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2016-17 Mid-Career Colloquy
2016-17 Teaching and Learning Colloquy for Mid-Career Religion Faculty at Colleges and Universities
"Pedagogies of Community Engagement"
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Experiential education includes a wide range of pedagogies that engage students in the use of material culture, site visits, active experimentation, creative performance, and service. This colloquy will focus on one ...
2016-17 Early Career Workshop
2016-17 Teaching Workshop for Early Career Religion Faculty at Colleges and Universities
This workshop will gather 14 faculty members in their first years of teaching for a week in two successive summers and a weekend winter retreat in a warm location. Its purpose is to create a community of committed teachers ...
2016-17 Early Career Workshop
2016-17 Teaching Workshop for Early Career Theological School Faculty
Designed for faculty members who are in their first years of teaching, this workshop will explore 21st century challenges in theological education, innovative teaching practices, and complex institutional ecologies. We invite applicants who are interested in joining a community of collaborative ...
2015-16 Pre-Tenure Workshop
2015-16 Teaching and Learning Workshop for Pre-Tenure Theological School Faculty
Dates
July 20-25, 2015 - First Summer Session at Wabash College
January 7-10, 2016 - Winter Session at Mustang Island
June 13-18, 2016 - Second Summer Session at Wabash College
Leadership Team
Katherine Turpin, Iliff School of Theology, Director
Eric D. Barreto, Luther ...
2015-16 Pre-Tenure Workshop
2015-16 Teaching and Learning Workshop for Pre-Tenure Religion Faculty at Colleges and Universities
Dates
July 13-18, 2015 - First Summer Session at Wabash College
January 14-17, 2016 - Winter Session at Mustang Island
June 20-25, 2016 - Second Summer Session at Wabash College
Leadership Team
Patricia O'Connell Killen, Gonzaga University, Director
Alicia Batten, ...
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Stories from the Front (Of the Classroom) – Spring Semester and Summer 2016
We invite you to engage and follow the new round of Wabash Center’s "Stories from the Front (of the Classroom)” blog series. New entries will be posted every Tuesday from January 19 to September 20, 2016. Nancy Lynne Westfield (Drew Theological School), Claudio Carvalhaes (McCormick Theological Seminary), and Tat-Siong Benny Liew (College ...
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2016 Teaching and Learning Consultation for Mid-Career Asian/Asian North American Religion and Theology Faculty
This consultation will gather fifteen Asian and Asian North American scholars drawn from diverse religious studies and theological subfields for a five-day retreat in Southern California to address concerns that are particular for Asian North American faculty in mid-career and to attempt a longitudinal mentoring plan for Asian North American ...
Growing a Department: Cultivating Beneficial Processes and Results in the Development of a Team-Taught Capstone Course
This project is designed to cultivate healthy and productive processes for creating a departmental capstone course at Austin College. Through a constructive process, involving all three members of the religion department, the project will engage in critical reflection about issues related to collaborative processes, team teaching, and modeling of collaboration.
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Theological Education in a Multicultural Environment: Identifying and Evaluating Best Practices for Empowerment. Part I - Research and Planning
The Joint Faculty Multiethnic Concerns Committee of Fuller Theological Seminary proposes a four-stage evaluation of student perceptions of classroom practices. The proposal is conceived as the first part of a larger planning initiative to further policymaking and pedagogy which will support the culturally diverse ministries of our student body. Stage 1 ...
Toward a Dynamic Model of Religious Studies Senior Capstone
The Religious Studies Senior Capstone, currently a 25-page thesis required of all majors, does not consistently meet the needs of students and faculty and may not be the appropriate capstone for the major. We propose to evaluate and redesign the senior capstone to bring it into alignment with our department ...
Extending the Principles of Flipped Learning to Achieve Measurable Results: Emerging Research and Opportunities
As higher education continues to grapple with expanding online coursework in meaningful ways, faculty must confront a perennial question: how can online coursework mirror the rigor of in-person classes while preserving the flexibility that makes online learning attractive to students? In Extending the Principles of Flipped Learning to Achieve Measurable ...
New Scholarship in Critical Quantitative Research - Part Two (New Populations, Approaches, and Challenges: New Directions for Institutional Research, Number 163)
The New Scholarship in Critical Quantitative Research – Part Two: New Populations, Approaches, and Challenges provides readers with a timely and much needed expansion of the emerging paradigmatic approach of blending critical theories with quantitative methods. This volume substantially supplements the two prior New Direction for Institutional Research volumes that serve ...
Enhancing and Expanding Undergraduate Research: A Systems Approach (New Directions for Higher Education, Number 169)
The Council for Undergraduate Research (CUR) wonders why undergraduate research (UR) – which has been shown to increase student retention, graduation rates, and post-graduation achievement – is not practiced more broadly. What can be done to encourage this pedagogical shift? This book advances the cause by providing a reference for academic decision ...
Connecting Learning Across the Institution (New Directions for Higher Education, Number 165)
Through a framework of three segments that set educational context, demonstrate integration, and provide planning models, Pamela L. Eddy’s edited volume of essays explores the question of learning across the institution by framing research around questions that consider stakeholders, institutional populations, and applicability of theoretical approaches to learning. Offering ...
Specifications Grading: Restoring Rigor, Motivating Students, and Saving Faculty Time
Concerns about mastery of learning outcomes or competencies, grade inflation, student motivation, and faculty time compel reflection on how we assess students in higher education. In Specifications Grading, Nilson critiques the traditional, point-based grading system and argues that students should be assessed on whether they have mastered course learning outcomes. ...