Submit a proposal to become a CITL Faculty Fellow

The LTS Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning invites you to submit a proposal to partner with CITL on advancing your course pedagogy. Proposals are due by Friday, December 6. We will review all submitted proposals and have a response to you by late December.

Submit a proposal

Senior CITL Faculty Fellowships

Senior CITL Faculty Fellowships will be offered to accepted proposals in the following areas that require a substantial investment of time (e.g., a significant course redesign, integration of an innovative project into the course, adoption of a wholly new teaching approach, etc.):

  • “Inquiry-based Learning.” Fellows will receive support developing inquiry-based approaches, questions, and projects that spark curiosity, motivate learning, reward effective communication, and support guided reflection.
  • “Generative Artificial Intelligence in the Classroom.” Fellows will receive support identifying and selecting instructional approaches and assessments that help their students build the critical thinking skills and information/data/media literacy competencies related to the arrival of this technology into educational and working environments.
  • “Cross-Disciplinary Course Moments” Fellows will partner with a Lehigh faculty colleague to plan and implement cross-disciplinary moments in an existing course. (Note: as this fellowship is partly funded by grant dollars from the Mellon “Humanities Lab” initiative, priority will be given to initiatives that connect humanities faculty with faculty outside the humanities).
  • “Integrating XR/VR technologies in your Courses” Fellows will receive support in teaching, demonstrating, and exposing students to content through the use of specialized platforms such as 3D model labs, virtual classrooms/meeting spaces, VR simulations, design and drafting tools, as well as other immersive experiential learning resources.
  • “Teaching in an LTS Flexible Learning space.” Fellows will receive support in creating active learning environments that foster collaborative student work and problem-based or inquiry-based learning, and will have priority scheduling in LTS Flexible Learning Spaces, which offer moveable furniture, annotatable and shared writing surfaces, HyFlex 2 conferencing technology, with in-room ‘huddle monitors.’
  • “Writing Across the Curriculum.” Fellows will receive support to incorporate meaningful writing assignments into their courses. We particularly invite proposals related to writing assignments with multiple revisions that involve peer-to-peer learning and review. 

As a Senior CITL Faculty Fellow you will be eligible for a grant of up to $1,000 and have CITL and LTS staff collaborate with you on developing instructional approaches, course activities, assignments, and assessments– and conducting informal educational research related to your classroom outcomes. As a grant recipient you will present at the 2025 Symposium on Teaching and Learning (or other CITL event) and facilitate discussions on the theme of your collaboration with CITL-sponsored Community of Practice members.

CITL Faculty Fellowships

CITL Faculty Fellowships will be offered to accepted proposals in other domains that require a substantial investment of time (e.g., a significant course redesign, integration of an innovative project into the course, adoption of a wholly new teaching approach, etc.) Here are some areas in which we have worked together with faculty in the past(additional details can be found on the Course Design & Development page of the LTS site, as well as our Current Faculty Fellows page):

  • Inclusive Teaching
  • Consultation on Assignments (Writing/Research) and Inquiry Projects
  • Academic Uses of Data Visualization, Data Analysis, Data Management
  • Course-related Digital Scholarship, Video, Film, or Multimedia Projects
  • Enhancing Teaching through Digital Tools, Instructional Videos or Modules
  • Developing a Fully Online Course or an Online Course Module
  • Using Research Computing Facilities for Teaching
  • Teaching with Digital Texts or Open Access Material
  • Teaching Well in Large Lecture Halls
  • Serious Play including Reacting to the Past, Game-Based Learning, and Simulations
  • Virtual International Exchange/Collaborative Online International Learning (VIE/COIL)

As a CITL Faculty Fellow you will be eligible for a grant of up to $500 and have CITL and LTS staff collaborate with you on content, activity, assignment, and assessment and contribute to research related to your classroom outcomes. As a grant recipient you will present at the 2025 Symposium on Teaching and Learning or other CITL event.