Faculty Development

CELO is a faculty development office, under the Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs. Our faculty development offerings include fellowship programs, grants, one on one consultation services, and other programs designed to support your community-engaged learning career at UVM.

Faculty Fellowships

CELO Faculty Fellows

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.

Planetary Health Grants

In support of UVM’s emerging Planetary Health Initiative, officially launched in 2024, CELO offers funding, training, and other faculty development resources to support the development and deepening of a Planetary Health focus in community-engaged learning courses.

Flood Resilience Fellows

In collaboration with the Leahy Institute, CELO piloted a special Fellows program for faculty whose courses align with flooding-related needs around the state, intended to explore how service-learning students and courses can strategically address priorities in impacted Vermont communities.

Workshops for Faculty

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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. (More about these and other in-course supports).

Workshop Topics

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Possible workshop topics include:

  • Overview of Community-Engaged Learning:
    What is community-engaged teaching and learning? Learn the variety of forms community engagement takes at UVM and how these courses can easily fulfill the Global Citizenship General Education requirement. Examples from units across disciplines will illustrate the value and benefits of community-engaged learning for students and faculty.
  • Laying the Foundation for Community-Engaged Teaching:
    There are many small steps that faculty can take in current courses to move towards service-learning in future semesters.  Learn about the “spectrum of engagement” and identify easy ways to incorporate a community focus now to build for later.
  • Critical Reflection:
    An introduction to using critical reflection to support the learning goals of community-engaged courses. Critical reflection involves activities and assignments that support students in observing and analyzing their community-engaged work, help them learn deeply from experiential components of the course, and connect those experiences to course content and to the discipline more broadly.
  • Teaching Transferable Skills:
    Students often struggle to recognize the applied and integrative skills they are gaining through community-engaged learning.  Learn how to foreground these transferable skills in your community-engaged course, and help students not only understand but also showcase their service-learning experiences in resumes and job interviews.
  • Community-Based Research and Engaged Teaching:
    Join us to learn about how to conduct research for community partners within academic courses — a significant learning experience for students, and a viable alternative to other forms of service-learning. In this workshop she'll share lessons learned by speakers, how they connected with partners, and how CBR within their courses has dovetailed with their scholarship.
  • Service-Learning and Sustainability (SL/SU Courses):
    This workshop addresses the interconnections between sustainability and service-learning, describing their service-learning projects, how they connect to the sustainability learning outcomes, and how their SU experiences were enhanced by service-learning.
  • Approaches to Community Engagement
  • Building Effective, Reciprocal Community Partnerships
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One-on-One Faculty Support

Our work is to support faculty; we can help with courses, career goals, and more.

Book a Meeting Email Susan.Munkres@uvm.edu

Faculty Associate Program

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Beginning in AY26, CELO will be exploring a Faculty Associate model, enabling faculty with significant community-engaged teaching experience to share their expertise with newer faculty. Check back for updates to this initiative, and contact Susan Munkres (susan.munkres@uvm.edu) for more information in the meantime.

CELO Partnership and Scholarship Development Grants

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CELO is now offering larger grants to support the deepening of existing partnerships, which could yield increased benefits to community partners, faculty, and students. This grant is open to all Faculty Fellows for Community-Engaged Learning. Grants will be reviewed 3 times a year, but contact CELO at any time with ideas or questions. Grants also support the development of research on service-learning pedagogy at UVM.