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To assist faculty with access to these events, we will attempt to capture as many as possible on video and attach a link of the streaming media to the description of the event in our Events Archive page. The video as well as other materials, such as PowerPoints and web links used in the presentation can be found on the CTL Events Archive page. Also, we hope to video as many of the sessions as possible and make some of them available real-time.

Active Learning Techniques
Date/Times: Tuesday February 17, 2:00-3:00 pm AND Wednesday February 18, 10:00-11:00 am
Jace Hargis, Center for Teaching and Learning Director
This workshop will introduce many different types of active learning techniques and showcase how you can integrate these into your teaching and learning to engage and formatively assess your students.

Communication Styles
Date/Time: Monday, February 23, 2009 from 3:00-4:30 pm
Laura Bathurst, Pacific Institute for Cross Cultural Training
Communication styles vary quite dramatically cross-culturally. In this workshop, participants will learn about a variety of communication styles that are likely to conflict and miscommunication in the classroom and consider strategies for more productively manage a classroom containing speakers with different styles.
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Writing in the Discipline - Using E-Portfolio to Improve Your Students' Writing Skills
Free lunch to the firt 10 faculty who RSVP to Cynthia Dobbs at cdobbs@pacific.edu
Date/Time: Tuesday February 24, 12:00-1:00 pm
Jon Schamber and Sandy Mahoney
This workshop will offer faculty several models for incorporating the e-Portfolio to encourage substantive revision, constructive peer review, and critical reflection.
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Place-Based Engagement: Teaching the City of Philadelphia in Temple University's GE Program
Date/Time: February 25, 2:00-3:15
Terry Halbert, GE Director, Temple University
Temple University inaugurated a GE program last fall for more than 4,000 new students. More than one third of the courses in Temple's GE take students into the Philadelphia metropolitan region for experiences that faculty have integrated into the curriculum. From visits to museums, concerts, plays, Victorian cemeteries, civil war battlegrounds and back alleyways to more extended encounters where students tutor or work in community gardens, engaged learning in Temple's urban setting has caught the imagination of faculty and students alike. In an otherwise contentious transition from a traditional distribution model core to an interdisciplinary thematic GE, the evolution of Temple's "Philadelphia Experience" was relatively peaceable. Director Terry Halbert will tell that story, while addressing place-based learning and its connection to civic identity.
For information, contact Lou Matz at lmatz@pacific.edu
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The Psychology of Learning
Date/Time: Thursday February 26, 2:00-3:00 pm
Dr. Deborah Schooler, Assistant Professor, Psychology
This workshop will emphasize the ways in which constructs from psychology (e.g. memory, information processing) are relevant to students' learning. Participants will investigate their own cognitive processes and will explore how different teaching strategies can utilize these processes to foster engagement with and long-term retention of material.
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Maintaining Balance
Date/Time: Thursday March 5th from 11:00-12:30
May Mahala, Assistant Professor Theatre Arts
Stress erodes the quality and productivity of our work and personal lives. This session is designed to give faculty some tools and strategies to maintain a healthy work environment and keep a balance between work/familial/personal obligations and healthy and rejuvenating self care. Exercises that will be covered include basic yoga and stretching and mental relaxation and focus exercises including meditation.

Student Response Systems (Clickers) or How to Use Clickers to Better Engage your Students
Date/Time: Monday, March 20, 10:00-11:30am
Martin Lehman, Instructional Media Coordinator, Center for Teaching and Learning
Clickers can revolutionize the way you interact with your students. This workshop will explain the many benefits to integrating Clickers into your curriculum and the positive effects of accurate anonymous student feedback.
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Writing in the Discipline - Best Practices in Designing a Writing-Intensive Course: an SIS Case Study
Date/Time: Monday, March 16, 4:00-5:00 pm
Analiese Richard and Arturo Giraldez
This workshop will show faculty how two pros from the School of International Studies co-designed and are teaching the writing- and research-intensive course, Contemporary Perspectives in World History. Faculty will take away ideas on how best to structure research assignments.
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Writing in the Discipline - Developing Grading Rubrics in the Social Sciences
Date:Time: Tuesday, March 17, 12:00 - 1:00 PM
Jeff Becker and Paul Turpin
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Intercultural Conflict Styles
Date/Time: Monday, March 30, 2009 from 3:00- 4:30 pm
Laura Bathurst, Pacific Institute for Cross Cultural Training
The Intercultural Conflict Styles Inventory was developed by Dr. Mitch Hammer to indentify individual's conflict styles in high stress situations. In this workshop, participants will use the instrument to help them identify their own conflict style, learn about several additional conflict styles and the predictable patterns of escalation that occur when individuals with different conflict styles find themselves in conflict, and consider strategies for more productively working people with different conflict styles.

