Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellowship Program
Vision
The Honors College Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellowship Program integrates the best virtues of American higher education: academic rigor, exemplary teaching, high-quality scholarship, interdisciplinary cooperation, and morally and spiritually grounded purpose. Uniting these aspects of a noble calling, the program aims to represent and renew the finest traditions of undergraduate education.
Aims
- Provide professionally advantageous opportunities to newly-minted PhDs that enhance prospects of placement in competitive tenure-track positions across the country.
- Mentor future faculty in the virtues of integration across disciplines, across scholarship and teaching, and across academic and residential life.
- Give students access to rising scholars from top graduate programs who represent the vanguard of their fields.
- Elevate the national visibility of the Honors College as a leader in undergraduate education of the first rank.
Guidelines
- Appointments are for a non-renewable period of up to two years and are subject to applicable university personnel policies.
- Workload assignment is 75% teaching and 25% research (i.e., 3/3 course load).
- Annual compensation is $52,500 plus benefits.
- Positions are posted and filled through standard, approved search processes coordinated by department chairs.
Description
During the period of their appointment, our post-doctoral teaching fellows are integrated into the academic community of the Honors College, enjoy the benefits of collaborative teaching and scholarly exchange with senior members of the faculty, and gain experience in classroom instruction and informal mentoring of undergraduate honors students. Participation in reading groups and other professional development programming is expected.
While continuing to advance their research in a specialized field, interdisciplinary teaching opportunities enable our post-doctoral teaching fellows to extend their teaching beyond the narrow bounds of specialization. Fellows are also encouraged to explore research and publication of essays of interdisciplinary scope and appeal to non-specialist, public audiences.
Additionally, post-doctoral teaching fellows share in hallmark activities of our Honors Residential College, especially an annual formation series organized by the HRC’s faculty steward. They thereby become familiar with the collaborative structure, goals, and activities of residential college life, designed as it is to integrate the curricular and co-curricular interplay of academic and residential life.
In sum, our post-doctoral teaching fellows benefit from immersion in a community of faculty and students who embody an alternative vision of higher education, a vision that confidently integrates varied disciplines, constructively links scholarship and teaching, and collaboratively unites academic and residential life. To the extent we succeed, fellows will exemplify in their own long-term contributions and leadership the convictions, practices, and ideals essential to reclaiming the best goods of American higher education—namely, the academic, civic, moral, personal, political, and religious virtues essential for fulfilling human life.