Project: Develop a more participatory method of student learning; develop a course on race and racism; and examine the pedagogical effects of using the personal voice in the classroom.

William Coplin 1995-1998
Public Affairs

Project: Offer new course entitled PSC 300: The Good Society. Students read material about how to improve society and then work on special projects. Inventory the different ways faculty throughout the University use undergraduates as teaching assistants and analyze the relative benefits and costs.

Project: Examination of how the computerization of the magazine industry will affect writers and editors and ways to improve the teaching of writing.

Project: Develop and enhance a sense of technical literacy within Syracuse University through a series of lectures developed specifically for "Gateway" (entry level) courses for all Syracuse University students. The lectures emphasize the interconnectedness of engineering and society through a historical perspective in a particular discipline.

Project: Develop a system that allows students to review and assess the patterns of their behavior so that appropriate in-course adjustments can be made and more constructive patterns can be developed.

Project: Develop an assessment process to help programs realize their hopes for their students and to prepare our students for life in a society dominated by change and complexity.

Project: Develop a leadership course for undergraduates; and develop a lecture series that enables advanced Ph.D. students to present their research and to talk about graduate school to undergraduates.

Project: Develop one or more new courses for learning communities that offer graduate students from a range of disciplines an opportunity to learn about issues, developments, and perspectives at the intersection of those disciplines and law.

Project: Develop DRA 581: Playwriting: Topics of Diversity Campus Life. From the scripts that evolve as the students' final assignment, a number are chosen for public performance as part of the Black Box Theatre and Syracuse Stage/SU Drama's New Play Festival.

Project: Establish a colloquium in which faculty and students not connected with each other talk about their struggles with teaching and learning, their views of the roles of faculty and students, and their visions of a good classroom experience.

Project: Develop a program to encourage and support the participation of undergraduate students in faculty-mentored research projects. The goal is to create a weekend-long symposium in which all undergraduates that are engaged in research may present their work to faculty, students and the outside community.

Project: Develop training initiatives for graduate teaching assistants, initially in the psychology department, with eventual generalization to other graduate TAs. In the first year, several subcommittees (comprised of a faculty member, graduate TA and undergraduate student) will address one initiative and develop a plan to meet a particular training objective. The plans will be implemented in the second year and disseminated in the 2nd and 3rd years.

Project: Study the role of learning communities and mentoring on women in science and engineering; and examine their effects on women's learning processes and outcomes.

2001-2004
History

 Project: Develop a seminar on lecturing for interested graduate students and junior faculty focusing on discussing the ways to effectively present material in a lecture course.

Project: Develop a two-way partnership between Syracuse University and New York City schools to provide SU students a semester of guided student teaching in selected City schools.

 Kristi Andersen 2002-2005
Political Science

Project: Develop a handbook or manual of indicators of quality teaching that could be used by department chairs, deans and committees to evaluate faculty.

Sarah H. Ramsey 2002-2005
Law

Project: Promote enhanced interdisciplinary education at the graduate level with particular emphasis on professional roles and collaborative work. Implement mechanisms for building understanding about the interplay of disciplinary training and interdisciplinary effort.

Stuart Bretschneider 2003-2006
Public Administration and Center for Technology and Information

Project: Develop and distribute curricular materials on the development and use of a group project activity based on teaching that will address real projects for a real purpose. A key feature of the teams is that they will be leaderless in that the professor will not appoint anyone to lead the team. It will be the responsibility of the team to address its internal management and organizational issues.

Joanna O. Masingila 2003-2006
Mathematics and Math Education

Project: Work with professors teaching Gateway courses to develop multimedia mini-case studies to use in preparing teaching assistants to teach in those courses. Each mini-case will consist of 20-30 minutes of classroom video, along with reflections and anticipations of the teacher and study questions.

Douglas Armstrong 2004-2007
Anthropology

Project: Classroom research and Community Outreach: Caribbean Heritage Preservation Policy Project and Public Interpretation at the Harriet Tubman Home.

thae Mugo 2004-2007
African American Studies

Project: Development of a course entitled "Interventionist Debating" to be used to help break the "negative silences that keep the various interest groups apart" while providing students with training in public speaking, debating, and other skills needed to find a collective solution to issues of diversity.

Gary Radke 2005-2008
Fine Arts

Project: Work with and mentor colleagues across the University to develop courses that consider cross-disciplinary perspectives and incorporate travel as a key tool for expanding student and teacher knowledge and interaction.

Ann Munly  2006-2009
Architecture

Project: "8+6 Architectural Conversations in the City," a new course engaging students in eight interdisciplinary conversations and six site visits that will help non-architecture students develop architectural 'literacy,' aiding them to interpret and contribute to the future urban settings where they live.

Ruth Small  2006-2009
Information Studies

Project: E*LIT (Enriching Literacy through Information Technology) brings together reading, research, technology and motivation to create a framework for University students to work with diverse children in the community.

Madonna Harrington Meyer  2007-2010
Sociology

Project: Facilitate greater integration of real-world research cases into graduate quantitative methods courses and helping other faculty members at SU identify and create effective Scholarship in Action learning opportunities for their students.

Amardo Rodriguez  2007-2010
Communication and Rhetorical Studies

Project: Creation of a new Innovation and Design minor in VPA in order to "introduce students to the study of innovation and the theoretical, conceptual and experiential challenges that attend to it in its historical, social, political, geographical and communicational contexts."

Sharon Hollenback  2008-2011
Public Communication 

Project: “World of the Olympics: Issues and Controversies of the Games,” a new course open to students from all majors that will focus on important issues related to the games and the broader Olympic movement, including nationalism, historical boycotts and political conflicts, and performance-enhancing drugs, among other topics.

 

Eric Lui  2008-2011
Civil & Environmental Engineering 

Project: Creation of an elective course to bridge the technical and non-technical components within studies of sustainable development and technology. Open to all majors, the course will allow students to take a holistic approach to examine the various elements of sustainable environments.