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Senior Scholars Program

New Opportunity for Senior Faculty
The Ellbogen Center for Teaching and Learning is pleased to announce a new opportunity for senior faculty. Based on past inVISIBLEcollege meetings, this program is designed specifically for associate and full professors and extended term academic professional lecturers. In a cohort, participants will develop a scholarship of teaching and learning project. Past members of inVISIBLEcollege cohorts meeting the qualifications of Ellbogen Senior Scholar are eligible and encouraged to apply as are others.

The program is supported by the John P. Ellbogen Foundation. Funding permits the selection of 10-12 Senior Scholars who will be named through a selection process. The application materials require a short description of the teaching and learning topic, project outline, timeline, and budget. Each inVISIBLEcollege participant will receive a $3,000 stipend. The stipends are designed to fund Summer and Fall 2005 activity. Course buyouts will not be supported.

Ellbogen Scholars can expect to meet on a regular basis, read common texts for cohort conversations, develop an inquiry project, and share findings. The meetings create a context for personal renewal even as they develop community. The program runs from March 2005 - May 2006.

Required Orientation Meeting
Interested scholars are required to attend an orientation meeting as the first step of the application process. The meeting is intended to describe the program more fully and help candidates make a good start on the application. Applications will be due in late February.

Reinvestment into UW and the Mentoring of Junior Colleagues
A key purpose of inVISIBLEcollege is to engage in personal renewal, mentor others in the university community, and re-commit to the responsibilities of being a Senior Scholar in the context of the scholarship of teaching and learning. Thus, reinvestment and mentoring will be a thread running through cohort readings and conversation. Some participants may want to include an explicit component of reinvestment or mentoring in their inquiry projects.

All Ellbogen Scholars are expected to report on their projects to the UW community during the Spring 2006 semester. Part of the stipend may be used to support presentations of the inVISIBLEcollege work at appropriate professional meetings.

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