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The Advisory Committee of Buffalo State’s Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (CASTL) and Academic Affairs announce three one-year, $3,000 faculty-development fellowships to promote the scholarship of teaching and learning on campus. All tenured and tenure-track Buffalo State faculty members are eligible to apply.

Research funded by these fellowships can be empirical (qualitative or quantitative studies, measurement of student learning or teaching effectiveness, etc.) or conceptual (design of educational innovations, curriculum development, pedagogical problem analysis, etc.). All proposals that represent the scholarship of teaching and learning are welcome; however, the committee will give priority to projects that focus on the following areas:

1. Active and Collaborative Learning:Investigations of how collaboration among students and/or level of involvement with course material facilitates student learning.
2. Promoting Academic Challenge:Documentation of classroom strategies that successfully promote high student effort and performance that meets or exceeds course objectives.
3. Enriching Educational Experiences:Studies that illustrate how enrichment programs such as Intellectual Foundations, service learning, and undergraduate research or interdisciplinary and international activities enable students to integrate and apply knowledge.
4. Pedagogical Research: Studies that improve our understanding of educational factors that foster student creativity and achievement.

Fellows will conduct studies related to their specialty areas during the 2008–2009 academic year. They also will work closely with Cheryl Albers, coordinator for the campus programs for CASTL, and Janet Ramsey, associate vice president for undergraduate education and dean of University College, to promote faculty development efforts related to their fellowship. In addition, fellows are required to serve as members of the CASTL Advisory Committee and present their findings at a public forum. Fellows are responsible for compliance with any applicable research approval conditions as set out by the Research Foundation.

Submissions must be received by 3:00 p.m. Tuesday, April 1. Send electronic submissions tolabiaksm@buffalostate.edu.

Hard-copy submissions will be accepted but are not necessary with electronic submission. Mail hard-copy submissions to Susan Labiak, Buffalo State College, University College, 510 South Wing, Buffalo, NY 14222.

Full application guidelines and selection criteria are available online. Questions should be directed to Cheryl Albers, coordinator for the Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (CASTL), (716) 878-3292.

Proposal-Writing Workshop Dates
(All workshops will be held in Cleveland Hall 418)

Translating a Pedagogical Interest of Issue into a SOTL Study
Wednesday February 6, 3:00–4:00 p.m.
or
Thursday February 7, 12:15–1:15 p.m.

Designing a SOTL Study That Meets the Fellowship Criteria
Wednesday February 13, 3:00–4:00 p.m.
or
Thursday February 14, 12:15–1:15 p.m.

To register for a workshop, contact Susan Labiak in the CASTL office in University College, (716) 878-3093.