Applications closed January 7, 2008

Dates:
First Session: July 29 - Aug 4, 2008 - Wabash College Campus
Second Session: Jan 8 -11, 2009 - Episcopal Retreat Center, Mustang Island, Corpus Christi, Texas
Third Session: June 24 - 29, 2009 - Wabash College Campus

Read our Policy on Full Participation (click here)

Leadership Team:
Tat-siong Benny Liew, Director, Pacific School of Religion
Dwight Hopkins, University of Chicago Divinity School
Daisy Machado, Union Theological Seminary (NY)
Joyce Mercer,Virginia Theological Seminary
Thomas Pearson, Wabash Center Facilitator

Participants:
Margaret Aymer Oget, Interdenominational Theological Center
Claudio Carvalhaes, Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary
Esther Chung-Kim, Claremont School of Theology
Steed Davidson, Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary
Rob Fennell, Atlantic School of Theology
Wilda Gafney, Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia
Sang-Ehil Han, Church of God College
Ruthanna Hooke, Virginia Theological Seminary
Vivian Johnson, United Theological Seminary
Michelle Jones, New York Theological Seminary
Kristin Largen, Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg
Cheryl Peterson, Trinity Lutheran Seminary
Andrew Root, Luther Seminary
Sue Singer, Church Divinity School of the Pacific
Mitzi Smith, Ashland Theological Seminary
Timothy Van Meter, Methodist Theological School in Ohio

Description:
This workshop will gather 15 scholars in their first years of teaching at a theological school. 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:

•course design
•assignments and assessment
•student learning styles
•ethics in the classroom
•dealing with religious, social, ethnic, racial, and learning diversities in the classroom
•philosophy of education
•the meaning of good teaching
•teaching to prepare ministers
•vocation, career, and becoming a healthy, happy, nurturing teacher
•issues of tenure preparation
•collegiality, institution mission and teaching

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.

Stipend:
Participants will receive a stipend of $3,000 for full participation in the three sessions, plus local expenses and travel.

Follow-up Summer Fellowship or Grant:
All participants are eligible to apply for a research fellowship or a research grant to advance their professional development as research scholars. These awards are for seven weeks of dedicated research and writing during the second summer of the workshop.
All participants are eligible to apply for either:
a $7000 Summer Workshop Fellowship (in the form of a stipend)
or
a $7000 Summer Workshop Grant (with delineated budget expenses)

•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.

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