Faculty Summer Institutes
Academic Year 2006-07

C-SALT has been proud to share with you the project results of last year's Institute on Diversity in recent weeks. Thursday the advisory board approved two institutes for this summer. This is a call for applications. Due date for proposals is end of day, Wednesday, June 7, 2006. First consideration will be given to applicants who have not
participated in a summer institute before.

Institute 1: FIRST-YEAR TEACHING

We invite proposals for an institute on First-Year Teaching, to be directed by Robert Davis and Anna Maria Dill. This institute will be held full days from August 28 through September 1, 2006. The focus will be on teaching strategies specifically geared to first-year students: college acculturation, community-building, integrated cross-discipline
courses, retaining students beyond the first year through learning engagement, effective use of technology, and so on. The institute may include the following:

• Sample program syllabi
• Select readings
• Sample of learning materials used in FYE/ISP programs
• Book seminar programs
• Learning Styles/ Teaching Styles profiles
• Variety of Activities and Model Lesson Plans

Your application should include a strategy you would like to work on developing in a course geared to first-year students. This might be a syllabus revision, a specific learning unit, a teaching collaboration, an entirely new course, integrated use of learning center/tutorial support services, or other projects appropriate to the institute's topic.

Participants will receive a stipend of $1,500 and will be asked to share results of their project more widely across campus. Please include your name, your department and college, your position title, and a brief outline of your project proposal, with desired outcomes for your project indicated.

Please submit applications by 5:00 p.m. Wednesday, June 7, 2006, electronically and in hard copy to Sandra Ellston and Curt Whittaker.

Institute 2: IN OUR IMAGE

We invite proposals for an institute called In Our Image, directed by Nancy Knowles. This institute will run half days from September 5 to 15, 2006, and is a more general program that will focus on how we create an effective teaching persona and how that image determines the kind of learning that will happen in the classroom. How do we present ourselves in establishing a classroom that will result in our desired learning outcomes? What is our individual teaching philosophy, and how does our self-presentation as lecturers, performers, learning partners, practitioners, writers, scholars, artists, researchers, field workers, technology gurus, scientists, collaborators, thinkers, guides, sages, know-it-alls, disciplinarians, and so forth embody that philosophy, specifically? Does this image spill over into activities beyond the campus? How do students see our role, and how does that affect their learning?

This institute will include writing assignments to help establish a teaching identity and will analyze the impact of that identity upon classroom practice and pedagogical philosophy. The first week of the project will be this identity work, while the second week will use best practices, including technology, to assist in the completion of each participant's project.

Proposals might include a syllabus revision, a new learning unit based on an altered role for you as a teacher, a revision of outcomes for a specific course, a collaboration in teaching, development of a new course, and so forth, as pertains to the topic of the institute.

Participants will receive a stipend of $1,500 and will be asked to share the results of their project more widely across campus. Please include your name, your department and college, your position title, and a brief outline of your project proposal, with desired outcomes for your project indicated.

Please submit applications by 5:00 p.m. Wednesday, June 7, 2006, electronically and in hard copy to Sandra Ellston and Curt Whittaker.

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