CETR Names Four Gaultier Fellows for 2015-2016

The Center for Community-Engaged Teaching and Research (CETR) has announced its 2015-2016 Gaultier Community-Engaged Teaching Fellowship class, including the inaugural Gaultier Graduate Fellowship.

The fellowship, which is sponsored by CETR and the Office of the Provost, is awarded annually to faculty in recognition of their mastery of community-engaged teaching and is focused on a different theme each year. For this year’s theme, aligned course design, the winners demonstrated strengths in aligning their student learning objectives, community engagement experiences, critical reflection and student learning assessment.

The 2015-2016 awardees include:

Dr. Erik Garrett, associate professor in the McAnulty College and Graduate School of Liberal Arts, who worked collaboratively with community partners to design project-based community engagement for upper-level students.

Dr. Kenneth Havrilla, assistant professor and assistant director of clinical education in the Rangos School of Health Sciences, who used personal observational tools such as windshield surveys to help students understand the communities in which potential patients live.

Dr. Patricia Sheahan, adjunct professor in the School of Education, who used artistic representations of inequality to help students understand theories of social justice and speak to how injustices can be addressed.

In the coming year the fellows will serve as resources for other faculty by sharing their strategies for deepening students’ community-engaged learning.

This year marks the first time that CETR has awarded a Gaultier Graduate Fellowship. Autumn Redcross, a doctoral student in the rhetoric program, will work with a cross-disciplinary group of faculty and graduate students to guide democratic dialogues and restorative practice work at Pittsburgh Minadeo PreK-5 School in Squirrel Hill.

Dr. Lina Dostilio, director of CETR, believes that the new graduate fellowship will enrich the variety of ideas within the cohort of fellows.

“The diversity among fellows is important,” Dostilio said. “Mastery of community-engaged teaching and learning can be found across the teaching ranks at Duquesne: tenured and tenure-track faculty, clinical faculty, adjunct faculty and graduate instructors. I’m especially proud this year to establish the graduate fellowship. It will help us to harness the fresh ideas and energy of future faculty who gravitate toward Duquesne’s community-engaged identity.”

For more information on the Gaultier Community-Engaged Teaching Fellowship or the Gaultier Graduate Fellowship, contact CETR at 412.396.5893.