Collaboration Tools for Teaching
Date/Time: Tuesday, March 31, 3:00-4:30pm
Martin Lehman, Instructional Media Coordinator, Center for Teaching and Learning
In this presentation, we will share various online and offline collaboration tools to help your students become engaged and make conceptual connections between and within disciplines. The tools will enable you and your students to more effectively communicate and share their efforts between their groups and the instructor.

Writing in the Discipline - Writing-to-Learn Assignments Throughout the Disciplines
Date/Time: Monday, April 6, 4:00-5:00 pm
Cynthia Dobbs
This workshop will showcase effective writing-to-learn assignments used nationally in all disciplines, from psychology to biology to history to Classics. Faculty should also bring their own in-class assignments to share.

SPSS: A Refresher
Date/Time: Wednesday April 8 - 2:00-3:30 pm and Thursday April 9 - 3:00-4:30 pm
Presenter: Mike Rogers, Director, Institutional Research
This workshop is designed for individuals who need a refresher in SPSS. Topics will include how to enter and analyze data sets for research purposes, SPSS navigation and review of some reporting and statistical functions. Some prior experience with SPSS is required to attend. If you last used SPSS on a mainframe and want to know how to use windows or if you just need a refresher - this workshop is for you.

Enhancing Your Teaching and Learning Using Audio/Video in the Classroom
Date/Time: Tuesday, April 14, 2:00-3:30pm
Martin Lehman and Jace Hargis, Center for Teaching and Learning
This workshop will share specific resources for capturing and using audio and video for integration into your classes. Several examples of faculty who use audio and video at Pacific will be showcased.

Promotion and Tenure Panel
Date/Time: April 15, 3:00-5:00 PM
Panel discussion with Larry Spreer, Chair and current members of the P&T Committee.
This is an open forum, conducted by faculty members of the university P&T Committee, presenting information about best practices in compiling a P&T portfolio, followed by a question and answer period.

Effective Online Instruction
Date/Time: Friday April 17, 10:00 am - noon
Dr. Cathy Cavanaugh Associate Professor of Educational Technology at the University of Florida
http://education.ufl.edu/faculty/cathycavanaugh
This seminar will share effective practices for online teaching and learning from an expert in the area of instructional technology. Dr. Cavanaugh will outline recommendations for different online teaching functions, such as fostering interaction, enhancing community, demonstrations of knowledge, disseminating course content, etc. Secondly, she will share examples from different online courses to help faculty members visualize what the practice might look like in their courses. Finally, she will provide references for the work she has provided.

Writing in the Discipline - Using Writing to Teach Quantitative Skills
Date/Time: Monday, April 20, 4:00-5:00 pm
Chris Goff, Associate Professor of Mathematics

Summer Institute of Intercultural Communication Information Session
Date/Time: Monday, April 27, 2009 from 3:00-4:30 pm
Laura Bathurst, Pacific Institute for Cross Cultural Training
Come and learn more about the Summer Institute of Intercultural Communication (SIIC) held in Portland, Oregon every July and available to Pacific faculty and staff tuition-free! †It's a great opportunity to learn how to teach more effectively to diverse individuals with distinct learning and communication styles. †(http://intercultural.org)

Fellowship Office Interactive Open House for Faculty
Susan Weiner, Ph. D. - Fellowship Advisor
Thursday, September 18, 4:00pm
Center for Teaching and Learning
Main Library - Second Floor - Room 230

New Faculty Luncheon: Service Learning in the Curriculum
Thursday, September 18, 12:00-2:00pm
Regents' Dining Room

