Please join us for a UC Forward Faculty Network Salon 

"What is the Digital Humanities? And What's It Got To Do With Me?"

Thursday, March 7, 3:00-4:30 in CET&L, Langsam 480.

Register through Faculty Development One Stop or just show up.

These questions will be the center of our conversation during this faculty salon. We’ll begin from the premise that Digital Humanities isn’t one thing but includes a whole range of practices that vary from one discipline to another. At the same time, common principles informing DH are that print is no longer the default medium of communication and that digital media has fundamentally changed knowledge production and delivery. Working from these principles, we’ll consider how, as Humanities scholars in this quickly changing reality, we can benefit from the innovative potential of DH in our own work and in the work we require of our students. Some possible lines of conversation might be how to

• harness DH to create scholarship for diverse publics
• build interdisciplinary collaborative networks of faculty and students
• integrate digital media into classroom activities in meaningful, deliberate ways
• prepare students to research and compose in diverse digital environments in preparation for the work worlds they’ll enter
• develop cross-institutional remote collaboration opportunities

Our goal is to imagine and begin to realize a DH-infused Humanities experience that is forward-looking, innovative, and creative. 

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Please join us for a UC Forward Faculty Network Salon

"Team-Teaching and Multidisciplinary Collaboration at UC"

Tuesday February 5 at noon

in CET&L, 480 Langsam

The next faculty salon will focus on team-teaching. When have you successfully team-taught? What are some hazards or pitfalls? Is it more work or less than teaching solo? What are the benefits? UC Forward funds team-taught classes because there are traditional barriers based on how departments are credited for students in seats. Is there any alternative way to ensure those faculty who want to team-teach can do so without penalizing the department? Is there a more sustainable policy we can imagine as an alternative to paying off the departments?  All are welcome to join us in the Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning, CET&L Langsam 480 on February  5, 12:00-1:30.

You can register through Faculty OneStop or just drop in.

https://webapps.uc.edu/facdev/workshops/

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Provost-level Initiatives to Promote Transdisciplinary Inquiry and Collaboration

The Provost's Office invites faculty members to apply for a grant in support of their UC Forward courses.  UC Forward courses have an interdisciplinary focus, and they center upon collaboration between students, faculty, and external experts in order to facilitate exceptionally meaningful experiential and interdisciplinary learning.

Specific information concerning the process and requirements for requesting funding is available below.

Faculty Requests for Funding

The applications for funding were due January 14 2013 for courses to be offered in the 2013-2014 academic year and beyond.  The RFF may be downloaded here.

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Please attend a UC Forward Faculty Network Salon on the topic “Teaching in a Brick-and-mortar University in the Digital Age”

Monday December 3, 3:00pm

in CET&L, Langsam 480

This event is open to all faculty instructors and staff who would like to explore the similarities and differences between inter-, multi-, and trans-disciplinarity, and why this type of research and teaching is important for the future of UC. The conversation will include ways to collaborate within and outside of UC to add value to our communities.

Universities are under tremendous pressure to change, given the easy access to high quality free digital courses and declining enrollments, the political perception of exclusivity and elitism of the ivory tower, and the decline of government support from NIH, NEH, NEA and other traditional sources, plus the 2008 financial crisis that strained philanthropic support for higher education. The communities we serve and need support from need to see us, know us, use our students in coops, work with our faculty to help them solve hard problems, come to our campus for dialogues and support, and have us in their spaces as well. We need to be in relationships with our communities, be they geographic or professional. The UC Forward initiative to promote collaborative teaching and research that includes community partnerships is one approach to help bridge and mollify the perception that academia is increasingly irrelevant to and out of touch with society. UC Forward is an initiative designed to bridge the gap between the town and gown, to provide rich multidisciplinary methods and tools for engaging in the most important issues of our times in meaningful ways, and modeling such approaches for students. Fostering student capacities for innovation and creativity and problem-solving in an experiential and collaborative setting is something brick-and-mortar universities can do that the digital environment cannot. Yet. That's our value proposition. What do you think?

Sign up at https://webapps.uc.edu/facdev/workshops/ or just show up.

You can join the UC Forward Faculty Network by attending this session, or writing to the director at diane.cline2@uc.edu. 

Contact: Diane Cline, Ph.D.

Academic Program Director

513-556-3256