Time to apply for 2000-2001 Ida Beam Visiting Professorships

Past visits by distinguished teachers and scholars from the United States and abroad greatly enrich our instructional and research programs. The Ida Cordelia Beam visiting professorships are a source of intellectual stimulation for students and faculty and provide an opportunity to bring new perspectives in knowledge and teaching to our campus.

I. Nominations should ordinarily be limited to individuals who are likely to have an impact in the liberal arts field or in areas where professional specialties interact with liberal studies. The nominee should be a teacher and scholar of distinction who will offer something new and interesting to undergraduates as well as to graduate students and colleagues. Sponsoring departments should also arrange for a public lecture so that students and faculty in other disciplines participate in the exchange of ideas.

II. Departments and programs may nominate distinguished individuals from this country or abroad. They may be either within a discipline or persons whose major contributions would be interdisciplinary. For example, visitors with interest in the area of human rights could contribute to a wide variety of departments and programs and, in fact, would be stimulating to the total University community. Accordingly, nominations may originate within a department or an interdisciplinary program or may be jointly sponsored by more than one unit.

III. Nominations may be for an individual to visit for varying lengths of time ranging from a few days to a month, or more rarely, a full semester. Short-term visits are often easier to arrange. They also allow the support of more visiting professor appointments and thus provide broader representation of interest areas within the resources available to this program. Faculty members are encouraged to look for opportunities to invite distinguished visiting scholars from abroad who are already expected to be in the country.

IV. In making nominations, departments and programs are reminded of the University’s commitment to broaden and enrich our intellectual climate through the participation of women and members of racial or ethnic minority groups.

V. Ida Cordelia Beam professors will hold visiting appointments in the department or program sponsoring them.

Nomination information is also available on line at www.uiowa.edu/~provost/facpgms/idabeam.htm