Community-Based Learning (CBL) Faculty Fellowship
The CBL faculty fellowship is a one-year program for University of Richmond professors and instructors. During their CBL fellowship year, faculty explore community-based pedagogy and community engagement in the classroom. Each fellow develops a course with a CBL component that they will teach during the academic year and learn from their other fellows about the challenges, joys, and benefits of taking a community-based approach to teaching.
The CCE provides funding for the fellowship, leads workshops on community-based course design and community engagement within academia, provides resources for further exploration on community-engagement, organizes a tour to learn more about Richmond, and assists with the development and deepening of community partnerships.
Professors and instructors from across the University are welcome to apply. Historically, cohorts have drawn from a diversity of disciplines and positions, creating a unique space for interdisciplinary conversations and University community-building.
Topics covered
The CBL Faculty Fellowship covers a variety of topics, and the content for each fellowship year is tailored to the participants in that cohort. Generally, here are some topics we examine during the fellowship year:
- Overview of Richmond history, issue areas, and the current nonprofit landscape
- Introduction to CBL pedagogy and modes of community-based learning
- Tools for building effective community partnerships
- Syllabus design for community-based learning courses
- Reflection tools for deeper student learning
- Elements of a successful CBL class
If you're interested in learning more about community-based learning, here are a few readings and resources we recommend to our CBL fellows:
Fink, L. D. (2003). Creating significant learning experiences. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Hooks, B. (2017). Teaching to transgress: education as the practice of freedom. New York: Routledge.
Howard, J. P. F. (1998). Academic Service Learning: A Counternormative Pedagogy. New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1998(73), 21–29. doi: 10.1002/tl.7303
Jacoby, Barbara. Building Partnerships for Service-learning. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2003. Print.
Randy Stoecker. (2011). Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDmjvs_BEa4.
Impact and assessment
What was most valuable to faculty about participating in the fellowship program? Here's what a few faculty members had to say:
"Bringing high impact practices into the classroom and developing cross-campus relationships with people outside my department. Without the CCE, I wouldn't be engaging nearly as much with folks outside of Gottwald and Geography." - Kristine Grayson, Biology
"The opportunity to work with [the CCE] and other faculty fellows who are deeply interested in community engagement and improving how we serve our students, our community and each other." - Tom Mullen, Journalism
"Having the time and space to think about pedagogy and about the philosophy and logistics of revising my courses. Connections to other faculty; meeting them, hearing about their ideas and work." - Nicole Sackley, History
2019-20 Community-Based Learning (CBL) Faculty Fellows
Alicia Diaz, Theatre and Dance
DANC 319: Collaborative Arts Lab: Dance, Humanities, and Technology
Sylvia Gale, Bonner Center for Civic Engagement
FYS 100: Storytelling and Social Change
Shannon Hooker, Modlin Center for the Arts
ARTH/MUS/THTR 345: Philanthropy in the Arts
Vivian Leung, Geography and the Environment
Coastal Hazards
Kristjen Lundberg, Psychology
PSYC 449: Prejudice and Intergroup Relations
Michael Marsh-Soloway, Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
SDLC 105, 110, 111, 112, 113: Self-Directed Language Acquisition Program
Camilla Nonterah, Psychology
PSYC 299/WGSS 279: Women's Health
Stephanie Spera, Geography & Environment
GEOG 280/ENVS 300: Special Topic: Weather, Climate and Society
Bob Spires, Graduate Education
EDUC 517: Foundations of Education
Past CBL Fellows
2017-2018 CBL Faculty Fellows
Lauranett Lee, Public History
Introduction to Public History and Public History Capstone Course
Tom Mullen, Journalism
News Writing & Reporting and FYS: Civic Journalism & Social Justice
Melissa Ooten, WGSS
FYS: Slavery in the Contemporary Imagination
Karina Vazquez, LALIS
Spanish in the Community
2016-2017 CBL Faculty Fellows
Elizabeth Baughan, Classical Studies
Introduction to Archeology
Olivier Delers, Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
SSIR: Reading to Live
Kristine Grayson, Biology
Integrated Biological Principles II
Meredith Harbach, Law
Civil Procedure
George Hiller, School of Professional & Continuing Studies
Understanding Language and Culture: Latin Americans/ Latinos
Amy Howard, Bonner Center for Civic Engagement
FYS: Community
Erik Johnson, Economics
Urban Economics
Todd Lookingbill, Geography and the Environment
Landscape Ecology
Julie McConnell, Law
Children's Defense Clinic
Tom Mullen, Journalism
Civic Journalism and Social Justice
Kimberly Robinson, Law
Education Law and Policy
Ernesto Seman, Leadership
Leadership in the Humanities
Dean Simpson, Classical Studies
The Classical Elements of the English Language
Andy Spalding, Law
Corporate Compliance
Martin Sulzer-Reichel, Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Insiders/Outsiders: Arab Encounters with the West
Shital Thekdi, Management
Statistics for Business and Economics
Carrie Wu, Biology
Introduction to Biological Thinking: Biological Invasions
2015-2016 CBL Faculty Fellows
Kim Gower, Leadership
Justice and Civil Society
Jeannine Keefer, UR Libraries
20th Century Architecture and the City of Richmond
Maia Linask, Economics
International Trade: Causes, Consequences, and Controls
Francoise Ravaux-Kirkpatrick
Citizen Camera
Sydney Watts, History
Social Utopias
2014-2015 CBL Faculty Fellows
Carol Brown, Law
Housing Law
Lidia Radi, Modern Literatures & Cultures
Women, Temptation, and Virtue
Kimberly Robinson, Law
Law and Educational Equity
Nicole Sackley, History
The Historian's Workshop
Monika Siebert, English
America in the World, the World in America
Joe Troncale, Modern Literatures & Cultures
What is Art For?
