Faculty Fellows Program
The Faculty Fellows for Service Learning program provides faculty with a year-long service-learning mentoring experience. Tools and resources needed to successfully integrate service into the curriculum in an educational and meaningful way are faculty-centered so that all faculty progress at their own pace. The program consists of service-learning seminars held during the fall and spring semesters, with visits from national service-learning consultants. Immersion in service-learning literature and strategies and integration of academically rigorous service learning focus faculty’s attention to implementing projects, that are transformative and sustainable. During the second semester in the program, faculty are required to implement service learning; submit a local, state, or national presentation; and work toward creating a manuscript for publication on the pedagogy of service learning.
Faculty Fellows learn theories, implementation, and assessment associated with academic service learning as they integrate this methodology into one of their courses in the semester. They complete the year with a revised syllabus, membership in a university-wide service-learning learning community, relationships with community partners, and knowledge, skill, and support in taking service learning to the level of scholarship.
Collegiality is one of the highlights of the Faculty Fellows experience. Faculty are offered extended opportunities to meet, discuss, and share in small/large group settings as they participate in nurturing their growth in service to their community and knowledge of the process. This all happens in a safe mentoring environment. Through this interaction, Faculty Fellows form sustainable partnerships and supportive networks and opportunities to continuing engaging in collaborative, community-based research and scholarship.
Please contact the Center for Community Service Learning director at theriot@uta.edu or (817) 272-2124 for information.