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Faculty

Preparing Syllabi for Your First Faculty Job

This working group will support graduates students and postdocs who will be new faculty in the Fall of 2022 and expected to teach their own classes. Starting a new faculty position is stressful and demanding; the CFT hopes to ease this transition by helping graduating doctoral students and postdocs create their needed syllabi in advance…

Posted by on March 15, 2022 in Events, Faculty, Resource, syllabus, working groups,

Faculty Course Design Institute on the Theme of “Teaching Inclusively”

The CFT invites Vanderbilt faculty and graduate students to apply to its 2020 Course Design Institutes. During the three-day institutes, participants will design (or redesign) courses that engage students. The faculty Course Design Institute will be held May 4-6, 2020. The faculty institute is open to all Vanderbilt faculty members, and participants will receive $500 in research funds to be used…

Posted by on March 18, 2020 in CDI, Course Design, course design institute, Events, Faculty

Join the CFT’s Learning Community on Community Engagement Pedagogies

The CFT is proud to continue its programming for faculty and graduate students interested in community engagement pedagogies (often called service learning), with a year-long discussion group or learning community.  As former Vanderbilt faculty Janet Eyler and Dwight E. Giles once stated, service learning is “a form of experiential education where learning occurs through a…

Posted by on September 8, 2015 in Community Engagement, Events, Faculty, graduate students, News, Service-Learning