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Michigan State University

Texas A&M University

University of Colorado
at Boulder

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Vanderbilt University

Past Activities

CIRTL Diversity Resources Workshop

CIRTL’s inclusive teaching outreach program, the CIRTL Diversity Resources Workshop, is now accepting registrations for the Fall 2007 session. The registration deadline is August 27th. The program will equip a group of committed faculty, graduate students and staff to introduce their colleagues to the user-friendly set of inclusive teaching resources on the web site of the CIRTL Diversity Institute.

The training will take place through teleconferences and the Web, and will involve a series of one-hour sessions which will prepare participants to deliver workshops. For more information, contact the Diversity Team at diversityteam at cirtl.net.

PREP 2007: How to Build and Run a Successful Emerging Scholars Program

Location: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
Date: June 6-8, 2007
Registration Fee: $300 by April 25, $400 after April 25

This PREP workshop, sponsored by the Mathematical Association of America, offers the tools to plan, establish, and run an Emerging Scholars Program (ESP) for under-represented students. An ESP helps promote greater achievement by under-represented student populations and provides a model that can be expanded to other introductory science courses. Participants will work closely with Uri Treisman, David Kung, TJ Murphy, Katherine Socha, and Natasha Speer to design an ESP and implementation plan specifically for their institution.

For registration information, visit http://www.maa.org/prep/2007/

Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Education Scholars Program

Location: Howard University, Washington, DC
Dates: June 12-16, 2007

Geared toward new faculty, post-docs and graduate students, the STEM Education Scholars Program provides insight into effective teaching and learning methods in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Universities are encouraged to support their new faculty in attending this event.

The next STEM Education Scholars Program will be held at Howard University from June 12-16, 2007.

Visit the STEM Education Scholars Program web site for updates and registration information.

“How People Learn” Engineering Workshop

Location: Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
Dates:
January 8-9, 2007
February 5-6, 2007
April 16-17, 2007
May 7-8, 2007
Time: 8:00am - 3:30pm

Interested in effective instructional design that fosters student creativity and learning? The VaNTH Engineering Research Center will offer a workshop, “How People Learn” Engineering, A Workshop on Designing Effective Instruction, in January, February, April and May 2007. At CIRTL Network partner Vanderbilt University, presenters will share learning theory research with engineering faculty, encouraging them to develop their own methods to implement in the classroom. 

To learn more, visit the "How People Learn" Engineering Workshop web site.

"Institutional Portraits" Customize Goals of the CIRTL Network

To focus on goals that will be useful to each university, CIRTL has developed a set of written "institutional portraits." Each "portrait" summarizes existing resources on each campus and identifies professional development needs that CIRTL can address. Read more...

College Classroom Course “Radiates” Across CIRTL Network

This semester, distance learning technology has made it possible for future faculty from around the Network to attend a CIRTL course. "The College Classroom Online" course provides students with teaching and learning experience. Read more...

FAST Program Graduate Students Gain Insight into Scholarship of Teaching

Doctoral students at Michigan State University are gaining valuable teaching-as-research experience during CIRTL's first year-long fellowship program, FAST (Future Academic Scholars in Teaching). The FAST fellows – ten doctoral students from science colleges – gather each month to discuss teaching techniques at a roundtable with faculty and guest speakers. Read more...

TIGER Series on CIRTL Pillars Piques Instructors’ Interest, Builds Learning Community

A successful series of sessions offered in July by TIGER (The Teaching Institute for Graduate Education Research) introduced the foundational principles of CIRTL to a new CIRTL Network campus, the University of Colorado-Boulder. One session each week addressed each of CIRTL’s three “pillars” - Teaching-as-research, Learning communities, and Learning-through-diversity. Read more...

VU Invited to Join NSF Collaborative Network

Representatives from the Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning, one of two National Science Foundation centers for learning and teaching in higher education, have invited Vanderbilt to join other research universities in a collaborative network. Read more...

STEM Education Scholars Program Earns Excellent Reviews

80 percent of the new faculty and graduate students who participated in CIRTL’s STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) Education Scholars Program at Howard University on June 27-30 rated their experience as excellent. The program demystified teaching-as-research and emphasized active learning. Read more...

CIRTL Network Interaction: Karen Klomparens Visits UW-Madison

Karen Klomparens, Associate Provost and Dean of the Graduate School at Michigan State University, visited UW-Madison to offer a workshop on conflict resolution and to speak at the Delta Roundtable. The workshop, "Communicating Expectations and Working with Others," is just one of the many opportunities offered at MSU as part of the PREP program. Read more...

The PREP Program at Michigan State University

The PREP (Planning, Resilience, Engagement, Professionalism) program at Michigan State University is founded on the principle that graduate students have different needs in various stages of their graduate careers.  PREP workshops (panel discussions followed by breakaway sessions) focus on each of the four professional themes in the early, middle, and late stages of graduate student careers. Read more...

Introducing the CIRTL Guidebook Collection:
Offering Faculty the Tools to put the CIRTL Pillars into Practice

The CIRTL Guidebook Collection is now available online and features eight versatile course guidebooks. The guidebooks are designed to introduce faculty members to the Delta courses and programs and provide a time-saving way for them to offer similar courses in their departments or at their universities. Read more...