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Teaching & Scholarship Committee

Fall 2020 Butine Awards Announced

The Committee on Teaching and Scholarship (TAS) has determined award recipients for the Butine Faculty Development Fund Fall cycle, according to committee chair Diane Sotak, library. Butine award recipients are:

  • Lauren Berger, RISE-UPPP: Research Involving the Systematic Evaluation of an Underrepresented Psychologists Pipeline Program ($5000)
  • Itzel Cruz Megchun, Design competencies futures ($3700)
  • Katie Danielson, Literacy Research Association Conference, Virtual, December 2-5th ($400)
  • Alexa Dare, Intimate Relations: Communicating (in) the Anthropocene ($2000)
  • Eli Goldwyn, Mathematical Models of the Opioid Epidemic ($3000)
  • Lara-Zuzan Golesorkhi, International Congress of Americanists (ICA 2021), Foz do Iguaçu in Brazil, July 19-23, 2020 ($2000) and Germany Unveiled: Muslim Refugee Women Encounter Twenty Years of Headscarf Debates –a critical look at Germany’s integration system ($3000)
  • Rebekah Hanson, Researching and Performing Orchestral Works by BIPOC and Women Composers ($4146)
  • Kevin Jones, Poetry Power: Pilot Test of a Brief Therapeutic Poetry Writing Intervention for Youth who have Experienced Trauma ($4,845)
  • Deirdre Katz, Exploring Transgenerational Prosociality with Neuroendocrine markers: Acute Reactivity of Cortisol in Nursing Mothers ($5000)
  • Jakob Kotas, Mathematical Association of America (MAA) Pacific Northwest Section Annual Meeting, Anchorage, Alaska, June 24-26, 2021 ($2000)
  • Don Norton, Jazz Quartet Tour and Album Recording ($5000)
  • Sarina Saturn, Exploring Transgenerational Prosociality with Neuroendocrine Markers: Acute Reactivity of Oxytocin in Nursing Mothers ($5000)
  • Stephanie Sideras, Exploring the effect of mindfulness on the development of clinical reasoning in undergraduate nursing students ($3411)
  • Buck Taylor, Pre-tenure grant opportunities in chemistry ($3000)
  • Christine Weilhoefer, Nutrient limitation of primary production in rivers along an urban to rural gradient in Shiga Prefecture, Japan ($5000)

For more information, please contact Sotak at tas@up.edu.

2020 Faculty Development Day Proposals Welcome

Request For Proposal

The Committee on Teaching and Scholarship welcomes proposals to lead sessions on Faculty Development Day, May 5, 2020, around a particular theme. Interested faculty should submit a 1-2 page proposal identifying the keynote speaker and breakout panels for session one of Faculty Development Day. Sessions later in the day may remain open as opportunities for various and distinct panels proposed by faculty across campus.

If you are interested in putting forward a central theme for the keynote and session one please send your proposal to tas@up.edu by January 31.  Contact Hannah Highlander at tas@up.edu for more information.

Presentation by 2018 Scholarship Award Winner, Feb. 22

Alexandria “Allie” Hill, international languages and cultures, the 2018 recipient of the Faculty Award for Scholarship, will share her thoughts in a talk titled “Feminist Scholarly Practice” on Friday, February 22, at 4 p.m., in Franz Hall room 231. All staff and faculty are invited and light refreshments will be provided.

For more information, contact the Teaching and Scholarship Committee at tas@up.edu.

TLC From The TLC: Student-Athlete Concerns?

UP is a relatively small NCAA Division I school, meaning that we have a proportionately large population of student-athletes: as such, most faculty and academic staff have athletes in our classes at some point. Do those students bring any particular needs or assets when it comes to thinking about mental health? In another installment of his Teaching and Learning Collaborative blog series on student mental  health, Andrew Guest writes about some of the particular mental health concerns facing student-athletes in contemporary American colleges.

Submit Butine Proposals Through Moodle

wootton copyThe Committee on Teaching and Scholarship cordially invites all regular faculty to submit proposals to receive funding from the Arthur Butine Faculty Development Fund. Faculty can download Butine application materials, review selection criteria, and consult the timeline for applications using this link.

