• To support a faculty actively engaged in scholarly and artistic endeavors
• To support faculty members in incorporating new knowledge, new pedagogies, and emerging technologies into Carleton’s curriculum

Providing a rich academic experience for students in a rapidly changing world requires faculty members who are actively engaged in their own scholarly and creative work, are given the support they need to teach in innovative and distinguished ways, and are sustained in their commitment to teaching. As faculty members widen and deepen their interests, and as Carleton’s student body evolves to one that is more diverse than in years past, the faculty needs time for appropriate assessment, implementation, and evaluation of changing pedagogies.

The following examples of new interdisciplinary curricular initiatives require resources for faculty development as faculty members are being challenged to create courses and pursue research that reflect today’s complex and changing society, including engaging with new technologies. As traditional disciplinary lines continue to blur, faculty members are being called upon to develop new ways of teaching.

• Writing Across the Curriculum is a nationally recognized program that develops students’ writing skills across the disciplines. Faculty members participate in annual workshops on writing pedagogy to better prepare writing assignments and to learn how to provide more effective feedback.
• Quantitative Inquiry, Reasoning, and Knowledge prepares students to evaluate and use quantitative evidence in all disciplines, focusing on how quantitative reasoning is used in the development, evaluation, and presentation of principled argument. Regular seminars help faculty members design courses that use quantitative reasoning.
• Carleton Interdisciplinary Science and Math Initiative prepares students to address unscripted, interdisciplinary, real-world problems that are increasingly at the frontiers and boundaries of scientific inquiry. Faculty members consider issues of complexity and scientific modeling and how they can be featured in an undergraduate curriculum.
• The Visuality Initiative develops students’ ability to communicate effectively through the combination of images and text and focuses on developing new scholarship that is enhanced through the sophisticated use of images.
• Ethical Inquiry at Carleton engages students and faculty members in ethical deliberation by incorporating ethics issues and service learning into the classroom.
• The Humanities Initiative brings together faculty members and students to discuss broad themes of humanistic inquiry, a discussion that is inherently interdisciplinary. The program broadens the student experience through internships and collaborative research opportunities in the humanities.