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Upcoming Deadlines - Input Requested:

• Input Invited for Year II of ANAC Data Exchange
• Carnegie Teaching Academy Invites Applicants, Deadline December 6
• Pew Technology Grant Program in Course Redesign, Deadline November 15

ANAC member institutions are requested to review and make suggestions during November for data refinements and additions for Year II of the ANAC Data Exchange. Data corrections for Year I were finalized early in September and data entry for Year II will begin in December or early January, depending on the extent of format and entry modifications that are made. The Data Exchange online address is http://www.anac.org/anacrpt. Remember to use your institutional username and password to enter the Exchange. Feedback and suggestions may be made to Jerry Berberet (anacjberb@aol.com) and technical feedback to Patrick Alles (patrick@creativeanalytics.org).

Faculty interested in developing their teaching as a primary field for scholarship are invited to apply for the Pew National Fellowship Program for the Carnegie Scholars class of 2000. The Program seeks faculty who are experienced with varied strategies for investigating and documenting teaching practice and students' learning, peer collaboration, and the review of teaching; who are connected with disciplinary or other networks for wide dissemination and impact; and who are familiar with the literature and national developments related to teaching and learning. Candidates must be committed to understanding ways that the most powerful forms of student learning can be fostered, be willing to participate in two summer institutes on the scholarship of teaching, and to work on a scholarship of teaching project during the two-year period as a Carnegie Scholar. Applicants for the Year 2000 class should be from one of the following fields: biological sciences, education and teacher education, foreign languages and literature, health sciences, history, interdisciplinary fields, law, mathematics, performing arts, political science, or sociology.

For more information about the Carnegie Scholars program and to receive the program booklet and application form, contact Michele Lew, project manager, The Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (telephone 650-566-5161, or email: lew@carnegiefoundation.org).

Carol A. Twigg has announced that the next deadline for submission of institutional readiness statements to the Pew Technology Grant Program in Course Redesign is November 15. Institutional readiness statements are the first step in the application process. They should be single-spaced and a maximum of eight pages, have no attachments (such as supporting letters), describe the content of cited Web sites, and provide links to facilitate proposal review. For more information, contact Pat Bartscherer at bartp@rpi.edu to whom five paper copies of the readiness statement should be addressed: Pat Bartscherer, 17 Cramer Path, Gansevoort, NY 12831. Forty institutions will be selected by early December to participate in a January 18-19 program workshop.