Conferences on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

2008

• Annual Meeting of the NCA Higher Learning Commission
  Dates: 11-15 April 2008
  Web site: http://www.ncahlc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=166&Itemid=155
   
• The Teaching Professor Conference
  The Teaching Professor Conference is a powerful learning experience with large implications for how you teach. This event focuses on key teaching-learning issues—like maintaining vitality across the years, getting focused on what learning really means, the sensible use of technology, and teaching as scholarly work.
  Dates: 16-18 May 2008
  Venue: Gaylord Palms Resort and Convention Center. Kissimmee, FL
  Website: http://www.teachingprofessor.com/conference/index.html
  
• 8th International Conference on Writing Across the Curriculum
  Dates: 29-31 May 2008
  Venue: University of Texas at Austin - Austin, TX
  Website: http://wac2008.cwrl.utexas.edu/

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Conferences on Assessment 

2008

• Texas A&M Conference
  Dates:17-19 February, 2008
  Website: http://assessment.tamu.edu/conference

• New Mexico Higher Education Assessment and Retention Conference
  Dates: 28-29, February 2008
  Website: http://www.nmsu.edu/~NMHEAC/

• Academic Impressions
  Accountability for Student Learning: Understanding and Meeting the Challenges
  Location: Denver, Colorado
  Dates: February 29 - March 1, 2008
  Website: https://www.academicimpressions.com/conferences/0208-student-learning.php#location

• Twelfth Annual Western Region Assessment Conference: Workshops in Assessment and Program Evaluation
  Celebrating Assessment: Past, Present & Future
  Location: Fullerton, CA
  Dates: March 20-March 21, 2008
  Website: http://business.fullerton.edu/events/AssessmentConf/

• AIR Assessment Institute for IR Practitioners
  Location: Atlanta, Georgia
  Dates: March 31 - April 4, 2008
  Website: https://secure.airweb3.org/?page=1383

• 2008 NC State Undergraduate Assessment Symposium
  Dates: 25-27 April, 2008
  Website: http://www.ncsu.edu/assessment/symposium/index.htm

• NASPA: International Assessment & Retention Conference
  Location: Scottsdale, AZ
  Dates: June 11-June 15, 2008
  Website: http://www.assessconf.net/

• 20th annual National Institute on the Assessment of Experiential Learning
  Location: Princeton, New Jersey
  Dates: June 19-June 20, 2008
  Website: http://redir.targetx.com/cgi-bin/email/redir.cgi?id=0000474870-78069757

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Research Grants and Awards

• The Carnegie Scholars Program brings together outstanding faculty committed to investigating and documenting significant issues in the teaching and learning of their fields.
  Web: http://www.carnegie.org/sub/program/scholars.html
  
  
• DePaul faculty are eligible to apply for the Excellence in Teaching Awards sponsored by the Quality of Instruction Council. 
  Web: http://condor.depaul.edu/~acafflpc/section8.htm

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Conferences on Teaching and Technology