What the Best College Teachers Do Summer Institute

We are pleased to announce our 11th annual Summer Institute: What the Best College Teachers Do, June 20-22, 2007. Enrollment is limited and in past years the program has tended to fill rapidly.

This year the program features four professors who were subjects of the What the Best College Teachers Do study. Additional information can be found at http://www.bestteachersinstitute.org

7th Annual Greater Expectations Institute

June 20-24, 2007 | Burlington, Vermont

The Greater Expectations Institute is a five-day, intensive program designed for campus leadership teams working on ways to increase student engagement, inclusion, and high achievement. The Institute will help teams align institutional purposes, structures, and practices as well as advance and assess the kinds of practical liberal education outcomes outlined in AAC&U’s signature report, Greater Expectations: A New Vision for Learning as a Nation Goes to College, such as critical inquiry, intercultural competence, and integrative learning.

Campus leadership teams come to the Institute to advance a specific educational change project. The Institute will help you align the project to your institution’s mission, clarify your desired outcomes, refine your planning and processes, and build a culture that fosters student and institutional learning. While in Burlington, teams will confer with expert faculty; explore more deeply the issues of engagement, inclusion, and high achievement; learn from other teams engaged in a rich variety of educational change efforts; and develop a concrete plan for departmental, divisional, or campus-wide action.

For complete information, visit: http://www.aacu.org/meetings/gexinstitute/index.cfm

Institutes for FLC Developers / Facilitators & International Faculty Learning Community Conference

Registration Due: February 15, 2007

FLC developers and facilitators have been identified as the most important keys to FLC success. New Developers/Facilitators can learn successful methods for selecting, preparing, and supporting FLC developers and facilitators at the 8th annual FLC New Developers/Facilitators Institute. Those who already have implemented FLCs are invited to participate in the Experienced FLC Developers/Facilitators Institute. They can share their experiences and delve deeper into successful strategies for development and facilitating FLC's.

New Developers/Facilitators Institute

Institute participants will develop concrete plans for their own FLCs. The Institute has been cited as the most efficient way to prepare to facilitate an FLC. Check out the 2007 FLC Institute Home for more information. More information on FLCs and FLC facilitation can be found in the New Directions in Teaching and Learning Journal or at the national faculty learning community site.

Institute for Experienced Developers / Facilitators

What have you been doing since you attended the FLC New Developers' Institute? Come back to the community and share your experiences with your colleagues and the newbies. Learn from other experienced developers and facilitators the latest challenges and successes of FLCs.

International Faculty Learning Community Conference
June 23, 2007

Share your experiences and the experiences of others who have developed and participated in FLCs. This will be a full day of plenary and active sessions.

Call for Proposals

We encourage proposals that describe effective and successful practice in the area of faculty learning communities. Research on FLC outcomes and resulting student and faculty learning is especially welcome. We invite FLC facilitators, program directors, and participants to send us
proposals.

The Institute website at http://www.iats.com/conferences/Institute_info.html contains this information in greater detail.

2007 International Institute for New Faculty Developers

The Institute for the Advancement of Teaching in Higher Education (iathe.org), in collaboration with the University of Ottawa, will host the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education's (podnetwork.org) Institute for New Faculty Developers in Ottawa from June 24-29, 2007. The Institute is designed for individuals who wish to build professional skills in faculty and organizational development in higher education. Previous participants have included current (or future) faculty and staff involved in organizational and faculty development programs and initiatives, especially those situated in teaching and learning centers. All faculty and staff responsible for organizing, directing, implementing or chairing committees for faculty development activities in universities or two- and four-year colleges are welcome to attend. The Institute will consist of five days of workshops, presentations and consultations, and by design will offer excellent opportunities for professional networking with our stellar faculty and with other participants during the program and afterwards.

Topics will include, but are not limited to, the following: introduction to faculty development, organizational development theory, program models, consultation techniques, learning and motivation theory, classroom assessment techniques and small group instructional diagnosis, learning environments, diversity, and building academic community. Program participants will be surveyed before the Institute to make sure that their needs will be met.

Ottawa is a lovely city in the summer, with many parks and cultural attractions befitting a national capital. The University of Ottawa campus lies adjacent to the Rideau Canal park; it provides walking and biking trails that connect with an extensive urban trail system. It is within walking distance of the downtown core, Parliament Hill, the National Gallery and the Byward Market area renowned for its rich selection of restaurants, pubs and clubs.

