Facilitating Faculty Getting Started in SoTL Reflections by Two Carnegie Scholars

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Jacqueline M Dewar
Kathleen Perkins

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ABSTRACT: SoTL has been embraced as a viable approach to professional development for higher education faculty. Workshops and programs of various types and lengths have offered guidance and provided mentorship for SoTL novices. Many books, manuals, and websites describe how to undertake a SoTL investigation, but far fewer sources of advice exist for those assisting faculty beginning in SoTL. In this article, two Carnegie scholars reflect on their experiences and lessons learned helping others join the SoTL community. They discuss common characteristics of the new scholars they encountered and the types of assistance, both intellectual and institutional, that the scholars needed.  They offer advice and suggest resources for working with new SoTL scholars and describe some of the benefits that accrue from this work.

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Dewar, J. M., & Perkins, K. (2021). Facilitating Faculty Getting Started in SoTL: Reflections by Two Carnegie Scholars. Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 21(2). https://doi.org/10.14434/josotl.v21i2.28944
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Reflective Essay
Author Biographies

Jacqueline M Dewar, Loyola Marymount University

Professor Emerita
Mathematics Department

Kathleen Perkins, Columbia College Chicago

Theatre Department
Professor Emerita

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