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 Left to right, Row One Front: Stephen Chew, Psychology; Bill Cerbin, Psychology; John Webster, English Literature; Randy Bass, American Literature Row Two: Beverly Guy-Sheftall, English/Women's Studies; Cynthia Fukami, Management; James Hovick, Chemistry; John Miller, Management; Brian Coppola, Chemistry; Deborah Wiegand, Chemistry Row Three (top): Barry Eckhouse, Management; Donna Blancero, Management; Sally Foster Wallace, English; Donna Duffy, Psychology, Daniel Bernstein, Psychology
The Pew National Fellowship Program for Carnegie Scholars (now the Carnegie Scholars Program) brought together outstanding faculty committed to investigating and documenting significant issues in the teaching and learning of their fields. The on-going program still does. Serving for one-year terms, the Carnegie Scholars participate in two two-week residencies in consecutive summers and spend shorter periods together during the academic year. The Carnegie Scholars Program is not an award for teaching excellence; nor is it a teaching-improvement workshop. Its purpose is to create a community of scholars, diverse in all the ways that matter in teaching and learning, whose work will advance the profession of teaching and deepen student learning. The central work of the Carnegie Scholars is to create and disseminate examples of the scholarship of teaching and learning that contribute to thought and practice in the field. Toward this end, each Scholar designs and undertakes a scholarly project aimed at deepening understanding of and practice related to an important issue in the teaching and learning of his or her field. Part of the work of the first summer residency was to refine project plans and to craft a set of projects that would "add up" and build on one another. In general, most projects shared the following features:
Academic Fields For more information, please see http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/CASTL/highered/scholars_program.htm.
To view an annotated bibliography of the scholarship of
teaching and learning, please see Marcia Babb
The Teaching Academy Campus program, which is coordinated for the Carnegie Foundation by the American Association for Higher Education (AAHE), is designed for institutions of all types that are prepared to make a public commitment to foster and support the scholarship of teaching and learning on their campuses. The long-term goal of the program is to foster a national network of campus teaching academies. any interested campus is encouraged to organize its efforts and to register its process and goals so that campuses can learn from one another. For more information about the Carnegie Teaching Academy Campus Program, visit the "Teaching Initiatives" page on AAHE's Web site (www.aahe.org) click on Campus program items. Or, contact: Teresa E. Antonucci, program manager, AAHE Teaching Initiatives, phone: 202-293-6440 x783; email: tantonucci@aahe.org. The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, founded in 1905 by Andrew Carnegie and incorporated in 1906 by an Act of Congress, is an independent institution devoted to strengthening teaching and learning in America's colleges and schools. The programs of the Foundation consist of projects and initiatives united by the Foundation's mission "to do and perform all things necessary to encourage, uphold and dignify the profession of teaching and the cause of education." Foundation scholars share the goal of improving education policy and practice in the United States and abroad. a central theme of the Foundation's programs is the scholarship of teaching -- that is, the development and enhancing of teaching as scholarly work. The Foundation's view is that teaching is not simply a matter of method and technique. It is a matter of selecting, organizing and transforming academic learning in any field so it can be engaged in and understood at a deep level by students. The American Association for Higher Education (AAHE) is the individual membership organization that promotes the changes higher education must make to ensure its effectiveness in a complex, interconnected world. The association equips individuals and institutions committed to such changes with the knowledge they need to effect those changes. AAHE's members are 9,3000+ faculty, administrators, and students from all sectors, disciplines, and positions, plus policymakers and leaders from foundations, government, accrediting agencies, the media, and business, addressing collectively the challenges higher education faces. The Pew Charitable Trusts, among the nation's largest philanthropies, support nonprofit activities in the areas of culture, education, the environment, health and human services, public policy and religion. based in philadelphia, the Trusts make strategic investments that encourage and support citizen participation in addressing critical issues and effecting social change.
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