Faculty Teaching Fellows in Support of Faculty Development
Applications now open for 2024-2025!
Call for Faculty Teaching Fellows in the Center for Teaching and Learning for Academic Year 2024-2025
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Applications due: August 10, 2024
Please send an email to Dr. Melissa Shew (melissa.shew@marquette.edu), Associate Director of Teaching Excellence in the CTL, with the subject headline 2024-2025 FACULTY TEACHING FELLOW APPLICATION.
Download a copy of the description here.
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Position description
This is a chance for interested faculty to share their gifts, talents, expertise, and good judgment with others across campus.
The Center for Teaching and Learning seeks applications from faculty in any academic unit on campus for two positions each semester of CTL Faculty Teaching Fellows during the 2024-2025 academic year. Faculty can be tenure stream of any rank/position or participating (nontenure) stream faculty of any rank/position. Faculty Teaching Fellows are expected to work on average 3-5 hours per week from August 20 to the winter Gift of Time in the Fall, and from after the winter Gift of Time until May 20 in the Spring. A stipend of $2000 per semester will be awarded to teach Faculty Teaching Fellow.
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Application details
Along with your CV, please submit a short application (no more than one page single-spaced) that addresses the following questions:
- Why do you want to be a CTL Faculty Teaching Fellow? Specifically, what is it about the mission, identity, vision, or programming of the CTL that speaks to you, and what motivates you to want to work in this way this year?
- How does your experience as an educator and colleague on campus position you well to be a Faculty Teaching Fellow?
- Faculty Teaching Fellows may serve for one semester or two. Please indicate which you would prefer, if given the choice, and if for one semester, please say which (Fall 2024 or Spring 2025).
- What are 2-3 options for signature programming or CTL activity that you think you would like to do next year? (E.g., lead a series of workshops about how to host discussions in large classes, work on inclusive syllabus redesign, facilitate a Community of Practice on a certain topic, etc.)
- What else should we know about you?
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Successful candidates will demonstrate the following qualities
- The ability to curate programming, activities, and/or research that allows them to share their specific gifts and talents regarding teaching and learning with the broader campus community;
- The strong desire to help with faculty consultations and classroom observations, demonstrating confidentiality in consultations and using best practices in observations;
- The ability and willingness to follow through with all consultations and appointments;
- The initiative to help execute the mission and vision of the Center for Teaching and Learning through supporting a range of typical activities it undertakes (e.g., helping run various workshops and series, helping raise the profile of the CTL on campus, leveraging campus contacts to support events, create databases for scholarship, provide outreach to departments and colleges for support);
- General enthusiasm for teaching and learning, self-motivation in reading widely in the scholarship of teaching and learning, and sharing insights for trends and news across campus with the CTL;
- An ability to work on a team, track work for CTL annual reports accurately, and contribute to the intentionally inclusive environment created by the CTL.
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Please see below to learn more about our past fellows:
We understand that making connections and building relationships with other faculty can be an important path to your teaching success. The Center for Teaching & Learning (CTL) wants to provide a mechanism to easily get that support to you in a variety of ways. We want to create opportunities for dialogue and reflection about teaching, foster a sense of faculty community, and provide tangible advice and guidance that can help promote a culture of pedagogical excellence at Marquette University.
The CTL will offer this 2022-2023 academic year one-on-one or group consultations with your fellow faculty that focus on teaching-related needs you may have. Consultations, by appointment, can be about any teaching-related questions; however, below are the most common needs of faculty.
- Scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL)
- General course design
- Community engagement within your class
- Syllabus (re)design
- Student engagement techniques
- Inclusive teaching
- Teaching philosophy statements
- Classroom observations
- Student feedback/MOCES
- Classroom management
- Ignatian pedagogy
- Educational technology
- Group work
- Service learning
Please contact the CTL to make an appointment. We will do our best to match you with a faculty fellow that has expertise in your area of need. You may also consider reviewing the following faculty fellow information to determine if a particular person might meet your needs.
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Ms. Carey is longstanding member of the Marquette community, serving as the internship coordinator for the College of Communication and lecturer of courses that include argumentation and debate; intercultural communication; cross-cultural communication; communication ethics; corporate advocacy, and many more. Sheena serves on many local community boards including Ko-Thi Dance company, Inc., YMCA Black Achievers, in Tandem Theater, Center for the Deaf and hard of Milwaukee and the Wisconsin Women’s Business Initiative Corp. Her research interests include rhetorical and literary criticism, Africana Philosophy, cultural competency and workforce diversity initiatives and organizational development and cultural change.
Ms. Carey is available for:
- Inclusive Teaching
- Teaching large enrollment classes
- Group work
- Case study teaching
- Service learning in the sciences
Dr. Cortés-Vélez is Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies at Marquette University. She specializes in Colonial Latin American literatures and cultures. Her secondary field of research is Puerto Rican literature and culture. She has published several articles on Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz regarding gender, epistemology, philosophy, and theology. She has also published articles on topics such as poetics, gender, sexuality, and race in contemporary Puerto Rican literature.
Dr. Cortés-Vélezis available for:
- Ignatian pedagogy
- Anti-Racist pedagogy
- Vulnerability as a tool for promoting educational equity
- Creativity and artistic approaches as tools for effective learning
- Student-centered teaching strategies
- Latinx pedagogies
- Promoting diversity in the classroom through inclusive teaching practices
Dr. Leah Flack is a professor of English. She has published two books examining why writers across Europe between the World Wars used ancient stories to respond to political and personal crisis and to defend the enduring value of literature. She is currently working with Narrative 4, a global community-engaged storytelling nonprofit organization aimed at building empathetic communities, and she directs Marquette’s N4 efforts. Trained in comparative literary studies, she enjoys teaching a wide range of classes, from ancient epics to James Joyce, the Russian novel, war fiction, and twenty-first century historical fiction. She gravitates to discussions about teaching and is excited to be part of the CTL as a faculty fellow.
She is available for:
- Building community in the classroom.
- Running effective discussions.
- Aligning classroom practices and policies with your values and objectives.
- Building trust and promoting honesty in classrooms.
- Storytelling in the classroom.
- Providing useful feedback on student writing and designing assignments that move past the traditional essay.
- Power-up consultations that help faculty to own their accomplishments in their professional statements for promotion, awards, and publication.
- Supporting faculty interested in experimenting with new pedagogical practices.
- Classroom observations and consultations.
- Collaborative problem-solving for challenging classes.
Mr. Stathus joined the College in the fall of 2010 and is the BUAD in-house academic technology specialist. He works with faculty to improve and develop online learning opportunities for the college.
Mr. Stathus is available for:
- Furthering the use of technology in teaching and learning
