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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.

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. More>>
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>>
There was no competition in 2004 or 2005
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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