Below is information about an upcoming conference; the deadline for proposal submissions is September 30. (By “institutions serving ‘minorities’”, they mean institutions that have significant numbers of “minority” students but are not federally declared as a Minority Serving Institution (MSI).

4^th annual National

Teaching and Learning for Empowerment Conference:

A Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Conference

for

Minority Serving Institutions and

Institutions Serving “Minorities”

January 16-19, 2009

hosted by

Clark Atlanta University in Atlanta, Georgia

(Info at www.caucetlinfo.org)

Call for Papers - Transformative Dialogues: Teaching and Learning Journal

This is a call for submissions for our next issue of Kwantlen's eJournal:
Transformative Dialogues: Teaching and Learning Journal.
http://kwantlen.ca/TD
ISSN 1918-0853

Volume 2, Number 2
My Classroom: Reflections on Practise and Practices
Personal SoTL about real learning by current educators

Share your experiences and research around personal scholarship as it relates to teaching and learning and how we reflect on our work.

We encourage a variety of digital formats that encompass:
Inquiry Articles (2,000 to 8,000 words)
Essays (2,000 to 5,000 words)
Service Projects (2,000 to 8,000 words)
Personal Reflections (500 to 1,500 words)
Images and other (new) media
Artifacts including presentations, poetry, etc.

Submission Deadline: September 30, 2008 - Publication: November, 2008.

All submissions must be received by September 30, 2008 as an unformatted Word or text document attached to an email to TD@kwantlen.ca.

Transformative Dialogues is a forum for conversations intended to foster the improvement of adult teaching and learning. TD facilitates the multi-disciplinary exchange of ideas, actions, and results of innovative and professional practice in the scholarship of teaching and learning. These conversations are intended to span a wide range of reflections on the processes of teaching and learning ranging from the scholarly to scholarship. Reflections and understandings shared are focused on improving student and faculty learning, and critical thought processes in their current and future life long learning. We understand that scholarship may play out differently in different disciplines, but the basic principles should be consistent (Boyer, 1992).

Our journal adopts the principle that strategies, techniques and methods of teaching and learning transcend the boundaries of specific subject fields. We welcome relevant contributions from diverse settings such as academia, vocational training, continuing professional development, workplace learning, selected commercial exemplars, and social networking via communications technologies.

Upcoming Teaching and Learning Conference in Ireland

You are invited to attend the National Academy’s 2^nd Annual Conference:

Teaching & Learning in Higher Education – Challenging Assumptions

Thursday 13^th and Friday 14^th November 2008

Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland

REGISTER NOW Attendance is free but places are strictly limited.

Download the conference flyer at

http://www.nairtl.ie/documents/flyer.pdf

Please forward this invitation to any of your colleagues who may be interested.

Jennifer Murphy

Project Manager

NAIRTL

Distillery House

North Mall

University College Cork

Ireland

t: +353 21 490 4690

e: jennifer.murphy@ucc.ie

w: www.nairtl.ie

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Conference at Eastern Michigan University

SOTL Academy 2009: Taking a Closer Look

Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI

http://www.emich.edu/sotlacademy

Call for Proposals Due Date: December 1, 2008 Conference Dates: May 18-19, 2009

The SOTL Academy 2009 invites proposals for presentations of work in the area of the scholarship of teaching and learning. This conference seeks to bring together all members of the academy engaging in the scholarship of teaching and learning (SOTL). Applications are encouraged from experts and novices in this field, at all career stages. This national conference will provide a forum for presenting new SOTL work, for sharing reflections on SOTL and its role within the academy, and networking with others engaged in this enterprise.

The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning seeks to restore teaching to its proper place of importance in the academy by building a scholarship around teaching and learning. The goal is to encourage faculty to use their own classrooms (or programs) as sites for research to rigorously explore student learning, and then to go public (at conferences such as this one, and in web- and print-based publications) in order to enable others to build on the work they are doing.

