Welcome to the CASTL Green Man Cluster

The Green Man Cluster blog serves the Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (CASTL) System-Wide Collaboration cluster. We set it up after our October 2007 meeting in Boulder, CO, to facilitate communication of ideas growing out of that meeting, and planning and discussion of outcomes to be achieved by our November 2009 goal.
It's named in honor of Clayton Lewis, who painted himself green and wandered the Boulder campus, frightening faculty in a heroic effort to raise SoTL awareness. "Man" of course means women, men, and whatever those blue guys are. The logo was designed by Helen Macfarlane, MA, medical illustrator at the U. of Colorado Medical School.

In response to a rhetorical question "If we were to write a monograph in 2009, what would the chapter titles be?" the group cleverly decided that they would write a real monograph. A possible organization would start with a set of questions that each collaborating system in the cluster would be asked to address from their perspective; if we can formulate these questions early, they could even inform some further research to be done in the next couple of years.

Chapter 1: What are the meanings of SoTL and how might SoTL specifically apply to university systemwide settings?
Chapters 2-6: Written by the Carolina, Colorado, Miami-Dade, New York, and Wisconsin groups.
Chapter 7: Discussion of what the cluster has learned that would be useful to other institutions.

It goes without saying that these titles and organization are not set in anything yet, least of all stone.