UWS Faculty Collaboratives Conference: Connecting Your Work to LEAP Wisconsin

The UW System is hosting a Faculty Collaboratives Conference on September 24-25 at Middleton WI to bring together faculty and instructional academic staff to engage in discussions on advancing student learning. Each campus has been invited to send a team of six to eight members to participate in the conference.

With funding from Lumina Foundation, Faculty Collaboratives is focused on creating a state-based, faculty-led “innovation hub” dedicated to advancing curricular reforms that lead to deeper student engagement, and higher retention and graduation rates. The AAC&U’s Liberal Education and America’s Promise (LEAP) has provided a framework for the work done by faculty in every UW System campus to advance student learning and engagement. The Conference will honor and extend faculty work on LEAP Wisconsin at a time when changes across the UW System invite us to look back, assess and reassess, look forward and—above all—reclaim the core values, purpose and goals of what has been an anchor initiative dedicated to providing the highest quality learning environments to prepare our students for further education, employment, and civic engagement.

Fore additional information, see the UWS invitation for institutional teams (memo from UWS to Provosts), and the preliminary conference agenda. Please contact Vice Provost Dev Venugopalan (dv@uwm.edu; 229-5561) by August 17 if you are interested in being a part of the UWM team. The grant from the Lumina Foundation covers most of the costs of attendance including lodging at the conference hotel. UWM will provide support for transportation from Milwaukee to Middleton.