Writing in the Disciplines: Wine and Cheese Reception & Roundtable Discussion with 2007-2008 Writing in the Disciplines Grant Recipients
September 24, 4:00-6:00pm
Center for Teaching and Learning
Second Floor - Main Library - Room 230

Recommendation Writing: An Interdisciplinary Roundtable
Cynthia Dobbs, Ph. D.
Susan Weiner, Ph. D.
Thursday, October 2, 4:00-5:00pm
Center for Teaching and Learning
Main Library - Second Floor - Room 230

New Faculty Luncheon: Undergraduate Research
October 16 12:00-2:00pm
Regents' Dining Room

New Faculty Luncheon: Experiental Learning in the Curriculum
November 13, 12:00-2:00pm
Regents' Dining Room

New Faculty Luncheon: Book Discussion "What the Best College Teachers Do"
December 4, 12:00-2:00pm
Regents' Dining Room

"SPSS Course for Beginners and as a Refresher: (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences)"
April 15, 2008 (Tuesday) from 10-11 a.m.
location: LIB Classroom (1st floor computer lab)
Mr. Michael Rogers, Director, Institutional Research
This workshop is designed for individuals new to SPSS or as a refresher course. Topics will include how to enter and analyze data sets for research purposes, SPSS navigation and review of some reporting functions. No prior experience with SPSS or statistics are required to attend.

"Teaching and Research Abroad: Opportunities and Benefits for Pacific Faculty"
April 17, 2008 (Thursday) from 12-1 p.m. - brown bag lunch
location: LIB Taylor Room
Dr. Amy Smith, Associate Professor, English and Dr. David Schmidt, Director of International Programs and Services
Dr. David Schmidt, International Programs and Services, will discuss the variety of long- and short-term teaching and research opportunities abroad as well as the logistics for faculty in arranging international teaching and research. Dr. Amy Smith, Department of English, will speak about the professional benefits of teaching abroad, based on a semester spent at the University of Chile. There will be an opportunity for a questions and answer period.

Promotion and Tenure Panel: How to Prepare the Perfect Porfolio"
April 17, 2008 (THURS.) from 3:00-5:00 p.m.
location: President's Conference Room
panel discussion (including current members of the P&T Committee): Bill Herrin, Chair (COP-Economics), Desmond Maxwell (COP- Biological Sciences), Susan Sample (SIS), and Mike Doherty (ENG).
An open forum, conducted by faculty members of the Promotion and Tenure Committee, presenting information about best practices in compiling a promotion and tenure portfolio, followed by a question and answer period.
"Grading Essays: Do It Better AND Faster"
April 22, 2008 from 12:00-1:00 pm
location: Library Taylor room.
Dr. Amy Smith, Department of English
There's no magix formula for grading better and faster that I know of. But you can definitely be more efficient and give better feedback to students if you consider how all the elements of grading fit together - from the day you choose an assignment to the day you hand back grades. This workshop will offer practicle advice on selecting assignments, creating assignment sheets, holding draft sessions, and streamlining your comments.
*Note: Free lunch to the first 10 people who RSVP to Dr. Cynthia Dobbs at 6-2618! Brown bag for everyone else.
"The Psychology of Learning: Part IV - Using it to Increase Your Publications"
April 29, 2008 (Tuesday) from 2:00-3:00 p.m.
location: LIBRARY room 135
Dr. Deborah Schooler, Assistant Professor, Psychology
"Maximizing the Pit"
May 7, 2008 (Wednesday) from 2:00-3:00 p.m. and May 9 from 10-11 am
location: LIBRARY room 135
Mr. Jason Murphey, Clinical Psychology Doctoral Intern, Cowell Wellness Center Counseling Services

"The Achieving Brain: The Neuroscience of Learning & Expertise"
March 31, 2008 (Monday) from 7:00-8:30 p.m.
location: Pacific Theatre
Mr. David Dobbs, Contributor, New York Times Magazine, Scientific American, Slate, Audubon Author, "Reef Madness: Charles Darwin, Alexander Agassiz, and the Meaning of Coral"
What happens in your brain when you learn? What has to happen for you to learn it really well? The answers, which involve everything from sea slugs to Tiger Woods, are encouraging, daunting -- and for anyone ever in a classroom, endlessly useful.

