Date: 6/2/08
Contact: Marc Lebovitz
The Department of Criminal Justice Sciences and the School of Communication each have received a $10,000 Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Initiative Grant for 2008-2009, sponsored by the office of the Cross Chair in the SoTL.
According to Cross Chair Kathleen McKinney, this grant program funds work that will provide the opportunity and resources for multiple people in a department or school to be involved in one or more connected SoTL projects. The initiatives will provide information on teaching and learning at the class, course or program level which will be applied to improve student learning in the discipline.
The Criminal Justice Sciences project is “An Empirical Investigation of the Mitigating or Aggravating Effects of Teacher Immediacy on Academic Dishonesty at a Large Midwestern University.” It will look at the role teacher immediacy plays in the rapport established in the classroom environment between teachers and students that might serve as either a mitigating or aggravating influence on academic dishonesty, specifically cheating.
The Communication project, “Advancing the Discipline: Expanding the Role of Communication in Civic and Political Engagement through the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning,” will combine teaching and research surrounding the concept of civic engagement. More specifically, the project participants intend to integrate their curriculum, develop training workshops, foster scholarship, assess students’ learning outcomes and develop new courses.
