Call for Proposals Overview
The online proposal form will be available by August
29. If you would like notice when the online form is available,
please contact Siah Annand at annand@aacu.org.
A PDF form is available now to print and send.
This conference will bring together faculty, student affairs professionals, students, community partners, and administrators committed to engaged learning. Participants will discuss and learn how to institutionalize effective teaching strategies that engage students in deep learning experiences connected to their own goals and interests and that advance their sense of social responsibility. It will highlight innovative teaching strategies that engage students in the classroom, laboratory, campus, community, work place, or natural environment.
This Call invites proposals about successful teaching approaches that nurture a deep understanding about content specific knowledge while addressing its application in real-world settings. We welcome proposals about approaches within and across the disciplines and involving student affairs, including those that prepare students for effective civic participation in our culturally diverse and globally interconnected society. Some of the approaches featured might include civic engagement, community-based research, experiential learning, intercultural dialogues, service learning, mentoring, undergraduate research, inquiry-based learning, and guided internships. This conference seeks to present a full array of pedagogies of engagement that represent work done in individual courses, departments and majors, and across the campus, community, and globe. We especially seek proposals about engaged teaching methods with proven or emerging evidence of success.
If you intend to submit a proposal please read all of the
information below. We look forward to your proposal and participation.
Pathways
The conference will be organized along Pathways. Please review
the Pathway descriptions below as you consider how to frame
your proposal. Evidence on how your featured teaching strategies
help students achieve their learning goals should be included
in your proposal.
Pathway I: Designs for Learning in the Disciplines
and Departments
In this pathway, and throughout the conference, there will
be sessions focusing specifically on a) the sciences; b) social
sciences; c) humanities and arts; and d) professional fields.
What specific designs for engaged learning exist or are emerging
in these areas? How have you embedded in majors and departments
such strategies as undergraduate research and community-based
or other forms of engaged learning? In professionally oriented
departments, how are students introduced to the “practice”
of the profession? What pedagogies are especially effective
in engaging students in the study of contemporary questions
and socially responsible application of their special knowledge?
Pathway II: Student Learning in Integrated Studies,
Learning Communities, and Campus Life
How do these locations for learning facilitate or complicate
the development of more engaged pedagogies? What innovative
pedagogies cross disciplinary boundaries and break down barriers
between student and academic affairs? How has the scholarship
of teaching and learning led to the development and practice
of integrated approaches to learning?
Pathway III: Pedagogies of Engagement
in the First Year Experience and Beyond
What strategies engage and orient first-year students and
prepare them for advanced college-level learning? What are
the programs and practices that help students at different
stages of their college careers effectively engage increasingly
sophisticated college-level work such as evidence-based research
and analysis? What programs beyond the first year foster student
abilities in research, community engagement, and ethical decision-making?
Pathway IV: Civic Engagement In and Across the Disciplines
What innovative pedagogies draw upon interpretive lenses of
the disciplines and/or interdisciplinary studies to heighten
students' understanding of social responsibility and provide
forums for ethical reflection and debate about important justice
issues? As institutions reach out to communities beyond the
campus, what pedagogies most effectively prepare students
for moving, as Mary Pratt put it, “from the comfort
zone to the contact zone?” We also encourage submissions
from those who applied to the Journey Toward Democracy call
of AAC&U's new Center for Liberal Education and
Civic Engagement. We are interested as well in how national
projects like AAC&U's SENCER(Science Education for
New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities) successfully engage
students in a rigorous study of the sciences through a connection
to civic responsibility and issues of public importance.
Pathway V: Engaging Across Difficult Divides
As educators, we are often unprepared to struggle with the
realities of race, class and gender in the classroom. How
do we teach students to transcend social barriers and interrogate
differences to engage diversity meaningfully? What are the
successful pedagogies that allow students to navigate the
unexpected situations that often result from encounters with
difference?
Pathway VI: Administrative Challenges of Supporting
Pedagogies of Engagement
What institutional strategies, structures, policies, and practices
exist or are being developed to encourage faculty leadership
and the scholarship of engaged teaching and learning? What
tenure and promotion strategies have been developed that reward
faculty for involvement in engaged learning? How do societal
demographics and Carnegie institutional classifications influence
campus culture and the available forms of student learning?
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How to Submit a Proposal
Electronic Submission
An electronic form will be available on this site
soon. Once available, please submit your proposal as directed
on the form. If you cannot submit the proposal electronically
or encounter technical difficulties, please print out the
form and fax it to AAC&U (fax 202-265-9532). For additional
assistance, please contact Ms. Annand at annand@aacu.org
or 202-3887-3760 Ext. 802.
Proposal Form
A call for proposals form is available to print and send (PDF).
Deadline
Please submit your proposal on or before 9:00AM Eastern Daylight
Saving Time, Wednesday, September 10, 2003.
Notification
You should receive an automatic message indicating receipt
of your proposal when submitted. If you do not receive this
message, please send an email to Siah Annand at annand@aacu.org.
Acceptance
You will be notified in early October regarding the acceptance of your proposal. If your proposal is accepted, we will ask for any materials you would like copied for distribution at the conference by April 1, 2004. Copyrighted materials will not be reproduced by AAC&U without documented permission.
