Applications due January 15, 2010
Decisions will be announced by March 1, 2010

Dates:
First Session: July 5-10, 2010 – Wabash College
Second Session: January 20-23, 2011 – Corpus Christi, Texas
Third Session: June 20-25, 2011 – Wabash College

Leadership Team:
Rolf Jacobson, Luther Seminary, Director
Joan Martin, Episcopal Divinity School
Marty Stortz, Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary
Fred Smith, Wesley Theological Seminary
Thomas Pearson, Wabash Center

Eligibilty:

• pre-tenure, full-time, 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 2011
  
• commitment to full participation from the opening to closing session for all three workshop meetings

Read our Policy on Full Participation (click here)

Description:
This workshop will gather 14 faculty in their first years of teaching for a week during two successive summers and for a weekend winter retreat on the Gulf Coast. As a learning community of committed and skilled teachers, this workshop will explore such topics as:

• teaching in one's institutional context
  
• philosophy of education
  
• teaching for theological leadership
  
• vocation, career, and becoming a healthy, happy, nurturing teacher
  
• issues of tenure preparation
  

The workshop design 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.

Workshop Goals:

• To practice reflecting on teaching and learning in ways that sustain participants' future work through tenure and beyond
• To explore what it means to be commited to student and teacher 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 (e.g. course design, assessment, learning from/with difference, staying grounded as a teacher, building trust in a classroom, team teaching)
• To build relationships that will support and sustain participants during the course of the year-long workshop and beyond
• To explore some of the dynamics peculair to theological education and the current context of theological education (e.g. the changing ecology of the theological schools, negotiating tenure and promotion, working in a specific denominational context while being part of another)

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

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. Read More (click here)

Immigration status has no bearing on the Wabash Center’s selection of participants. It impacts only 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.

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 teaching scholars. These awards are for five weeks of dedicated research and writing during the second summer of the workshop.

a $5000 Summer Workshop Fellowship
(in the form of a stipend)
a $5000 Summer Workshop Grant
(with delineated budget expenses)

How to Apply:

Please send us the following application materials by January 15, 2010:

1) Application contact information form.
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2) Introductory letter Describe the hopes you have for participating in the workshop and one way your teaching is related to your tenure review.

3) Brief Essay 1
Describe your teaching as a vocation and talk about a recent incident that confirmed your calling (750 words).

4) Brief Essay 2
Write about two critical challenges in your teaching that you have identified—one toward which you have made progress and a second that remains a challenge (1000 words).

5) Academic CV (4 page limit)

6) Two letters of recommendation demonstrating institutional support for your participation in this workshop and describing your interest and skills as a teacher (including one from your dean or rector). Please have these letters sent directly to you and include them with the rest of your application materials (whether applying online or applying by mail-in application).

7) Agreement to the Policy on Full Participation ( read here).

All application materials must be postmarked by January 15, 2010. Please submit all application materials together in one packet (1 copy is sufficient). We encourage applicants to apply online by filling out the online application form and attaching the requisite documents online.