2011 Engaging Departments Institute
July 13-17, 2011
The Hotel at Turf Valley
Ellicott City, Maryland
Application Procedure
Application Deadline: March 18, 2011
Please use the online form to submit names and contact information for a team leader and at least four additional team members, a President's authorization, and a narrative statement that addresses the questions below.
The narrative should be clear and concise and no more than five pages.
Team Composition
The minimum team size is five people and a team must include at least one senior academic officer. Key administrative leaders are essential for accomplishing broad-based educational reform on campus and networks of engaged chairs and faculty can help to sustain this reform. Therefore, campus teams will ideally include a dean or someone from the provost’s office along with several chairs or faculty from the same college. Additional individuals from the same departments or from faculty development or assessment offices are also welcome.
Questions to be addressed in the narrative portion of the application
Goals: What high-priority tasks for strengthening and/or assessing student learning do you expect your team to work on during the Institute? These should be tasks that, if advanced substantially during the Institute, would lead your team and campus to judge your efforts a success.
Need: What educational changes do you envision within and among the participating departments on your campus and what motivated a desire for action? What work already has been accomplished and by whom? Have assessment results prompted the review or are you just beginning to create an assessment plan? What resource or political issues are at play in the process? Has a unified vision of a plan emerged?
Team characteristics: What was your rationale for choosing the particular members of your campus team? What roles do you envision each playing in your campus efforts? In what ways will your team structure affect on-campus efforts after the Institute?
Contributions: What do you believe your team can contribute to the Institute?
Selection Criteria
Applications will be judged on the extent to which the Institute can assist the applying institution with its project goals. Reviewers also will balance a number of other considerations to assure a representative group of participants—for example, institutional type and project focus.
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