Specific tracks/strands will focus on the following themes, among others:

•Sharing SOTL research: methodologies, works in progress, emergent findings •Shaping the liberal arts curriculum through the scholarship of teaching and learning •Negotiating the role of SOTL in academic careers, including for graduate students and future faculty "Exploring the use of various course delivery formats using classroom research."

•Building and sharing theories of student learning •Creating models for building campus leadership and/or collaboration in SOTL The list above is intended to be illustrative but not in any way to be limiting. We are interested in a wide range of proposals. If you have questions regarding a proposal, please contact the conference directors.

Session Formats

•Panel Discussion

60-90 minute presentation by a panel of 3-5 colleagues on a topic of general interest.

•Workshop

45-60 minute interactive presentation.

•Individual Paper

15-20 minute presentations that will be grouped with other presenters for discussion.

•Round Table

30 minute, informal, small group discussions. Ideal forum for presenting works in progress.

•Poster Session

For more information or to submit a proposal, please go to http://www.emich.edu/sotlacademy

Spring 2009 ISSOTL Elections

ISSOTL will be holding elections in Spring 2009. The Leadership and Elections Committee welcomes suggestions for nominees for President Elect, Vice President-Canada, and Vice President-United States. For more information, see the ISSOTL Governance page.

Posted on behalf of Alice Macpherson

Transformative Dialogues: Teaching and Learning Journal - Volume 2, Issue 1

Dear Colleagues

We are pleased to announce that we are now live on-line with our fourth issue of Kwantlen University College's eJournal - Transformative Dialogues: Teaching and Learning Journal.
Scholarly Activity in Relationship to Teaching and Learning
http://kwantlen.ca/TD/Current_Issue
ISSN 1918-0853

Our main page is now:
http://kwantlen.ca/TD
(This is a new URL as our institution name has changed and our website has been re-designed)

We invite all of you to read, consider, and join in the dialogue.

We look forward to more conversations.

Balbir Kaur Gurm, R.N., Ed.D.
Editor, Transformative Dialogues
Nursing Faculty, Community & Health Studies
Chair Progressions & Admissions Committees
Kwantlen Polytechnic University
Tel: (604) 599-2267

Alice Macpherson CQ, MA
Editor, Transformative Dialogues
Professional Development & PLA Coordinator
The Centre for Academic Growth
Kwantlen Polytechnic University
Tel: (604) 599-3040

http://kwantlen.ca/TD

Position Announcement

The Coulter Faculty Center at Western Carolina University seeks applicants for the following position (Starting date: from January 2009. Application closing date: Until position is filled):

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Western Carolina University. Myron L. Coulter Endowed Distinguished Professor
Position description: Five-year renewable term senior faculty appointment in teaching, program development, and research. Incumbent will be situated in the University’s Coulter Faculty Center and teach in a University department appropriate to scholarly background. Duties include: editing the international online SoTL journal, MountainRise; securing program sponsorship; scholarly production; University representation in external SoTL entities; faculty leadership in SoTL; and integration of SoTL initiatives with the University’s mission and Quality Enhancement Plan.

Qualifications: Ph.D. or equivalent terminal degree from regionally accredited institution; national recognition; qualification for rank of full professor; strong track record in teaching, scholarship and program development; demonstrated SoTL leadership. National Prominence, qualifications as full professor, a terminal degree from a regionally accredited institution, successful university teaching experience, a significant record of research and publication in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning as well as leadership in SoTL initiatives.

About WCU: http://www.wcu.edu.
Position detail: https://jobs.wcu.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=51444

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Contact information:
John LeBaron
Jay M. Robinson Distinguished Professor of Educational Technologies
Hunter Library 176
Myron L. Coulter Faculty Center
Western Carolina University
Cullowhee, NC 28723
Ph: +1.828.227.2454; Fax: +1.828.227.7340
Mobile/Cell: +1.828.506.6090
Email: jlebaron@email.wcu.edu
Web: http://paws.wcu.edu/jlebaron/