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Strengthening Faculty Together

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.

2005 book discussion groups for faculty at Carleton

Building Intellectual Community Through Collaboration

The Perlman Center for Learning and Teaching and the Writing Program at Carleton invite proposals from faculty for chapters of a new volume tentatively titled Building Intellectual Community Through Collaboration. Based on the success of the first volume of faculty essays, Reflection on Learning as Teachers, we invite faculty to write from their professional experience, using workshop methods to prepare an edited collection of related chapters. Editors will be Carol Rutz, Director of the Writing Program (and co-editor of the previous volume) and Mary Savina, Coordinator of the LTC. Funds from the Mellon Faculty Lifecycles Grant will support this project.

fall, winter, and spring terms, 2004-2005:

Tuesday, April 19, 05: The Mind's Best Moral Work:
Lessons in Empathy from Philosophy,Literature and Medicine

Dr. David Nyberg, Visiting Scholar in Philosophy and Education,

Bowdoin College and Clinical Ethics Consultant at the Maine Medical Center. 4:00 pm, Alumni Guest House meeting room (see LTC events page for further details)

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, through October 22, 2004. The opening reception for “A Collaboration,” was Thursday, October 7, 7-9 pm, Macalester College Art Gallery, Janet Wallace Fine Art Center 1600 Grand Avenue, St. Paul.

FACULTY DEVELOPMENT SEMINAR: COMPARATIVE SLAVERY IN THE ATLANTIC WORLD Fall and winter, 2004-05, Cosponsored by the Mellon Faculty Lifecyles grant (coordinated by the Perlman Center for Learning and Teaching), the History Department (initiated by Jamie Monson, Associate Professor of History) and the African/African American Studies Department. The seminar is scheduled for fall and winter terms, 2004-2005, coordinated by Dr. Martin Klein, Distinguished Visiting Benedict Scholar, Department of History, Carleton College; facilitated by the Perlman Center for Learning and Teaching.

Spring term, 2004

Reflections on Learning as Teachers

edited by Susan Singer and Carol Rutz, brings together 20 essays by Carleton faculty

Review

See it at the Carleton Bookstore

Joint Mellon Faculty Lifecycles Opportunity:

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 and Sat 5/22 .

Carleton faculty contact: Lance McCready, Educational Studies, x7109.

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Thursday, May 6: Faculty Grant Writing Workshop

cosponsored by the Mellon Faculty Lifecycles grant

with Hal Arkes, ’67, Professor of Psychology and Interim Director of the Center for Health Outcomes, Policy, and Evaluation Studies (HOPES), Ohio State University; former program officer, NSF Program in Decision, Risk, and Management Science, Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences and Susan Singer, Professor of Biology; former National Science Foundation Program Director, Developmental Mechanisms, Biology Directorate

Introduction by Kathleen Galotti, Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Studies

4:30-6:00 pm, with refreshments

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Winter term, 2003

Faculty winter break workshops: December 10-12, 2003

1) Being interdisciplinary in a departmental world

2) Setting priorities for professional life

Presentation by John Bean and Faculty Writing Workshop participants begins both workshop sessions.

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Past Activities: 2001-2002

Mellon Lifecycle activities are well underway at Carleton and Macalester. Here are a few examples of activities last year, to inspire you to consider ways this grant might help improve your life.

Past Activities: 2002-2003

Mellon Lifecycle activities continued for the 2002-2003 year. Here are the most recent activities provided for by the grant.

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