For further details, including a list of Institute Chairs and Faculty, tuition, housing and travel arrangements, please visit the Institute website at:
http://www.iinfd.org

HERS (Higher Education Resource Services) Summer Institute

Just a reminder that the SI 2007 application deadline is March 1, 2007. This year's dates are June 23 to July 18, 2007 and tuition, fees and housing are $6950. Please let us know if you have colleagues to whom we should send information or if we can help your institution with their institutional process.

For more information, visit the Summer Institute part of the website: http://www.hersnet.org/HERSHigherEducationResourceServices.htmsisihtm.asp

13th biennial meeting of The International Study Association on Teachers and Teaching (ISATT)

This year's meeting of the International Study Association on Teachers and Teaching will be held at Brock University, Ontario, Canada.

The theme for the conference is "Totems and Taboos: Risk and Relevance in Research on Teachers and Teaching", which encompasses all levels of education, up to and including post-secondary teaching. We invite participants to think and write about uncommon topics of significant concern and interest that will have a bearing on how educational practices have evolved or are likely to evolve. Areas of interest within the theme have been organised around four general issues: 1. Interface of Teaching, Learning and Technology, 2. Higher Education Contexts, 3. Social Issues in Education, and 4. Changing Roles of Teachers and Teaching.

For more information about the conference, visit http://www.ed.brocku.ca/isatt2007/index.html
For information about ISATT, visit http://www.isatt.org

13th biennial meeting of The International Study Association on Teachers and Teaching (ISATT)

I am pleased to invite your participation in the SENCER Summer Institute to be held in Portland, Maine from August 3-6, 2007. Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities (SENCER) is a National Science Foundation supported faculty development project that has worked with over 1100 leaders from more than 270 institutions. SENCER supports the development of courses and programs that teach "to" basic sciences "through" complex and unsolved public issues. Rigorous assessment of SENCER courses has shown substantial learning gains by women, non-science majors, and students who have previously underperformed in science.

The SENCER Summer Institutes (SSI) represent the cornerstone of SENCER's faculty development and academic reform program. The Summer Institutes are annual, invitational, intensive, residential learning opportunities for faculty, academic leaders, and students. The Institutes feature a rich mix of plenary sessions, workshops, and concurrent sessions that focus not only on what students should learn, but how that learning might best be accomplished.

Applications to send teams or individuals to SSI 2007 are now available on our website (www.sencer.net). I am also attaching the most recent brochure for SENCER. To learn more about SSI 2007 and to submit an online application, visit http://www.sencer.net/SSI2007/Applications/SSI2007appmain.cfm. The deadline for applications has been extended to February 28, 2007. If you have any questions, please call Danielle Kraus at (202) 483-4600 or email her at danielle.kraus@sencer.net.

MERLOT International Conference

The seventh MERLOT International Conference (MIC07) held in New Orleans, Louisiana is devoted to faculty development in the design, creation, utilization and evaluation of online teaching and learning materials. The MIC07 conference theme Jazzing IT up with MERLOT recognizes the collaborative efforts within disciplines and the education community around the World to enhance teaching and learning through the use of Instructional Technology. Conference attendees span all disciplines and the continuum from novice to expert in the development and use of online resources. This year the Community of Practice is the Humanities, so the conference should be of interest to your membership.

The MERLOT International Conference is designed to foster learning, innovation and practice in the use of information, instruction, and communications technologies in higher education. It is the venue for educators, administrators, and technologists who have interests and expertise in technology-enabled teaching and learning and who recognize the need to remain current in this rapidly advancing field of educational practice and theory.

The Conference offers many opportunities for attendees to gain practical skills in the use of educational technologies through numerous interactive hands-on workshops lead by peers and through industry-sponsored technology showcases. It is frequently in these practical workshops and demonstrations that refreshing new insights into applications of these technologies to higher education are gained.

The due date for proposals is January 29, 2007.

