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Faculty Fellows

Download application form here: Faculty Fellows Application
Program beginning Fall 2009.

Purpose of the Program: to foster excellence in teaching and learning throughout Baylor University by bringing selected Baylor faculty into an intensive time of conversation, research, and project support aimed at transforming one or more areas of their teaching.

The term of the fellowship will typically last one academic year. Fellows must be full-time faculty at Baylor University. Fellows will receive one course release per semester from their usual teaching responsibilities, with that time reassigned to their work as Fellows in the ATL. Course releases may be paid for by the ATL ("at-large" Fellows) or by the home department, program, or division ("sponsored" Fellows). If circumstances warrant, the fellowship period may be one semester only, or a summer only, or some combination of academic year and summer term.

Fellows' projects will vary by discipline and inclination, but each Fellow's activity in the program will include these elements:

• Participating in ATL programs such as Seminars for Excellence in Teaching and Faculty Inquiry Groups.
• Sharing their learning during the fellowship period through weekly meetings, regular blogging, collaborative writing and resource-building, and other informal on- and offline interactions.
• Exploring how information and communication technologies can be integrated effectively into their teaching and learning.
• Presenting some aspect of their fellowship project in a showcase event.
• Assessing the effectiveness of their project. The assessment methods and instruments will be designed by the Fellow in collaboration with the ATL and the Fellow's cohort.

In addition to these minimum requirements, Fellows also will be encouraged to share their work at regional and national conferences, to seek grant money to sustain and expand their projects after the fellowship period, and to publish their work in either disciplinary journals or journals of the scholarship of teaching and learning.

While the Faculty Fellows application asks for potential Fellows to describe the area(s) of their teaching they'd like to transform, it does not ask for an exhaustively specified project description. The strategy here is to encourage Fellows to generate their specific projects within the reflection, conversation, and research of the early days of the fellowship period.

The Academy for Teaching and Learning is dedicated to shared inquiry and transformative conversations in the service of integrative learning. The Faculty Fellows program is an important part of this commitment. Our hope is that each cohort of Fellows will build on the work of previous cohorts, as well as explore new areas of research, innovation, and leadership in teaching and learning at Baylor University.