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College of Health and Human Sciences

Dean’s Faculty Teaching Fellowship

Submit an application to serve as a Faculty Teaching Fellow.

Grant Application Deadline To Be Announced Dean’s Faculty Teaching Fellowship Application

The College of Health and Human Sciences is pleased to announce the Dean’s Faculty Teaching Fellowship call for nominations for the 2023-2024 academic year. CHHS Dean’s Faculty Teaching Fellows demonstrate excellence and innovation in teaching and learning and serve as exemplars for the College’s teaching mission.

Description of Faculty Teaching Fellows Program:

  • The College will support up to two (2) annual Faculty Teaching Fellows.
  • The fellowship provides $5,000 (as academic year supplemental pay) to recognize excellence in pursuit of the unit, college, and institutional teaching and learning mission.
  • Evidence of promoting teaching excellence and positively affecting student success demonstrated by one or more of the following:
    • Application of two or more domains of the Teaching Effectiveness Framework to improve student success and learning.
    • Strong Record of implementing instructional innovation (technology, peer learning assistants, active learning experiences, etc.)
    • Sustained excellence and innovation in mentoring early career faculty in teaching.
    • Other examples of excellence in the teaching mission related to student success.

Eligibility:  All faculty involved in classroom teaching across any format (virtual, f2f, hybrid, lab) are eligible to be nominated for the CHHS Teaching Fellowship. 

Expectations of CHHS Faculty Teaching Fellows

Expectations

  • Present a poster or give a talk about teaching effectiveness and student success innovations at the 2024 CHHS Research Day.
  • Contribute to the College’s Teaching Mission by offering workshops, mentoring opportunities, or professional development experience in two of the following ways:
    • Mentoring teaching excellence in their unit, in collaboration with other units, or across the college.
    • Provide a workshop and professional development opportunity for faculty in the college.
    • Develop practice and procedures for the mentoring of teaching excellence to be shared with the college.
    • Develop mentoring of peer development programs (akin to Teaching Squares) that could be scaled across the college.
    • Other innovative Teaching Fellows leadership examples that will contribute to the college’s teaching mission.

Grant Application Deadline To Be Announced How to Apply

Applications and Guidelines

Please submit applications via email to lee.nagle@colostate.edu. All nomination packets must be 12-point Times New Roman font, with 1” margins.  Proposals that do not meet these formatting guidelines will not be reviewed. Applications must include (as a single PDF):

  • Nomination Letter (unit head or faculty colleague) addressing faculty’s record of promoting teaching excellence and positively affecting student success (2-page max)
  • Nominee’s CV
  • Nominee’s Plan for contributing to the college teaching mission. (1-page max)

Selection

Executive Committee

Nominations will be reviewed by College Executive Committee. The Dean will make final decisions.

Number of Awards Granted

The college anticipates supporting up to two (2) teaching fellows at $5,000 each in the 2023-2024 academic year.

2023-2024 Dean's Faculty Teaching Fellows

Ashley Harvey – Human Development and Family Studies
Leann Kaiser – School of Education