Two fellowships will be awarded for the 1999-2000 academic year. Fellows get a half-time release from their departmental duties to pursue the goals in their fellowship proposals.
Fellows also have small budgets for travel and for materials.
First fellow Charie Thralls, English, is the first CTE faculty fellow. She is a member of the learning communities working team appointed last year by the provost. She also is helping develop a two-day learning communities institute that will be offered on campus later this spring. She said the experience also has given her time to study ways to integrate the innovations of learning communities into the formal structure and divisions of a university. Right now at Iowa State, we're trying to preserve the diversity of learning communities and the 'grassroots' innovation of them, even as we recognize that some sort of central coordination is needed.