MU DIFFICULT DIALOGUES PROGRAM
Faculty Development
Become a Faculty Fellow
Applications for the Fall 2011 Difficult Dialogues faculty fellow program are being accepted. Complete the application form
and submit it along with your curriculum vita and letter of recommendation (if applicable) by May 1, 2011 to:
Eryca Neville
Difficult Dialogues Initiative
16B Hill Hall
PHONE: 573-882-9665
E-MAIL: NevilleE@missouri.edu
Have you experienced difficult dialogues in your classroom? Do you want to be better prepared to facilitate controversial topics in an effective way? If you want to work on these skills and improve your teaching effectiveness, become a Difficult Dialogues faculty fellow!
Faculty development activities will be provided within a 10-week short course held on from 2-5 p.m. on Mondays during fall semester 2011. The short course will include:
- learning and practicing classroom techniques in conflict resolution
- practicing the learned techniques, responding to classroom scenarios, and encouraging cross-cultural empathy through interactive theatre
- increasing understanding of campus climate for diversity in higher education related to race, gender and sexual orientation, and
- examining the intersections between the movement toward intellectual diversity and academic freedom, the cornerstone of higher education.
Each fellow will then develop a teaching module engaging students in difficult dialogues related to any number of contemporary issues relevant to his/her discipline that might spark tension or controversy in the classroom. Fellows will be asked to engage students in rigorous course assignments designed to address diversity, academic freedom and difficult dialogues.
Faculty fellows will receive a $500 stipend for their full completion of the program. Graduate student will receive a $250 stipend for the full completion of the program.
What Past Participants Say about the Faculty Development Program
“I loved this program and found it really useful because it creates a forum for discussing and trying out methods for promoting constructive conversations about sensitive subjects in the classroom.” —Katherine Reed, faculty fellow
"I'm very glad I did it because it was well worth it."—Elizabeth Hornbeck, faculty fellow
“I thought it was a very worthwhile use of my time!” —Michael Porter, faculty fellow
"There were a couple of times that I would have liked to have continued the workshop discussion over lunch."—Elizabeth Wilson, faculty fellow
