The Towson Academy of Scholars is pleased to announce that we will be accepting applications for the academic year 2004-2005. All full time faculty up to the rank of Assistant Professor or Librarian I and II who have been at Towson three years or less are eligible to apply. The purpose of the Academy is to gather senior-mentors with junior faculty in a seminar setting that will give the latter an opportunity to share their research projects, reflective thinking essays, or portions of their dissertations under revision. The research, thought-analyses, or revisions will be undertaken during the year preceding presentation with support provided by the Towson Academy of Scholars.
The Deadline is Monday, March 1st. Please send all applications to Room 210-Faculty Development. Please call or e-mail Dr. Pat Romero {promero@towson.edu} or x42910 if you have any questions.
A committee of senior faculty members will oversee this initiative, and will serve as a review panel to select participating scholars. Applications may be blind reviewed by external reviewers. The committee will select three scholars from applications submitted across the university community in the spring. For the academic year 2004-2005, junior scholars will receive $1,000 in cash from the university, two hundred dollars in books from Houghton Mifflin Publishers, and the use of a library carrel.
In the spring of 2005, at a date to be arranged by the committee, each of the junior scholars selected will present his or her seminar paper in the Towson Room, Cook Library. In consultation with the scholars, the committee will arrange for two authorities in their fields to serve as discussants.
Faculty members who are selected to be Towson Scholars will be encouraged to invite their students to their presentations. Seminars are open to the university community, and junior faculty will be required to make their papers available upon request.
While papers, essays, and/or chapters may reflect the academic discourse of their discipline, the oral presentations must communicate broadly to the university community.
Committee Members:
Laurence Boucher (Chemistry)
Sharon Buchbinder (Health Sciences)
Deborah Gartland (Education)
Eleanore Hofstetter (Library)
Bharat Jain (Finance)
Peter Lev (Electronic Media and Film)
Luz Mangurian (Faculty Development)
Patricia Romero (History and Chair)
Hoke Smith (College of Education, UMCP)
