Political science Professor Susan Clarke of the University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ at Boulder and 39 other outstanding faculty members from across the nation have been selected as the 2000-2001 class of Carnegie scholars.
Clarke and her colleagues were selected by the Pew National Fellowship Program for Carnegie Scholars in recognition and support of their efforts to advance teaching and learning of their disciplines in the natural sciences, mathematics, social sciences and the arts.
The fellowship is part of the Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. CASTL programs involve faculty members in higher education, as well as teachers in elementary and secondary schools, who investigate issues in teaching and learning at their schools and institutions.
The Carnegie scholars will primarily work in their own academic settings during their one-year term of investigation, which began this summer with a 10-day residential session at the Carnegie Foundation headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif.
Clarke was nominated by the Faculty Teaching Excellence Program at ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥-Boulder for her abiding interests in pedagogy and in creating rich learning environments in political science.
"The University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ at Boulder is very pleased that one of our university professors will now assist our campus in bringing issues of teaching and learning from the national landscape back to the University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ at Boulder," said Mary Ann Shea, director of the Faculty Teaching Excellence Program. "Likewise, Susan Clarke will bring the good work of our campus and her department to a national conversation. These dimensions of her work raise the conversation about teaching and learning at the university to a new national level."
Clarke, who is also associate chair and director of graduate studies in the political science department at ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥-Boulder, joined the ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥-Boulder faculty in 1984. She has received several competitive research grants including a distinguished Fulbright lectureship award at the University of Amsterdam in 1999. She is on the executive council of the Urban Affairs Association and in the urban politics section of the American Political Science Association and has written several books and articles on local economic development, regionalism and education reform.