Faculty - Faculty Tutorials

Faculty-faculty tutorials are funded by the Instructional Support Committee to encourage interdisciplinary teaching and greater diversity in our curriculum. The faculty members involved in the tutorial must be from different departments. Tutorials may benefit each participant or may aim primarily at one participant learning from the other. In cases where one person is being tutored by another, only the person receiving the tutoring needs to submit a proposal. Otherwise, both faculty members should submit proposals or collaborate on a combined proposal.

The tutorials can take place at any time during the academic year or the summer and last over whatever period of time participants find most beneficial. A tutorial usually ranges from five meetings of two or more hours, to ten or more meetings of shorter duration. Faculty members receiving funding for faculty-faculty tutorials are expected to spend a minimum of 30 hours each, including time together and individual study time, on the tutorial project.

Application Deadlines:

  • First Monday in September for fall semester projects
  • First Monday in November for winter break projects
  • First Monday in February for spring semester projects
  • First Monday after spring break for summer projects

Budget Guidelines:

Each tutorial participant will receive a stipend of $650; each tutorial group receives an expense allowance of $75.

Application Guidelines -- Please submit the following information to the Instructional Support Committee via the Associate Deans' Office:

  • the name and department of each participant;
  • the subject of the tutorial;
  • a statement about the contribution of the tutorial to interdisciplinary teaching or greater diversity in our curriculum;
  • the purpose to be accomplished in the tutorial (include a rationale for the participation of both faculty members in this project);
  • a description of the written work to be submitted at the conclusion of the tutorial (recognizing that this might change in the course of the tutorial);
  • the tutorial timetable -- the proposed number and length of meetings, and when and over what period of time they will take place