22nd Annual Lilly Conference on College Teaching

Celebrating 22 Years of Presenting The Scholarship of Teaching

General Information

We invite you to participate in the 22nd Annual Lilly Conference on College Teaching. Over 50 featured teacher-scholars will discuss teaching and learning topics ranging from using technology to cooperative learning. There will also be over 50 contributed papers. Opportunities to meet and talk to the presenters are provided at topical breakfast, luncheon, and dinner tables, receptions, and breaks.

Full and half day pre-conference workshops will be held on Thursday, November 21, and the opening plenary will be given on Thursday evening. A variety of seminars and workshops are scheduled all day on Friday and Saturday, and on Sunday morning. The conference ends with lunch following the closing address on Sunday.

This weekend event has become a "teaching retreat" as well as a conference. The Marcum Conference Center is on a beautiful, wooded site at the edge of the Miami University campus, one of America's premier college settings. The University, with its timeless Georgian architecture, and Oxford, with its brick streets and small shops, make an attractive location for learning.

In past years, many deans and chief academic officers have supported the attendance of a team of their faculty at this conference, as reward and recognition for an outstanding teacher, as encouragement for a junior faculty member, or as an opportunity for the team to bring new teaching and learning ideas back to campus. Institutions planning Teaching and Learning Centers have found the Lilly Conference an excellent place to meet and "scout" some outstanding teacher-scholars.

Contributed paper presenters are invited to submit manuscripts about their teaching innovations for review for publication in the international Journal on Excellence in College Teaching. The Journal answers Ernest Boyer's call, given in his 1990 Lilly Conference keynote, for opportunities to publish the scholarship of teaching.

The Lilly Conference Listserv provides a forum for those interested in sharing a dialogue about college teaching and learning throughout the year. We invite you to share your innovations, ideas, insights, sucesses, reactions, and challenges.

If you cannot attend the national Lilly Conference at Miami University, look at the information about our seven regional conferences and summer institute.

Keep checking this site for updated information on presenters, topics, theme tracks, conference program schedule, and other news.

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