For additional information or great ideas for teaching and learning with on-line resources, visit: http://www.merlot.org

Conference on Contemporary Issues in Higher Education

College of Judea and Samaria 2007 Conference on Contemporary Issues in Higher Education:
Pedagogical aspects of emerging methodologies in higher education

CALL FOR PAPERS AND RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS

The Conference on Contemporary Issues in Higher Education will focus on the challenges of instructors and administrators in higher education, with a special emphasis on improving the quality of academic instruction through new technologies and methodologies. Drawing together faculty developers, educational researchers and educators, the Conference will offer an opportunity to re-examine the pedagogical aspects of new methodologies, and share ideas about existing and emerging practices and ways of enhancing academic quality in higher education.

Deadline for submission of proposals: March 31, 2007.

For further information and for electronic submission of proposals, please contact the Program Committee Chairperson, Dr. Nitza Davidovitch: d.nitza@yosh.ac.il

Association for Integrative Studies Conference

The Interdisciplinary Studies Degree Program at Arizona State University is 12 years old and has become the largest undergraduate major with 2,300 students at one of the nation's largest campuses. Members of our faculty have participated in AIS conferences for the past five years and we welcome you here to talk about designing and teaching interdisciplinary classes, administering and sustaining interdisciplinary programs, and thinking and writing about interdisciplinarity and integration.

We're planning an informative and engaging conference. You'll fly into Phoenix's Sky Harbor Airport, jump on a free shuttle, and be at the conference hotel in ten minutes. You'll have plenty of time to interact with people who are involved in interdisciplinary teaching, writing and research. And we hope you'll consider presenting what you've been
working on. You'll be able to bask in the warm days and cool nights and visit local sites such as the Heard Museum, Taliesin West and the Desert Botanical Garden. If you have a couple of extra days, you can venture off to Sedona, the Grand Canyon or Mexico.

Deadline for submission of proposals: March 19, 2007.

Submit your proposal online at http://uc.asu.edu/ais2007.

7th Annual Lilly Teaching and Learning Conference

You are invited to submit a proposal for The 7th Annual Lilly Teaching and Learning Conference in beautiful Traverse City, Michigan. The conference will be held Thursday, October 4 through Sunday, October 7, 2007. This conference has sold out each of the past four years and participants comment time and again that this is one of the best teaching conferences in the country.

Keynote speakers this year include Bill McKeachie, Peter Seldin, Jane Halonen, Jim Eison, Donna Duffy, Todd Zakrajsek, and Leslie Wilson.

The conference theme is Blueprints for Student Learning, and includes four major tracks: advancing active learning, teaching well with technology, service learning/civic engagement, and adult learning in nontraditional formats.

An integral part of the Lilly Conferences on Teaching and Learning are the number of high-quality presentations on improving student learning. Come share what has been successful in your classes and what you have discovered about facilitating student learning.

Submit your proposal at: http://www.facit.cmich.edu/lilly/proposals.htm
For more information, visit: http://www.facit.cmich.edu/lilly/

International Society for Exploring Teaching and Learning (ISETL)

International Society for Exploring Teaching and Learning (ISETL)
Sheraton Atlanta Hotel, Atlanta, Georgia
October 11-13, 2007
http://www.isetl.org/conference

The thirty-sixth annual conference of the International Society for Exploring Teaching and Learning (ISETL) will be in Atlanta, Georgia, from October 11-13, 2007. ISETL encourages college and university faculty and practitioners from all disciplines to develop, study, and apply learner-centered principles of teaching, learning, and assessment in innovative, yet effective and practical ways. The program committee invites proposals for 50-minute presentations or for poster session presentations that reflect these goals. We are especially interested in presentations that demonstrate practical and
creative teaching and learning techniques based on personal experiences and/or research that will appeal to colleagues in several disciplines. Preference will be given to presentations that promise to model alternative teaching methods and engage their audiences in activity and dialogue.

Keynote Address

Darby Lewes
English and Gender Studies, Lycoming College

Portrait of the Student as a Young Wolf: Motivating Undergraduates

Using a highly trained Service Dog, Darby Lewes shows how a lifetime of living with, breeding, showing, and training several breeds of dogs has influenced her career as an educator. This highly irreverent, interactive, and frequently unpredictable session is designed to help any teacher looking to develop students' enthusiasm, abilities, and confidence, and as an aid for anyone who is responsible for groups and teams.

