Sun, 15 Sep 2024 12:00 AM - 11:59 PM
Consider becoming a faculty associate in the Scholarship Area of the Center for Faculty Innovation (CFI). The CFI is a community of faculty and educational developers collaborating to create opportunities for professional growth and innovation. Our vision is to cultivate inclusive communities of peers committed to helping each other succeed, advancing individual and organizational change.
CFI Faculty Associates are JMU instructional faculty who join a dynamic, innovative, and collaborative team, typically for a three-year period, contributing substantially to the creation, delivery, and evaluation of programs that support the professional development of JMU faculty.
The CFI’s Scholarship Area offers a rich and responsive array of programming designed to support faculty scholarly pursuits. These programs include time, space, and community for faculty to work on their scholarship both on and off-campus, workshops and presentations to support faculty productivity and develop scholarly skills, writing accountability groups, support for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), reading groups, panels, one-on-one consultations, and more.
We hope applicants will possess familiarity with the diverse forms of scholarship in higher education including collaborative research projects and SoTL, literature on enhancing scholarly productivity, ability to support scholarship skill development across a diversity of disciplines, awareness of trends in higher education, strong project management and administrative skills, first-hand experience with scholarship initiatives offered by the CFI, and, most importantly, a commitment to learning, working as part of a team, and participating in feedback loops.
The CFI is committed to working as a team of educational developers that represents diverse viewpoints, backgrounds, and experiences. We encourage all interested faculty to apply.
Selected applicants will begin in October 2024 for training and orientation ($1,200 stipend for approximately 5 hours per week) with the faculty associate position (approximately 8-10 hours per week) beginning in Spring 2025.
CFI Faculty Associates receive either a course release (negotiated with their Academic Unit Head) or a $3,600 stipend per semester for their contributions. There may be summer opportunities available.
When applying, the following materials must be submitted:
- Cover letter, indicating interest and experience
- Current curriculum vitae (CV)
- The names and email addresses for three references
- Endorsement statement from your Academic Unit Head (AUH). The endorsement need only indicate their knowledge and support of the application. It can take the following simple form:
"I support ___________________'s application for the position of CFI Faculty Associate.
Name: __________Title: ___________"
APPLICATION PROCESS
- Submit application items #1, #2, and #3 via email attachment.
- Ensure that #4, noted above, is submitted on your behalf via email. (Your AUH may also be listed as a reference for #3.)
All Application Materials must be submitted through email to Dayna Henry, CFI Assistant Director of the Scholarship Area, at henryds@jmu.edu by Sunday September 15th.
Questions about the position may be directed to Dayna Henry, Tim Ball (balltc@jmu.edu), and/or Daisy Breneman (brenemdl@jmu.edu).
If you are interested in working with the CFI in other capacities, please reach out to us at cfi@jmu.edu.