CEL Course Development Institute

Global Community-Engaged Learning Course Development Institute

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Completed applications due: January 17, 2025

The CITL Service-Learning Program (SLP) and IU Center for the Study of Global Change are currently seeking eight to ten full-time IU faculty (tenure and non-tenure track) members to participate in the Global Community-Engaged Course Development Institute, a course development program beginning in spring 2025. The Institute will promote the creation of new, high quality community-engaged courses with a global learning focus, in support of the Student Success and Service to the State and Beyond pillars of the IU 2030 Strategic Plan.

The goal of this Institute is to prepare educators to teach community-engaged courses with global/international perspectives. While both the service and global learning components can occur abroad, this is not a requirement. Domestic service that addresses global learning outcomes would also be appropriate courses to develop in this Institute. 

As a result of this program, participants will have:

  1. developed a new community engaged learning course which would be taught once during the 2025-2026 or 2026-2027 academic years and twice more by academic year 2031.
  2. written a syllabus of a new or modified global community-engaged learning course, and 
  3. demonstrated plans to present information on community-engaged and global learning and their course within their department. 

Fellows will receive a $2,000 award to assist with the development and implementation of their community-engaged learning curricula. Funding ($1,000) is also available for community partners to join in the Institute to support course and partnership development. Funds are disbursed in two stages, upon completion of the institute sessions and after presenting and submitting their completed syllabus.

Program Stages

The program has three stages:

  • Stage I: Introduction to Community-Engaged and Global Learning and the Community: Institute Fellows two virtual sessions with flipped components and a two-day workshop where they will explore the theory and practice of community-engaged learning and global learning, with emphasis on building community partners as co-educators in design and instruction. Pursuant to the global focus of the institute, fellows are encouraged to bring ideas for community partners outside of the local community. 
    • March 7th & April 4th, 2025 - Virtual sessions
    • June 5th-6th, 2025 - In-person will take place on the Bloomington campus, travel funding available for non-local participants.
  • Stage II: Developing a Pedagogically Sound and Community Responsive Service-Learning Course: Working closely with community partners, and SLP and Global Center staff, fellows will continue course development, integrating community-engaged learning and global learning. 
    • Summer 2025 - Fellows can connect with each other and IU staff virtually
  • Stage III: Presentation of Course Syllabi, Fellows will reconvene to share final drafts of their annotated syllabus and their plans for departmental presentations.
    • August 2025: Virtual presentations, exact date to be determined

Application Guidelines 

    1. Share your background and goals by responding to the following questions. (Recommended word count 100-250)
      • Provide a description of the course you would like to develop through the program. If this is a revision to an existing course, please upload the syllabus in  the application form.
      • What are your prior experiences with community-engaged learning, aka service-learning, and/or global learning?
      • What would you like to accomplish as a result of participating in the institute?
      • How would community-engaged learning pedagogy and/or global learning enhance this course?
      • How and what would you share with your department and colleagues about the incorporation of community-engaged learning  into your curriculum? Provide a description of how you plan to raise the visibility of community-engaged learning within your department.
      • Describe how your philosophy of teaching informs your interest in this institute.
    2. Include a letter of support from your Department Chair, stating a commitment to offering the course through that department once during the 2025-2026 or 2026-2027 academic years and twice more by academic year 2031.

    Completed applications are due December 18, 2024.

If you have any questions, please contact Michael Valliant, the Director of the Service-Learning Program, at (812) 855-5686 or mvallian@iu.edu or Eli Konwest, Director of the Center for the Study of Global Change, (812) 856-4827 or ekonwest@iu.edu.

This institute is partially supported by: African Studies Program, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Center for the Study of the Middle East, East Asian Studies Center, Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center, Institute for European Studies, Russian and East European Institute