This fellowship begins in the Spring semester of one academic year and culminates in the Spring semester of the following academic year.  It is a 4-semester commitment by members of the leadership team to carry the fellowship through a complete cycle.

Leadership team responsibilities include:

Academic Year 1

Spring Semester

• Participate in monthly l-hour leadership meetings
• Promote the fellowship within your institution (announcements, institution website, etc.)
• Update the application with institution-specific information
• Collect applications
• Select finalists to participate in the fellowship
• Meet with the leadership team to develop the fellowship faculty teams
• Contribute to developing common resources for the fellowship faculty teams.
• After the selection of the fellows, each institution meets with their respective groups of fellows prior to summer meetings to provide an introduction, get to know one another, set expectations, etc.

Summer Semester

• Participate in 4 3-hour meetings with the new cohort.
• Participate in at least 1 leadership meeting (one on June 2nd). (I say at least because it is very likely that we will need more than one meeting with the leadership group)
• Assist fellowship faculty teams and individuals as needed.  (answer questions, provide consultations, assist with resources, etc. This varies depending on the individual faculty fellow and the dynamics of the faculty team)

Fall Semester

• Participate in monthly l-hour leadership meetings
• Assist fellowship faculty teams and individuals as needed.  (answer questions, provide consultations, assist with resources, etc. This varies depending on the individual faculty fellow and the dynamics of the faculty team)
• Check-in with faculty fellows from your institution on a regular (monthly or bi-weekly, depending on the needs of the individuals in the fellowship) basis.
• Facilitate collecting final deliverables from faculty fellows at your institution (assignments, course data, reflections, faculty/student videos, faculty/student testimonials, etc.)
• Potentially recruit additional institutional partners
• Plan Faculty/ Student Showcase.

Academic Year 2

Spring Semester

• Participate in the Faculty/Student Showcase.
• Participate in monthly 1-hour leadership meetings.
• Discuss logistics for the summer 2022 cohort, including call for applications during Open Ed Week (early March), selecting finalists (early April), planning summer meetings, etc.