Early-Career Teaching Fellows Program
Supporting Early-Career Faculty in Teaching Excellence
Are you navigating your first years of university teaching? Would you benefit from connecting with colleagues who understand the unique challenges of developing effective pedagogy while managing research and service responsibilities? The Early-Career Teaching Fellows Program offers a collaborative space for early-career faculty to strengthen their teaching practice through peer learning and learn strategies for how to document this work for purposes of annual review and promotion down the road.
Application Deadline Sep. 29, 2025
Decisions will be communicated by Oct. 4
How does the program support your teaching development?
Monthly Professional Development Sessions – Our program provides structured learning opportunities focused on practical teaching challenges. You’ll explore course design principles that align with learning objectives, examine inclusive teaching practices and Universal Design for Learning approaches, develop effective assessment and feedback strategies, engage with scholarship of teaching and learning research, and work on teaching portfolio development for career advancement.
All meetings are held on Tuesdays from 3:30-5:00 PM
- October 14, 2025
- November 11, 2025
- December 9, 2025
- January 20, 2026
- February 10, 2026
- March 10, 2026
- April 7, 2026
- May 5, 2026
Collegial Learning Community – The program connects you with faculty from diverse disciplines who share similar career-stage experiences. Through facilitated discussions, you’ll exchange teaching strategies and resources, participate in peer classroom observations with constructive feedback, and engage in reflective practice about your teaching development. Though this program fellows receive assistance with putting together annual review and promotion packets as they relate to teaching.
What does participation involve?
Program Commitments – Participants attend monthly workshops throughout the academic year, engage actively in small group discussions with fellow cohort members, complete two peer teaching observations as both observer and observed, develop components of a teaching portfolio with guidance and feedback, and present insights from your teaching development at a concluding program session.
Professional Benefits – The program offers evidence-based approaches to common teaching challenges, opportunities to build professional relationships across disciplinary boundaries, support in developing teaching documentation for tenure and promotion, and a $500 stipend
Who Should Apply?
We welcome tenure-track assistant professors in their first three years of appointment at CSU or by request and Contract, Continuing, and Adjunct Faculty in their second to forth years. The program is designed for faculty who are committed to teaching effectiveness and interested in learning from colleagues across disciplines.
The program begins October 14, 2025. For questions about the program or application process, contact Dr. Anastasia at [email protected].
Anastasia Williams
Director of Teaching Excellence
Instructional Innovation and Engagement
Contact
Email: [email protected]