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The Need
Budget reductions,
higher faculty workloads, and elevated expectations for program outcomes
have created pressures on higher education that cannot be dissipated through
the efforts of individual faculty. In short, there is a growing need for
community action within higher education to improve student learning and
growth across the curriculum, promote professional development of faculty
and staff, and to increase organizational efficiency.
Our Response
To address this
challenge, educators and engineering practitioners at the University of
Idaho have joined forces to form the Scholar’s Community in 2002. The
community includes educational researchers, facilitators of faculty
development activities, assessment experts, leaders of mentoring
communities, and scholars of engineering design. Major community events
have included:
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Learning Community Research Team |
Jan-May 2003 |
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Teaching Institute |
June 2003 |
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Mentoring Workshop |
August 2003 |
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Assessment & Evaluation Tool Workshop |
March 2004 |
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Advanced Teaching Institute |
June 2004 |
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Instructional Design Workshop Series |
Sept-Nov 2004 |
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Peer Coaching Workshop
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November 2004 |
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Communities of Practice Workshop |
March 2005 |
Synergistic
Activities
Our members are active
in the following organizations that have helped shape and been shaped by
efforts of the Scholars Community at the University of Idaho.
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Idaho Engineering Works |
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UI Capstone Design Program |
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Assessment & Evaluation Center at
Washington State University |
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Center for the Advancement of Scholarship
in Engineering Education (CASEE) |
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Transferable Integrated Design Engineering
Education (TIDEE) Consortium |
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Association of Process Education
Researchers |
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