Application Questions
To apply to be a Scholar, please describe your SoTL work-in-progress in 750 to 1,250 words, by responding to the following five questions:
1) What is the central question, issue, or problem you plan to explore in your proposed work?
2) Why is your central question, issue, or problem important to you and to others who might benefit from or build on your findings? Please note that the goal of the scholarship of teaching and learning is not simply to improve your own teaching, but also to contribute to the practice and profession of teaching more broadly.
3) How do you plan to conduct your investigation? What sources of evidence do you plan to examine? What methods will you employ to gather and make sense of this evidence?
4) How do you plan to make your work available to others in ways that facilitate scholarly critique and review, and that contribute to thought and practice beyond the local?
5) What aspects of the design and character of this work are you not yet fully prepared to describe? What questions do you have and what do you still need to know?
How To Apply
Completed applications must be emailed in Microsoft Word format (please do not send PDF files) by February 4, 2008, and should be directed to Lillian McEnery (mcenery@uhcl.edu), for blind review by faculty from the sponsoring institutions.
Please include as a separate document, your cover sheet with the following information:
- Your Name (and those of any collaborators)
- Title of Presentation
- Your Institution and Department
- All relevant contact information (including telephone and e-mail)
Please use the title as the running head; remove all names from the proposal itself in order to more easily facilitate the blind review process.
Prospective Scholars will be notified of the status of their applications by 14 March 2008.