Call for University Dialogue Discovery Authors
2006 – 2007
Energy
Dear Colleagues,
We invite your application to serve as a Discovery Author for the 2006-2007 University Dialogue. As you may know, the Discovery Program is the approach to the core curriculum that has been proposed to replace the current General Education requirements. The Faculty Senate has accepted the basic design of the Discovery Program and has endorsed the adoption of the Discovery Implementation Plan. Under this plan, we are piloting and assessing components of the Discovery Program proposal for Faculty Senate consideration.
One central component of the Discovery Program--the University Dialogue and Town Hall Meeting--is an initiative to draw first-year students into a series of community conversations focused on a central topic. Similar to this year’s focus on globalization, first year students will be given a set of position statements, written by UNH faculty and other campus leaders throughout the university. These readings, representing a wide range of views on and approaches to the topic, will serve as the basis for various small-group dialogues. Larger community events are also planned each semester to bring some of these groups together and connect students with the authors of the position statements. Finally, towards the end of their first year, the students will be part of an even larger discussion, the Town Hall Meeting, at which the university community will look back at the year’s conversations, consider questions raised and implications to be explored, and look ahead to the next year.
While the current University Dialogue is still in progress, a subcommittee of the Discovery Program Advisory Committee made up of students, faculty and staff has selected next year’s theme. The theme for 2006-2007 will be Energy. We plan to develop our dialogue title once we have chosen the Authors, however, we will address this topic by comprehensively exploring the many ripple effects of a drive for energy (including but not limited to direct and indirect consequences of our decisions, political, economic and environmental consequences, social justice implications, and abundance and shortage issues).
In order to apply, we are asking for a 250 word abstract of your intended position statement. The Writer’s Guidelines and Author Expectations and Recognition are attached. Please submit your abstract and a brief description of your background as it relates to the topic by Monday, February 6, 2006. Faculty will be chosen to represent all schools and colleges. Authors will be selected and notified by the end of February.
If you have any questions or would like further information feel free to contact Cliff Brown at Cliff.Brown@unh.edu or Dan Beller-McKenna at dbmk@cisunix.unh.edu. We look forward to the participation of our talented faculty in this program.
Sincerely,
Joanne Curran-Celentano |
Cliff Brown |
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Michele Holt-Shannon |
Dan Beller-McKenna |
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| 2005-2005 Globalization Where in the World is UNH? |
2006-2007 Energy |
2007-2008 Democracy |