IMPORTANT DATES
Proposals Due: June 1, 2007
Notification of Acceptance: July 1, 2007
Registration Fee Due: September 14, 2007
Conference Date: October 11-13, 2007

All registration information is available on the ISETL web site: http://www.isetl.org

AAC&U Fall Meetings

Civic Learning at the Intersections: U.S. Diversity, Global Education, and Democracy's Unfinished Work in Denver, Colorado--October 18-20, 2007

This conference will highlight current research and promising practices pertaining to the creative integration of civic, diversity, and global work on campus and how this integration can strengthen student learning and help create new and sustaining institutional structures.

This conference will bring together faculty, student affairs educators, academic advisors, librarians, staff, and administrators (particularly department chairs and academic program directors).

2007 Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education Conference

2007 Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education Conference
October 25 - 28, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Omni William Penn Hotel

You are enthusiastically invited to be a part of the 2007 POD Conference to be held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 25 ­ 28, 2007. This 32nd annual meeting will offer many opportunities for professional development and renewal. Our theme, "Purpose, Periphery, and Priorities," invites you to consider POD's commitment to accessible research, professional growth, and improved teaching and learning.

Pittsburgh's landscape is dominated by the three rivers that surround the city, as featured in the conference logo. The rivers are constantly in motion around the city, shaping its borders and helping to define its landscape. Likewise, each of us sets our priorities, both individually and collectively, but things in the periphery continually reshape and test that sense of purpose.

This year's conference invites participants to raise important questions about what we consider to be our purpose and what we therefore choose to prioritize or to leave in the periphery. For good work to be done, it is important to prioritize some goals over others, but when we effectively focus our attention on one complex task, we often lose sight of others. This balance between priority and periphery, therefore, raises important questions:

How do we make choices about our purpose and priorities?
What should be at the center of who we are and what we do, and what do we intentionally put in the periphery?
What is currently in the periphery that should be brought back into clearer focus?

We look for this conference to elicit research findings and practical strategies to help make these discernments and put them into practice. Sessions, mealtime conversations, and educational expeditions will stimulate dialogues around these issues as we collaborate in this effort to become more mindful of our choices. We anticipate that the diversity within POD will foster discussion of different perspectives and the opportunity to respectfully challenge one another's assumptions about priority and periphery.We hope this year's theme will spark new ideas for lively sessions.

We look forward to receiving your proposals on Purpose, Periphery, and Priorities.

We invite proposal submissions for:

Pre-conference Workshops
• 3-hour workshops
• 6-hour workshops

Concurrent Sessions
• 60-minute interactive sessions
• 90-minute interactive sessions
• 60-minute roundtable discussions
• Poster presentations

Sessions are invited on a variety of topics including, but not limited to:

• Assessment and Evaluation
• Graduate Student Professional Development
• Learning Theories & Research
• Professional Development
• Scholarship of Teaching & Learning
• Technology
• Diversity
• Instructional Development
• Organizational Development
• Small Colleges
• STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Math)

To submit a proposal or for more conference details, information on session formats, criteria for proposal review, and submission guidelines, please visit: http://www.podnetwork.org/pod

Submission deadline: Friday, April 13, 2007 at 5:00 pm Eastern

SoTL Commons: A Conference for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning

Inaugural The SoTL Commons: A Conference for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning, will be held November 1 - 2, 2007 at Georgia Southern University (Statesboro, Georgia, USA) sponsored by the Center for Excellence in Teaching. The conference web site is at http://www.georgiasouthern.edu/ijsotl/conference/. The deadline for proposals is March 31, 2007 and the early registration period (at a reduced fee) ends on April 15th.

The keynote speaker is Mary Taylor Huber (Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning) and the featured speaker is Bob Beichner (North Carolina State University).

Deadline for submissions for the July 2007 issue of International Journal for the scholarship of Teaching & Learning (IJ-SoTL) is May 15, 2007. The 1st issue is online at http://www.georgiasouthern.edu/ijsotl/current.htm.

You are invited to join the IJ-SoTL listserv for conversations about SoTL and the improvement of student learning: http://www.georgiasouthen.edu/ijsotl/dl.htm. There are currently over 380 international members on the listserv.

2007 Assessment Institute

I would like to extend to you and your colleagues an invitation to join us for the 2007 Assessment Institute in Indianapolis November 4-6, 2007.

