Faculty Scholars

Overview

The purpose of the Faculty Scholars program is to encourage interdisciplinary collaboration across schools for the benefit of SNHU faculty and students. Faculty that apply to be a Faculty Scholar would, for the course of one year would be jointly appointed in two schools, teaching one team-taught course per semester (in load) with another faculty member from another school.

This course can be an existing course or a new special topics course. In addition, this faculty member would attend the other school’s faculty meetings, including department meetings, and would meet with other faculty scholars on a monthly basis to discuss the collaboration. Finally, participants would be asked to discuss the experience in an end of the year Faculty Center sponsored event.

Participants in the Faculty Scholars program will be given priority for Faculty Center Travel Grant in the year they are in the program or the year after they are in the program. We especially would encourage participants to present their experience at a teaching conference.

Timeline

November 15, 2009: Applications due
December 15, 2009: Faculty Center Advisory Committee makes recommendations to the VPAA
January 15, 2010: VPAA announces the appointments
March 30th, 2010: Course must be approved by the sponsoring school curriculum committee
April 30th, 2010: Course must be approved by the University Curriculum Committee (if not a special topics course)
Fall 2010: Joint appointment begins

Application

The applicant should include the following in his/her application:

Statement of support from the deans of both schools and department chairs from the applicants home department and the department in which he/she will be teaching
Letter of support from the sponsoring faculty (who will team-teach the class with him/her)
Description of the course to be offered and a preliminary syllabus
Teaching evaluations from the previous semester
Any other supporting materials the applicant would like to include