Future Faculty Partners

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The UW-Madison Teaching Academy is currently accepting nominations to become a "Future Faculty Partner" (FFP) of the UW Teaching Academy. Anyone with a continuing academic connection to UW-Madison who is engaged in graduate or professional study for a career in higher education teaching or outreach (such as graduate students, teaching assistants, medical and veterinary residents, post-doctoral fellows, etc) is eligible to be nominated.

Nominees are expected to have at least one-year residence status on the UW-Madison campus, three semesters of teaching experience (or comparable), have a deep interest in and commitment to higher education, and a willing to commit to one year (preferably two years) of active involvement in the Teaching Academy. Future Faculty Partners meet once a month to discuss a topic relevant to teaching in higher education. Activities will include guest speakers, workshops, and discussion on a variety of topics such as TA training, writing a teaching philosophy, developing syllabi, and interviewing for jobs in higher education.

Application/Nomination materials should be sufficiently detailed to allow judgment of excellence, but sufficiently brief to avoid undue burden for the nominee and selection committee. The maximum length of the application is 12 pages typed and double spaced, including selective, brief attachments.

Nominations are reviewed only during the Spring semester.

Nomination materials missing any requested information will be returned unreviewed.

For details of what is needed in the nomination process, please refer to the FFP Nomination Packet in Word or FFP Nomination Packet in a PDF

Completed applications are due February 20, 2009. Please send applications to:
Teaching Academy
133 Bascom Hall
UW-Madison
500 Lincoln Dr.
Madison, WI 53706-1380