Greetings,
We are pleased to announce this funding opportunity from the Life Worth Living Network at the Yale Divinity School. The Life Worth Living Network seeks to connect faculty and graduate students to design and facilitate courses that equip students for the lifelong process of asking and responding to life’s biggest questions. Information about this award can be found in the synopsis and links below:
Growing the Life Worth Living Network in Higher Education
OSP Deadline: OSP review is not required for grants awarded directly to individuals.
Sponsor Deadline: December 1, 2023
Award Amount:
- Up to $15,000 for Faculty Course Development Fellowships
- Up to $4,500 for Graduate Student Pedagogy Fellowships
Eligibility:
- For Faculty Course Development Fellowships, applicants must have the ability to propose and teach new courses at their institution and be able to commit to teaching the course they develop twice. Faculty applicants will be required to provide “Reference Contact Information” of a relevant administrator who oversees academic operations for their department (e.g., Dean or Department Chair) who
may be contacted for a reference letter during the proposal review process. Lecturers and post-docs, as well as tenured and tenure-track faculty, are all welcome to apply if they meet these criteria.
- For Graduate Student Pedagogy Fellowships, applicants must be advanced doctoral students.
The Life Worth Living Network offers fellowships to encourage undergraduate education on enduring questions about the shape of a flourishing life. They connect faculty and graduate students who seek to design and facilitate courses that equip students for the lifelong process of discerning the good life. They envision an educational landscape in which students and faculty learn alongside each other how to ask and respond to life’s biggest questions.
Faculty Course Development Fellowships and Graduate Student Pedagogy Fellowships include:
- Pedagogy Workshop: Fellows have the chance to learn alongside other educators in our in-person, week-long pedagogy workshop. This interactive workshop will explore how you can teach in ways that help your students wrestle with and respond to life’s big questions.
- Course Development Roundtable: Our virtual, seven-week-long course development roundtable provides fellows a chance to receive and share feedback with colleagues around the world who share a vision for teaching for transformation.
- Funding: As intentional course (re-)design work takes time, fellows receive funding to empower thoughtful engagement in this work.
- Community: Fellows become members of a diverse community of like-minded teachers who are eager to see students equipped to discern, articulate, and commend visions of lives worthy of our shared humanity.
Anyone interested in applying for a faculty or graduate fellowship can register here to attend an information session on Wednesday, November 15 at 4 PM EST.
Questions about this opportunity may be directed to research_development@fas.harvard.edu.