2011 President’s Summit on Excellence in Teaching and Learning

UW System faculty and staff are invited to submit proposals for the 2011 President’s Summit on Excellence in Teaching and Learning, a conference to be held April 14-15, 2011, at the Madison Concourse and Governor’s Club. The Summit is being co-sponsored by the Office of Professional and Instructional Development (OPID), Women and Science, Learning Technology Director’s Council (LTDC), and the UW System Office of the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs including Academic, Faculty & Global Programs, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, and Student Affairs & Academic Support Services.

The President’s Summit will bring together over 200 faculty and staff across all disciplines to demonstrate the UW System’s commitment to excellence in teaching and learning. It will provide a forum in which to recognize, acknowledge, and share the expertise of faculty and academic staff who excel at teaching, are committed to assessing student learning, and have engaged in the scholarship of teaching and learning. Research on 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: the scholarship of teaching and learning across the disciplines in the Arts, Humanities, Professional Studies, Interdisciplinary Studies, Social Sciences, and STEM. Additional teaching and learning initiatives will be featured, including the Wisconsin Teaching Fellows & Scholars Program, LEAP Wisconsin, Lesson Study, Emerging and Effective Technologies, Undergraduate Teaching and Learning Grant research projects, and High Impact Practices. In an effort to bridge success for students between the classroom and campus community the President’s Summit program will be expanded this year to include presentations about co-curriculuar activities that support teaching and learning provided by professional staff in multicultural affairs offices, gender equity centers and student affairs. We invite proposals about successful programs and collaborations that focus on students from under represented ethnic groups, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students (LGBTQ), veterans, returning adults, students with disabilities and students experiencing challenges related to alcohol and other drug abuse (AODA), sexual violence and mental health diagnosis.

Proposals from both the teaching and learning and co curricular threads are expected to be supported by data on their effectiveness.