Summer Faculty Institute

Dates for SFI 2021: June 1 - July 2, 2021
Applications for SFI 2021 are due October 2, 2020

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Overview of the Institute

During the Summer Faculty Institute participants converse about and explore elements of teaching, research, and collegiality extending from constructing syllabi to managing preparation-time wisely, from enlisting colleagues as critics of our writing to managing writing-time wisely, from serving on departmental committees to taking part in the conversation about what it means to be a Tier-One Christian University.

Principal Activities

• From the first, emphasizing the importance of generating new insights or knowledge and spreading that new material through research and publication as well as through our teaching.
• Helping participants articulate a plan of coinherence between research and teaching which includes developing a research agenda, a five-year plan for accomplishing that agenda, and ideas about how to integrate teaching and research into a seamless web of productivity.
• Exploring regular daily writing combined with satisfactory, but not excessive, preparation for the classroom.
• Exploring the art of teaching while eliciting insights from participants into teaching and learning and adding insights from experienced teachers as well.
• Providing guidance about the effective use of technology in the classroom.
• Modeling team teaching, and inviting reflections about the process.
• Modeling interdisciplinary teaching, and, again, inviting reflections on the process.
• Discussing collegiality at Baylor and in academe in general.
• Conversing about the notion of service at Baylor: service to the department, to the school, to the university, to the profession, and to the larger community.
• Combining the activities of teaching, scholarship, and mentoring with Christian conceptions of calling or vocation.
• Throughout the five weeks of our meetings, emphasizing the absolute need to manage our time in such a way that enjoyably living one’s own life, especially one’s family life (if applicable), remains a top priority.

Other Information

• Eligibility: SFI is available to full-time faculty with a contract for the upcoming academic year and the expectation of continued employment at Baylor beyond the upcoming academic year.
• Funding: Selected participants are eligible to receive a $10,000 stipend paid in two installments. Stipends are paid to faculty with a 10-month contratct. Employees on 12-month contracts may not receive remuneration for their participation in the SFI.
• Contact: Applications may be obtained by following the link at the top of this page.
• Deadline: Applications are due by 5 p.m. on the designated due date. SFI applications MAY be submitted via hard copy, but we prefer and encourage electronic submission to atl@baylor.edu. (Supervisory endorsements should be scanned or provided to atl@baylor.edu via email from endorsers.)