The deadline for proposals is March 15. We would be particularly pleased to receive proposals addressing any of the ten tracks listed in the bullet points below.

We will feature Special Track Plenary Sessions and Workshops emphasizing assessment in:

* CIVIC ENGAGEMENT
* ePORTFOLIOS
* FACULTY DEVELOPMENT
* FIRST-YEAR EXPERIENCE
* STUDENT DEVELOPMENT AND DIVERSITY

In addition, we will present sessions with national assessment leaders, the Best Practices Fair, and additional learning opportunities emphasizing:
* Accreditation
* All Major Fields
* Assessment Methods
* Community Colleges
* General Education

KEYNOTE PANEL:
* Thomas A. Angelo, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand
* Trudy W. Banta, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
* Peter T. Ewell, National Center for Higher Education Management Systems
* George D. Kuh, Indiana University
* Jeffrey A. Seybert, Johnson County (KS) Community College

For more information, please consult our website: http://www.planning.iupui.edu (click on 'Assessment Institute - November 4-6, 2007') or contact Trudy W. Banta at: Phone: (317) 274-4111; Fax: (317) 274-4651 Email: tbanta@iupui.edu

ODLAA 2007 Open and Distance Learning in the South Pacific

Come to ODLAA2007: ODL in the Pacific Region

Lincoln University, Canterbury, New Zealand

Participants are invited to present papers reflecting on the role of open and distance learning pedagogy, technologies, systems, policies and providers in

- respecting cultures,
- enabling collaborations,
- cognitions: building knowledge and managing learning, and
- valuing and sustaining communities

Authors are invited to submit the following types of papers to the conference:

Full papers for double blind review: (3000-4000 words); Workshops: (three hours); Abstracts only (non peer reviewed): (300-400 words).

The deadline for papers and workshops is June 15th.

Enquiries: c.brook@ecu.edu.au

Submission details can be located at: http://www.odlaa2007.info

Asia Pacific Conference on Educational Integrity 2007

The Asia-Pacific Conference on Educational Integrity: Creating a culture of integrity will be held at the University of South Australia from 6-7 December 2007.

While previous conferences have focused on specific issues relating to educational integrity such as plagiarism and values in teaching and learning, the 2007 conference aims to examine the broader educational context. Participants will be asked to consider the questions:

Who is responsible for educational integrity? Is it students, educators, administrators, senior managers or policy makers? How can a culture of integrity be created so that the current model of "police action" is replaced by self-regulation and mutual respect?

Themes will include:
- policy changes and reform in education
- commercialisation of education
- internationalisation of education
- ethics in research and publishing
- issues of governance and managerialism
- quality assurance and educational integrity
- implications of the Research Quality Framework
- issues in learning and teaching

A pre-conference workshop will be held on 5 December 2007 to enable Academic Integrity Officers (and their equivalent positions) from Australian and international universities to network and share ideas on best practice.

Authors are invited to submit the following types of papers to the conference:

Full papers for double-blind review (see Submission Guidelines available from conference call for papers website: http://www.unisa.edu.au/educationalintegrity/conference/papercall.asp).
Accepted papers will be published in the refereed stream of the Conference Proceedings.

Abstracts to be reviewed by the Conference Committee. Accepted Abstracts will be published in the unrefereed stream of the Conference Proceedings.

Creative works (45 minute sessions)

Interactive workshops
- small interactive group workshops of around 12-20 participants
- 45 minutes total, with the speaker/facilitator using no more than 10
minutes to define the topic and context
- 35 minutes for discussion, interaction and input from the participants.
- Suggestions for material: current dilemmas, ideas in progress, vexing
issues and common problems relating to educational integrity.

Other ideas
Presenters are invited to contribute ideas for other interactive sessions. This may be an electronic poster session, group presentation, debate or "dilemma" roundtable discussion (where presenters simply raise a question or problem and ask participants to address it, using their expertise and experience).

For more submission and registration details, see the Conference Website:
http://www.unisa.edu.au/educationalintegrity/conference/

Summary of Deadlines
- 8 July 2007: Submit abstracts for creative works
- 13 August 2007: Notification of abstract acceptance and presentation type
- 16 November 2007: All presenters must be registered to attend the conference or their presentation may be withdrawn

All submissions should be sent to tracey.bretag@unisa.edu.au