Archive | September, 2009

CTE Small Grants Program

By on September 28, 2009 in Small Grant Program featured report

The Center for Teaching Excellence’s Small Grants Program is currently accepting applications. The purpose of this Small Grants Program is to supply the faculty with necessary resources to support their own development as a learning-centered teacher. Especially encouraged are proposals that can demonstrate how the funding will be used to grow a larger project. Applications [...]

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CTE Workshops and Brown Bag Luncheons for October

By on September 23, 2009 in Workshops

The CTE is offering 14 workshops and 5 brown bag sessions during October. Workshops are an opportunity for faculty to both explore topics and share practices across disciplines. Our Friday Brown Bags provide an opportunity for a more informal conversation to take place between faculty on subjects of topical interest. Read more below about our [...]

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Monthly Article Series – The Mindset List

By on September 8, 2009 in Monthly Article Series

This article is a part of our “Monthly Article Series.” Each fall, Beloit College publishes a “Mindset List” which helps us identify the worldview of the entering freshman class. The creators of this list, Beloit’s Keefer Professor of the Humanities Tom McBride and Emeritus Public Affairs Director Ron Nief, remind us of rapidly changing cultural [...]

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