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The Summer Pedagogical Institute, offered through the Intellectual Foundations unit of University College, now includes incentives for participation. Anyone who attends two full days or more will receive $200 toward research and travel funds. Most sessions run May 13 through May 22; space is limited.

Participants of the new “Writing to Teach, Lightening the Load” workshop will receive $400 for attending. This five-day workshop will be offered twice, once during the last week of May and again during the first week of June. It will be taught by Susan Leist, professor of English and director of the College Writing Program.

According to Doug Koritz, assistant dean of intellectual foundations, the workshops are designed to train faculty in the use of formal and informal writing assignments in Writing across the Curriculum (“W” courses).

“Attendees can offer the skills they learn at the Summer Pedagogical Institute to people in their own schools next academic year, and Intellectual Foundations will help pay for that,” said Koritz. “Familiar sessions include teaching oral communication, critical thinking, Socratic questioning, and teaching Foundations of Inquiry.”

To learn about the history of the Pedagogical Institute and the recent workshops held during winter break, please read the December 13, 2007, Bulletin article.