Community-Engaged Learning Fellows
The Community-Engaged Learning (CEL) Fellows program is a professional development experience that provides an opportunity for selected faculty and staff members to integrate community-engaged learning into their teaching, research and public service work, while becoming recognized campus leaders in community-engaged learning pedagogy and community engagement. The program aims to integrate the philosophy, pedagogy, and process of community-engaged learning into the MSU academic environment. The fellowship includes a $1,000 faculty development award. The CEL Fellows program is supported by the Center for Community-Engaged Learning and the Office of the Provost and Executive Vice President and is open to all MSU faculty and other non-formal teaching staff. Previous experience with or knowledge of community-engaged learning pedagogy is not required.
Benefits of Participation
- Opportunity to exchange ideas with an academically diverse group and learn from the experience of other fellows;
- Individualized assistance to design/revise course syllabus and the tools and resources needed to successfully implement a community-engaged course;
- Connection to community partners and membership in a university-wide academic community engagement network;
- A $1,000 community-engaged learning award to support course development and research.
Program Goals
The Community-Engaged Learning Fellows program is committed to supporting participants in the following endeavors:
- Considering ways to instill diversity, citizenship, leadership, and service into everyday teaching, research and service activities;
- Developing and implementing a community-engaged course or project;
- Becoming part of a core group of faculty leaders engaged in community-engaged learning practice;
- Connecting to the public service sector, MSU Extension and existing community-university partnerships;
- Increasing familiarity and exposure to community-engaged learning and current research;
- Fostering a deeper understanding of the scholarship of engagement;
- Creating multidisciplinary community-engaged learning projects through collaboration with faculty from other disciplines.