Office of Faculty Development
External Speaker – Spring 2010

Pat Hutchings, PhD
April 8, 2010

According to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the American Association of Colleges and Universities, “fostering students' abilities to integrate learning--over time, across courses, and between academic, personal, and community life--is one of the most important goals and challenges of higher education.”

One of the goals of Academic Affairs at EIU is to offer students a personal learning experience, integrating their personal and academic growth, through a commitment to teaching and to an infrastructure that supports multiple opportunities for integrating experiences. Dr. Pat Hutchings, Vice-President of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, will join us as part of President Perry and Provost Lord’s university-wide initiative on integrative learning.

Reference:
"Integrative Learning: Opportunities to Connect." Public Report of the Integrative Learning Project sponsored by the Association of American Colleges and Universities and The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Edited by Mary Taylor Huber, Cheryl Brown, Pat Hutchings, Richard Gale, Ross Miller, and Molly Breen. Stanford, CA, January 2007.

BIOGRAPHY

Pat Hutchings is Vice President of The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, where she works closely with a wide range of programs and research initiatives.  She came to the Foundation from a position as a senior staff member at the American Association for Higher Education (AAHE), where she was the inaugural director of the AAHE Assessment Forum and the AAHE Teaching Initiative; previously, she was a faculty member in English, and department chair, at Alverno College in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 
Hutchings has written widely on the investigation and documentation of teaching and learning, the peer collaboration and review of teaching, and the scholarship of teaching and learning.  She has taught composition, creative writing, a wide range of literature and language courses, English teaching methods, and integrated humanities.  Her Ph.D. in English is from the University of Iowa (1978). 
Recent publications, drawing largely from Carnegie's work, include Ethics of Inquiry: Issues in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (2002), Opening Lines: Approaches to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (2000) and The Advancement of Learning: Building the Teaching Commons (2005).  The work reflected in these volumes focuses on how faculty can study and therefore improve the learning of their own students, and at the same time engage in the wider community of practice—the “Teaching Commons”—through which teaching as a profession can improve. 
Other publications include:
The Formation of Scholars: Rethinking Doctoral Education for the Twenty-First Century
The Course Portfolio: How Faculty Can Examine Their Teaching to Advance Practice and Improve Student Learning
Making Teaching Community Property: A Menu for Peer Collaboration and Peer Review

Hutchings has directed or served on the leadership team of a wide range of externally funded initiatives, including The AAHE Assessment Forum, From Idea to Prototype: the Peer Review of Teaching; The Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning; Strengthening Pre-Collegiate Education in Community Colleges; and Connected Learning: the Integrated Learning Project: Opportunities to Connect—a collaboration with the Association of American Colleges and Universities and ten campuses exploring new models for building student capacities to connect their learning across contexts.

Integrative Learning: Challenges and Opportunities (Session for Administrators)
Thursday, April 8, 2010
8:30 - 11:30am; Charleston-Mattoon Room

The importance of integrative learning has been identified by numerous national organizations, educational leaders, and innovative campuses.  But the shift to more connected forms of learning comes with challenges.  In this session, we will identify some of those challenges and explore a range of steps to support curriculum design, teaching, and professional development for integrative learning.

More than the Sum of the Parts: Fostering Integrative Learning
Thursday, April 8, 2010
1:00 - 3:00pm; Charleston-Mattoon Room

Calls for integrative learning are widespread today, reflecting a growing sense that significant learning entails connection-making--and that the ability to make
connections is increasingly critical for dealing with the issues we all face as citizens and workers in the 21st century.  In this session, we will explore the meaning of
integrative learning in participants' own academic settings, and examine a range of strategies and designs to promote integration--across courses, among disciplines, between school and community, life and work.  The role of students as agents of integration will be an important theme throughout.

Registration for this event is required. For those interrested, registration can be completed at http://cats.eiu.edu/FacultyDevelopmentRegistration/index.asp.