The Presidential Chair Fellows Program offers ladder-rank Senate faculty a unique opportunity to improve their teaching and enhance their career development. Each year, ten to twelve faculty members participate in a two-semester series of workshops and seminars focused on teaching and learning.
In 2012-2013, the seminar series will focus on the theme: “What our students are learning—and how we know.” Our goals are to develop a faculty community of teaching practice around this theme and to advance our knowledge more broadly about how to evaluate student learning on the Berkeley campus.
Presidential Chair Fellows will meet in workshop and seminar sessions eight times (once a month) during the course of the academic year. Meetings will include presentations and discussions by Berkeley faculty and staff with expertise in teaching and learning, as well as by the faculty participants themselves. The seminar will be co-led by Professor Anne Baranger (Chemistry) and Professor Rick Kern (French).
The final selection of topics will be determined in consultation with the seminar participants, but will focus on such areas as:
All participants must be scheduled to teach at least one course during the year of their fellowship. Preference will be given to participants who are directly engaged with evaluating student learning in their courses or programs. In order to accommodate as many disciplines as possible, the cohort will be limited to one participant per department.
Each faculty member selected to participate in the program will receive a course improvement grant of $2,000 to be applied to his or her home department account.
Deadline: Thursday, August 2, 2012
Selection of recipients: A selection committee will review the applications and forward its recommendations to the Vice Provost for Teaching, Learning, Academic Planning and Facilities for a final decision. Applicants will be notified by August 23, 2012.
Schedule for the 2012-2013 Program:
September 12
October 10
November 14
December 12
January 23
February 20
March 20
April 17
All meetings will be held on Wednesday's from 12:00 noon -2:00pm in 231 Wheeler Hall.
Call for Applications (Word)
What Presidential Chair Fellows say about the program
Past Presidential Chair Fellows
Good Ideas from the Presidential Chair Fellows
Pedagogy for Policy Analysis and Management [pdf], an article by Presidential Chair Fellow Michael O’Hare
To see what the program has meant to some of the participants, see “Talking teaching, pondering pedagogy”
The Presidential Chair Fellows program gives faculty the chance to discuss what matters most
“The Berkleyan,” December 2, 2005