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We facilitate a year-long faculty learning community to redesign courses for student success and wellbeing.

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Join CETL's Faculty Learning Community

Each year, the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning facilitates an interdisciplinary learning community for a small cohort of instructors interested in cultivating teaching strategies that support academic success and wellbeing for all students. The program offers a limited number of grants for the design, implementation, and reporting of course revisions to enhance teaching and learning for all students, with particular emphasis on those who confront obstacles to their academic success and wellbeing. Each participant receives a grant of $3,000 to support their course revisions.

Apply to join the FLC

Applications for the 2026 FLC cohort are now open. To apply, fill out the form below by November 3, 2025.
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Frequently Asked Questions

All University of Mississippi instructors, regardless of status, are eligible to apply for the learning community, and this includes staff who serve as instructors of record. We also designate up to two spots per cohort for graduate students who serve as instructors of record. 

Faculty and/or graduate students may also apply as a team of instructors who co-teach or teach multiple sections of a coordinated course.

While we welcome any UM instructor or group of instructors to apply, we are most likely to prioritize proposed course revisions likely to impact the largest number of students over the longest period of time.

During the first semester of the learning community, instructors attend four meetings with each other and with CETL staff to discuss research on how we can support all students in our classrooms. They will then redesign their chosen course using the evidence-based principles we discussed. In the second semester of the learning community, instructors teach the (re)designed version of their course and attend monthly meetings to discuss the progress of the course. They also gather any qualitative or quantitative data they need to assess the effectiveness of their teaching revisions. In the final weeks of the semester, instructors develop a plan to share what they have learned with peers in their department and submit a final reflection on their time in the program to CETL.

Participants receive half of their grant funding during the spring semester and the remainder in the fall semester. 

  1. Participate in the monthly meetings and activities of the learning community and individual consultations as appropriate.
  2. (Re)design a course or design a substantial course intervention.
  3. Implement your (re)designed course or course interventions during the second semester of the learning community.
  4. Discuss course progress and challenges and support learning community members as they work toward their own teaching goals.
  5. Share what you have learned with your department.
  6. Submit a final reflection to CETL on your time in the program and progress toward the goals articulated in your initial proposal.
Emily Donahoe

Questions about the FLC?

Emily facilitates the Faculty Learning Community; reach out to her any time with questions about the program. 

Emily Donahoe

Associate Director of Instructional Support in the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning and Lecturer of Writing and Rhetoric