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Brown/Wheaton Faculty Fellows Program The Brown/Wheaton Faculty Fellows Program, a collaborative program between Brown University and Wheaton College, annually offers advanced graduate students the opportunity to experience faculty life firsthand at a liberal arts college. By teaching a one-semester course at Wheaton and participating in the intellectual life of the college, Brown/Wheaton Faculty Fellows gain a better understanding of the responsibilities and challenges of academic life at a four-year, liberal arts college, which can be markedly different than those at a research institution such as Brown. Beginning in 2009-10, during the term of their appointments, Faculty Fellows will be compensated at the same rate as Brown teaching assistants. Successful applicants to the program will be eligible for an additional semester of funding from the Graduate School, should they need it. Wheaton College is a selective, coeducational liberal arts college of 120 full-time faculty and 1,550 students. Located in nearby Norton, Massachusetts, Wheaton was founded in 1834 as a women's institution and became coeducational in 1987. As with most liberal arts colleges, Wheaton 's educational philosophy is predicated on a close, collaborative relationship between students and faculty. A low student-faculty ratio and small class size (between fifteen and twenty) means students know their professors as teachers, advisors, and supervisors of research projects. Wheaton offers a curriculum leading to a bachelor of arts degree in more than thirty-six majors and fifty minors. Students choose from over 600 courses in subjects from physics to philosophy, political science to computer science, art history to theater, English to economics. The Wheaton curriculum demonstrates the college's commitment to the traditional breadth and depth of the liberal arts and sciences while promoting study that crosses established academic divisions. Its new curriculum transformation initiative, the Infusion Project, integrates new work on race/ethnicity and its intersections with gender, sexuality, class, religion and technology in the US and globally in all disciplines. At Brown, the program is administered by the Graduate School and the Harriet W. Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning. At Wheaton, the program is directed by the Office of the Provost. Qualifications Expectations Brown/Wheaton Faculty Fellows are assigned a faculty mentor from their home department at Wheaton. Upon selection and before the semester starts, Faculty Fellows meet with their mentors to review the syllabus and assignments and to establish a schedule for regular meetings throughout the term. The mentors serve as sounding boards about the progress of the Fellows' courses, observe their classes and make recommendations, and help acculturate them to the four-year college environment. To assess their teaching, Faculty Fellows use Wheaton's standard course evaluation form at the end of the semester. At the end of each term, Faculty Fellows meet individually with their Wheaton mentors or department chairs to assess their development and performance. All Fellows are required to submit a summary report about their experience in the program to the Graduate School and Sheridan Center at Brown and the Office of the Provost at Wheaton. Application and Selection To apply for the Brown/Wheaton Faculty Fellows Program, applicants must submit a cover letter and CV. The deadline for submission is November 1. Applicants’ cover letters should describe their credentials and teaching experience and their research agendas and intellectual interests. The letter, which should not exceed two pages, should include a description of the applicant’s teaching competencies broadly defined as well as a one-paragraph description of a new course the applicant proposes to teach at Wheaton. Application materials must be submitted electronically to the Graduate School. As part of the application, students must also provide the endorsement of their Director of Graduate Study (this may be in the form of a brief email from the DGS – it need not be a full recommendation). The Graduate School and the Sheridan Center will review applications and forward their recommendations to Wheaton. Representatives from Wheaton will then select group a group of semi-finalists from whom they will solicit final course proposals or syllabi. By April, a subset of these semi-finalists will be selected as Faculty Fellows for a semester of the following year. Students with questions about the application process should contact the Sheridan Center, which offers relevant seminars and workshops throughout the academic year. Current and former Brown/Wheaton Faculty Fellows 2008-2009
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