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April 29-May 1, 2010

Call of Proposals

Submission Form Due November 4, 2009
Working Group Host Submission Form

UW System faculty and staff are invited to submit proposals for the President’s Summit on Excellence in Teaching and Learning, a conference to be held April 29-May 1, 2010, at the Madison Concourse Hotel in Madison, WI.  The Summit is being co-sponsored by the Office of Professional and Instructional Development (OPID), PK-16 Teacher Quality Initiative, Institute on Race and Ethnicity (IRE), Women & Science Program, Learning Technology Development Council (LTDC), Women’s Studies Consortium (WSC), and the UW System Office of the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs.

The President’s Summit willbring together over 200 faculty and staff across disciplines to demonstrate the UW System’s commitment to excellence in higher education during tough economic times.  Replacing or expanding upon several smaller annual spring conferences, the 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.

Proposals in all these areas are invited from UW System faculty, instructional staff, and students with faculty/staff sponsorship.  Presentation formats will include papers, panels, café-style and round table-discussions, workshops, and poster sessions.   In addition, the Summit will provide opportunities for working and constituent groups from throughout the UW System to convene, including, for example, the IRE Advisory Committee, SAGLA, Compass Teams, the Women & Science Program, and others. 

Please submit your proposal to present or to convene a working group by November 4th, 2009, to:    http://www.uwsa.edu/vpacad/summit/proposals.htm

Confirmations regarding accepted proposals will be sent by mid-December, 2009.

The Planning Committee for the 2010 President’s Summit on Teaching and Learning looks forward to an exciting systemwide conference focusing attention on the outstanding accomplishments and commitment of faculty and instructional staff throughout the University of Wisconsin System.