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The broad aims of the year-long Teaching Scholars Community include:

• enhancing student learning

• enhancing participants' teaching and learning

• building a community of scholars around teaching: locally, statewide, and nationally.

The elements of the program for participants include:

• participating in a year-long program that focuses on teaching and learning;

• the development of collegial relationships across disciplines;

• participation at funded conferences on teaching and learning;

• a one course load reallocation in teaching during either the fall or spring semester of the project year;

• the opportunity to focus on and develop an aspect of teaching and learning during the program;

• up to $150 and the possibility of further support for a teaching project during the program;

• working with a faculty mentor of the participant's choice;

• working with a student associate of the participant's choice;

• developing a language and methods for studying and documenting teaching and learning (Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, SOTL),

• an on-going community where faculty members finishing their year in the program meet with new faculty beginning the program;

Eligibility:         Pre-tenure faculty members in their first four years of teaching at KSU.