The Brown Center for Faculty Innovation & Excellence is pleased to announce the fourth annual Brown Innovation Fellows Program.The program celebrates teacher-scholars as learners by offering dedicated time for reflection and strategies to prepare students to lead lives steeped in personal growth, intellectual development, and global citizenship.
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PROGRAM FOCUS: Inclusive Pedagogies
Like many universities, Stetson University’s mission describes an aspiration to grow students into liberally educated citizens with the skills and wisdom to make positive change in their communities. This is a laudable goal, but what does it really mean?
In ancient Greece, a liberally educated person was “classically” trained in the liberal arts, such as grammar, rhetoric, and logic. The Yale Report of 1828 defined a prescribed curriculum “best calculated to teach the art of fixing the attention, directing the train of thought, analyzing a subject proposed for investigation; following, with accurate discrimination, the course of argument; balancing nicely the evidence presented to the judgment; awakening, elevating, and controlling the imagination; arranging, with skill, the treasures which memory gathers; rousing and guiding the powers of genius.” In both cases, this educational model was only available to men with privileged stations in society. In modern times, the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) has lead the charge to redefine liberal education for the 21st century as “an approach to learning that empowers individuals and prepares them to deal with complexity, diversity, and change”, yet many college courses look the same as they would have 20 or 30 years ago.
Are our approaches to teaching and learning keeping pace in an education landscape where student demographics are rapidly changing? How do we fulfill Stetson’s aspiration to “be a diverse community of inclusive excellence” in our classrooms?
Fellows will grapple with these questions and more as a cohort over the course of the academic year. In an effort to model democratic ways of knowing, the program will borrow from the appreciative inquiry model and the un-conference movement in digital humanities where we collaborate to actively create the agenda to develop sessions that are relevant, engaging and respond to the knowledge, interest and goals of participants.
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Application Process
All full-time faculty members at Stetson University are encouraged to apply. Each faculty member should submit their brief (500 word) application through the online form. Please note that we will request support from your chair or direct supervisor for your participation.
Agenda
September 20September 25: Applications Due- September 27: Award notifications made
- September 29: Gathering to establish goals, agenda and select readings/resources and experts to visit campus.
- Monthly meetings to discuss, learn and reflect from November to March. (meeting times will be negotiated)
- April 6: Share learning with campus and beyond at the Brown Fellows Symposium as part of the annual Teaching & Learning Colloquium
Goals
Brown Innovation Fellows will:
- Develop expertise in pedagogical student learning
- Use innovative strategies and technologies to deepen learning
- Educate the campus community on pedagogical strategies and student learning by participating Brown Fellows Symposium as part of the annual Teaching & Learning Colloquium, April 6.
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Eligibility: The program is available to any full-time faculty member who is available to participate fully during the year-long institute and at the Brown Fellows Symposium during the Teaching & Learning Colloquium.
Benefits: The Brown Innovation Fellows Program will engage participants in diverse experiences to expand skill sets for designing courses that foster significant learning experiences by students. Fellows will build knowledge together as a cohort over the course of a year. In addition, each Fellow will receive a stipend of $1,000 to be issued upon completion of the Brown Innovation Institute and submission of a reflective report on their experience.
Questions? We look forward to a number of excellent applications. Questions should be directed to the Brown Center for Faculty Innovation & Excellence.
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