We will be watching the planning for this upcoming conference with great interest, as it provides a view into the future of the scholarship of teaching and learning movement's progress within a liberal arts context.

One of the claimed distinctions of the education offered at liberal arts colleges is that the faculty there are genuine teacher-scholars, dividing their time equally between their research and undergraduate instruction. On the surface, these are ideal circumstances for many to begin to engage in thinking about their teaching as a form of research. Yet we wonder:  How many of these faculty will shift the focus of their research toward the practice of teaching within their chosen disciplines? How many of our institutions' tenure and promotion committees will accept such scholarship as a substitute for traditional scholarship?


Call For Proposals - Scholarship of Teaching & Learning at the Liberal Arts Colleges

In February 2007, the Center for Innovation in the Liberal Arts at St. Olaf College and the Perlman Center for Learning and Teaching at Carleton College will co-host a second national conference on the scholarship of teaching and learning as it is practiced at the liberal arts colleges. 

2nd Biennial Conference
"Innovations in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning at the Liberal Arts Colleges"
Carleton and St. Olaf Colleges, Northfield, Minnesota
February 16-18, 2007

Faculty and staff members from liberal arts colleges across the nation will gather to share approaches to the study of teaching and learning at liberal arts colleges.  Hosted by Carleton and St. Olaf Colleges February 16-18, 2007, the conference features keynote addresses by national leaders in higher education and concurrent sessions highlighting innovative scholarship of teaching and learning.

Keynote presenters:
Carol Geary Schneider, President of the Association of American Colleges and Universities
Randy Bass, Associate Professor of English at Georgetown University and a Consulting Scholar for the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching

Proposals for presentations by: November 15, 2006

Early Bird registrations by: January 8, 2007

For information about proposals for papers and posters, and registration visit : http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/cila/InnovateConf/Innovations.htm