Call for Proposals
Faculty Work and the New Academy: Emerging Challenges and Evolving Roles
Network for Academic Renewal Conference
November 9-11, 2006
Chicago, Illinois
The emergence of a New Academy raises new questions about faculty roles, responsibilities, and rewards. This working conference will explore these questions and provide answers and resources to guide productive reforms. Faculty Work in the New Academy will concentrate on the implications of new challenges for the future of faculty work at two levels: 1) faculty’s changing roles, contributions, evaluation, and rewards; and 2) institutional agency to appropriately support these changing roles and responsibilities. Special attention will focus on the alignment of faculty priorities and fundamental institutional purposes.
We are particularly interested in highlighting:
- new configurations of academic leadership and new organizational structures to support that leadership;
- broader definitions of scholarship that move beyond the traditional focus on advancing knowledge to include as well the scholarship of teaching and learning, the scholarship of engagement, and the scholarly work supporting integration and synthesis;
- new findings about how people learn and how faculty can integrate these findings into their evolving roles;
- programs designed to address the special concerns of faculty of color
- the views and concerns of recently appointed faculty;
- changing relationships between faculty and the disciplines;
- changing relationships between faculty and students;
- faculty involvement in civic life and engagement in larger community problems.
More information about conference pathways, resources, and important dates is available online. Visit the AAC&U Web site to submit a proposal or to learn more about the conference. Proposals are due by April 7, 2006. |
