Instructions for Part 2 of Campus Conversations
The campus initiates a Campus Inquiry Group(s) to study
and act on a teaching issue central to the campus.
(NOTE from the CTL: The participating units may be redefined
based on the outcome of Part 1 and the level of interest of
the units. This part will be initiated Spring semester, 2000.)
During your work in Part One of the Campus Conversations
process, your campus should have identified an issue(s) that
seems crucial to its ability to promote the scholarship of
teaching. In Part Two, the task is to constitute an Inquiry
Group(s) to study and take action regarding that issue. Although
each campus undertaking the Campus Conversations process is
expected to shape its inquiry according to its own context,
the following issues are ones that have engaged campuses focusing
on the scholarship of teaching:
- The effect of service-learning on acquiring and generating
disciplinary knowledge.
- Intellectual property rights regarding syllabi, curricular
materials, and web-based teaching materials.
- Instructional teams as curriculum builders.
- Portfolios as a mode of learning, planning, and assessing
in undergraduate education.
- Preparing graduate students for teaching in many kinds
of institutions.
- Warranted ways of disseminating the scholarship of teaching.
- Peer review practices that enable rich conversations about
and changes in pedagogies.
- Pedagogies consistent with epistemologies in different
disciplines.
- Rewarding scholars of teaching across a campus.
- Using case studies to promote cross-disciplinary study
of teaching.
- Studying ways that students learn differently in different
disciplines.
- Assessment strategies that promote learning.
From inquiry into your issue(s), your campus will take action,
assess the outcomes, take further action, and, thusly, make
progress toward addressing the issue. As you discover new
knowledge about teaching on your campus, you will share your
discoveries through the Campus Program.
Reporting Outcomes of Part 2
When your campus has completed all or part of its work on
Part Two, share your outcomes with the Campus Program. You
may choose to report more than once during the course of your
study and action on your issue. For example, you might report
findings from your study, then later report results of actions
that you took.
The report(s) you submit will be posted on the Carnegie Teaching
Academy Campus Program website, which will enable other schools
engaged in Part Two of the Campus Conversations process to
learn from your study and action.
To accommodate the website's database, you should report
your outcomes as responses to the eight items below. Please
provide your responses by number, in the following order.
Limit each report to 750 words total, distributed over the
eight items.
- Name of your institution.
- Topic that you studied, and the reason your campus selected
it.
- A summary of your findings about the topic.
- Action proposed for your campus.
- Action taken by your campus, and its outcomes.
- Time line.
- Contact person (name, title, address, phone, email).
- Senior campus administrator(s) supporting your Part Two
work (name, title, address, phone, email).
Procedures used by other colleges.
Procedures for the campus conversation used by other colleges
and universities include teaching circles, sending faculty
to AAHE meetings, panel discussion, reading seminars, forums,
mini-grant programs, and using listservs. More detailed statements
of these procedures as instituted by different institutions
are available at the following URL - http://www.aahe.org/teaching/Carnegie/campuses/registered.htm
For more information:
AAHE Campus program URL - http://www.aahe.org/teaching/Carnegie/academy1.htm
Participating Institutions - http://www.aahe.org/teaching/Carnegie/campuses/registered.htm
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