December 4, 1998

Nominations sought for program at Reed College

Faculty Symposium on Teaching with Technology:
Excursions in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences

Reed College, Portland, Oregon
June 24 - 25, 1999

Co-sponsored by
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Charles E. Culpeper Foundation

Reed College plans to invite approximately a dozen faculty from leading liberal arts colleges to participate in a day and a half symposium on the use of technology in teaching. Each presenter will receive an honorarium of $150 plus a travel allowance of up to $600. Reed also plans to provide travel stipends of up to $200 to as many as 30 other faculty members who wish participate in the symposium. Lodging in campus residence halls will be available to all symposium partici pants. (Speakers and other faculty members who choose to stay in area hotels will receive a $35 subsidy toward the cost of a room.)

The symposium will include six panel discussions on recent faculty experiences with the use of technology in:

• Art History
• Classics
• Economics
• English
• Foreign Languages
• Philosophy

A plenary presentation will be made Friday morning, June 25th, by Pat McPherson, Vice President of the Mellon Foundation and former president of Bryn Mawr College. Symposium participants will be invited as guests to a special dinner Friday evening with the attendees of the annual meeting of the Consortium of Liberal Arts Colleges (CLAC).

CLAC representatives are encouraged to nominate faculty from their institutions to be panelists. (Faculty who are not selected as panelists may still receive invitations and travel stipends to participate in the symposium.) To submit a nomination, send e-mail to: martin.ringle@reed.edu.

Please include the name, department, and e-mail address of the faculty member(s), plus a short statement (1-3 paragraphs) describing the material that would be covered in a presentation. Faculty who have participated in Mellon or Culpeper grants are of special interest, but all faculty from the six areas mentioned above are eligible for honoraria and travel stipends.

Please contact Marty Ringle (at the above e-mail address) if you have any questions or need additional information.