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Faculty Engagement: Resources & Opportunities Tufts values outstanding teaching and encourages faculty engagement with students beyond the classroom. The following resources and opportunities are sponsored by the Office of the Dean of Academic Advising & Undergraduate Studies.
Use the SPIRIT Fund:
SPIRIT (Society for the Propagation of Internal
Rejoicing In Tufts, or Students and Professors
Integrating Recreation, Intellect and Teaching) is a
program designed to promote informal and/or intellectual
contacts between instructors and their students or
advisees outside the classroom. Please contact
Joanne Ferguson.
Mentor a
Tufts Summer Scholar: Summer funding is
available to student/faculty teams for talented
undergraduates to conduct original research while
supporting faculty research. This competitive Tufts
program invites applications from across the
disciplines, including the arts, humanities, social
sciences, mathematics, natural and physical sciences,
engineering, and interdisciplinary approaches. Please
contact Laura Doane.
Participate in the
Writing Fellows Program: Join a group of professors and talented undergraduate writing tutors dedicated to improving student writing by making space and time for drafts, conversations, and revisions.
Please contact
Carmen Lowe.
Advise a
Senior Honors Thesis: Tufts seniors need
your expertise and guidance as they conduct original
research in their major. A faculty handbook is
available.
Be a
Pre-major advisor: Tufts faculty act as
academic advisors for first-year students and
sophomores, helping them adjust to college, select
courses, and decide on a major. Please contact
Laura Doane.
Serve on the Scholarship Committee: Help Tufts students win nationally-competitive post-graduate scholarships and fellowships. Faculty expertise is needed to select the most worthy students and advise them as they prepare their applications. Even if you cannot serve on this committee, the dean needs your help in identifying students who may be future Rhodes, Truman, Goldwater, Carnegie, or Fulbright scholars.
Please contact
Carmen Lowe or
Laura Doane.
Nominate a student to become a
Tutor: The Academic
Resource Center relies on professors and TAs to identify
students who have the intellect, expertise, and
outstanding interpersonal communication skills required
of our peer tutors. Please contact
Robin Olinsky.
Nominate a student for an
Academic Award: Every
April, we celebrate our students and confer upon them
numerous endowed prizes and awards that take into
account various indicators of excellence, among them,
academic achievement, athletic prowess, leadership,
community service, and artistic accomplishment. See the
full list for descriptions of each award. Please contact
Joanne
Ferguson.
Resources for Tufts faculty to become even better teachers:
CELT: Center for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching, a central resource for teaching-related initiatives at Tufts University (covering all schools).
UWCTFD: (University Wide Conference on Teaching and Faculty Development) organizes ongoing university-wide teaching conferences in an effort to bring faculty together around common teaching problems.
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