"The Social Brain: The Neural and Genetic Roots of Getting Along"
April 1, 2008 (Tuesday) from 12:00-1:00 p.m.
*Note: lunch will be served; reservations required by calling 946-7685
location: Regent's Room
Mr. David Dobbs, Contributor, New York Times Magazine, Scientific American, Slate, Audubon Author, "Reef Madness: Charles Darwin, Alexander Agassiz, and the Meaning of Coral"
Why is it sometimes so hard to get along with one another? Why is it so rewarding when we do? Quite possibly because social understanding and managing social interactions well is the most cognitively demanding job -- and its most vital. Dobbs, who explored some of these issues in articles for the New York Times, describes a growing convergence of evidence about social cognition from human psychology, primate studies, and genetic research.

"Reef Madness: Science, Religion, and the Meaning of Coral "
April 1, 2008 (Tuesday) from 5:30-6:30 p.m.
location: GEOS 104 (Geosciences Center)
Mr. David Dobbs, Contributor, New York Times Magazine, Scientific American, Slate, Audubon Author, "Reef Madness: Charles Darwin, Alexander Agassiz, and the Meaning of Coral"
Asked to name the 19th century's major scientific squabble, most people will correctly name the row over Darwinism. Few recall the era's other great scientific debate - the "coral reef problem" as it was known. The coral reef debate saw many of the same philosophical issues contested by many of the same players - Alexander Agassiz, who had watched Darwin destroy the career of his father, the creationist zoologist Louis Agassiz, and applied the lessons learned there to his ownn assault on Darwin's coral reef theory; and Darwin, who found himself holding an unusually weak hand as he tried to fend off Alexander's attack on his elegant and dear coral reef theory - a theory he said late in life, that gave him more pleasure than any other. For geologists, students, scientists and lovers of drama.

"Interactive e-Syllabus"
April 2, 2008 (Wednesday) from 10-11 a.m.
location: LIBRARY room 135
Dr. Jace Hargis, Center for Teaching and Learning
This workshop will provide techniques to use word processing to transform a syllabus into an information-rich resource. Participants will learn to add images and create links to articles, book references, audio and video. The result may be uploaded to Blackboard or a web page.

"Maintaining the Lean, Mean, Fighting Machine"
April 9, 2008 (Wednesday) from 2-3 p.m.
location: LIBRARY room 135
Mr. Jason Murphey, Clinical Psychology Doctoral Intern, Cowell Wellness Center Counseling Services

LTD's and SIS's Other Secret Weapons of Writing Instruction"
March 18, 2008 (Tuesday) from 12:00-1:00 pm
location: Library Taylor room
Dr. Susan Sample (SIS)
*Note: Free lunch to the first 10 people who RSVP to Dr. Cynthia Dobbs at 6-2618! Brown bag for everyone else.

"Interdisciplinary Research for Undergranduates: A New Virtual Inititative"
March 21, 2008 (Friday) from 12:00-1:00 brown bag lunch
location: Library Library Taylor Room from 12-1 pm
Dr. Susan Weiner (Honors Program), Dr. Analiese Richard (SIS), and Dr. Lydia Fox (GEO)

"The Psychology of Learning: Part III - Are They Getting it?"
March 25, 2008 (Tuesday) from 2:00-3:00 p.m.
location: LIBRARY room 135
Dr. Deborah Schooler, Assistant Professor, Psychology

"Active Learning Presentation / Discussion" and
"Active Learning Strategies in a Basic Science Course"
January 23, 2008 (Wednesday) from 1:30 - 2:45 p.m.
January 23, 2008 (Wednesday) from 3:00-4:00 p.m.
location: PHS 110 (School of Pharmacy)
Dr. Victoria Roche - visiting scholar
Presented by: the School of Pharmacy
"Learning from the (almost) Eradication of Polio from Planet Earth".
January 24, 2008 (Thursday) from 12:00-12:50 p.m
PHS 115 (Physical Therapy)
Joe Serra, School of Pharmacy,Department of Physical Therapy

