Scholarship of Teaching & Learning @ Buffalo State

SoTL Advisory Committee

"For an activity to be designated as scholarship, it should manifest at least three characteristics: it should be public, susceptible to critical review and evaluation, and accessible for exchange and use by other members of one's scholarly community"
     Lee Schulman,
     President of the
     Carnegie Foundation

New Coordinator as of August 1, 2009

For a few years I have been voicing my desire to turn over the leadership of CASTL to someone who could bring new energy to the program. Last year a perfect candidate, John Draeger, expressed interest. For the past few months John and I have been working on the transition which will take place on August 1, 2009.

My involvement with the scholarship of teaching and learning and CASTL has been one of the most rewarding aspects of the past 10 years of my career. I have had the pleasure of working with members of my local community that I would have never known, if not for our mutual desire to systematically investigate our classroom practice. Due to the strong support of administrators at Buffalo State, I’ve had the privilege of conveying the exciting work done on our campus to international members of CASTL. This breadth of involvement in SoTL has provided concrete models of the variety of creative ways SoTL can be interpreted and supported. We have made great strides in supporting SoTL at Buffalo State including revising our promotion and tenure regulation to give parity to SoTL and discipline based research, and awarding funded fellowships to 19 faculty and staff, who conducted research on pedagogic issues of concern to the wider campus community. I am excited to see the many new ways that John and the advisory committee expand the good work done here toward improving student learning. I look forward to being part of these new initiatives as I continue my involvement in SoTL and CASTL.

Sincere thanks to all who have supported me in my role as coordinator over the past 10 years.
Cheryl Albersiscussion.

The scholarship of teaching involves integrating the experience of teaching with the scholarship of research and producing a scholarly, peer reviewed, product out of those integrative activities. It is the ongoing and cumulative intellectual inquiry, through systematic observation and longitudinal investigation by faculty, into the impact of teaching on learning.

For More Information Contact
Dr. John Dreager,
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
SW 510 | 1300 Elmwood Avenue
Buffalo, New York 14222
(716) 878-3093
draegejd@buffalostate.edu