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General Education Fellows Program
he campus-wide General Education Fellows Program is designed to provide a forum for instructors in the University’s robust General Education program to discuss the special demands of teaching such classes (e.g. writing in large lectures) and to share information and experiences in order to better understand the purpose and benefits of these classes.
As part of this larger initiative, the Provost’s office, the Center for Teaching, OIT Academic Computing, UMass Amherst Libraries, the Office of Academic Planning and Assessment and Continuing and Professional Education in consultation with the General Education Task Force are co-sponsoring a fellowship program. In this its second year, the program will focus on the use of instructional technologies to enhance college writing. The program may include up to ten fellows who will receive a stipend of $1000.00, a high-performance Tablet PC or Mac laptop computer and related software. The fellowship is a one-year commitment which will begin in Summer 2009.
One-Day Workshop: June 9th, 2009
UMass General Education Website
Letter from the Provost (PDF)
General Education Fellows Application (PDF)
General Education Fellows
2009-2010 General Education Workshop Slideshow
General Education Initiative
One-Day Workshop - Electronic Written, Aural, and Visual Expressions Across the Curriculum
Dr. Richard (Dickie) Selfe
Director, Center for the Study
and Teaching of Writing
The Ohio State University
As part of the university's ongoing commitment to a robust General Education
program, we are pleased to announce the General Education: Writing with
Technology one-day workshop.
Date: Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
Time: 9AM-3PM (working lunch provided)
Location: Campus Center
Please register by June 1st, 2009.
This day-long workshop, presented by Dr. Richard (Dickie) Selfe, will provide University of Massachusetts faculty,
lecturers and teaching staff with the opportunity to plan to integrate
electronic written, aural, and visual expressions into their
classes. After short framing lectures with examples from across the
curriculum, the workshop will explore the following questions:
- What 21st century literacy skills and orientations do students need
to develop in order to grow into critical and engaged citizens & workers?
- What do our students say about their personal, professional, and
academic approaches to literacy systems? (student panel)
- What do terms like "ecology" and "sustainability" have to do with
our efforts to innovate teaching?
- In a world of overwhelming technological choice, what value-driven
pedagogical motivations should drive our decisions?
- Which sustainable activities can I use in my class that will help
students adopt a life-long drive to improve their writing?
This workshop is hosted by the CFT and co-sponsored
by Provost's Office, the Office of Academic Planning and Assessment and
the General Education Task Force.
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