2013-14 CBL Faculty Fellows
Monti Narayan Datta, Political Science
Human Rights and Modern Day Slavery
Thais M. Diaz Montalvo, Latin American and Iberian Studies
Spanish in the Community
Jan H. French, Anthropology
Human Rights in America
George L. Hiller, SPCS
Understanding Culture and Language II
Elizabeth Schlatter, University Museums
Museum Studies: Exhibiting Russian Jewish History in Richmond
David Stevens, English
Writing in Richmond
Shital A. Thekdi, Management
Statistics for Business and Economics
Douglas L. Winiarski, History and American Studies
Richmond: City of the Dead
2012-13 CBL Faculty Fellows
Olivier Delers, Modern Literatures and Cultures
French-English Translation
Mary Finley-Brook, Geography and the Environment
Latin American Geographies: Transnational and Local Connections
Craig Kocher, Office of the Chaplaincy
SSIR: Living a Life of Consequence: Self Discovery and Social Change
Monika Kukar-Kinney, Marketing
Database Marketing
Nicole Maurantonio, Rhetoric and Communication Studies
Memory and Memorializing in the City of Richmond
Betsy Mullen, Journalism
News Writing and Reporting
Jonathan Whitaker, Management
Consulting Process and Practicum
Eric Yellin, History and American Studies
Introduction to American Studies
2011-12 CBL Faculty Fellows
Amit Eynan, Management
Operations Management
Della Fenster, Mathematics and Computer Science
SSIR: Science In Context
Nuray Grove, Modern Languages and Cultures
English Communication in Cultural Context and Academic Writing in English as a Second Language
Rick Mayes, Political Science
Global Health, Medical Humanities, and Human Rights
Tom Mullen, Journalism
FYS: Civic Journalism and Social Justice
Jennifer Nourse, Sociology and Anthropology
Medicine and Health from a Global/ Anthropological Perspective
David Salisbury, Geography and the Environment
Mapping sustainability: Cartography and Geographical Information in an Environmental Context
Mary Kelly Tate, Law
FYS: A Meditation on Wrongful Conviction
2010-2011 CBL Faculty Fellows
Todd Lookingbill, Geography
Geography of the James River Watershed
Laura Browder, American Studies/English, and Patricia Herrera, Theatre and Dance
Documentary Theatre
Scott Nesbitt, Digital Scholarship Lab (with Ed Ayers)
Mapping American History (FYS)
Val Venderzyk, Accounting
Accounting Systems
Laura Browder, American Studies
Immigrant Histories
Catherine Bagwell, Psychology (with Rick Mayes)
SSIR: Children and Mental Health
Mavis Brown, Education
Educating Diverse Learners
2009-10 CBL Faculty Fellows
Holly Blake, Associate Dean, Women's Education and Development
WILL/WGSS Senior Seminar
Jeni Burnette, Psychology
Applied Social Psychology
Jonathan Dattelbaum, Chemistry
Biochemistry
Paula Lessem, Biology
Emerging Infectious Diseases
Elizabeth Outka, English, and Kevin Pelletier, English
Literature of War
Jeff Pollack, Management
Introduction to Entrepreneurship
Andrea Simpson, Political Science
>No Place to Go: Women, Dependency, and Homelessness
Carol Wharton, Sociology and Women's Studies
Homes and Neighborhoods
2008-09 CBL Faculty Fellows
Ronald Bacigal, Law
Criminal Process
Doug Bosse, Management
Strategic Management
Jennifer Erkulwater, Political Science
The Politics of Poverty and Place
Jane Geaney, Religion
Orientalism, Racism, and Religion
Elisabeth Gruner, English
Introduction to Children's Literature
Gill Hickman, Leadership Studies
Leading Change
Scott Johnson, Rhetoric and Communication Studies
Topics in Research: Interviewing Methods
Sungmoon Kim, Leadership Studies
Justice and Civil Society
Lewis A. Litteral, Management
Statistics for Business and Economics I
Joan Neff, Sociology/Anthropology/Criminal Justice
Senior Seminar in Criminal Justice
Tom Shields, Leadership Studies
Justice and Civil Society
Carlos Valencia, Latin American and Iberian studies
Spanish in the Community
Thad Williamson, Leadership Studies
Leadership and Governance in the Contemporary American Metropolis