The PCF program provides an opportunity for individual faculty members, both Senate and non-Senate, to improve our collective understanding of undergraduate education through the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL). The Center for Teaching & Learning (CTL) is seeking applications from interested faculty who desire to study the impacts of teaching design on advancing student learning through a SoTL study in partnership with the staff at CTL. The program will award up to eight (8) individual fellows with grants of maximum $10,000 per year for two years (up to $20,000 total) to support SoTL research beginning June 2, 2025.
Funds are intended to empower individual faculty from different academic departments to engage in SoTL, especially where such work has not previously been done. In the process of this SoTL inquiry, faculty are expected to engage in the design and implementation of a complete research study on undergraduate student-centered teaching and learning.
Prior experience or engagement in SoTL is not required to be competitive for this program. In close collaboration with the assigned mentor and other staff in CTL, selected Fellows will continue to build SoTL expertise and develop the design of their proposed study.
The PCF program is financially supported by the The Presidential Chair Fund, stewarded by the Center for Teaching & Learning.
