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KsCC Engaged Faculty Fellows

The KsCC Engaged Faculty Fellows program is a year-long learning community experience. Selected individuals will serve a one-year term as part of a cohort of up to three faculty members. The program serves as a faculty professional development model to support the integration of service-learning and community engagement into the three components of faculty development: teaching, research, and service.

The overall goals of the program include:

Supporting faculty in the practice of the scholarship of engagement;
Building a strong and productive social and intellectual network of like-minded scholars in Kansas.

Each year, there is a specific topic on which the Fellows will focus their collaborative research.

For 2011-2012, the topic is: Assessing the impact of civic engagement and service-learning in Kansas higher education.

KsCC Engaged Faculty Fellows will:

Research: The Fellows will work as a team to develop a research project to enhance and advance the field of service-learning and community engagement related to the annual theme. The outcome of this research will be a publishable paper for one of several possible peer-reviewed publications, assisted by KsCC.
Teach: Each Fellow will develop (or modify) and teach at least one new course using engaged pedagogy within the program period at your respective institution during the 2011-2012 term (fall, spring, summer, or inter-session). The syllabus and an evaluation of the course will be shared throughout the KsCC network and may provide additional avenues for publishable material.
Service: Each Fellow will serve as a champion on their campus for the advancement of engaged research and teaching. While this may take various forms depending on the culture of the individual institution, each Fellow will be a proactive voice for service-learning and engagement among other interested faculty.

Each KsCC Engaged Faculty Fellow will be awarded a $7,500 grant from KsCC to apply toward their own teaching and research endeavors.

Download the application here. Nominations are due by August 5, 2011.