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 There
were 32 faculty participants, 5 additional faculty served
as facilitators for the five focal teams, Dr. John
Habel helped coordinate the planning and the CFC’s
Debra Randleman was the key person in organizing the planning
and
completing the many details and tasks needed, along with
the help of other CFC staff, student workers and a summer
student
intern.
Dr. Alison Morrison-Shetlar CFC director introduced Chancellor
Dr. Bardo
who gave the welcoming address.
Besides the actual work done
at the Institute, each faculty participant makes a commitment
to apply what was learned at
the Institute to one or more of her or his classes, and
to share that learning with WCU colleagues in one of a variety
of ways.
 All
participants received a booklet on student learning and there
were also some
copies of Dr. Morrison-Shetlar’s book, Teaching Creatively:
Ideas in Action, and a
book on the scholarship of teaching and learning, Opening
Lines, were also given away.
Funding for the SITL was received from Academic Affairs,
making the Institute a reality. It is the hope of the CFC
that it will become an annual event. The announcement by the
Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Dr. Collings, that there
would be another Institute in 2004 was well received. Essentially,
the Summer Institute was also seen as the kick-off event in
the implementation of the SoTL at WCU initiative.
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