Published: July 15, 2019

The New Assistant Professor Program (NAPP), a dimension and outreach of the Faculty Teaching Excellence Program (FTEP), is opening the program to all postdoctoral scholars at CU Boulder in August 2019. This is a program designed for early-career faculty and is a terrific professional development opportunity for postdoctoral scholars.

Committed to intellectual inquiry, the New Assistant Professor Program:

  • highlights issues that are of singular importance to NAPP faculty’s success both academically, socially and professionally
  • mobilizes research around faculty excellence in teaching, which asserts that skills can be learned and translated into clear practical implications for university classrooms
  • provides an opportunity to build professional relationships within a faculty’s own discipline and across disciplines
  • benefits the university, a diverse body of faculty and students, by teaching faculty the tools, skills, and capacities required for inclusive, engaged student learning and for addressing contemporary challenges in today’s classrooms

Benefits offered to NAPP participants include:

  • The Monday Morning Epistle, a weekly correspondence that includes synopses of seminal evidence-research in teaching & learning, and other features such as updates on deadlines, FTEP services and events, and important information for new faculty.
  • The NAPP Course Development Grant for the Advancement of Teaching & Learning, a competitive $4,000 summer grant for NAPP faculty who wish to reimagine and improve their undergraduate courses by incorporating discipline-specific research to increase engaged student learning. Look for the official request for proposals in the fall.
  • The NAPP Certificate of Completion, signed by the Dean of your School or College, for completing 6 or more FTEP symposia, short courses and/or one-on-one consultation services over the course of the academic year.
  • NAPP-only socials events: Gather with your peers for a series of informal social events in both fall and spring.
  • Special Invitation to the Summer Assessment Institute: Achieving Course Goals and Gathering Evidence about Student Learning: Each summer, FTEP offers an Assessment Institute for faculty on Achieving Course Goals and Gathering Evidence About Student Learning. Faculty are nominated by their department chairs to participate in this week-long event.
  • Early Career Faculty Program (ECFP) events and mentoring sessions, organized by college and discipline and scheduled by your ECFP director. Your ECFP director will contact you in early September.

For any questions, please email Elizabeth Deacon with FTEP at elizabeth.deacon@colorado.edu.