Workshop Application

2023 Workshop for Early Career Faculty

Instructions for Applying

Workshop Dates

Apply to join one of these two workshop cohorts:

COHORT 1:

January 26-29, 2023
May 4-7 2023;
November 9-12, 2023

COHORT 2:

February 2-5, 2023;
June 8-11, 2023;
November 30–Dec 3, 2023

Applicants must select to apply to Cohort 1 or Cohort 2, or to BOTH. In either case, Workshop Fellows must commit to attending the full program of all three of the cohort gatherings to which they have been accepted. Each workshop begins on Thursday at 8 a.m. and concludes with lunch on Sunday. Read our Statement on Full Participation.

Applications are due September 30, 2022.

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:

1. 1. A current CV (4 pages maximum). Please label this document “lastname-cv.pdf”;
  2. 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).
  3. 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.

Online Application Form

Step 1 of 4

Which Workshop Cohort are you applying for?(Required)

Cohort 1 (January 26-29, June 1-4, November 9-12, 2023)

Cohort 2 (February 2-5, June 8-11, November 30 - Dec 3, 2023)

Both Cohort 1 and Cohort 2

Name(Required)

First Last

Email(Required)

Please list the title of three courses that you regularly teach and the level of each.(Required)

What is the approximate number of faculty in your department (or division) and in your institution?(Required)

Current CV(Required)

Max. file size: 2 MB.

Writing Prompts(Required)

Max. file size: 2 MB.

A single document with responses to the following 4 writing prompts: a) Describe your teaching experience, your teaching context, and your current position in your school's faculty review process. 150 words maximum; b) Describe the discourse about liberal arts education on your campus. 150 words maximum; c) Describe and analyze a specific challenge you have experienced in your teaching. 150 words maximum, d) Considering your answers to the three previous prompts, describe how you would contribute to this faculty learning community. 250 words maximum. -- Please label this document [lastname]-text.pdf

Letter of support(Required)

Max. file size: 2 MB.

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 ask the letter writer to address the following points: a) Please describe your relationship to the candidate. b) Please explain where the candidate is in the faculty review process. c) 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. -- Please label this document [lastname]-letter.pdf

Statement on Full Participation(Required)

I have read and agree to the Statement on Full Participation

Statement on Full Participation
The Nielsen Center for the Liberal Arts at Eckerd College is committed to providing a hospitable environment for sustained conversation about good teaching. Our programs are most effective when a particular tone and community have been established in a workshop group. We pay particular attention to the dynamics by which a group of participants is transformed into a faculty learning community. We have developed this statement to emphasize the importance of this aspect of our programming and to solicit your commitment to these principles should you be selected for a workshop fellowship.

The sustained conversation and quality of community fostered by our workshops begins with the opening meeting, develops in day and evening sessions as well as during social occasions, and culminates in closing events on the last day. The social connections made between sessions are often as important as the structured interactions that take place during workshop sessions.

Therefore, it is important that participants attend and participate in every session from beginning to end, and make the time and emotional commitment to engage in the life of the learning community. Late arrivals and early departures, as well as the presence of friends or accompanying family, distract participants’ focus from their immersion in the workshop and compromise the process for everyone. We thus expect full participation of every workshop participant, from beginning to end of each session. We do not allow family members or friends to accompany workshop participants to campus.

That said, we recognize that there can be special circumstances that draw one’s attention and presence from the workshop community. Should extenuating circumstances arise, please contact the Director of the Nielsen Center immediately. Should you have any special needs or require specific arrangements, please make those known to us at your earliest opportunity and we will make every effort to accommodate them. If conflicting plans or a family emergency inhibit your full participation, you may need to withdraw from the workshop. We are committed to doing whatever we can to ensure the full participation of our workshop fellows.

Workshop Application

Instructions for Applying

Workshop Dates

Apply to join one of these two workshop cohorts:

COHORT 1:

COHORT 2:

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.

Online Application Form

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