Provost’s Fellow for Technology
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Each year we award around five outstanding CU-Boulder graduate students with a fellowship of $2500 to support the creation of a digital media-based project. The project must be deployable in the classroom and must advance the teaching of some aspect of the Fellows’ discipline in a unique and useful way. The Provost’s Fellow for Technology collaborates with an off-campus faculty mentor throughout all stages of the project.
Requirements
- Attend at least one PFF site visit on another campus.
- Develop an in-depth digital-media-based classroom project (interactive CD-ROM/DVD, custom software, website, digital video) with a faculty mentor on one of the campuses in the COPFF Network. The project must involve instructional design and be deployable in departmental courses on both campuses.
- Meet periodically with other Provost’s Fellows at meetings organized by the GTP.
- Present current work in web/electronic format at the COPFFN Forum.
- Prepare and submit a Socratic Portfolio to the GTP.
- Agree to fill out the online PFF Fellow Exit Survey and to participate in periodic survey activities, before and after graduation, to help with ongoing PFF assessment.
Application Process
- Submit a letter of application and expression of interest and a tentative plan for a digital-media-based classroom project in coordination with a faculty mentor on another campus. The project must be deployable in departmental courses on both campuses.
- Submit a Curriculum Vitae & current CU transcript (photocopies OK).
- Submit application form.
- Submit signatures from the chair, the graduate advisor of your department, and your thesis director (if applicable) on Department Approval Form.
- Submit a record of participation in GTP activities.
- Submit itemized budget proposal for project expenditures and mileage.
- Meet with the Graduate Teacher Program director and PFF Coordinator to discuss mentorship.
Selection of Candidates
Applications will be reviewed by a faculty panel and selected on the clarity of the plan, goals, and possibility for success, the strength of the students’ academic record, commitment to personal and professional development; and the student’s interest in pursuing an academic career as a faculty member.
Project Parameters
The PFF Coordinator will assist the Provost’s Fellow in identifying a faculty mentor on a campus in the Colorado PFF Network.
The faculty mentor must agree to work with the Provost’s Fellow to develop the digital- media-based classroom project and the Socratic Portfolio and to meet with the Provost’s Fellow regularly for the duration of the project. The faculty mentor will evaluate the Provost’s Fellow’s performance via a written document and will submit it to the GTP at the end of the mentorship.
The Provost’s Fellow will work with the PFF Coordinator and the faculty mentor to develop a project plan. The project must be deployable on both campuses in a lab and/or classroom setting.
Projects must be presented in web/electronic format at the COPFFN Forum during the Spring Semester.
Fellow Responsibilities & Submission of Materials to Graduate Teacher Program
Fellows must complete the mentorship project, mentorship summary report, and Socratic Portfolio. These will count toward certification requirements for Fellows who are interested in pursuing the Professional Development Certificate.
Two copies of the digital-media-based project must be submitted to the Graduate Teacher Program within one month of the end of the mentorship.
All receipts for expenditures, including mileage, must also be submitted.
Copies of the digital-media-based project must be given to participating departments on both campuses.
The Provost’s Fellow’s Socratic portfolio and mentorship report must be submitted to the Graduate Teacher Program within one month of the end of the mentorship.
Provost’s Fellows must respond to the PFF Fellow Exit Survey and further assessment in the future as necessary.
Send a thank-you letter to faculty mentor and cc: the Graduate Teacher Program.
