Interdisciplinary group of 9-10 faculty
-Receive 1 course release for minimum 2-year commitment
-Meet biweekly for two-hour seminars
-Study SOTL - and how to create environs that foster intrinsic motivation
-Undertake individual faculty projects
A goal at Middlesex is to link faculty projects to intrinsic
motivation in students. Professor Donna Duffy (psychology), also a Carnegie
Scholar, provided information about the Middlesex SOTL initiative.
Donna’s own project at Middlesex is ‘Resilience as a Path to Integration in Abnormal Psychology.” She chose resilience, a positive attribute, as a theme because abnormal psychology is generally about negatives … the problems people face.
What’s common to all of
the seven campus examples (including Indiana University)?
-they involve institutional investment
and support for the SOTL program
-they are connected to AAHE/Carnegie
national initiatives.
-they involve faculty investigative
projects into issues of teaching and learning
