CELT Faculty Fellows Seminar
Applications are now open for Fall 2025.
CELT Faculty Fellows Program 2025
It’s back! The CELT Faculty Fellows Program is returning for Fall 2025 and we are excited to announce that we are accepting applications for the 2025 cohort. This program is open to all Tufts instructors, tenure track and non-tenure track. The program is most effective when participants are currently teaching, have recently taught, or are preparing to teach so they can reflect on their experiences during the program.
The CELT Faculty Fellows program is a semester-long opportunity for faculty to reflect more deeply on their teaching. The Fellows meet for 10 mornings throughout the Fall semester with colleagues from across the university. The seminar intends to create a supportive learning community where faculty can explore effective teaching approaches to enhance student learning outcomes and create inclusive classroom cultures. While the curriculum addresses cognitive and learning science, social-emotional learning, active and experiential learning, inclusive excellence, and teaching in the age of AI, the agenda of the program is largely based on the needs of the group.
During the ten weeks of the program, participants read a common text and engage in discussions about the values and philosophy that undergird their teaching practices and reflect on their students’ learning. Each participant will facilitate an interactive teaching activity that they have not yet tried with their students and will receive feedback from the group. Each participant will develop and facilitate an interactive learning experience for their peers that incorporates active and experiential learning approaches, and Artificial Intelligence to engage learners.
The program meets on Thursday mornings from 9:00 am to 11:45 am. As this is an intensive program, faculty attendance is required and upon successful completion of the program (which includes weekly attendance, participation in weekly learning activities, and the submission of all required deliverables), faculty will receive a certificate and a small stipend. The dates for Fall 2025 are:
- September 4, 11*, 18,
- October 9, 16, 23, 30
- November 6, 13,
- December 4*
*denotes required in person meetings. Orientation will be Friday, April 11th, 2025 from 12-1pm in Zoom.
Applications are due February 27th and faculty will be notified by March 15th, 2025. Register online here
During the 17 years that CELT has offered the Faculty Fellows Seminars, 189 faculty have participated. For 17 years, CELT has offered this unique opportunity for Tufts faculty to increase their knowledge about student learning and to enhance their teaching skills. Because we recognize the commitment of time and energy required, participants receive a small stipend. We accept only a limited number of applicants each year.
If you have any questions, please feel free to email celt@tufts.edu.
Past participants comments:
"I really valued hearing about teaching issues from faculty coming from such a wide range of teaching expertise, facing such different challenges, and from different departments and schools."
"I appreciated having a designated time to dedicate to my teaching. In the day to day, it is challenging to carve out the time to be truly thoughtful and reflective."
"I think it will help me step back and be more thoughtful about what more precisely I want the students to come away with and to build more thoughtful preparation of class questions and assessment tools than content."