Dates:
First Session: July 7-13, 2009 - Wabash College
Second Session: January 7-10, 2010 - Corpus Christi, Texas
Third Session: June 23-28, 2010 - Wabash College

Leadership Team:
Mary Hess, Luther Seminary (Director)
Michael Bourgeois, Emmanuel College of Victoria University
Evelyn Parker, Perkins School of Theology
Frank Yamada, McCormick Theological Seminary
Paul Myhre, Wabash Center

Participants:
Jennifer Ayres, McCormick Theological Seminary
Eileen Daily, Loyola University Chicago
Joanne Doi, Franciscan School of Theology
David Garber, McAfee School of Theology - Mercer University
Christopher Grundy, Eden Theological Seminary
Paul Huh, Columbia Theological Seminary
Grace Ji-Sun Kim, Moravian Theological Seminary
HyeRan Kim-Cragg, St. Andrew's College
Herbert Marbury, Vanderbilt University
Loida Martell-Otero, Palmer Theological Seminary - Eastern Univ
Debra Mumford, Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary
Kathryn Schifferdecker, Luther Seminary
Love Sechrest, Fuller Theological Seminary
Storm Swain, Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia

• pre-tenure, fulltime, tenure-track status
  
• teaching in an accredited seminary or theological school in the United States or Canada.
  
• Ph.D/Th.D. in hand at the time of application
  
• final tenure decision date no earlier than August 2010
  
• commitment to full participation from the opening to closing session for all three workshop meetings.

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Description:
This workshop will gather 15 scholars in their first years of teaching. For a week during two successive summers, and for a weekend winter retreat on the Gulf Coast, this workshop learning community of committed and skilled teachers will explore such topics as:

• philosophy of education
  
• teaching to prepare ministers
  
• vocation, career, and becoming a healthy, happy, nurturing teacher
  
• issues of tenure preparation
  

The workshop balances plenary sessions with small group discussions, structured and unstructured social time, individual and collaborative work on teaching projects -- as well as relaxation, exercise, contemplation, meditation, rejuvenation ... and lots of good food and drink.

Participant Goals:

• To practice reflecting on teaching and learning in ways that are sustainable for participants’ future work;
  
• To explore what it means to be committed to student learning in a theological landscape, and how to facilitate such learning;
  
• To introduce participants to some of the best insights available in teaching and learning in both the seminary, and wider higher education context (eg. course design, assessment, learning from/with difference, staying grounded as a teacher, building trust in a classroom, team-teaching, etc.);
  
• To build relationships that will support and sustain participants over the year of the workshop, and perhaps beyond it;
  
• To explore some of the dynamics peculiar to theological education and the current context of theological education (eg. the shifting ecology of theological schools, working with students who distrust teachers, integrating technology into seminary education, working in a specific denominational context while being part of another, negotiating tenure and promotion, etc.)
  

Please Note U.S. Law prohibits the Wabash Center from paying stipends to participants with certain classes of foreign national status. The Wabash Center is, however, able to reimburse ALL participants for travel and other expenses.

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a $5000 Summer Workshop Fellowship

a $5000 Summer Workshop Grant

Questions? Please Contact:
Paul Myhre
Associate Director, Wabash Center
301 West Wabash Ave.
Crawfordsville, IN 47933
800-655-7117
myhrep@wabash.edu