Call for Applications:

The Apgar Award for Innovation in Teaching

Nominations due October 17, 2016 

Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning (DCAL) is pleased to announce a call for nominations for the Apgar Award for Innovation in Teaching. Thanks to a generous donation from Mahlon Apgar, IV D’62 and Sarah Tipper Apgar, Tu’11, this gift annually rewards and supports innovative teaching initiatives by early career, non-tenured faculty.  The award specifically encourages development of courses that cross traditional academic boundaries and that are likely to have practical applications in students’ lives. Last year’s award went to Julie Hruby, Assistant Professor of Classical Studies, and Deborah Nichols, William J. Bryant 1925 Professor of Anthropology, for their new course, Who Owns the Past?, a course that examines how legacies of the past shape contemporary archaeology, museum practices, and current cultural heritage policy.

We invite proposals from faculty teams for an interdisciplinary course that, through innovative methods pursues a topic of study engaging two or more distinct modes of research and analysis. One of these disciplines must be in the Arts and Sciences; the others may also be in the Arts and Sciences or the Tuck School of Business, the Thayer School of Engineering, and the Geisel School of Medicine. We encourage proposals that involve two or more instructors using a team-teaching model, and that engage at least one discipline from the Arts and Humanities.

The award comes with a stipend. The selection committee will include representatives from the Provost’s office, the Dean of Faculty, the Associate Dean for Arts and Humanities, faculty members and DCAL staff.

Eligibility

Any tenure-track or non-tenure-track faculty member who completed their Ph.D. after 2008 may apply for the award. We will consider applications from non-tenured faculty who plan to teach with tenured faculty.

Application

Send the following as an attachment to [log in to unmask] by Monday, October 17, 2016:

o   The course description and target student population

o   A syllabus that contains:

§  Student learning outcomes

§  Assessment Plan to measure student attainment of outcomes

§  Outline of learning activities

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