Ellbogen Center for Teaching and Learning
1000 E. University, Dept. 3334
Coe Library 510
Laramie, WY 82071
Phone: (307)766-4847
Email: ellbogenctl@uwyo.edu
The 2017 John P Ellbogen Summer Faculty Institute was designed for mid to later career faculty (with 12 or more years of experience teaching in a full-time faculty/APL role). The four-day institute afforded faculty the opportunity to reflect on, reframe, and renew their teaching with a group of peers. It brought together teaching faculty and APLs from a variety of disciplines to reconnect with the excitement that originally led them into higher education teaching careers. Participants engaged in structured activities such as book discussions and workshops, as well as deep reflection and peer mentoring to guide them to re-energize and transform their vision for teaching.
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Catherine Ross has been working in higher education for 28 years as an instructor of Russian, English as a Second Language, and Linguistics courses, and has served as an administrator of programs to support graduate teaching assistants and faculty in their teaching development. She received her Ph.D. in Russian and Foreign Language Teaching from the University of Texas at Austin, and has taught at universities across the U.S.: University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Nevada-Reno, University of Delaware, University of Connecticut, as well as universities in Japan and Ukraine. She served as the associate director of the Institute for Teaching and Learning at the University of Connecticut for 12 years before coming to Wake Forest University in 2010 as director of the Teaching and Learning Center, and is now the executive director of the newly expanded Wake Forest Teaching and Learning Collaborative. In 2011 she designed the first Graylyn Teaching Renewal Retreat for Advanced Career Faculty, and ran it for 5 years, serving 115 faculty from 19 colleges and universities. She has presented on the needs of mid and late career faculty nationally and in 2015 she published an article on this work, Teaching Renewal for Midcareer Faculty: Attending to the Whole Person. To Improve the Academy, 34: 270–289. doi: 10.1002/tia2.20023 |
Are you a mid to later career faculty member (with 12 or more years of experience teaching in a full-time faculty/APL role)? Would you enjoy the opportunity to reflect on, reframe, and renew your teaching with a group of your peers? Apply for the 2017 John P. Ellbogen Summer Faculty Institute: 21st Century Teaching for the 20th Century Teacher. This four-day institute (May 22-25, 2017) will bring together teaching faculty and APLs from a variety of disciplines to reconnect with the excitement that originally led them into higher education teaching careers. Participants will participate in structured activities such as book discussions and workshops, as well as deep reflection and peer mentoring to guide them to re-energize and transform their vision for teaching.
Successful applicants will receive $500 as a summer stipend in June 2017. Applications are due by midnight Sunday, April 16.
| Purpose | The fourth John P. Ellbogen Summer Institute will provide participants with the opportunity to reconnect with the excitement that led them to teaching careers in higher education. Throughout the four-day program, participants will explore how to effectively engage 21st Century learners in today’s teaching climates through book discussions, workshops on leveraging educational tools, and guided reflections about how their current and previous practices are serving their pedagogical goals as well as their students. Participants will end the week with a suite of strategies and tools to realize these goals. |
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| Who May Apply |
Instructional faculty and lecturers at the University of Wyoming with 12 or more years teaching in a full-time faculty/APL role. |
| Award |
The $500 award will be in the form of a summer stipend paid in June 2017. The award is the result of a generous endowment from the Ellbogen Foundation and funding from the ECTL. Requirements of the award include:
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| How to Apply |
To apply, please respond to the following prompts: Why did you choose a career in higher education teaching? Briefly describe the arc of your teaching career. What have been your biggest teaching successes and challenges? What would you hope to accomplish as a participant in the 2017 John P. Ellbogen Summer Institute? APPLICATIONS CLOSED |
| Submission |
Applications are due by midnight Sunday, April 16. Applications will be reviewed by a faculty panel. Successful applicants will be notified by 5 p.m. Monday, April 24. |
| Questions | Donna Brown at 307-766-4847 or dmbrown@uwyo.edu. |
Ellbogen Center for Teaching and Learning
1000 E. University, Dept. 3334
Coe Library 510
Laramie, WY 82071
Phone: (307)766-4847
Email: ellbogenctl@uwyo.edu