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Dean’s Faculty Teaching Fellowship

The Dean’s Faculty Teaching Fellowship Program recognizes outstanding achievement and innovation in teaching and learning and a dedication to the success of students, exemplifying the College’s teaching mission, and supports these exemplars in sharing their strategies.

Description

  • The College will support up to two Dean’s Faculty Teaching Fellows.
  • The Fellowship awards a $5,000 stipend (academic-year supplemental pay)
  • The Fellowship expectations include:
    • Fellows will contribute to the College’s Teaching Mission by creating a Fellowship Project, which will include two activities such as:
      • Mentoring CHHS faculty to enhance teaching excellence within their department/school, collaboratively across several CHHS academic units, or on a collegewide level.
      • Providing specific professional development opportunities for CHHS faculty focused on the TILT Teaching Effectiveness Framework.
      • Implementing a faculty mentoring program similar to TILT Teaching Squares that can be scaled across the College.
      • Other innovative plans for the Teaching Fellows to demonstrate leadership and advance the college’s teaching mission to positively influence student success.
    • Fellows will present their Fellowship Project at the 2025 CHHS Teaching Colloquium.

Dean’s Faculty Teaching Fellowship Proposal

Eligibility

Faculty members involved in teaching across any format, including face-to-face, virtual, hybrid, or lab may be nominated for the CHHS Teaching Fellowship. Nominees must demonstrate evidence of promoting teaching excellence and positively affecting student success. The evidence must include the following:

  • Evidence of sustained application of domains of the Teaching Effectiveness Framework to improve student success and learning.
  • Strong record of implementing instructional innovations. This may include technology, learning assistants, peer mentoring/tutoring, active learning experiences, or other instructional innovations.
  • Leadership and record of impact in mentoring other faculty in teaching and learning excellence influencing student learning and success.

Selection

The Dean’s Executive Committee will review the proposals, and the Dean will make the final selection by the end of Spring semester. The college plans to support up to two teaching fellowships in the 2024-2025 academic year.

Proposal Guidelines

  • The deadline for proposals was 5 p.m. on Monday, April 8, 2024.
  • Please submit the proposal packet via email to lee.nagle@colostate.edu.
  • All proposal packets must be in 12-point font with 1” margins. Proposals that do not meet these formatting guidelines or are not submitted by the deadline will not be reviewed.
  • The proposal packet must include the following components as a single PDF:
    • Nomination Letter from a Department Head/School Director or proxy, addressing the nominee’s record of promoting teaching excellence, positively affecting student success, and leadership in these areas (2-pg max).
    • Nominee’s Fellowship Project Proposal (two activities) for advancing the College’s teaching mission (2-pg max).
    • Nominee’s CV.

Contacts

Please contact Jen Aberle or Matt Hickey with questions.

2024-2025 Dean's Faculty Teaching Fellows

Julie Taylor-Massey – Human Development and Family Studies
Molly Gutilla – Health and Exercise Science

2023-2024 Dean's Faculty Teaching Fellows

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