Academic Affairs Faculty Fellows
The Academic Affairs Faculty Fellows program supports a broad range of faculty-led initiatives related to best practices in higher education. Previous cohorts of fellows worked on different areas of need identified by Academic Affairs, or their own projects and ideas within a common theme. You can read more about these fellows and their projects on the Academic Affairs website.
2025-26 Project Themes
We are looking for a new group of fellows to work on projects and ideas that they are passionate about during AY2025-2026. The projects should address one (or both) of the following:
Infusing legacies of slavery into the Loyola curriculum
With Loyola University’s efforts to research, write about, disseminate, and wrestle with its past, this group of fellows will focus on infusing the curriculum with Loyola’s histories of slavery and its legacies. Fellows will be informed by Untold Truths: Exposing Slavery and Its Legacies at Loyola to develop courses and/or introduce these histories in already existing courses. With historical documents, photographs, maps, newspaper articles, theatre reviews, poetry, historical analysis, creative writing, and personal essays from descendants of the 272, Untold Truths offers myriad ways to engage with this past and its influence on the present. These fellows will work with members of Loyola’s Truth and Reconciliation Committee to develop interdisciplinary course offerings or develop content that can be incorporated into upper-level courses.
Developing a Diversity-Justice (D-J) designated course(s) for a major(s) that do not currently have any.
Starting in a few years, students will be required to successfully complete three Diversity-Justice designated courses with two anywhere in their curriculum and the third within their major. We are seeking fellows who are interested in designing a new course(s) and/or infusing D-J content into an existing course(s) for a major(s) that does not currently have one. The D-J Requirement Committee would work with these fellows in the development of this course(s). Preference will be given to applicants who incorporate some aspect(s) of Loyola’s legacies of slavery in their new courses and/or the D-J content for existing courses.
Faculty fellows should also address how they can disseminate what they created to the Loyola faculty.
How to Apply
The 2025-2026 Faculty Fellows are selected for a one-year term and will receive a stipend of $1000 (per project). Please consider applying for this opportunity by completing and submitting the application form posted on the Faculty Fellows website by June 16, 2025. Application review and decisions will be based on the relevance of the project to current curricular priorities (listed above). To apply to be an academic affairs faculty fellow, please complete the following Qualtrics application.
Application to include:
- Name
- Loyola ID Number
- Department
- Email Address
- Years at Loyola
- Briefly describe your proposed project, learning objectives, and how the proposed course content supports the priorities of this year’s fellows’ program.
- If selected as a Faculty Fellow, how would you share your work with colleagues? Would others be able to incorporate your work into their own courses?
- What support would you need from the organizers of the fellow’s program to reach the goals for your project?
Academic Affairs Faulty Fellows Program Contacts
Michael Puma, dean of the office of undergraduate studies
mpuma@loyola.edu
David Carey, professor of history
drcarey@loyola.edu
Jason Prenoveau, professor of psychology
jmprenoveau@loyola.edu
Past Faculty Fellow Cohorts