Fellowship Application

Fellowship Applications Now Available 
for the Spring 2012 Faculty Seminar on 
Speaking and Writing Pedagogy

Fellowship applications are now being accepted for the Faculty Development Seminar for Spring 2012.  As part of the University of Southern Mississippi's Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP), Finding a Voice: Improving Oral and Written Competencies, Southern Miss faculty have the opportunity to participate in a faculty development seminar designed to enhance student learning outcomes in oral and written communication in content courses across disciplines.  Recognizing the perceived conflict between incorporating writing/speaking and course content, the seminar aims to help faculty create a classroom environment that supports learning through writing and speaking.  The seminar provides a supportive space for discussing teaching struggles, for reexamining the role of writing and speaking in the curriculum, and for rethinking taken-for-granted teaching strategies. 

The seminar will meet each Wednesday from 1:00-3:15 p.m. beginning February 1 through March 7 on the Hattiesburg campus with video networking available for the Gulf Coast.  The seminar is open to all full-time Southern Miss faculty members (at the rank of instructor and above) teaching undergraduate classes as part of their teaching load.  Ten faculty members will be selected to participate. Upon completion of seminar requirements (including attendance at all six sessions and completion of all assignments) participants will receive either a $1500 stipend or reassigned time.  (For faculty electing reassigned time, departments will be reimbursed $1500.) 

Faculty who wish to be considered for the spring seminar should submit an online application (linked here) by Friday, September 30, 2011.  For more information, contact Julie Howdeshell at 601.266.4525 or qep@usm.edu.