelong practitioner" 
April 5 - - Forum – Matt Pelletier: “Human Genome Project”
April 12 – BREAK
April 19 - Forum - Jeff Moore: "Virtue Development in Business" 
April 26 - Forum - Kathleen O'Connor: "Literary and cognitive metaphor"