Faculty Development Fellows
The Faculty Development Fellows Program is designed to provide financial assistance to a faculty member to work on a specific teaching/learning project for one year from April through the following April. The Fellow will explore the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) around that teaching/learning project and will work with CITAL to share what he or she has learned with other faculty.
The award for the fellowship is $3,000. This covers a $2,500 stipend and $500 in faculty development funds to work with other faculty, such as books or meals. In addition, there is another $1,000 available for the Fellow and runners up to attend the annual Midwest Scholarship of Teaching & Learning Conference in South Bend in April.
Potential projects could include:
- Designing a Scholarship of Teaching & Learning project
- Developing pre-class assignments to get students ready to learn
- Creating a Flipped Classroom
- Using technology/social media to create an active learning environment
The Fellow would be expected to do the following:
- Develop and run one faculty development workshop and oversee one other FD activity of your choice (round table, book group, teaching square, FLC)
- Write a blog article on your project
- Attend and offer to present at the April Midwest SoTL Conference in South Bend for two years (once with next year’s fellow)
- Hold regular planning meetings with CITAL
Applications for Faculty Development Fellowships shall be submitted to CITAL. All faculty with the rank of lecturer or above are eligible.
Applications will be reviewed by a committee made up of past Faculty Development Fellows. This committee will then select the next Fellow from among the applications received.