FORT WAYNE TEACHING CONFERENCE

The Twelfth Annual Fort Wayne Teaching Conference will take place on Friday, February 13, 2009 in the Walb Memorial Union of IPFW. The conference theme is Guess Who's Coming to College: Engaging Today's Student. The conference is open to faculty of area colleges and universities. See the Call for Proposals for more information.

The History of the Fort Wayne Teaching Conference

The Fort Wayne Teaching Conference, informally known as the “Area Deans’ Conference”, began in 1998. The Academic Deans of seven area colleges and universities had begun meeting a few times a year to share information about issues that affected them all, irrespective of differences in mission, size, or philosophy. The growing need to understand and use instructional technology led to a decision to sponsor a conference at which faculty from their institutions could share their work. The 1998 Teaching and Technology Conference, held on the Fort Wayne Ivy Tech campus, was so successful that the conference became an annual event. Since 1999 it has been held on the IPFW campus.

This web site has been created to make information about the Fort Wayne Teaching Conference more readily accessible to faculty throughout the area.