Eberly Center Fellowship Programs for CMU Instructors of Record
Our year-long fellowships provide CMU instructors the opportunity and funding to enact more substantial changes in their teaching and courses. Fellowship programs are application based and limited in number. Stipends range from $3000-5000. Fellows are matched with a team of Eberly consultants who will support their course (re)design, educational technology needs, and learning assessment. Fellowship programs typically include regular consultations, Fellow cohort meetings, data collection, and other deliverables.
Wimmer Faculty Fellows
Teaching, tenure, library, and research track faculty; all CMU campuses.
The Wimmer Faculty Fellows Program is designed to support junior faculty by innovating course materials and/or pedagogical approaches. These fellowships of $3,000 each can be used to help junior faculty members improve the quality of their teaching and learning of CMU students by revising an existing course through incorporating instructional strategies, implementing educational technologies, creating instructional materials, and more. Each Fellow receives a $3000 fellowship to work in close collaboration with Eberly Center colleagues to design, implement, and assess the impacts of their innovations.
Provost’s Inclusive Teaching Fellows (PITF)
The Provost’s Inclusive Teaching Fellows program supports the development and implementation of inclusive teaching techniques by CMU faculty. Fellows develop and disseminate transferable approaches to: (1) enhance the diversity of voices or perspectives represented in course designs, and (2) increase students’ sense of belonging in a discipline. Each Fellow receives a $5,000 stipend to work closely with the Eberly Center to iterate on a CMU course they are actively teaching. Fellows also meet one or twice per month as a special interest group to explore research and strategies on inclusive teaching.
Generative Artificial Intelligence Teaching as Research (GAITAR) Fellows
Instructors of record; Pittsburgh, Doha, and Silicon Valley campuses.
Generative AI TAR Fellows receive a $5000 award and copious in-kind support from a team of Eberly Center colleagues to: (1) design and implement a teaching strategy using a generative AI tool in a Fall 2024 or Spring 2025 CMU course; (2) measure the impacts of the strategy on student learning; and (3) disseminate findings at CMU and beyond. Fellows also participate in a special interest group of instructor-scholars meeting several times during the lifecycle of their project to build a CMU community of practice and share lessons learned regarding implementation and the student experience. A proposed teaching strategy using a generative AI tool can be small in scale, focused on one or more classroom activities or assignments. Fellowship projects may use existing generative AI tools and do NOT require the development of new tools.
Innovative Models for Undergraduate Research (IMUR), 2020-2022
Teaching, tenure, library, and research track faculty; Pittsburgh campus.
Note: Currently inactive
The Innovative Models for Undergraduate Research (IMUR) Faculty Fellows program supported CMU faculty who want to “think outside the box” about what undergraduate research or creative inquiry could look like in their discipline. In particular, the program goals were to envision new ways to scale beyond the 1:1 mentor:student model and better support underrepresented students via innovative approaches to recruitment and inclusive teaching. Faculty received a $4000 stipend and implemented their models during the summer semester. This program ran for two cohorts, thanks to a generous grant from the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations and the Porges Family Fund for Undergraduate Research.
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