Ameritech Fellows to showcase IT innovation Monday

Proposals for fourth-year awards due in September

The showcase is scheduled from 1-3 p.m. in the Solarium of the Indiana Memorial Union, located on the IU Bloomington campus.

Request for proposals (RFP) was recently issued by the Ameritech Fellows Program as it continues its fourth year of funding IT innovation. Proposals from IU personnel must be received by Sept. 9 to be considered for the fourth round of funding. Awards will be announced in October.

IU established the program in the fall of 1999 with a gift of $1 million from Ameritech to support five years of program activity. Since then, three rounds of funding and awards averaging $15,000 have made possible 24 innovative projects on IU campuses, said Brad Wheeler, program director and associate dean for teaching and learning technologies at IU.

"A critical aspect of the program is building and sustaining a community of faculty innovators across the university," said Wheeler. "The program seeks to engage IU Ameritech Fellows as faculty mentors in coordination with the teaching and learning centers on IU campuses."

"Over time, a program goal is to develop a Web-based repository of effective practices from the experiences of IU's Ameritech Fellows," Wheeler said.

To register for the Monday forum or to obtain the complete RFP, proposal cover sheet or information about previously funded projects, go to this site:
http://www.amfellow.iu.edu

To read more about the projects of the third-round Ameritech Fellows, whose work will be featured at the forum, refer to this IU Home Pages archival site:
http://www.homepages.indiana.edu/020102/text/5awardsT.html