President's Teaching and Learning Collaborative

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University of Colorado
President's Teaching and Learning Collaborative

Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship or Teaching and Learning (CASTL) Leadership Program

The University of Colorado System proposal to the Carnegie Foundation for Teaching and Learning has been accepted. The goals of this program include fostering inquiry and leadership to the improvement of student learning; developing and synthesizing knowledge about learning and teaching; and promoting institutional change in support of a scholarship of teaching and learning. Colleges and universities will document and assess their efforts, and provide ongoing evidence of impact. CASTL staff will also assess the work in an effort to better understand and document the development of leadership capacity, knowledge building, and institutional change. (From Carnegie Foundation News, May 2006).

The commitment is for three years. All faculty of the University of Colorado System is invited to participate as faculty in the Presidents Teaching and Learning Collaborative.

Plan for President’s Teaching and Learning Collaborative

Goal: To promote the practice of inquiry in teaching and measuring learning by CU faculty.

Method: Assist University faculty in developing inquiry projects on teaching and learning intended as scholarship and for publication. (This program is modeled on the Carnegie Foundation national work on the Scholarship on Teaching and Learning).

Press Release: Carnegie Selects Participants for New Program to Improve Undergraduate and Graduate Education

Stanford, Calif., September 2006--The Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (CASTL) has selected 87 higher education institutions or networks of institutions to participate in a program to improve undergraduate and graduate education.

The CASTL Institutional Leadership Program is a three-year partnership between Carnegie and selected colleges, universities and higher education organizations with a strong commitment to the careful examination of teaching and learning. Participants were selected for their ability to influence work in 12 areas, ranging from assessment and accountability to undergraduate research.

"Through this program, Carnegie acknowledges the important contributions of institutional leaders and advocates while encouraging the development of new forums and structures supporting scholarly investigation into teaching and learning," said CASTL Director Richard A. Gale.

All selected institutions have developed and implemented innovative strategies to strengthen teaching and improve student learning on their own campuses. Through participation in the Carnegie program, they will be expected to collaborate with other institutions to further examine that work and expand activities in those same areas.

Guidelines for participants are intentionally flexible to encourage institutions to define for themselves the nature of present work and future goals. Benefits of participation include access to an online workspace, regular convenings, representation on the Carnegie Web site, and shared resources.

Program participants will gather for the first time on Nov. 8, immediately preceding the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL) annual conference in Washington, D.C. For more information visit www.carnegiefoundation.org./CASTL.

Founded by Andrew Carnegie in 1905 and chartered in 1906 by an act of Congress, The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching is an independent policy and research center with a primary mission "to do and perform all things necessary to encourage, uphold, and dignify the profession of the teacher." The Foundation, located in Stanford, Calif., fulfills this mission through its contributions to improvements in education policy and practice.

Press Release: CU joins Carnegie consortium for research on learning

Read the press release for CU Systems involvement in the Carnegie Foundation For Teaching and Learning Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning below. Our program for this work is known as the Presidents Teaching and Learning Collaborative.

CU joins Carnegie consortium for research on learning
By: Jefferson Dodge
August 31st, 2006

Carnegie Academy Institustions and Leadership Program Themes

Project Proposals

The following are PTLC project proposals for the University of Colorado President's Teaching and Learning Collaborative 2008:

Professor John Basey, UCB
Professor Lynne Bemis, UCD
Professor Peter Blanken, UCB
Professor Elaine Cheesman, UCCS
Professor Judith Coe, UCD
Professor Alejandro Cremaschi, UCB
Professor Kendra Gale, UCB
Professor Scott Grabinger, UCD
Professor Jean Hertzberg, UCB
Professors Jane Kass-Wolff and Ernestine Kotthoff-Burrell, UCD
Professor Yvonne Kellar-Guenther, UCD
Professor Mary Klages, UCB
Professor Suzanne MacAulay, UCCS
Professor Stefanie Mollborn, UCB
Professor Mary Jane Rapport, UCD
Professor Cathy Thompson, UCD
Professor Cindy White, UCB

UCB - University of Colorado at Boulder, UCCS - University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, UCD - University of Colorado at Denver, HSC - Health Sciences Center

To read the full text of each of the 2008 proposals, please visit this link.

To read the full text of each of the 2007 proposals, please visit this link.

To read the full text of each of the 2006 proposals, please visit this link.