Sponsored by the Office of Academic Affairs, the Committee on Research, Service, and Faculty Development awards the following teaching and pedagogical fellowships on a competitive basis to tenured and tenure-track faculty:
Summer Pedagogy Fellowships: These fellowships support faculty engagement in pedagogical scholarship in ways that improve the classroom experience, provide models for effective teaching, and pioneer new teaching methods. These projects must result in a scholarly deliverable, such as publication in a teaching-oriented journal or a presentation at a conference, in addition to reporting to colleagues in the following academic year via lunch discussions, Celebration of Scholarship panels, newsletter articles, and/or web postings.
- Category A fellowships ($5,000) provide a stipend for a teaching project on a full-time basis and so the recipient may not teach during any summer session.
- Category B fellowships ($3,500) presume the project is of the quality of Category A, but require less time to complete and so allow faculty members to teach only one course during the summer session. Projects in this category presume the quality of the first, but may require less time to complete.
These fellowships are available to tenured or tenure-track faculty.
Course Development/Enhancement Fellowships: These fellowships are to support new course development (Option A, $2000) or course enhancement with high-impact pedagogy or universal design (Option B, $1000). These fellowships cannot be combined with other course development funds or with a summer pedagogy fellowship.
These fellowships promote the incorporation of new technologies in teaching or research. These projects would have the potential to provide models for effective use of technology in pioneering new pedagogy, new scholarship, or even shifting teaching and scholarship paradigms within the institution. Fellows are expected to work on a technology-based project related to their teaching and/or research. These projects may involve development of a course, course materials, manuscripts and/or development of new technology skills. Fellows may not teach during any summer session.
During the subsequent Fall semester, recipients are expected to implement these technologies and to support university-wide faculty development by assisting their colleagues in adopting or gaining proficiency with these technologies by means of consultation and workshops. Fellows are also expected to present the results of their work via lunch presentations, Celebration of Scholarship panels, newsletter articles, or other institutional venues.
Candidates for the fellowship must have a proven track record of technology use in their teaching and/or research agenda.
Recipients are required to submit a written report on the results of the fellowship to the Interim Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs by October 1 following the award period.
Application deadline is April 2, 2024
The Institute of Catholic Studies offers up to two full course development grants of $3,500 and six partial course development grants of $1,000 to full-time faculty with a record of excellence in teaching who wish to create new courses or redesign current courses. The course should have a focus on the Catholic intellectual tradition and promote serious reflection on the Catholic tradition and its impact on the theories, perspectives, genres, or approaches within the specific discipline. The course should emphasize how Catholicism has informed or shaped the intellectual discourse in the discipline and the culture at large.
Proposals will be evaluated according to the criteria for Catholic Studies designation and the extent to which the Catholic intellectual tradition is an integral part of the course.
Recipients of the grant are permitted to teach one summer course.
Recipients will be required to submit a written report on the results of the grant including a completed syllabus, list of materials and bibliography. The report should be submitted to the Interim Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs by October 1 following the award period. A copy of the report must also be submitted to the Director of the Institute of Catholic Studies.
The Institute of Catholic Studies offers full course development grants of $3,500 and partial course development grants of $1,000 to full-time faculty with a record of excellence in teaching who wish to create and implement new courses or redesign current courses across disciplines that emphasize Jesuit contributions to the disciplines.
Recipients of the grant are permitted to teach one summer course.
Recipients will be required to submit a written report on the results of the grant including a completed syllabus, list of materials and bibliography. The report should be submitted to the Interim Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs by October 1 following the award period. A copy of the report must also be submitted to the Director of the Institute of Catholic Studies.
Writing a syllabus John Carroll has institutional expectations for course syllabi, which are communicated to the faculty via the respective dean's offices. The College of Arts and Sciences model syllabus is here and should also be used as interim guidelines for the College of Health. The Boler School of Business Syllabus Content and Class Management Policies are here.
Assessment Assessment in the classroom falls within the larger need to demonstrate student learning at John Carroll and to identify areas where change is needed by means of the systematic collection, analysis, and dissemination of data. For an explanation of the larger departmental, programmatic, and institutional context of assessment, see the Assessment website, here, or contact Dr. Todd Bruce, Assistant Provost for Institutional Effectiveness (rbruce@jcu.edu) or phone 397-1600. For resources on building assessment into course design, see the Office for Institutional Effectiveness page on Assessment of Student Learning, here.