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The CASTL Campus Program Leadership Clusters participated together from 2003 to 2006; COPPER was one of the 12 cluster groups.  In 2006 the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching began the Institutional Leadership Program to build on the work of the Leadership clusters to further develop and sustain the scholarship of teaching ...

Below is the link to the COPPER Snapshot produced with the KEEP Toolkit developed by the Knowledge Media Lab of The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching: COPPER Snapshot

The first round of Carnegie cluster work has come to an end this summer. For many member colleges, a second three year period of SoTL cluster work will begin this coming fall.  Many of the COPPER cluster colleges have been accepted into the second round, and several of us will continue to work together.  We will also be welcoming new ...

Thanks to Donna Duffy for providing the following summary of Barbara Cambridge's Keynote address at the co-sponsored  Carnegie COPPER Cluster and New England Faculty Development Consortium summer SoTL conference, June 2, 2006.     We’re Teaching But are Students Learning?A Colloquium on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning ...

The following links are resources for the Massachusetts Colleges Online conference presentation Cast Your Pod to the Wind, June 13, 2006 at Middlesex Community College: Horizon report:  http://www.nmc.org/horizon/   (Emerging educational technologies) Podomatic:   http://www.podomatic.com/    (Easily create ...

The following excerpt is from the Tomorrow's Professor listserv post on the Scholarship of Engagement from May 23.  The article can be viewed and comments made on the new  "Tomorrow's Professor Blog" sponsored by MIT. "In sum, the scholarship or engagement, therefore, is a set of activities. At its core are four ...

There may be times when you have a question, comment, request, or thought that you wish to share with our group that does not appear to fit neatly under the theme of one of our current entries.  For that reason, the "Open Forum" topic will be republished on a regular basis to function as a convenient location for those ...

"It is our belief that to be effective citizens of a global society, individuals need to have in the first place as deep an understanding of themselves and their specific ways of functioning as possible." A brief context for the following remarks in response to the question: “What knowledge or skills will students need to be ...

We’re Teaching But Are Students Learning? A Colloquium on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning A reminder that the Middlesex Community College Carnegie COPPER Cluster and the New England Faculty Development Consortium will  be co-sponsoring a joint conference on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning to be held in Lowell, ...

Professor Jim Sullivan (Developmental Math and SoTL Scholar) from Northern Essex Community College would like to hear from faculty in any discipline about the following: Please list the math/quantitative abilities you would like your students to have upon entering the courses you teach. It would be helpful to write the name of the course and ...