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April 29-May 1, 2010
Concourse Hotel, Madison WI

Summit | Keynotes | Schedule | Registration | Directions & Lodging | Sponsors

The President’s Summit will bring together over 300 faculty and staff across disciplines to demonstrate the UW System’s commitment to excellence in higher education during tough economic times.  This Summit will provide a forum in which to recognize, acknowledge, and share the expertise of faculty and academic staff who excel at teaching, value learning, and are committed to sharing their experience, knowledge, practice, and scholarship.  The intentional relationships among teaching, learning, and making excellence inclusive will be highlighted throughout this event.

In addition to keynote addresses by UW System President Kevin Reilly and others, the Summit will feature plenary and concurrent sessions on:  curricular transformation and the scholarship of teaching and learning across the disciplines in the Arts, Humanities, Global and International Education, Interdisciplinary Studies, Professional Studies, Social Sciences and STEM areas.  Designed to advance Inclusive Excellence, the UW System’s planning process for greater diversity, equity and inclusion, the Summit will showcase presentations focused on:  Inclusive Pedagogies in disability studies, race and ethnic studies, women, gender and sexuality studies, and socioeconomic status across the curriculum; Emerging and Effective Technologies in the classroom; and High Impact Practices, those educationally effective practices that include collaborative assignments and projects, writing-intensive courses, first-year seminars, undergraduate student-faculty research, learning communities, international studies, community-based and  service learning, internships, and capstone courses and projects.