Upcoming Deadline for International Commons

ISSOTL Members,

The deadline for the next International Commons is coming up. Please submit the following by May 1:

• responses to articles from the January issue, or any previous issue (http://www.issotl.org/newsletter.html),
• responses to articles you've read elsewhere,
• book reviews,
• conference reviews,
• your observations about SoTL in your part of the world or another,
• photographs,
• other items of interest to other ISSOTL members.
  

Subscribe to the ISSOTL Digest!

In order to make this blog active, we need some people to subscribe and begin posting.

If you are already a member of ISSOTL and would like posting rights to the Digest, e-mail your request to Lisa Kornetsky, ISSOTL Secretary, at lkornetsky@uwsa.edu and you will be issued an email invitation to become an author/contributor to the ISSOTL Digest Blog.

Having posting rights allows you to make announcements, send inquiries to fellow members, and to start and/or participate in any discussions related to the scholarship of teaching and learning. We hope to see you here!

Lisa Kornetsky

Undergraduate Research Institute

Announcing a wonderful opportunity to build a culture of teaching, learning, and scholarship:

The Institutionalizing Undergraduate Research Institute

Presented by: The Council on Undergraduate Research: http://www.cur.org/

The Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) has a twenty-seven year history of advocacy and leadership for undergraduate research initiatives. CUR has provided this very successful Institute model at locations throughout the United States; this is the first international offering of the Institute.

Location: Malaspina University-College , Vancouver Island, British Columbia: http://www.mala.ca/index.asp

Dates: Thursday June 5th to Saturday June 7th

Purpose of Institute: Overview of undergraduate research models; learning from Council on Undergraduate Research facilitators; development of institutional or departmental action plans.

For more information, go to Council on Undergraduate Research Institute information: http://www.cur.org/institutes/malaspina.html
Malaspina Undergraduate Research site: http://www.mala.ca/teaching/cur.asp

Questions? Contact Nancy Randall, Malaspina University-College randall@mala.ca

Welcome to the ISSOTL Digest Blog

We hope that today will be the beginning of an opportunity for you to get information, post notices, and reach out to others in the ISSOTL community. Stay tuned to announcements over the next few days.

Lisa Kornetsky
Secretary