CELO is a faculty development office, under the Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs. We provide consultation, resources, and training for individual faculty members, and work with academic units on developing and building community-engaged learning into their curricula. Our faculty development offerings also include a Faculty Fellows for Community-Engaged Learning program, faculty workshops, and tailored supports for other communities of practice at UVM and beyond.
 
Please don’t hesitate to contact us for individual conversation about what might work best in your particular course or department.

Faculty Fellows for Community-Engaged Learning

Since 1999, CELO has trained more than 200 faculty members from every school/college in community-engaged learning pedagogy and practice.

Our Faculty Fellows for Community-Engaged Learning program is a mix of facilitated discussions, panel presentations, readings from the field of community engagement, and review of sample syllabi and SL assignments. The schedule consists of one day-long retreat in January, one lunch session each in February, March & April, and a concluding day in May. Throughout, faculty will have opportunities to plan and workshop their own community-engaged course ideas with peers and mentors. Faculty from all units — and at all ranks — are encouraged to apply, including Lecturers; preference is given to applicants who have a specific course in mind for development as community-engaged learning. Applications are due in mid-November of each year.

Faculty Fellows Sample Curriculum

  • December Lunch: Project Conceptualization – Identifying Hopes, Goals, Capacity and Constraints
  • January Workshop: Project and Partnership Development
  • February Lunch: Communicating SL to Students and Partners
  • March Lunch: Preparation and Reflection
  • April Lunch: Project Management and Communication
  • May Workshop: Culminating Reflection and Assessment

Faculty Workshops

We offer workshops for faculty, both beginning and advanced, as well as for departments and other academic units. We are happy to tailor a workshop to a group's needs, and will also gladly do visits and in-course workshops for students once a course is established. (Learn more about these and other in-course supports).

Possible workshop topics include:

  • SL Basics
  • Critical Reflection
  • Transferable Skills Gained & Developed in Service-Learning
  • Approaches to Community Engagement
  • Building Effective, Reciprocal Community Partnerships
  • Community-Based Research & Engaged Teaching
  • Service-Learning & Sustainability (SL/SU Courses)

Consultation with CELO Staff

Our work is to support faculty; we can meet individually at your convenience about service-learning project design, partnership development, community-engaged teaching – or just brainstorming possibilities. We will review syllabi, suggest resources, run plausible scenarios, find examples in your discipline – you name it. This is often our favorite activity: we get to help imagine exciting pedagogical opportunities, without having to do the subsequent hard work of nailing it down and then grading the student work.

We convene groups of faculty and staff around specific issue areas to develop new and interrelated opportunities for UVM students to engage with the community as part of their academic experience.

We are also happy to talk with groups of faculty — with shared interests or within a department or program — about our services, collaborations, partnerships, and other opportunities.

 

Applying to be a Faculty Fellow

The Faculty Fellows for Community-Engaged Learning program offers a cohort of faculty & staff from a range of disciplines the opportunity to explore the high-impact practice of service-learning in their own teaching.

CELO is currently eaccepting applications for the 2023 Faculty Fellows program

For questions related to joining the 2023 cohort, or to learn more about the program, please email Susan Munkres (susan.munkres@uvm.edu).