SENCER Summer Institute 2012
Application Information
"The quality of the Institute can be measured by the extent to which it motivates and informs people, and gets them to be productive, and SENCER's efforts have been extremely successful in all of these regards." - SENCER Summer Institute Participant
The Summer Institutes are annual, invitational, intensive, residential learning opportunities for faculty, academic leaders, and students. Cornerstones of SENCER's faculty development and academic reform program, the Institutes feature a rich mix of plenary sessions, workshops, and concurrent sessions. The Institutes focus not only on what students should learn, but how that learning might best be accomplished.
The National Center for Science and Civic Engagement invites participation from representatives of institutions that are in varying stages of developing innovative approaches, courses, and programs in the sciences and mathematics.
Participation is by invitation only. Participants will be responsible for their travel costs and a program fee to cover most meals, materials, and enrollment in all workshops. Groups of 4 or more persons are recommended for teams from first-time or alumni* institutions. Individual participants from first-time and alumni institutions are also invited to apply.
*By alumni institutions, we mean schools who have had representatives attend an Institute in the past.
Please read the information provided on the sidebar of the main SSI 2012 page thoroughly before submitting a team or individual application. If you have questions about any of the information provided or about the application process, please contact Amanda Moodie at (202) 276-2343 Monday - Friday from 9am - 5pm EST.
Deadlines and Notifications
Our aim is to complete the review process by March 30, 2012. If, for financial reasons, you require early notification of acceptance, please indicate that on your team or individual application.
Invited participants will receive online registration information, pre-Institute materials, and related items in the months leading up to SSI 2012.
Selection Criteria
SENCER staff will evaluate each application received. We will seek to represent a diversity of interests and institutional types, as well as a mix of institutions that are in varying stages of interest or development of SENCER courses, programs and approaches. We will seek to create a learning community that includes a rich assortment of needs and assets.
We aim to find ways to accommodate interest in SENCER, however, we have financially imposed limitations. Our goal is not to select "a chosen few," but to expand the number of students, faculty members, and institutions engaged in substantive science education reform. If we are unable to accept your application for this year's Institute, we will seek to find ways to connect you to the SENCER program and make it possible for you to attend a subsequent Summer Institute.
Questions? Contact SENCER
We welcome your questions and, to the extent that we can, we will be happy to respond to your requests for assistance as you contemplate applying to participate in SSI 2012. Please contact Amanda Moodie (amanda.moodie@sencer.net) with questions.
Support for Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities (SENCER) is provided by the National Science Foundation's Course, Curriculum and Laboratory Improvement program under grant DUE-0717401.
Applications
Individual Application
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Team Application
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Invitations for SSI participation will be issued following application review. SENCER expects to begin contacting applicants on March 30, 2012.