2005 SoTL Institute in Chicago Our Purpose Our cluster has the focused purpose of providing opportunities for mentoring and support of SoTL scholars who are at the beginning or middle levels of experience in their work. Our goal is to help move scholars toward completion and publication of SoTL projects, and to help newer scholars develop and begin an SoTL inquiry. The centerpiece of our work is a nationally recognized annual summer Institute that provides emerging scholars the opportunity to receive developmental feedback on their projects and provides newer scholars the practical tools to develop SoTL inquiries.

Carnegie Scholar Dennis Jacobs presents a session at the 2003 SoTL Institute

Links to Institutes and Cluster Activities 2006 CASTL Institute - Developing Scholars of Teaching and Learning: Media Arts and New Literacies 2005 CASTL Institute - Developing Scholars of Teaching and Learning: Creativity in the Classroom 2004 SoTL Summer Institute: Ethics of Inquiry 2003 SoTL Summer Institute: Opening Lines SoTL Online Works-in-Progress Gallery SoTL Conference Planning Manual

Mentoring Session at an SoTL Institute Future Institute Plans Upcoming CASTL Institutes Host site: Columbia College, Chicago 2006 Media Arts & New Literacies June 7 - 10, 2006 http://cte.colum.edu/2006CASTL 2007 (tentative) Civic Engagement on Campus

Pat Hutchings delivering the keynote address at the 2003 SoTL Summer Institute Our Work Connects to Other Clusters and Projects Advancing the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning as a Networked Community Practice -- Georgetown University Communities of Practice: Pooling Educational Resources to Foster Scholarship of Teaching and Learning -- Middlesex Community College Scholarly Inquiry about Active Pedagogies -- Texas Tech University Scholarship of Multicultural Teaching and Learning -- University of Michigan Scholarship Supporting the Cognitive-Affective Relationship in Teaching and Learning -- Oxford College of Emory University Supporting Scholarly Work at Learning-centered Universities -- Malaspina University College and The University of Portland The Research University Consortium for the Advancement of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning -- Indiana University Bloomington

Lee Shulman delivering the keynote address at the 2005 SoTL Summer Institute About the Institute The Institute provides unique supports for faculty scholars who are in the early or middle stages of an SoTL project. There are three primary areas of support: Emerging scholars with SoTL works-in-progress are mentored by National Carnegie Scholars. The Institute provides mentoring sessions where the emerging scholars present their work and receive feedback from their Carnegie mentor as well as from other Institute participants. Concurrent and plenary workshop sessions are held throughout the Institute. The workshops are designed to help both beginning and intermediate level SoTL scholars advance their work. The Institute provides several sessions where individuals present their completed works and discuss their SoTL journey.

Session at 2005 SoTL Institute in Chicago 2005 Institute Theme: Creativity in the Classroom Keynote Address by Lee Shulman Special Session Presentations by Craig Nelson Feedback and Mentoring Sessions on SoTL Projects Beginning and Intermediate SoTL Concurrent Sessions - Framing and Re-Framing Your Questions - Contextualizing Your Inquiry and Designing Your Research Methodology - Completing Your Project - Making SoTL Count - Balancing Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches - Collaborating Through SoTL

Relaxing -- Chicago Style Our Cluster Members Rockhurst University (Cluster Leader) Columbia College Chicago Creighton University Morehead State University University of Houston - Clear Lake Truman State University

Participants enjoy a brief break during an SoTL Institute