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ERIC EJ903460: Enhancing University Summer Session Programs: The Ro...
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Many college and university summer session deans and
directors face significant challenges in providing
quality summer courses. At research institutions, for
example, the number of regular tenured and tenure-track
faculty who want to focus on research, scholarship, and
other activities during summer, affects the composition
of the summer session faculty. As a result, summer
session programs may employ fewer tenured and tenure-
track faculty and more instructors, graduate students,
and on occasion, visiting faculty from other
universities. In 2002, the University of Colorado at
Boulder (CU-Boulder) established the "Faculty in
Residence for Summer Term" (FIRST) program to enhance the
range and quality of summer session courses by
systematically encouraging CU-Boulder academic
departments to invite distinguished scholars from other
US and international universities to teach. Over a six-
year period from 2002-2007, 63 visiting faculty members
received invitations with the expectation that these
visiting faculty would expose students to academic
content and culture from other universities and
countries. In some instances these visiting faculty
members collaborated with CU-Boulder faculty in their
research and scholarship, provided department colloquia,
outreach programs, and public lectures. However, these
activities had not been systematically studied or well
understood. Using the case study method, a research
project that is the basis of this article investigated
the role and impact of CU-Boulder's visiting faculty
program upon summer session students, faculty, and
academic departments.
Date Published: 2016-05-13 04:26:50
Identifier: ERIC_EJ903460
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