1) Workshop for New Faculty Members. The Center for Teaching offered an interactive workshop for nineteen new faculty members as part of Dean Kazee's August orientation program. Director John Willis was joined by returning faculty members Stephen Miller, Mae Wallace, Sid Brown, and Jim Peterman in discussing Sewanee's unique learning environment and answering questions from our new colleagues.
2) First-Year Student Program. The Director served on an ad hoc committee of faculty members, administrators, and students to discuss ways to improve the experience of first-year students in the College. A pilot program developed during those sessions will be implemented in 25 First Year Program seminars during the Advent 2002 semester.
3) Active Learning Workshop. In February, fifteen College faculty members met with Wabash College professor Peter Frederick to investigate and experiment with various active learning methods. The interactive session considered student learning styles at length and considered several specific practices to support engaged instruction.
4) Lilly Program for Theological Exploration of Vocation. The Director helped draft Sewanee's proposal to the Lilly Endowment, and joined the Lilly Program Steering Committee after the grant was received. In this latter capacity he contributed to designing an undergraduate scholarship competition, helped craft and administered a summer stipend program for College faculty members creating and revising courses, and coordinated a series of summer luncheons for faculty discussion of course-design and realted issues.
5) ACS Teaching and Learning Workshop at Rollins. The Center for Teaching recruits and sponsors the attendance of up to three faculty members at a week-long teaching and learning workshop at Rollins College. This is the ninth year that Sewanee faculty members have participated in the program, a project of the Associated Colleges of the South. In June 2002, Jennifer Matthews, Stephen Miller, and Ruth Sanchez attended as participants.
6) January Technology workshop. Twelve faculty members completed Instructional Technology projects related to their teaching under the general guidance of Vicki Sells, Director of the Instructional Technology Workshop. Faculty members were paired with student interns in collaborative projects. The majority of these projects developed new Web sites to support ongoing courses in the College.
7) Fundraising Efforts. The Director assisted efforts to support teaching and learning in the College by meeting with visitors, helping to write proposals to national foundations, and making presentations to potential funders.
8) Individual Consultations. During 2001-2002, the Director of the Center for Teaching met privately with more than a dozen faculty members to discuss issues related to their teaching, or to help them prepare proposals for Center for Teaching support.
9) Faculty Grants. The Center for Teaching awarded twenty-three grants to faculty members from sixteen different departments with its 2001-2002 budget. The Center also sponsored two departmental workshops, as well as sending five faculty members from the inter-disciplinary Humanities program to study the seminar methods employed at St. John's College in Maryland