CFDE Course Design and Pedagogy Fellows Program

The Course Design & Pedagogy Fellows Program is a Fellowship program that provides new instructors, junior instructors, and instructors redesigning a course with intensive professional development in evidence-based, learner-centered pedagogies, course (re)design best practices, instructional strategies, and reflective teaching practices. The program provides funding to support each Fellow’s course and teaching effectiveness redesign. This program is also especially useful for teaching projects that focus on developing or enhancing teaching practices in large-enrollment courses, engaging students in active learning (e.g., collaborative learning, project-based learning), enhancing alignment between learning outcomes, learning assessments, and learning activities, scaffolding the learning process, and supporting learning experiences for diverse students (e.g., First Generation, multilingual learners, English learners, and international students.)

Outcomes

As a participant, you will have the opportunity to:

  • Engage in a five-session workshop series held during the Fall 2025 and Spring 2026 semesters and have time during the summer to finalize your program deliverables

Workshop topics include:  

  • How students learn 
  • Principles of course design 
  • Assessing student learning  
  • Designing learning activities & scaffolding instruction 
  • Planning for active learning & Fellows Presentations
  • Explore evidence-based, teaching strategies and course design principles
  • Collaborate with peers and consult with CFDE staff as you (re)design your course
  • Receive individualized feedback from the CFDE on your course design materials
  • Receive individualized, confidential feedback on your teaching through a 30-minute, classroom observation carried out by the CFDE. You can choose the focus of the observation (e.g., lecturing style, small group classroom management, lecture pacing, etc.)
  • Connect informally with senior faculty in optional “Teacher’s Lounge” sessions hosted at the CFDE (scheduled during the Fall and Spring semesters)
  • Share your project with the campus community during a CFDE Fellows Showcase (e.g., a panel, poster session, or SoTL talk)

Program

  • 2 semesters: September 2025 - May 2026 with additional time during the summer of 2026 to complete program deliverables  
  • $2,000 stipend dispersed in three payments into a research or departmental account (it cannot be as salary)   
  • Applicants must have a speedtype account to which money can be disbursed   
  • Workshop sessions for both semesters will take place on 5 Friday mornings on Zoom, depending on best times for the cohort participants
  • Current funding allows acceptance of up to 8 Fellows for the upcoming cohort

Eligibility

  • All full-time faculty and instructors across Emory University. New instructors, junior instructors, and instructors redesigning a course for enhanced active learning are especially encouraged to apply for this program and may have priority.
  • Please note: graduate students and postdoctoral scholars are not eligible for this program at this time.   

Please direct questions about this program to Cecilia Gómez (maria-cecilia.gomez@emory.edu) 

APPLY HERE

The deadline for application is September 19, 2025. Selections will be announced in late September.  

2024 COURSE DESIGN AND PEDAGOGY FELLOWS

  • Emma Davenport (Assistant Professor, Emory College, English)
  • Manuela Manetta (Associate Teaching Professor, Emory College, Mathematics)
  • Miranda Hawks (Assistant Professor, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Pre-Licensure, MN)
  • Meredith Farmer (Assistant Professor, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Neonatal Nurse Practitioner Program)
  • Heather Boldt (Director and teaching faculty, Laney Graduate School, English Language Support Program)
  • Sam Cherribi (Teaching Professor, Emory College, MESAS and Economics)
  • Bamba Ndiaye (Assistant Professor, Oxford College, Humanities Division)
  • Garrett Waters (Assistant Teaching Professor, Emory College, French and Italian)

2023 COURSE DESIGN AND PEDAGOGY FELLOWS

  • Allison Cuttner (Assistant Teaching Professor, Emory College, Quantitative Theory and Methods)
  • Leyla Eghbalzad (Assistant Professor, Oxford College, Psychology)
  • Andrea Fitzroy (Assistant Teaching Professor of Health Equity, Emory College, Center for the Study of Human Health)
  • Elizabeth Kim (Director of Undergraduate Outreach and Pedagogy, Associate Teaching Professor, 
    Emory College, Psychology)
  • Jin Kim (Interim Director of Undergraduate Studies, QTM Faculty Lead of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Assistant Teaching Professor, Emory College, Quantitative Theory and Methods)
  • Sean Mo (Associate Teaching Professor, Oxford College, Chemistry)
  • Kenneth Mueller (Assistant Professor, Clinical Track, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing)
  • LaDonia Patterson (Assistant Professor, Clinical Track, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing)
  • Laurie Ray (Assistant Professor, Clinical Track, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing)
  • Marta Rowh (Assistant Professor, School of Medicine)
  • Marissa Terry (Assistant Clinical Professor, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing)

Consider how the different CFDE Faculty Fellowship programs compare (.pdf)

The CFDE Teaching Fellows Research program offered in 2018-2019 is no longer available. As part of their fellowship, Teaching Fellows were asked to gather the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) research on their project topic over the summer. Here are the annotated bibliographies of that research from that cohort of Fellows: