2023 Teaching Workshops
For Early-Career Faculty at Small Liberal Arts Colleges
The Nielsen Center Teaching Workshop for Early-Career Faculty fosters a sustained faculty learning community over successive workshop weekends. Workshop Fellows reflect on their vocation, context, and teaching practices and develop teaching strategies that nurture transformative student learning.
In a spirit of adventurous exploration, Workshop Fellows build their capacity to understand and articulate the goals of a liberal arts education, cultivating self-awareness, self-expression, and personal growth.
Accommodations and travel are paid. Workshop Fellows also receive a $200 honorarium for each of the three weekends of the workshop.
Workshop Meetings
Workshop cohorts gather for three successive meetings in the calendar year: four-day weekends in winter, early summer, and late fall. Full participation in every session in all three gatherings is essential to the success of the workshop experience. Read our Statement on Full Participation.
Questions?
Email nielsencenter@eckerd.edu
Workshop Dates
Apply to join one of these two workshop cohorts:
COHORT 1:
- January 26-29, 2023;
- June 1-4, 2023;
- November 9-12, 2023
COHORT 2:
- February 2-5, 2023;
- June 8-11, 2023;
- November 30–December 3, 2023
Applicants should apply to Cohort 1, Cohort 2, or BOTH (in which case the applicant will be assigned to one of the two cohorts if accepted).
Fellows must commit to attending the full workshop program to which they have been accepted. Each workshop gathering begins on Thursday at 8 a.m. and concludes with lunch on Sunday. Read our Statement on Full Participation.
Applications are due by Monday October 17, 2022. How to apply
Impact & Outcomes
- Personal and professional enhancement and support;
- Deeper and broader knowledge of interdisciplinary liberal arts pedagogies;
- Sustained engagement with diverse academic and personal perspectives;
Over the course of three intensive workshop weekends together, workshop fellows will explore and connect:
- Their intentions and identity as teachers;
- To their classroom teaching practices, course goals, and the design of students’ learning experience;
- To the ideals and processes of a liberal arts education;
- In their specific teaching contexts;
Read more about the curriculum of Nielsen Center workshops for early career faculty.
Eligibility
Faculty in their first few years of teaching in full-time continuing positions at any small liberal arts college in the United States, in any academic field.
Stipend
Workshop Fellows receive full accommodation and travel expenses for the three workshop weekends, as well as an honorarium of $600.
Application Form
Instructions for Applying
The online application form asks for basic contact information, the titles of three courses you regularly teach, and the approximate number of faculty in your department and your institution.
You’ll be prompted to attach three documents:
- A current CV (4 pages maximum). Please label this document “lastname-cv.pdf”;
- A single document with responses to the following four writing prompts. Be sure your name appears on the document and please label this document “lastname-text.pdf”.
- Describe your teaching experience, your teaching context, and your current position in your school’s faculty review process (150 words maximum).
- Describe the discourse about liberal arts education on your campus (150 words maximum).
- Describe and analyze a specific challenge you have experienced in your teaching (150 words maximum).
- Considering your answers to the three previous prompts, describe how you would contribute to this faculty learning community (250 words maximum).
- A letter of support from your department head, division chair, dean, or a person in an analogous position (signed on institutional letterhead, and attached as a .pdf file. Please label this document “lastname-letter.pdf”). Please ask the letter writer to address the following points:
- Please describe your relationship to the candidate.
- Please explain where the candidate is in the faculty review process.
- Please describe the promise the candidate has demonstrated for teaching excellence and future leadership in campus conversations about teaching, the college’s curriculum, and liberal arts education.