Submission of post-Butine reports, new Butine applications, and all supporting letters are now through the Teaching and Scholarship Moodle site. The deadline for submission through Moodle and the applicants’ respective department chairs (if CAS) and deans is no later than noon on Friday, February 5. Please note also that applicants must discuss their Butine proposals with their respective deans prior to submitting applications for consideration.

For more information contact TAS chair Aaron Wootton, mathematics, at tas@up.edu.

Faculty Development Day 2016

wootton copyGiven the success of previous year’s concentrations around specific themes, the Committee on Teaching and Scholarship welcomes proposals to lead Faculty Development Day on May 3, 2016, around a particular theme. Interested faculty should submit a 1-2 page proposal identifying the keynote speaker and breakout panels for session one of Faculty Development Day. Sessions later in the day will remain open as opportunities for various and distinct panels proposed by faculty across campus.

If you are interested in putting forward a central theme for the keynote and session one, please send your proposal to tas@up.edu by Friday, January 29.

Contact Aaron Wootton, chair, for more information at tas@up.edu.

Submit Butine Proposals Through Moodle

wootton copyThe Committee on Teaching and Scholarship invites all regular faculty to submit proposals to receive funding from the Arthur Butine Faculty Development Fund. Faculty can download Butine application materials, review selection criteria, and consult the timeline for applications by visiting https://www.up.edu/academicsenate/tas/.

Submission of post-Butine reports, new Butine applications, and all supporting letters are now done through the Teaching and Scholarship Moodle site at this link. The deadline for submission through Moodle and the applicants’ respective department chairs (if CAS) and deans is no later than noon on Friday, October 2, 2015. Please note also that applicants must discuss their Butine proposals with their respective deans prior to submitting applications for consideration.

The Committee on Teaching and Scholarship will host two workshops to review the Butine application process on Monday, September 7, 4-5 p.m., and Thursday, September 10, 11 a.m.-noon, both in the Engineering Conference Room (Shiley 232).

A final reminder: All interim or completed project reports of previously funded proposals are due to the Teaching and Scholarship Committee through Moodle, as well as the appropriate deans, no later than Thursday, October 1. Report forms can be downloaded from the website listed above.

Please contact Aaron Wootton, TAS chair, at tas@up.edu for further information.

Faculty Development Day Proposals Due Jan. 30

FrederkingDec2Given the success of last year’s concentration around teaching ethics across the curriculum, the Committee on Teaching and Scholarship welcomes proposals to lead Faculty Development Day on May 5, 2015, around a particular theme. Interested faculty should submit a 1-2 page proposal identifying the keynote speaker and breakout panels for session one of Faculty Development Day. Sessions later in the day will remain open as opportunities for various and distinct panels proposed by faculty across campus.

If you are interested in putting forward a central theme for the keynote and session one, please send your proposal to tas@up.edu by Friday, January 30. Please contact Lauretta Frederking, Teaching and Scholarship Committee chair, for more information at tas@up.edu.

Spring 2015 Teaching and Scholarship Calendar

FrederkingDec2The Committee on Teaching and Scholarship (TAS) has released its Spring 2015 calendar of deadlines, according to committee chair Lauretta Frederking, political science.

Butine Awards:

  • Butine call sent out: January 12
  • Deadline for faculty to submit applications to department chairs, dean, and chair of Committee on Teaching and Scholarship: Feb. 6, no later than noon
  • Deadline for CAS chairs and deans to submit letters, forms to Chair of TAS Committee: Feb. 13, no later than 3 p.m.
  • Notification of award recipients to provost: Mar. 20
  • Letters sent to Butine applicants: Mar. 23
  • Award list sent for publication in upbeat: Mar. 23

Faculty Teaching and Scholarship Awards:

  • Call for Nominations: Jan. 12
  • Deadline for nominations to Chair of TAS Committee:Jan. 30
  • Nominees notified of opportunity to submit applications: Feb. 6
  • Deadline for nominees to submit materials to chair of TAS Committee: Mar. 20, no later than noon
  • Notify Provost of award recipients: Apr. 17

Faculty End-of-Year Development Day:

  • Deadline for Development Day proposals: Jan. 30
  • Call for faculty development panels: Mar. 27
  • Deadline for Faculty Development proposals: Apr. 17.

For more information contact Frederking at tas@up.edu.