For the past several years, Carleton has been one beneficiary of the Mellon Faculty Career Grant (or Faculty Life Cycles Grant.) The grant has produced a number of initiatives designed to help Carleton and Macalester faculty develop more productive and satisfying careers and professional lives. Some of them are listed below.
Faculty reading and discussion groups, 2007
Visuality brown bag discussions, spring 2007
Team-Based Learning workshop, May 2007
Innovations in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning conference 2007
Liberal Education in its Historical Context reading group
Civic Engagement Initiative
Citizenship in the 21st Century faculty seminar
Innovating Advising workshop
The Teaching Voice workshop
Interactive workshop on boundary setting/maintaining balance
Computational Modeling
Boxes and Walls production
Service learning summit
Assessment workshop
Innovations in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Conference
Spring, 2005: St. Olaf and Carleton Colleges
2005-06 Pedagogical discussion series:
Problem solving, Academic honesty
book discussion groups for faculty at Carleton
Building Intellectual Community Through Collaboration
Beyond Blacks, Bondage,and Blame: Africa’s Place in Multi-Centric World History
A Collaboration: Art Faculty from Carleton and Macalester Colleges
An exhibition featuring the visual art faculty of Carleton and Macalester Colleges, October 22, 2004, Macalester College Art Gallery, Janet Wallace Fine Art Center, 1600 Grand Avenue, St. Paul.
2004-2005
Pedagogical Discussion series:
Internet2: Advanced Networking in Support of the Curricullum and Research
Forum on Group Work by Students
Managing Difficult Discussions
Working in Groups in science classes, an open discussion and workshop
Grading at Carleton, an open discussion
March 12, 2004 workshop: Lord of the Rings faculty essays
The Center for Scholarship and Teaching (CST) at Macalester College invited faculty from Carleton College to participate in a 2003-04 faculty seminar, “Race, Sexuality, and the Transnational” with colleagues from Macalester, the University of Minnesota (Twin Cities) and other area colleges and universities. The seminar supports faculty who study or who are interested in studying race and sexuality in transnational perspective. Macalester College contact: Scott Morgensen (morgensen@Macalester.edu). Background information.
The research institute was Fri 5/21/04 and Sat 5/22/04 .
Carleton faculty contact: Lance McCready, Educational Studies
Funding possibilities for individuals, groups, and departments
- Part One: Individual and Group Grants
- Part Two: Departmental and Program Grants
- Part Three: Workload Analysis and Redesign
Questions?
Questions about how Mellon Lifecycle funds can work for you? Contact Mary Savina, Coordinator for the Perlman Center for Learning and Teaching and Professor of Geology, msavina@carleton.edu or x4191