Future Faculty Fellowship Program Call for Applications

The Future Faculty Fellowship Program (FFFP) is a 5-day intensive interdisciplinary program for senior-level graduate students. It is facilitated by the Center for Faculty Excellence (CFE) and was developed through collaboration with Student Government, the Graduate and Professional Student Federation, the Office of the Provost, and the Graduate School. The Program serves to meet professional development goals by improving the instructional planning and teaching skills of new Teaching Fellows who are assigned to teach undergraduate courses at UNC-Chapel Hill independently as well as prepare them to meet their future faculty responsibilities in research, service, and leadership prior to completion of their degrees.


The dates for the Fall 2009 FFFP are August 12-14 and 17-18, and it will be held in the Frank Porter Graham Student Union Building Room 3203. To apply for the program, graduate students should be directed to the application on the CFE website: http://cfe.unc.edu/teaching/fffp/index.html.


The program is limited to 25 participants who are selected from the group of graduate students completing the application process that includes an essay on why they want to participate in the program, a letter of recommendation from a faculty member, and some additional information about their experiences with teaching and learning. The deadline for application is July 17, 2009. The deadline for the faculty letter of recommendation is July 21. Students will be notified of acceptance by end-of-day, July 24.


Please let me know if you have any questions regarding this program or the application process.

Todd Zakrajsek, Executive Director
Center for Faculty Excellence
966-4838
toddz@unc.edu

Research Ethics Course - GRAD 721

*Two sections now open for Fall 2009 registration*

The purpose of this mini-course is to discuss in serious and systematic ways some of the important issues in research ethics. This is not a course in moral theory, nor is it a course that aims only to review rules and codes of conduct. Rather, the aim is to increase our awareness of the nature of ethical issues in research and some methods for reasoning constructively about them. The topics to be addressed include (but are not restricted to): falsification of data, plagiarism, professional codes of ethics, issues in mentoring, peer review and authorship, the use of statistics, intellectual property, conflicts of interest, the use of human and animal subjects in research, environmental ethics, issues involving women and under-represented minorities in the professions, and the social responsibilities of researchers.

This graduate level course will be conducted as a seminar and will meet one time per week for seven weeks. All readings, case studies, and instructional material are available online. Participants will do the readings for each topic and take a self-paced quiz to test their comprehension of the material before each seminar session. The seminar sessions will be devoted to review of the principles relevant to specific reading topics and a discussion of the complexities and difficulties of the specific cases. The requirements of the course are to complete the online material before each seminar and to attend the seminars. There will be no additional exams or papers.

The Research Ethics course will be taught by members of the Philosophy Department under the guidance of Douglas MacLean, professor of philosophy. Section 001 will meet on Thursdays, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.; section 002 will meet on Mondays, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. Both sections will meet at the Graduate Student Center, 211W Cameron Avenue. Classes will begin the week of August 17; class size is limited to 45. To register please go to University Registrar website.

For more information about this course, please visit: http://openseminar.org/ethics/ and go to the student entrance. Then click on "University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill" and select "Douglas MacLean" as your instructor. This will let you enter the course and explore the readings, case studies, and the tests for each unit.