Dear Colleagues,
I am writing to offer students of doctoral programs a unique and exciting professional development opportunity. The OBTS Teaching Society for Management Educators hosts a Doctoral Institute each year, prior to the OBTC Teaching Conference for Management Educators, and we would like to encourage doctoral students to apply for a competitive scholarship to attend.
The mission of the OBTS Teaching Society for Management Educators is to enhance the quality and promote the importance of teaching and learning across the management disciplines. We understand the investment made from institutions preparing students to be excellent scholars, and we want to help those institutions prepare them to be exceptional teachers as well.
The OBTC Doctoral Institute is a one-day, pre-conference workshop dedicated to providing promising new teacher-scholars from research-oriented doctoral programs with professional development in the area of teaching excellence. Doctoral Institute participants will experience close interpersonal interaction with prominent management scholars who have been successful in balancing the demands of teaching, research, service, and personal life.
The 2016 OBTC Doctoral Institute will be held at Walsh University in North Canton, Ohio. The Doctoral Institute will begin on Tuesday afternoon, June 7, and will end prior to the start of the OBTC on the evening of Wednesday, June 8. Additional Doctoral Institute focused sessions are anticipated to be included within the general conference schedule. We encourage students to attend the OBTC as well, which will conclude on Saturday afternoon, June 8.
Full scholarships with travel assistance will be offered. Scholarship recipients will receive the following:
- Registration for the one-day Doctoral Institute and the following four-day Teaching Conference
- $200 in travel assistance (check received at conference)
- All meals, dormitory housing, and social activities for the Doctoral Institute and the Teaching Conference
- Membership in OBTS for one year with member access at OBTS.org
- A one-year subscription to the award-winning Journal of Management Education and Management Teaching Review
- Presentation opportunity – as part of the Doctoral Institute, participants will jointly prepare a conference presentation to be delivered by the group on Saturday of the Teaching Conference with all Doctoral Institute attendees listed in the conference proceedings as a presenter
I encourage candidates to apply for a competitive scholarship by March 1st. For more information about the Doctoral Institute and the Doctoral Institute Scholarship, please visit http://obts.org/content/doctoral-institute or contact Barbara Ritter, Doctoral Institute Chair, at obts@obts.org. We look forward to continuing our assistance in the professional development of doctoral students!
Sincerely,
Barbara A. Ritter, Ph.D.
Dean, E. Craig Wall Sr. College of Business Administration
Coastal Carolina University
843-349-2071