Beginnings
-(Fall 1998) All University Symposium
-(Spring 1999) Follow-up Symposium
Year-long Carnegie faculty seminar
-(2000-2001) Carnegie faculty seminar continued

The Rockhurst “Carnegie Seminar”
-Central Questions
-Seminar Members
-Discussions
-Methods

Products
-Formal Letter on SOTL
-Faculty SOTL Projects

Selected Key Issues and Observations
-Obstacles to Discussion
-Interdisciplinary/Collaborative Approaches
-“Where's the beef?”
-“Scholarly Teaching” as best first path
-To be a good consumer of the SOTL

Rockhurst, a small (3000 students) independent university in Kansas City, conducted a year-long Carnegie seminar which resulted in a formal letter addressing reward for scholarly teaching and scholarship of teaching in tenure and promotion.

An observation of the Rockhurst Carnegie Seminar … which is entirely consistent with observations at other institutions … is that a focus on scholarly teaching is a good first step to scholarship of teaching.

Several faculty research projects are underway at Rockhurst. One researcher is Professor Anita Salem (mathematics), also a Carnegie Scholar of Teaching. Anita provided the information for this tutorial. E-mail to Anita