University of Colorado
President's Teaching Scholars Program

UCCS 2008 Proposal

The proposal to revise the way faculty work is defined and evaluated began from a chance encounter to a presentation given by Iowa State University at an AAC&U conference. The idea was brought before the President’s Teaching Scholars Program 2007 spring retreat and the scholars decided to send a contingent to Iowa State to get more details and to help decide if CU would develop some similar system. After the Iowa State visit, each of the three campuses of the university set about developing their own vision of the model.

The Chancellor and Provost at UCCS were very supportive of the idea, and a task force was set up in October of 2007 to develop a proposal. The one page summary is a synopsis of our proposal that will go to faculty in the fall of 2008. While we used Boyer’s Scholarship Reconsidered as a starting point, the task force significantly modified the four (we have five) types of scholarship. We also added a category for professional practice in a four part versus the traditional three part breakdown of faculty work.

UCCS 2008 Proposal