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CETL Faculty Fellows

The Center for Engaged Teaching & Learning (CETL) Faculty Fellows Program aims to positively influence learning and teaching at UC Merced and contribute to a growing community focused on intellectual inquiry around student success. UC Merced faculty participating in the Faculty Fellowship Program will:

  • Join a community dedicated to enriching intellectual inquiry around learning and teaching.
  • Hone their skills as educators.
  • Enhance their leadership skills, serving as pedagogical consultants.

Faculty Fellows design projects specialized in a particular theme or outcome aligned with the campus strategic plan, such as:

  • AI as an Ally, Not an Enemy
  • Optimizing Large Class Instruction
  • Writing in the Disciplines
  • First-Year Flourishing
  • Or other topics of current interest

Meet the CETL Faculty Fellows

Rosemarie Bongers

Lindsay Crawford

Sylvain Masclin

Yiran Xu

Assistant Teaching Professor
Applied Mathematics

Assistant Teaching Professor
Public Health

 Assistant Teaching Professor
Life & Environmental Sciences Department		 Assistant Professor
Global Arts and Writing Studies

Interested in Becoming a Faculty Fellow?

Yes! We are excited you are interested in joining the effort to support excellence in teaching and learning at UC Merced. The best way to learn about what CETL Faculty Fellows do, is to engage with them. Connect and learn about their awesome projects! 
  • Duration & Compensation
    • The Fellowships are for one academic year.
    • Participants will receive a $10,000 honorarium.
    • Applications occur from Spring through Summer.
  • Expectations
    • Attend monthly colloquia with other fellows.
    • Develop expertise in a pedagogical topic or area of emerging need/relevance in your department/discipline/school through independent study, with potential for research in the scholarship of teaching & learning.
    • Dissemination of knowledge in consultation with the CETL director through: o Coordination of a faculty learning community or workshop series. Ideally, faculty fellows will incubate knowledge locally (in department or school) and campus-wide (e.g. learning community culminating event or workshop in CETL Teaching Commons).
    • Create online materials suitable for asynchronous instructional use.
    • Conduct 1:1 consultation with faculty, as requested.
    • Serve as an ongoing CETL “Pedagogy Partner” affiliation (e.g. open classrooms as exemplars