This program launched in the spring 2023 semester and is open to tenure-line, term, and adjunct faculty. A successful candidate will have experience teaching service-learning courses for at least 3 semesters and be willing to mentor faculty who are teaching or considering teaching service-learning courses for the first time. Fellows also will collaborate with NDMU’s Office of Service & Community Engagement to develop and implement a series of workshops throughout the spring semester to deepen knowledge of service-learning pedagogy across campus and provide resources for faculty, staff, and community partners engaged in sustainable community work.

Fellowship Benefits:

  • Opportunities to provide university-level leadership in promoting teaching excellence that can be included in annual reports, as well as in promotion and/or tenure documentation.
  • Visibility as a campus-wide leader in community-engaged pedagogy.
  • Opportunities to participate in service-learning scholarship with the Office of Service & Community Engagement staff and other fellows.
  • A $500 professional development stipend per semester.

You can submit your application here.

Spring 2023 Service-Learning Faculty Fellows

Professor Geoff Delanoy is the Chair of NDMU’s Art Department and has taught a number of service-learning courses, including a photography class for non-majors in 2019 that incorporated a project with Asylee Women Enterprise (AWE) as the culminating experience. He looks forward to continuing this partnership through the Portrait Photography course he teaches, as well as designing a 300 or 400-level photo course that enables students to complete long-term projects with community partners.

Professor Kendrick Kenney is the Chair of the Communication Arts Department. He says his goal when teaching a service-learning course is to create a holistic learning experience by connecting curriculum to the communities where our students live. He has presented at a plethora of academic conferences centered around experiential learning, most recently the National Collegiate Honors Conference (NCHC) where he shared strategies on how learning communities and other high-impact practices like service-learning can increase enrollment and retention for first-year students, first-generation students, and underrepresented minorities.