"Psychology of Learning: Part I - The Essentials"
January 29, 2008 (Tuesday)2:00-3:00 p.m.
LIBRARY room 135
Dr. Deborah Schooler, Assistant Professor, Psychology
Psychology of Teaching, The Essentials ,

"Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: What is the Need? What is the Value?"
January 30, 2008 (Wednesday) from 10:00-11:00 a.m.
Jace Hargis, Director, Center for Teaching and Learning.
We will share the background of SoTL, rationale, literature review, types of SoTL and possibilities for research. Secondly, this session will include a discussion of the Need and Value for SoTL, at an institution such as Pacific.
"Of Methods and Mentors: Learning the Disciplines Through Writing"
February 1, 2008 (Friday) from 3:30-4:30 p.m.
location: WPC 140
Dr. Chris Thaiss - University of California, Davis and Clark Kerr Presidential Chair and Director of the University Writing Program; Professor of English
Presented by: Writing in the Disciplines (WiD)
"Learning How to Learn"
February 6, 2008 (Wednesday) from 10:00-11:00 a.m.
location: LIBRARY room 135
Dr. Jace Hargis, Center for Teaching and Learning
"Tyranny of Urgency"
February 6, 2008 (Wednesday) from 2:00-3:00 p.m.
location: LIBRARY room 135
Mr. Jason Murphey, Clinical Psychology Doctoral Intern, Cowell Wellness Center Counseling Services
"Active Learning"
February 19, 2008 (Tuesday) from 3:00-4:00 p.m.
location: LIBRARY room 135
Dr. Jace Hargis, Center for Teaching and Learning

"Scholarship, Research and Publishing"
February 21, 2008 (Thursday) from 4:00-5:30 p.m.
location: Regents Room
Panel discussion - Faculty members describe their experiences in the publishing arena and discuss the "do's and don'ts" of manuscript and journal submissions. Faculty panel members discuss their personal strategies for success, how to publish in both book and article format, how to deal successfully with publishers and literary agents, and how to improve book proposals and query letters. In addition, panelist will provide information on research grant submissions and how to write a fundable grant.
"Formative Assessment"
February 25, 2008 (Monday) from 3:00-4:00 p.m.
and repeated on
February 28 (Thursday) from 3-4 pm
location: LIBRARY room 135
Dr. Jace Hargis, Center for Teaching and Learning
In addition, rubrics will be discussed as one means for evaluating formative assessments.
"The Psychology of Learning: Part II - Putting it into Practice"
February 26, 2008 (Tuesday) from 2:00-3:00 p.m.
location: LIBRARY room 135
Dr. Deborah Schooler, Assistant Professor, Psychology
"Eager to Write / Eager to Read: Assigning the Provocative Student Essay"
February 27, 2008 (Wednesday) from 4:00-5:00 p.m.
location: LIBRARY Taylor Room
Dr. Diane Borden, Professor, English Department
Presented by: Writing in the Disciplines (WiD)

"Keep Your Motor Running"
March 5, 2008 (Wednesday) from 2-3 p.m. and March 7 from 10-11 am.
location: LIBRARY room 135
Mr. Jason Murphey, Clinical Psychology Doctoral Intern, Cowell Wellness Center Counseling Services

Fall 2007

August 2007

August 20: How to get logged in and ready for your Blackboard

August 20: Orientation to Library Resources

August 22 (repeat session): How to get logged in and ready for your Blackboard

August 22 (repeat session): Orientation to Library Resources

August 23: New Faculty Orientation

. This workshop will be offered on two different days at two different times to assist faculty members scheduling. On September 11, we will present at 1 pm and on September 12, we will present at 2 pm. Both workshops will be held in the new CTL Faculty Gathering Area on the first floor of the Library, room 135. (WS)

September 12: ""What's Writing in the Disciplines, and/or, How Does My Department Snag a Grant?" A Conversation with College Assistant Dean Cynthia Dobbs in the Library Taylor Room from 12-1 pm. (WS)

September 13: New Faculty Luncheon in the Regents Dining Room from 12-2 pm. Jace Hargis will share an active perspective on Learning How to Learn. (WS)

