CEI Fellowship

The Critical Dialogues in Teaching and Learning are made possible, via the 2019 CEI Faculty Teaching Fellowship at UMD, by the University of Minnesota Center for Educational Innovation .

In 2017 the CEI developed a system-wide strategic plan through collaboration with faculty, staff and administrators on the University's Crookston, Duluth, Morris, and Rochester campuses. Based on that work, and as part of its system-wide expanded support plan, the CEI is offering 2019 calendar-year Faculty Teaching Fellowships those campuses. The initiative helps CEI advance the second goal of its strategic plan:

Adopt a more intentional and expanded system-wide approach in our planning and delivery of programs, services, and resources in order to meet the specific pedagogical and curricular needs of each University campus.

The purpose of the CEI Faculty Teaching Fellowship initiative is to support each campus in achieving educational priorities articulated during CEI spring 2018 needs assessment meetings with campus leaders. During the Fellowship period, each Faculty Teaching Fellow will collaborate with CEI staff members, faculty members on other system campuses, and colleagues who provice professional teaching development opportunities on their own campuses. The CEI Teaching Fellow at UMD, Dr. Chris Godsey, will work closely with the UMD Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning Director Brian Gute and Associate Vice Chancellor for Undergraduate Education Dr. Gerald Pepper.

CEI will consider the Fellowship program successful if it meets campus educational priorities results in long-term plans for sustaining similar programs and initiatives.