Gaultier Community-Engaged Teaching Fellowship Deadline Approaches

Faculty are invited to apply for a 2016-17 Gaultier Community-Engaged Teaching Fellowship. Sponsored by the Center for Community-Engaged Teaching and Research (CETR), the application deadline is Friday, April 1.

The Gaultier fellowship recognizes a Duquesne faculty member for mastery in community-engaged teaching. Fellows will be selected based upon the ability to demonstrate innovative and promising strategies to prepare students for effective community-engaged learning, according to Dr. Lina Dostilio, CETR director.

The 2016-2017 theme, Preparing Students for Effective Community-Engaged Learning, is anticipated to help facilitate the leap that brings academic classroom work alive in the community.

“This year’s theme is designed to help faculty prepare students who have not been properly introduced to the rationale for community-engaged teaching,” said Dostilio.

The goals will be to help other faculty:

• Provide strategies that will orient students to the history and culture of the community or environment in which they will be working
• Prepare students for the community-based tasks they have been assigned
• Give students opportunities to develop emerging levels of intercultural and intellectual humility
• Equip students for the logistics of working in the community, such as taking public transportation
• Facilitate the struggle to grasp the full benefit of community-engaged learning experiences.

For more information on the application process, visit the CETR website.