Registration Fees
All presenters at the Conference are responsible for the appropriate
conference registration fees, travel, and hotel expenses.
Please be sure all presenters indicated in your proposal have
this information. Registration materials will be available
on-line and an e-mail notification sent to you in mid- November.
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Suggestions for
Submitting a Proposal
We encourage proposals that raise provocative questions,
engage participants in discussion and reflection, and foster
improvements in educational practice upon return to campus.
Before writing your proposal, please consider for whom the
information will be more relevant. Who is your primary audience
(faculty, department chairs, provosts, etc.)? What makes this
audience the target for your facilitated learning experience?
We will indicate the intended audience in the conference program
book to help participants select sessions.
How might you organize your session to engage the participants
most effectively and achieve your learning goals? Will the
leaning goals you want participants to achieve be most readily
met through a lecture format, experiential learning activity,
or both?
Session proposals may present a single case study or link
the work of several institutions to illustrate a theory, structure,
or strategy applied in a variety of settings.
Provide handouts and Web addresses to support your session.
Written or electronic resources may provide the essential
link that enables a conference participant to pursue your
idea or develop a program based on your work once she/he returns
to campus. Particularly requested are practical "How
To" guides and links to a Web site that includes syllabi
and curricula.
AAC&U is committed to presenting Network conferences
at which session content and facilitators reflect the pluralism
of our campus communities. Proposals that advance diversity
as a catalyst for deepening student learning and that
present diverse perspectives are especially appreciated. We
particularly encourage the inclusion of student perspectives.
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Select a Session
Format (suggested length of session)
Please indicate the type of session you feel will be most
effective for your presentation. Sessions formats vary in
length from 60 to 90 minutes. We will make every effort to
accommodate your preferred session format. Many of the session
rooms will be set in round tables to facilitate interaction.
CONCURRENT SESSIONS (60 – 90 MINUTES; ONE –
THREE PRESENTERS)
All conference sessions are intended to present practical
information supported by evidence. We encourage experiential
learning where appropriate and a variety of diverse learning
methods to model pedagogies of engagement. Please consider
which form(s) of learning will best engage your participants
and facilitate their understanding of the information you
will provide. Concurrent sessions may model a pedagogy of
engagement through case study, research data analysis and
application, or problem-solving.
Sessions may engage their audience through:
- small group discussions/debates;
- individual and/or group exercise;
- student presentations (reactions);
- role-play; and/or
- practice by doing (practice teaching).
The session leader should provide written information including
charts and diagrams as applicable to the type of information
being presented.
POSTER/DEMONSTRATION SESSIONS (ONE – TWO PRESENTERS)
These sessions will take place during a reception and/or continental
breakfast with plenty of time for conference participants
to casually walk among the session displays and engage you
in sharing your work. Handouts with key points of the display
information provide valuable reference materials to guide
change and innovation when participants return to their home
campus. We are especially interested in posters that describe
campus programs in both qualitative and quantitative terms.
Poster/Demonstration sessions provide a unique forum to combine
visual displays of key information with written and verbal
presentations and small group interaction to create a more
personal learning experience. These sessions might include
3'x 4' boards displaying visual charts, diagrams,
pictures, graphs, etc. that demonstrate campus programs, processes,
models, institutional structures, etc. They might also choose
to present the information through other technological means,
or other visual display that can be set-up on the 6'
x 3' foot table provided. (Please note our ability to
provide technical assistance is limited, but if you have a
project for which you need such assistance, we are happy to
explore the options with you.)
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Resources for Attendees
of Your Session
Conference participants like to have resource materials to
help them implement new ideas when they return to campus.
Please plan to bring 75-100 handouts for your session. We
strongly encourage presenters to provide resources in advance
of the meeting on-line; this increases active participation
in your session.
On-line Resources for your Session
If your proposal pertains to a project, program, course, or
other feature for which there is (or will be) descriptive
material on the Web, please provide the URL address with your
proposal. AAC&U's Web site will include these links when
we post the conference program on our Web site in March 2004.
Advance Readings
We encourage you to make available advance readings that participants
will find useful for your session. We ask that you post such
readings on a Web site this autumn, if possible, and will
ask you for these URLs at that time.
Final Reminders
- Please complete all fields, including information pertaining
to all additional speakers.
- Please include links to supplemental materials, if available.
- Please remember that by submitting a proposal, you agree
to:
- Register and pay fees, if the proposal is accepted.
- Inform your co-presenters about the proposal's status
and the need for all presenters to pay the conference
registration fees.
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Dates to Remember
September 10, 2003 9:00AM Eastern Daylight Saving Time
Proposals due to AAC&U
Early October 2003
Accepted proposal notification
Mid-November 2003
Conference registration materials available on-line
March 25, 2004
Cut-off date for conference reduced guest room rate at the
Inter-Continental Chicago Hotel.
March 29, 2004
Early registration deadline. Add $50 to your registration fee after this date.
April 1, 2004
Session materials due to AAC&U for copying.
If you have questions or need
additional information please contact Siah Annand at annand@aacu.org
or call 202-387-3760 Ext. 802. We look forward to receiving
your proposal.
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