Mentoring Newer Scholars of Teaching and Learning

Rockhurst University, Cluster Leader



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





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