The University Center for the Advancement of Teaching (UCAT) has begun a new grant program to support the numerous lecturers that OSU hires each year. The 2015-2016 academic year is the first year that UCAT has provided grant support for lecturer programming. Upon learning about the new opportunity, ASL Senior Lecturer Tammy Eckard submitted a proposal and it was one of four programs selected to receive the grant.

The ASL Program will use the grant support to bring a distinguished leader in the field of ASL for a discipline-specific teaching seminar and community seminar. The seminars will serve as focal points for pedagogical and professional development for the 12 lecturers and staff who teach at the Columbus campus as well as at Marion, Newark, and Lima. The program will also address the need to stay current with ASL pedagogy.

The ASL lecturers currently participate in a self-created forum in which they share best practices and pedagogical knowledge. The teaching and community seminar will build on this forum by offering new insight to innovative strategies and scholarship.

Congratulations to Ms. Eckard on being awarded the grant. Details on the events related to the grant will be forthcoming.