Faculty Fellows

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Each year, the Center for Social Concerns invites two or more faculty members to be its Faculty Fellows.   In general, the role of the Faculty Fellows is to link their disciplinary or multidisciplinary expertise with the Center’s mission. To this end, they will be assisting the Center to bring community-based learning and scholarship, civic participation, and Catholic social thought into university departments and programs. Fellow activities may take the form of the following, among others:

• creating a new project, or further developing an ongoing one, in a department or college, that involves students, faculty, and/or community organizations in community-based learning (CBL) endeavors, community-based scholarship, or coalition building;
• offering workshops or developing conferences in the Fellow's college or department or for a broader audience, on CBL or other subjects related to the Center's mission;
• assisting to develop, presenting in, and/or teaching preparatory or follow-up courses for, or advising or reflecting with students in, Center Programs, such as the Summer Service Learning Program and the Urban Plunge;
• working in the South Bend area, in locations across the U.S., or in developing countries in ways that foster the educational interests of the Center; and
• conducting research relevant to the mission of the Center.

Fellows are paired with a program director to work jointly on the chosen projects. Alternatively, they might work exclusively with the Associate Director for Academic Affairs and Research (ADAAR). They are chosen for two-year periods, with renewal possible.

In addition to the above involvements, the Fellows will be asked to: meet a minimum of twice yearly with the ADAAR and other Center staff for the purposes of offering advice on Center activities typically related to the Faculty and information sharing; participate in post-Urban Plunge, International Summer Service Learning Program and domestic Summer Service Learning Program student reflections; and attend occasional events (staff meetings, dinners, etc.) at the Center. At the end of each year, each Fellow, in collaboration with the Center affiliate with whom he or she has been working, is asked to write up a description (one to two pages) of his or her efforts over the year and results.

As a small sign of appreciation for the Fellow's contributions to the Center mission, $500 will be given to each as income. The Fellow, in conjunction with the ADAAR or program director with whom he or she is working, may also make use of $2000 over the course of the two-year term toward his or her project. Likely uses of this money would be hiring student assistants, lunch meetings, books and other supplies, and conference attendance. The Fellows will be selected by the ADAAR, in consultation with the Center's Education Committee members and with input from appropriate program directors.