September 18, 19 and 20th: Jace Hargis will engage faculty in active learning on the topic of . This workshop will be offered on three different days at three different times to assist faculty members scheduling. On September 18, we will present at 3 pm and on September 19, we will present at 2:30 pm and on September 20, we will present at 10 am. All three workshops will be held in the new CTL Faculty Gathering Area on the first floor of the Library, room 135. (WS)

September 19: by Dr. Cathy Cavanaugh/University of Florida will share her experience with various types of audio recordings and podcasts, which she has created for her courses. The session will include a podcast introduction; how to access through Blackboard (Bb) Learning System; Podcast interviews with leaders recorded at conferences; and audio feedback to student work submitted in Bb. In addition, she will discuss methods used to create the recordings, the feedback received from students via midterm and end-of-course surveys. The session will be held in the new CTL Faculty Gathering Area on the first floor of the Library from 12-1 pm in room 135 via Web Huddle. (DM)

September 20: Part I of a four part series on EI. Scott Jensen will present information on Measuring Emotional Intelligence (EI), followed by a literature review on Personality, Emotion Regulation, and Coping by Carolynn Kohn in the Regents Room from 12-1 pm. You can download the following readings which Dr. Jensen will discuss: and and you can download the articles which Dr. Kohn will discuss: and . (WS) Psychology departments .

September 27: Stacy Rilea will share background on Emotional Intelligence and Academic Success, followed by Roseann Hannon providing background on EI Moral, Ethical and Values Development in Regents Room from 12-1 pm. (DM) You can download Dr. Rilea's article on here and Dr. Hannon's on here.

September 27-29: The Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) will sponsor a two-day workshop on the Acrobat link with two eminent researchers in the field, Milt Hakel and Jose Mestre. To reserve a seat, contact email link no later than September 13, 2007. (SM)

October 2007

October 4: Susan Weiner, Jace Hargis and other faculty provide examples and resources for integrating undergraduate students in faculty research in the Center for Teaching and Learning room, Library, room 135 at 4 pm. (WS)

October 11: New Faculty Luncheon will meet in the Regents Dining Room from 12-2 pm for an active discussion of the book provided to all new faculty, "What the Best College Teachers Do", by Ken Bain. (WS)

October 17: "Why Teach Writing in a Math Class, or, How Do I Incorporate Writing Instruction in Non-Writing Courses?" A Conversation with Math Professors Sarah Merz and Chris Goff, in the Library Taylor Room from 11:-30-12:30 pm. (WS)

November 2007

November 7 Rescheduled from October 25: Gary Howells will provide literature on Emotional Intelligence and Leadership in the Regents Room from 12-1 pm. (DM) You can download Dr. Howell's articles on , and by clicking on the authors name.

November 8: New Faculty Luncheon will meet in the Regents Dining Room from 12-2 pm for another active discussion of the book, "A Practical Guide for Academic Beginners" by Christopher J. Lucas and John W. Murry, Jr. (WS)

November 12: " Teaching the benefits of qualitative software while maintaining an inductive approach to the analysis of data" by Dr. Jim Mullooly, an Assistant Professor of Anthropology from California State University Fresno. Dr. Mullooly will share information on qualitative data and analysis in the Library Taylor Conference room from 9:30-11:00 am. You can read more about Dr. Mullooly at
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November 12: Hands on instruction of qualitative software Atlas ti ( by Dr. Jim Mullooly, an Assistant Professor of Anthropology from California State University Fresno. Dr. Mullooly will work with faculty on using this qualitative software in the Library Computer Training room from 12:30-2:00 pm. (note: CTL has a copy of the Atlas ti software for faculty use after the session)

November 13: "Grading Essays: Do it Better and Faster." Another Writing In The Disciplines conversation, this time with Amy Smith, in the Library Taylor Room from 4:00-5:00 pm. (WS)

November 15: Qingwen Dong and Joseph Martinez will share information on Emotional Intelligence in the Regents Room from 12-1 p.m. (DM)

December 2007

December 6: New Faculty Luncheon in the Regents Dining Room from 12-2 pm. Jace Hargis will share ideas and applications on formative assessment in the classroom. (WS)