Gateway Fellowships
Gateway fellowships
Liberal Arts Gateway Course Redesign
Model One: For Departments with Existing Liberal Arts Gateway (LAG) Committees
Note: Fellowship level one applies to those faculty who are new to the LAG course redesign process. Learn more about the (LAG).
Upon acceptance into the program, level one fellows will join a LAG Community of Practice in their individual disciplines. Working with colleagues, faculty will familiarize themselves with the LAG philosophy, attend three meetings a semester, engage in peer-to-peer observations, and redesign a course of their choice over two semesters.
Deliverables
At the end of the course redesign process, individual faculty must submit the following:
- a reflection that includes an articulation of how the redesigned course meets foundational LAG principles,
- a course description,
- an assignment/class activity that aligns with the LAG disciplinary toolkit.
Faculty will be certified as a LAG course instructor, and the course will appear on the course schedule with a unique title
Teaching Communities Option for faculty who are already part of the LAG in their disciplines.
To design and implement contextualized courses in partnership with faculty from another discipline in the College. For example, a teaching community could develop a composition course with a health sciences or workforce major focus.
Length: Two semesters
Stipend: $400/semester
Applications Currently Closed: The application process opens in the spring for LAG.
Model Two: For Departments without a Liberal Arts Gateway Committee
Identify a small cohort of faculty (three to five members) who are interested in creating a LAG committee in your individual discipline.
Under the guidance of the LAG Oversight Committee, participate in the establishment of a discipline LAG Committee, establish guiding principles, and create an application and review process for new LAG courses your discipline.
Deliverables
- Establish discipline-specific course design principles/guidelines
- Develop course proposal application and review process
- Pilot courses using LAG redesign principles in the discipline
- Participate in departmental LAG committee
- Training and preparation
- Discipline-specific course design principles
- Application and review process
- Mentor/apprentice with LAG faculty
Once the LAG Committee has been established in the individual discipline, level one fellowships will revert to model one in individual disciplines (see above).
Length: Two semesters
Stipend: $400/semester
To learn more about and apply for a level one fellowship in your individual discipline, visit the LAG page.
Successful completion of level one establishes eligibility for level two fellowship (application required).
Faculty Fellowship
LAG faculty serve in the role of Community of Practice facilitators for cohorts of LAG faculty. In lieu of the facilitator role, level two fellows also have the option of taking on special projects that may include conducting research within their teaching practice that leads to course enhancements, developing training modules, writing grant proposals, etc.
Prerequisites: Successful completion of a level one fellowship.
Deliverables include
- Research within the teaching practice leading to course and pedagogical enhancements
- Lead a LAG Community of Practice
- Develop disciplinary toolkit
- Develop assignments/activities that are aligned with the discipline toolkit.
- Perform functions/tasks including but not limited to:
- facilitation of LAG Communities of Practice
- mentoring new LAG professors
- present/consult with other departments
- curate student work for archiving, promotion, and data collection/analysis
- leading workshops, creating training modules, etc.
- Lead year-long special projects for the LAG Program in the discipline. For example, LAG level two fellows in Composition & Literary Studies (CLS) established Curiositas, the student academic journal that showcases student academic work completed at ACC. Another level two fellow developed a training module on making the classroom and courses more equitable in addition to creating an Inclusive and Respectful Language: A Starter Guide handout that CLS faculty are already using in their classrooms.
- Create a research proposal in consultation with the LAG Oversight Committee (required for level three eligibility)
Length: One-year appointment
Stipend: $600/semester
Applications Currently Closed: The application process opens in the spring for LAG.
Successful completion of level two establishes eligibility for level three fellowship (Application Required).
Senior Fellowship
The focus of the Senior Fellow is to conduct higher-order research leading to outward-facing products.
Deliverables:
- Serve as rotating member of the LAG Oversight Committee
- Complete and publish results of a research project
- Functions/tasks including but not limited to:
- Process facilitator for the LAG data collection/analysis
- Mentor second-year fellows
Length: Two-year appointment
Stipend: TBD
Contact
For questions about the Liberal Arts Gateway Faculty Fellowship, please email Chris Berni: cberni@austincc.edu. If you want to receive a reminder for faculty fellowships, please subscribe here.