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SOTL Funding
SOTL
- CFP: 2009 SOTL Leadership
Grant, $35,000—DEADLINE June 15, 2009
Sonya Stephens, Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education, announces the fourth award competition for collaborative scholarship of teaching and learning projects on the IU Bloomington campus.
The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SOTL) Leadership Award will be given to a team proposing a scholarship of teaching and learning research initiative that promises to have a sustained impact upon instructional development and education and that could serve as a model for others on campus. The team will receive up to $35,000 to support activities detailed in the call for proposals.
- SOTL Grants 2009, $2500—DEADLINE
March 6, 2009
This award program supports new or ongoing studies into issues of teaching and learning as part of the Scholarship on Teaching and Learning (SOTL) Program at Indiana University . It supports faculty members' efforts to improve and better understand teaching and learning through their own in-depth, contextualized, and evidence-based study.
2008 SOTL Leadership Grant, $35,000
Two scholarship of teaching and learning proposals were awarded Leadership Grants in 2008. Amy Applegate (Law) and Amy Holtzworth-Munroe (Psychological and Brain Sciences) are the principal investigators leading a team that will study the success of a new interdisciplinary course focused on the impact of child inclusive divorce mediation. Jack Bates, and Brian D'Onofrio from the IU Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences are the other IUB faculty members on the research team. Sociology faculty members Bernice Pescosolido and Brian Powell will collaborate with Carol Hostetter from Social Studies and Rebecca Martinez from the Center for Evaluation and Education Policy to conduct research on the formation of scholarly teachers. In addition, IU graduate students enrolled in the course Research in Higher Education, which is part of Sociology's Preparing Future Faculty (PFF) program, will have the opportunity to work under the guidance and mentoring of the research team along with Paul Namaste, a PFF alumni now teaching at Grand Valley State University. More>>
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2007 SOTL Leadership Grant, $35,000
The 2007 SOTL Leadership Grant was awarded to Laurel Cornell (Sociology),
Carrie Donovan (Wells Library), Hilary Kahn (Center for the Study
of Global Change/Anthropology) Lara Lackey (Art Education), Martha
MacLeish (Studio Art), and Caty Pilachowski (Astronomy) for their
research about using visual methods as a learning tool central to
teaching disciplinary concepts critical to student success. In addition,
four other teams were each awarded a small exploratory research grant
to advance their Scholarship of Teaching and Learning activities.
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2006 SOTL Leadership Grant, $35,000
Two scholarship of teaching and learning proposals were awarded Leadership Grants in 2006. One grant was awarded to Professors Whitney Schlegel, Heather Reynolds, James Reidhaar and Vicki Getty to develop and test a novel model of cross-disciplinary service learning. Titled Food for Thought , the purpose of their initiative is to foster student interdisciplinary understanding, intellectual and personal development, and civic engagement around a common theme of food literacy. More>>
The other 2006 Leadership Grant was awarded to History Professors David Pace, Arlene Diaz and Leah Shopkow for their project Building a Network for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in History . Professors Pace, Diaz and Shopkow believe the IU History Department can make a major contribution to the scholarship of teaching and learning by systematically identifying some of the more important forms of historical practice expected in the upper-level classes of large history departments and uncovering disciplinary ways of knowing often used when teaching lower level history courses. More>>
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There was no competition in 2004 or 2005
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2003
SOTL Leadership Award for Departments: Award-winning abstract. The
2003 award went to the Anthropology Department for its proposal, “Active
Learning and Hands-on Instruction,” nominated by Chair Richard
Wilk and submitted by Professors Frederika Kaestle and April K. Sievert.
They used the $35,000 award to conduct an international survey of members
of the anthropology and archaeology professional societies about their
definitions, problems, and solutions for hands-on learning; to fund
equipment and activities that promote hands-on learning; and to fund
a graduate assistant for the project.
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