Faculty Fellows
About the program
TLC Faculty Fellows constitute themselves as a community of peers engaging with higher education research, reflecting on their teaching, exploring campus policy and practice with relation to issues facing students and faculty, and supporting the culture of teaching and learning on our campus.
The Teaching and Learning Center (TLC) at UC Santa Cruz invites senate and non-senate faculty to apply to join our ninth cohort of Faculty Fellows.
2025–26 Faculty Fellows Program
Experiential Learning
Facilitated by Faculty Director Robin Dunkin
During the 2025–26 academic year, we will be engaging around the theme of Experiential Learning. We will take a broad, cross disciplinary view to understand the history, scholarship, pedagogy, and practice of experiential learning. We welcome the expertise of our fellows to create a group that teaches and learns together about the ways in which experiential learning is practiced in their unique disciplines and programs. We will also be using this space to look inwardly at our campus and build on the work that began in the Experiential Learning Summit in the fall of 2024. With guidance from the fellows, we will explore opportunities and barriers that exist on our campus for both faculty and students to engage in experiential learning. Like our past cohorts, the fellows will be empowered to help guide and shape the work that the group will do together over the course of the academic year. We welcome fellows that have experience in teaching, facilitating, or studying experiential learning as well as those that are interested in learning more about this topic.
How to Participate
Fellows will be expected to attend 4 meetings per quarter (Friday 12-1:45PM with lunch provided), including hands-on workshops, reading-group-style discussions, visits by campus experts in research and practice related to the theme, and occasional special events involving outside speakers. The Faculty Fellows will have the opportunity, if they so desire, to invite speakers to address the Fellows group and/or the campus as a whole and to host events, town halls, and initiatives related to our thematic focus.
We encourage faculty from all disciplines to join us to ensure a rich, vibrant and productive discussion throughout the program. Previous faculty fellows are encouraged to apply to be senior fellows.
Fellows are eligible for up to $1500 in reimbursement, to be used within one year, to pursue professional development for teaching and mentoring, including attending national conferences or certificate programs or they can develop or expand a project or program on campus related to teaching, learning, mentoring, or student success.
Application deadline: May 5, 2025
