University Honors invites University of Maryland faculty of all ranks and disciplines to indicate their interest in becoming an Affiliate Faculty Fellow for 2025-28.
After reviewing the information below, please indicate your interest by completing this online proposal form and sharing it with Christine Jones (Associate Director, Academic & Faculty Affairs, cjones46@umd.edu) by Monday, March 10, 2025.
Every year, University Honors introduces into its curriculum four new themes of contemporary and enduring significance. These themes are addressed through “clusters” of courses offered over a period of two academic years. Each course in a cluster engages the theme from a different disciplinary perspective.
Each cluster features a Lead Fellow, who sets the cluster theme and teaches an I-series lecture course; an early-career Collegiate Fellow, who teaches across the University Honors curriculum; and one or two Affiliate Fellows, who offer small seminars (1-2 sections per year) taught from a complementary disciplinary perspective.
Those whose seminars are selected will be named Affiliate Fellows in University Honors for 2025-28. We especially invite those faculty to apply who wish to address the theme in an innovative way and/or from a discipline not traditionally associated with this thematic area.
Affiliate Fellows can anticipate participating collaboratively in some preparatory course-building and cluster promotion during late-Spring 2025 through Spring 2026, and to offer their seminar once or twice per academic year during 2026-27 and 2027-28. During this time, Affiliate Fellows will receive financial and administrative support, as detailed below.
All courses are taught as part of faculty members’ regular teaching loads.
University Honors is a living-learning program guided by the beliefs that depth of insight requires breadth of vision, that conscientious specialization requires multidisciplinary dexterity, and that meaningful impact requires collaborative engagement. And so, our community of students, faculty, and staff pursue these aims while cultivating an environment that is safe and inclusive as well as inspiring and creative.
Please direct questions to Dr. Christine Jones (Associate Director, Academic & Faculty Affairs, at cjones46@umd.edu).
Please copy and share the proposal form with Christine Jones (cjones46@umd.edu) by March 10, 2025.