Applications due January 15, 2009

Dates:
1st Session: July 21-27, 2009 - Wabash College
2nd Session: Jan. 28-31, 2010 - Corpus Christi, Texas
3rd Session: June 16-21, 2010 - Wabash College

Leadership Team:
N. Lynne Westfield, Drew Theological School (Director)
Carol B. Duncan, Wilfrid Laurier University
Alton B. Pollard, III, Howard University School of Divinity
Stephen G. Ray, Jr., Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary
Thomas Pearson, Wabash Center

Participants:
Lisa Allen, Interdenominational Theological Center
Joy Bostic, Case Western Reserve University
Renee Harrison, Payne Theological Seminary
Jamal-Dominique Hopkins, Interdenominational Theological Center
Nyasha Junior, Howard University School of Divinity
Velma Love, Florida A&M University
Darius Makuja, LeMoyne College
LeRhonda Manigault, Wake Forest University
Kenneth Ngwa, Drew Theological School
Luke Powery, Princeton Theological Seminary
Angela Sims, Saint Paul School of Theology
Roger Sneed, Furman University
Althea Spencer-Miller, Drew Theological School
Elizabeth Walker, Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary

• pre-tenure, fulltime, tenure-track status
  
• teaching in an accredited seminary or theological school in the United States or Canada, or teaching undergraduates in a religious studies or religion department in an accredited college or university in the United States or Canada
  
• religion and theology scholars of African descent
  
• 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 beginning to ending date and time for all three workshop sessions
  

Read our Policy on Full Participation (click here)

Goals:

• To invite participants into formal and informal dialogue about existing and needed habits/practices of teaching from the perspectives of professors of the African diaspora.
• To create an environment where truth might be spoken about the politics and pressures of teaching and learning in higher education by professors of African descent.
• To develop a reflective practice, both individually and communally, about vocation, identity,and health (mind, body, spirit) that incorporates the rigors of scholarship, teaching, and religious leadership as tenure is being considered.
  
• To foster collaborative projects and conversation that will facilitate experimentation for better teaching skills.

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:

• 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
  
• issues particularly germane to the pedagogy and politics of faculty of African descent in the academy
  

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.

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:
Thomas Pearson
Associate Director, Wabash Center
301 West Wabash Ave.
Crawfordsville, IN 47933
800-655-7117
pearsont@wabash.edu