Fellowships & Programs

Fellowship Programs

Invest in your teaching vision with Eberly Center, peer, and financial support:

• Wimmer Faculty Fellows – Junior faculty receive a $3,000 stipend to redesign courses, integrate new strategies or technologies, develop educational materials, and refine assessments.
• Provost’s Inclusive Teaching Fellows (PITF) – A $5,000 award supports transformative efforts to amplify inclusive excellence in course content, climate, and outcomes.
• Generative AI Teaching as Research (GAITAR) – A $5,000 fellowship to measure the extent to which generative AI tolls impact learning in your own course. 
• Innovative Models for Undergraduate Research (IMUR) – A $4,000 grant to develop scalable, inclusive, high-impact research experiences research experiences with CMU courses.
  
  

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Structured Professional Development

Build and demonstrate your teaching expertise through scaffolded programs:

• Future Faculty Program – A program open to all graduate students and postdocs to develop and document their teaching skills in preparation for a faculty career. A seminar-and-project pathway culminating in documented course design and a teaching philosophy statement – ideal preparation for academic career advancement.
• Teaching Consultant Fellows Program (TCFs) – Advanced graduate students and postdocs train in peer consultation, observation, and facilitation, and provide services to other graduate students and postdocs to support their teaching development across the university. This is a part-time, hourly position.
• Mentoring Undergraduate Researchers (MUR) Institute – A two‑day intensive institute preparing graduate students and postdocs to build inclusive, effective undergraduate research mentorship roles.

Programs and Workshops 

• Seminars for Faculty
• Seminars for Graduate Students