The Carnegie Teaching Academy Campus Program
Coordinated by the GSU Center for Teaching and Learning
Fall 1999
The Carnegie Teaching Academy, a $6 million, 5 year effort,
is part of a larger effort of the Carnegie Foundation: The
Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
(CASTL). It is funded by the PEW Charitable Trusts and the
Carnegie Foundation.
The focus of this document is the Campus Program of the Carnegie
Teaching Academy which is coordinated by AAHE. This program
is for institutions ready to make a public commitment
to new models of teaching as scholarly work to improve the
quality of student learning and the status of teaching. There
are three levels of the Campus Program.
A. Level 1 of the Campus Program: Campus Conversations.
There are two parts to this component. The two parts are:
- Part 1, the campus examines a draft definition of the
"scholarship of teaching" and identifies in
its own environment supports for and barriers to the scholarship
of teaching and learning. The Carnegie Teaching Academy's
draft definition of the "scholarship of teaching"
is: The scholarship of teaching is problem posing about
an issue of teaching or learning, study of the problem
through methods appropriate to disciplinary epistemologies,
application of results to practice, communication of results,
self-reflection, and peer review.
- Part 2, the campus initiates a Campus Inquiry Group(s)
to study and act on a teaching issue central to the campus.
B. Level 2 of the Campus Program: the Community of Campuses.
C. Level 3 of the Campus Program: affiliation with the
Carnegie Teaching Academy.
Participation:
GSU joined the Campus Program with the ultimate objective
of achieving Level 3 status, affiliation with the Carnegie
Teaching Academy. If this status is achieved GSU will be eligible
for grants, consulting, and national recognition. Eighty campuses
will be selected for this level of participation at the end
of the 5 years Carnegie Teaching Academy program.
Deadline:
The report for Part 1, Level 1 of the Campus Program will
be completed by the beginning of end of Fall semester, 1999.
Requirement for Part One of Campus Conversations: We must
discuss and develop a draft definition of scholarship of teaching
that fits our campus context and offers common language for
the university. Student learning must be central. Also, we
must develop a lexicon of mutually understood terms that will
be featured in part two of Campus Conversations
Procedure:
A. The CTL works with the designated reporting units as
they gather data for the final report which will be prepared
by the co-directors of the CTL assisted by the CTL advisory
committee. The reporting units and their advisory committee
members are
- the Fine Arts/Communications & Humanities departments
of the college of A&S, (Advisory committee member:
John Murphy)
- the Natural Science and Mathematics departments of
the college of A&S, (Advisory committee member: Harry
Dangel)
- the Social and Behavioral Sciences departments of the
college of A&S, (Advisory committee member: Kirk Richardson)
- the departments of the COE, (Advisory committee member:
Steve Harmon)
- the departments of the COB (Advisory committee member:
Julian Diaz) and
- the departments of Health and Human Sciences, Library,
School of Policy Studies and the School of Law (Advisory
committee member: Bea Yorker ).
B. Each reporting unit submits a report of their definition
of scholarship of teaching. Each reporting unit will solicit
input from their teachers (all levels including PTIs), students
(graduate and undergraduate), and administration. The procedure
may be tied to current needs/activities such as the development
of promotion/tenure procedures for evaluation of teaching,
portfolio projects, and/or student learning outcome assessment.
C. The Campus Program committee for each reporting unit
is composed of the Associates of the CTL for the departments
in that unit and a member from the CTL advisory committee.
The Campus Program committees must define their specific
procedures and membership on sub-committee(s) for their
units. Each Campus Program committee prepares the required
report for their unit.
Required report:
The report is limited to 750 words total, distributed
over seven specified items. Detailed instructions are provided
elsewhere.
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