In the year of their fellowship, Fellows will:
- Teach two sections (one each semester) of their proposed Honors Foundations
course, to replace one course in their home department each semester,
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Participate in a sequence of interdisciplinary faculty development activities,
- Deliver a public lecture based on their course material, and
- Serve on the committee that selects the next cohort of Honors Faculty Fellows.
In exchange, Honors will compensate the Fellow’s home department at the adjunct replacement
rate for both semesters, and will provide Fellows with a $4,000 course development
stipend in July of the summer before Fellows begin teaching in the program.
Questions should be directed to the Assistant Dean.
Team Teaching
One space in the slate of Honors Foundations Courses will be reserved for a team-teaching proposal. Fellows proposing team-taught courses should include a CV and a chair’s statement of support for each faculty member. Because of the resource-intensive nature of a team-taught course, Honors will compensate both host departments at the adjunct replacement rate, but will split the course development grant in half.
Applications
Applications will be open in Fall 2018 for 2019-2020 Honors Faculty Fellows. Applications, with chair support, will be due to the Honors College by November 15, 2018.
To apply, applicants will submit the following materials:
- A cover letter that outlines:
- the basic course description,
- the faculty member’s qualification to teach the course, and
- an assessment of the niche for such a course, specifically for how the course is NOT currently covered in course offerings of the fellow’s home department or any other relevant department on campus.
- A detailed description of the proposed course that includes:
- A basic outline of the material covered, including key texts;
- A brief description of innovative methods, materials, or activities that the course will employ;
- Identification of any specific community service or leadership components to the course;
- A tentative listing of the section learning outcomes, mapped to the articulated Honors Foundations Course goals;
- A tentative description of how the course will assess section specific learning objectives.
- The applicant’s CV
- A statement of support from the faculty member’s chair, including the standard adjunct replacement cost for that faculty member. This provides a chair the opportunity to decide whether a course might be better run as a special topics section in the department instead of as an Honors Foundations Course, and pull the application if desired. The proposal, therefore, need not ever leave the department if the chair decides that the department is the better home. A department has all the discretion to offer an Honors section of a 293 instead of sending a course through this path.
- Applications should be emailed to Damien Clement ( Damien.Clement@mail.wvu.edu) as a single PDF file.
Courses will be selected along several criteria, including but not limited to:
- Fulfillment of GEF goals
- Commitment to and proposed assessment of LEAP outcomes
- Innovative teaching tactics/ learning activities
- Interdisciplinary learning opportunities
- Integration of leadership and service elements into the course content.
Selection Process
All Honors Foundations Course proposals must first be vetted by the chair in the home department in the statement of support. Chairs of other related departments that may have some curricular overlap will have the opportunity to review proposals during the selection stage.
Except in extraordinary circumstances pre-approved by affected chairs, no more than one faculty fellow will come from any given department within a single cohort.
Efforts will be made to distribute Honors Foundation Course offerings across all six eligible GEF bins (2-7), and across multiple colleges across the university.
Tentative 2019-2020 Honors Faculty Fellows Selection Timeline:
• September 14, 2018: Call for applications for 2018-19 Honors Faculty Fellows
• November 15, 2018: Deadline for Honors Faculty Fellow applications/course proposals. The Assistant Dean will perform an initial review of all applications. If an applicant proposes a course that extends into another discipline, the Assistant Dean will seek sign-off from the chair of the department in question, before reinserting it into the batch of applications. This will be true for any HFC in the future, not just those in the Honors Faculty Fellows program.
• November 30, 2018: Honors Curriculum Committee meets to determine Honors Faculty Fellows, and provides course proposal feedback.
• January 7, 2019: selected Honors Faculty Fellows confirm participation and Honors curriculum committee submits selected courses to Faculty Senate GEF committee for information, ideally by February 2019 Faculty Senate Meeting.
• March, 2019 (estimated): Fall 2019 courses are made visible to students.
• July 2019: Fellows receive summer course development stipend.
• Early August 2019: Fellows meet as a cohort to share course plans and teaching strategies.
• August 2019: Fellows teach first semester of courses.
• November 2019-January 2020: Fellows participate in selection process for next cohort.
• December 2019: Fellows meet to discuss semester and share ideas, successes, tweaks for following semester.
• January 2020: Second semester begins.
• May 2020: Honors Faculty Fellows meet for post-mortem discussion of year, offer feedback on program.
• 2019-20 School year: Honors Faculty Fellows lectures held across the school year.