Policy on Full Participation (click here)

Leadership Team:
Eugene Gallagher, Director, Connecticut College
Carolyn Medine, University of Georgia
Bruce Forbes, Morningside College
Betty DeBerg, University of Northern Iowa
Thomas Pearson, Wabash Center Facilitator

Participants:
Richard Ascough, Queen’s Theological College
Yvonne Chireau, Swarthmore College
Daniel Deffenbaugh, Hastings College
Amy DeRogatis, Michigan State University
Lynn Japinga, Hope College
John Lanci, Stonehill College
Charles Miller, University of North Dakota
Debra Mubashshir Majeed, Beloit College
Todd Penner, Austin College
Joanne Robinson, University of North Carolina
Beverly Stratton, Augsburg College
Michael Vines, Lees-McRae College
James Wilhoit, Wheaton College
Arch Wong, Ambrose University College

Description:
The Wabash Center is pleased to announce its Mid-Career Colloquy on teaching. The colloquy covers an extensive period of a teacher’s life, from the granting of tenure (or its equivalent) and the last decade or so before retirement. This period in a teaching career presents its own particular challenges for teaching and learning. This is a time when reflection can help mid-career faculty to identify possibilities, renew commitment, venture in a heretofore unconsidered direction, and compose a more clarified sense of self and purpose. At this point faculty find themselves asking questions such as:

How do faculty find they have changed and adapted to the demands and culture of their institution?

How does a mid-career person keep herself/himself interested and retain a sense of who they are and what they are doing?

What are the boundaries and rhythms of teaching, research, and citizenship at this stage in one’s career?

What are the necessary losses and the satisfactions that go with being generative and with being a leader at mid-career?

What is the relationship among leadership, roles, institutional context, and person?

How do mid-career faculty take on appropriately the role of generative leaders in their profession and in their institutions?

How do mid-career faculty continue to form themselves and to be formed?

The colloquy is an opportunity for mid-career faculty to gather for reflection on the particular challenges and opportunities of teaching at mid-career.

Goals:
To support sustained reflection on the rhythms, responsibilities, and challenges of teaching, scholarship, and university citizenship at mid-career;

•To support excellence in teaching and mentoring of teaching for faculty on the other side of the tenuring process;
• To provide opportunity and resources for participants to develop self-selected projects related to teaching and learning in their courses;
• To consider the shape and challenges of leadership for mid-career faculty at this time in the field and in higher education;
•To help mid-career faculty strategize about ways they can support and cultivate their own and others' vocations as teachers;
•To develop projects that will encourage excellence in teaching in participants' schools and broader academic settings.

Stipend:
All participants will receive a stipend of $3000 for full participation in all three meetings of the colloquy, plus local expenses and travel.

Please Note: U.S. Law prohibits the Wabash Center from paying stipends to some participants who have particular classes of foreign national status.
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* Immigration status has no bearing on the Wabash Center’s selection of participants, but only on our ability to pay these participants a stipend. We deeply regret these restrictions but are confident that participants who are not eligible for a stipend will nonetheless find our programs valuable even without a stipend. The Wabash Center is, however, able to reimburse ALL participants for all local expenses and travel for the workshop or colloquy.

Follow-Up Grant or Fellowship
Participants are eligible for a noncompetitive teaching and learning grant of $5000

Questions? Please Contact:
Thomas Pearson
Associate Director, Wabash Center
301 West Wabash Ave.
Crawfordsville, In 47933
800-655-7117
pearsont@wabash.edu