Perry Winchester

The first-year of the cycle is scheduled April 23-25 at the IUPUI University Place Hotel and Conference Center.

James Perry, associate dean of the School of Public and Environmental Affairs on the Indianapolis campus and director of the American Democracy Project, and Brian Winchester, director of the Center for the Study of Global Change on the Bloomington campus, have been named co-chairs of the institute. Both bring a wealth of experience to the study of community service and civic engagement, both nationally and internationally.

Each of the eight IU campuses will send at least one faculty team of five members to participate in the institute and, subsequently, the teams will assume the leadership role on their respective campuses in relation to the project developed during the institute.

Calls for campus team membership will be sent to chief academic officers and FACET campus liaisons this month. Team members will have accommodations, meals and participant fees waived; campuses have the option, at their own expense, to send additional team members.

The invitation to participate also is being extended to surrounding institutions across the state.

In past years, the institute, among other contributions to academic life at IU, has catalyzed development of Centers for Excellence in Teaching and Learning on three IU campuses and has contributed to the university diversity initiative throughout the state.

The three-year cycle planned also promises long-term outcomes and results that could impact the university and beyond.

A tentative theme outline for the three-year cycle is:

• Leadership Institute 2004: Envisioning the Possible

Campus teams will explore issues related to developing civic and moral responsibility in both a local and global context. Working within the overall theme of the institute, each campus team will generate an action plan for initiating a dialogue among their respective campus colleagues toward influencing curricular content and pedagogical strategies.

• Leadership Institute 2005: Developing the Vision

Campus teams report on their progress during the past year, identify specific goals that have emerged from campus conversations and develop a product-oriented strategic plan for the ensuing year, based on campus-specific missions and goals.

• Leadership Institute 2006: Realizing the Vision and Looking to the Future

Campus teams report on and demonstrate the achievements of their campuses in relation to Citizenship in the 21st Century World and develop plans for sustaining these achievements across the university and on each campus.

FACET was designed to recognize and enhance outstanding teaching throughout the IU campuses and to promote continued development of teaching excellence among colleagues at IU and beyond.

For more information about FACET and the Leadership Institute, contact FACET coordinator Megan Taylor at 317-274-0086; E-mail: facet@iupui.edu or go to this Web site:

http://www.iupui.edu/~facet

(Editor’s note: A book co-authored by former IU President Thomas Ehrlich, Educating Citizens: Preparing America’s Undergraduates for Lives of Moral and Civic Responsibility, was released in March by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and was the springboard for topic discussion at a university-wide symposium in April hosted by the IU Bloomington offices of the vice chancellors of Academic Affairs and of Student Affairs. Potential institute participants may wish to access information from the book at this Web site: http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/newsroom/press_releases/03.03.1.htm)