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College Fellows
What is College Fellows? Watch a multimedia introduction to the program.
Interested in what past Fellows have accomplished? Watch 2009 College Fellows, Terence Fagan and D.I. von Briesen, talk about the EcoBox project. Watch College Fellow, Rita Rodabaugh (2007), present her findings on student perceptions of fairness in the classroom: Part 1 and Part 2.
- Applied Research Fellows
- Learning Fellows
- Community Fellows
The College Fellows Program at CPCC is aimed at finding new ways to enhance learning by providing carefully selected full-time faculty and professional staff with opportunities to pursue both pure and applied research with a clear benefit to the college. There are now three College Fellows tracks: the Learning Fellows track, Applied Research track, and Community Fellows track. As our institution evolves into a learning college, faculty and professional staff now have these opportunities to expand upon traditional approaches to learning. The College Fellows Program will match intellectual innovation with academic need. Applications will be evaluated on a project's perceived benefit to students and faculty, on the project's orginality and on its intellectual merit.
This application will ask what the applicant intends to study/create, the length of the project and the benefits expected, among other questions. The applicant also will be required to demonstrate familiarity with the intended area of study and his/her readiness to proceed, how the project/product will be delivered and the learning outcomes needed to measure instructional effectiveness. The project/product should also demonstrate how it will be able to be replicated in other areas, where appropriate. Special consideration will be given to those projects addressing "learning centered" initiatives. Past fellows will become mentors for new fellows and assume a designated responsibility for maintaining the College Fellows Program.
The College Fellows Program will offer selected full-time faculty and professional staff compensated time to re-engage with their disciplines and to explore and re-investigate what inspired us to become learners in the first place. Rekindling this creative spark is part and parcel of the very same process that drives the entrepreneurial spirit so vital to our college's mission. Fellows will be required to share new information and teaching strategies with the CPCC family via workshops, special presentations, or publication with the CPCC Press, with the Futures Institute and with other professional and trade journals and media outlets. Participating fellows will be designated, for example, a "2006 College Fellow," and this designation may be included on CPCC business cards, division/department listings and in our college catalog. To view previous College Fellows and their research projects, click here.
The College Fellows Committee, comprised of full-time faculty, will evaluate applications and recommend final selections to the Vice President of Instruction.