IATS Membersip to participate in a worldwide forum of the scholarship of teaching When you register for a conference, the membership cost is generally included in the registration fee. The first Original Lilly Conference on College Teaching was held in 1980 in Oxford, Ohio, as part of Miami University's Lilly Fellows Program. After the Lilly Endowment funding ended, Milton Cox, conference founder and continuing director, continued the conference on the Miami campus until recent conferences have had over 500 attendees. To make the conference activities available to more people, regional conferences were begun with cosponsorship by Miami University and local colleges and universities. The IATS was formed by participants in the Original Lilly Conference who were interested in expanding the conferences to other areas of the country.
Membership is included in the registration fees for the regional conferences.
Those unable to attend a conference can join directly. Members are encouraged to join in the planning for conferences and to serve as reviewers for IATS publications and conference proposals.