The CASTL Institutional Leadership Program builds on the influential work undertaken by colleges and universities, campus centers and educational organizations, scholarly and professional societies, and CASTL Campus Program Leadership Clusters, to facilitate collaboration among institutions with demonstrated commitment to and capacity for action, inquiry and innovation in the scholarship of teaching and learning. Participating institutions are organized to address specific themes important to the improvement of student learning, as well as the development and sustainability of a scholarship of teaching and learning.

The University of North Carolina CASTL project is addressing the Leadership Theme - System-Wide Collaboration Supporting Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. The proposal submitted to the Carnegie Foundation CASTL Leadership Program from UNC was titled – Building a Foundation for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: Collaboration in the University of North Carolina.

Resources related to the UNC CASTL program will be available at the UNC Teaching and Learning with Technology Professional Development Portal.

NC Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Day

Our first system-wide Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Day for Friday, May 30th from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm on the UNCG campus. Here is the schedule of events.

Time	Topic		Location
9:00 – 9:05	Welcome		Petty 136
	Ray Purdom, UNC Greensboro
9:05 – 9:55	"It’s All About Learning"		Petty 136
	Scott Simkins, NC A&T Univ.
	- Related Material: Slides in PDF or Powerpoint format.
9:55 – 11:05	"Getting Started on a SoTL Project"		Petty Bldg
	Focus Group Facilitators
	Chris Cooper, WCU	Phil Sanger, WCU
	Laura Cruz, WCU	Karen Hornsby, NC A&T
	Cynthia Deale, WCU	Scott Simkins, NC A&T
	John Habel, WCU	Ray Purdom, UNCG
	Anna McFadden, WCU
	- Related Material: In PDF or Word format
11:10 – 12:10	Concurrent Sessions on SoTL Tools
	Assessment of Student Learning		Petty 223
	- Geetanjali Soni, NC State Univ.
	- LITRE Student Learning Tool Kit
	Qualitative Interviewing		Petty 224
	- Mary Jean Herzog, Western Carolina Univ.
	Surveys in the Classroom		Petty 227
	- Kathleen Brennan, Western Carolina Univ.
	- Related Material: Slides in PDF or Powerpoint format.
12:10 – 1:10	Lunch		Elliot Center
1:10 – 1:40	Creating Communities of Practice Across the State		Petty 136
	Anna McFadden, Western Carolina Univ.
	Ray Purdom
	Scott Simkins
1:40 – 2:40	Concurrent Sessions on SoTL Tools
	Institutional Review Board (IRB) Process		Petty 223
	- John Habel, Western Carolina Univ.
	- For the Beginning of the Course: In Word or PDF format
	- For After Grades Are Posted: In Word or PDF format
	- Third Person Data Collection: In Word or PDF format
	Quantitative Analysis		Petty 224
	- Chris Cooper, Western Carolina Univ.
	- Statewide SoTL Retreat Slides: in Powerpoint format
	Student Products		Petty 227
	- Cynthia Deale, Western Carolina Univ.
	- Related Material: Slides in PDF or Powerpoint format.
2:50 – 3:40	Going Public with SoTL		Petty 136
	Laura Cruz, Western Carolina Univ.
	Susan Miller-Cochran, NC State Univ.
3:40 – 4:00	Wrap up and Next Steps		Petty 136

Recent News

Western Carolina adopts Boyer’s definitions for scholarship to replace traditional measures of research.

• http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2007/10/02/wcu
• Scholarship at WCU

Western Carolina’s new SoTL publication

• http://facctr.wcu.edu/publications/Renaissance/documents/Layout10.pdf

East Carolina holds Course Redesign for the 21st Century Conference November 16th

• http://www.ecu.edu/cs-acad/cfe/conference.cfm

Resources

Classroom Assessment Techniques

• http://www.siue.edu/~deder/assess/catmain.html

A Collection of SoTL Resources

• PDF Document - http://www.uncg.edu/tlc/atcd/castl/resource_collection.pdf

LITRE Student Learning Toolkit

• http://litre.ncsu.edu/sltoolkit/ToolKitEntry.html

No Drive-by Teachers

• http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/perspectives/sub.asp?key=245&subkey=585

Teaching As Scholarship

• http://www.montclair.edu/academy/scholars.html

How Could I Do Scholarship of Teaching & Learning?

• http://www.issotl.org/tutorial/sotltutorial/media/CRAIG1.DOC

Carnegie KEEP Toolkit

• http://www.cfkeep.org/static/index.html

SoTL Journals

Mountain Rise Journal

• http://facctr.wcu.edu/mountainrise/index.html

Journal of Effective Teaching

• http://www.uncw.edu/cte/ET/

Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning – JoSoTL

• http://www.iupui.edu/~josotl/

International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning

• http://academics.georgiasouthern.edu/ijsotl/

The Journal on Excellence in College Teaching

• http://celt.muohio.edu/ject/index.php

SoTL Showcase

Indiana University Inquiry Commons

• http://www.indiana.edu/~teaching/communities/

KEEP Toolkit Web Snapshots of Illinois State University SoTL Projects

• http://www.sotl.ilstu.edu/examples/KEEPShots.shtml

Carnegie Gallery of Teaching and Learning – KEEP Toolkit Case Studies

• http://gallery.carnegiefoundation.org/gallery_of_tl/keep_toolkit.html

The International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in History

• http://www.indiana.edu/~histsotl/blog/

CASTL Listserv

If you would like to receive additional information about UNC CASTL activities, please join the CASTL listserv CASTL-L@uncg.edu. To join the listserv, e-mail your request to rcpurdom@uncg.edu.

Upcoming UNC SoTL Events

Lilly Conference on College and University Teaching at Greensboro, February 20-22, 2009

UNC Campus SoTL Sites

North Carolina State University

Western Carolina University

CASTL System-wide Cluster Websites

The University of Colorado

The City University of New York

The University of Wisconsin

CASTL/UNC Teaching and Learning with Technology Collaborative Course Redesign Partnership

Since 2004, campuses of The University of North Carolina have participated in the National Center for Academic Transformation Course Redesign efforts and are using lessons learned to redesign additional courses.. The University of North Carolina Teaching and Learning with Technology Collaborative (TLTC) has promoted and supported such efforts, and this past academic year awarded grants to nine campuses to fund new redesign efforts. Currently, forty-five courses are being redesigned with two of these redesigned courses being offered in the summer of 2007, twenty-eight redesigned courses being piloted in the fall of 2007 and fifteen additional redesigned courses scheduled to be piloted in the spring of 2008.

The UNC CASTL initiative is partnering with this UNC TLTC redesign initiative with the goal being to communicate and disseminate about the teaching and learning practices of these redesign efforts, and the effectiveness of various redesign strategies.

Campus Team Members

• Dorothy Muller
• Director, Center for Faculty Excellence
• East Carolina University
• mullerd@ecu.edu

• Scott Simkins
• Director, Academy for Teaching and Learning
• North Carolina A&T State University
• simkinss@ncat.edu

• Barbi Honeycutt
• Interim Director, Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning
• North Carolina State University
• barbi_honeycutt@ncsu.edu

• Ray Purdom
• Director, University Teaching and Learning Center
• University of North Carolina at Greensboro
• rcpurdom@uncg.edu

• Anna T. McFadden
• Director, Coulter Faculty Center
• Western Carolina University
• amcfadden@email.wcu.edu

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