{"id":8466,"date":"2015-10-23T14:42:50","date_gmt":"2015-10-23T19:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/?p=8466"},"modified":"2015-10-23T14:42:50","modified_gmt":"2015-10-23T19:42:50","slug":"bttop-team-effort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/bttop-team-effort\/","title":{"rendered":"Bringing Theory to Practice Is a Team Effort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are pleased to announce that the Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Faculty Development has been honored with a grant from <a href=\"http:\/\/bttop.org\/\">Bringing Theory to Practice<\/a>. The grant will support a one-day seminar on \"Well-Being & Sustainability at Xavier,\" which is planned for Saturday, 23 January 2016, 9:30AM-2:30PM in the Mellon Seminar Room (Library 532B). Please mark your calendars.<\/p>\n<p>We didn't do it alone! This grant proposal was a team effort in collaboration with diverse campus constituencies, including the Mellon Faculty Community of Teaching\u00ad Scholars Fellows, the Xavier Contemplative Inquiry Team, Academic Affairs, Student Services, the Department of Public Health Sciences, the Counseling & Wellness Center, and Campus Ministry.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, <a href=\"http:\/\/xulacat.wikispaces.com\/Bringing+Theory+to+Practice+Grant\">please see our wiki<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are pleased to announce that the Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Faculty Development has been honored with a grant from Bringing Theory to Practice. The grant will support a one-day seminar on \"Well-Being &#038; Sustainability at Xavier,\" which is planned for Saturday, 23 January 2016, 9:30AM-2:30PM in the Mellon Seminar Room (Library <a href=\"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/bttop-team-effort\/\" class=\"more-link\">...continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"Bringing Theory to Practice Is a Team Effort\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[162,306,343],"class_list":{"0":"post-8466","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-integrative","7":"tag-grants","8":"tag-sustainability","9":"tag-well-being","10":"h-entry","11":"hentry","12":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p82MQk-2cy","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":21824,"url":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/november-opportunities-at-catfd\/","url_meta":{"origin":8466,"position":0},"title":"November Opportunities at CAT+FD","author":"Jason S. 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