Colleges of the Fenway receives grant to establish a
Collaborative for Teaching and Learning
The Colleges of the Fenway is pleased to announce that they have received a grant from
the Davis Educational Foundation to establish a Collaborative for Teaching and Learning.
The Davis Educational Foundation was established by Stanton and Elisabeth Davis after
Mr. Davis’s retirement as chairman of Shaw’s Supermarkets, Inc. The grant will be
received over a period of three years.
The Collaborative for Teaching and Learning will provide a cost-effective approach to
enhance and expand programs offered by the individual colleges to promote the
professional growth of faculty throughout their career, become a resource for academic collaboration for faculty research and academic programs and create a center for the
study of faculty development and teaching effectiveness. The goals of the Collaborative
are to improve faculty teaching skills through professional development programs shared
among the COF institutions, share expertise across colleges to strengthen programs on
individual campuses, facilitate the development of support networks for faculty across
institutions, and increase collaborative academic research and programs.
The Collaborative will offer several programs to meet this goals including:
- An annual Fall Teaching and Learning Conference with follow-up sessions in the
spring
- Development programs across the life-cycle of faculty: new, mid-career and
senior faculty
- A certificate in college teaching
- Development programs for department chairs
- Development programs for adjuncts
- Faculty communities of practice based on interests
- Research on faculty development and teaching effectiveness
- A central database of faculty expertise and interests
Colleges of the Fenway is currently seeking a Director to provide leadership to establish
this unique Collaborative. The job description can be found here.
Review of applications will begin on February 15 and continue until the position is filled.
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