Faculty Fellows Program
The Community-Engaged Alliance Faculty Fellows program is a year-long learning community experience designed in the tenets of Boyer’s (1996) vision of the scholarship of engagement. Selected individuals will serve a one-year term as part of a cohort with other engaged scholars from partner campuses. Each year, the cadre of selected scholars will work collaboratively on a scholarly project that will seek to advance the understanding and practice of community engagement through the collaborative engagement research paradigm (Jacquez, Ward, & Goguen, 2016), while individually incorporating community engagement into the three components of faculty work: teaching, research, and service.
Each cohort of Fellows is led by the Senior Faculty Fellow.
The Senior Faculty Fellow is a three-year leadership opportunity for a highly engaged scholar who serves as a peer mentor to each cadre of selected Faculty Fellows. The Senior Fellow will work closely with the staff at Community-Engaged Alliance to shape the thematic work of each cohort of Fellows, ensuring that there is a common thematic thread connecting each programmatic year.
Faculty Fellows
Funding Award
$5,000
Required Institutional Cash Match
$1,500
Who Should Apply:
FACULTY of any rank or discipline with experience in implementing quality community-engaged pedagogies into their courses, and who are looking to collaborate on a scholarly project with other engaged faculty from across Indiana.
Typical Application Deadline & Project Timeline
The Faculty Fellows Program begins each year on July 1st and concludes on May 31st.
Applicants are required to submit a Letter of Intent and a Full Proposal.
- Letters of Intent are due each April
- Full Proposals are due each May
See the full Faculty Fellows Funding Application for the exact application deadlines.
Funded applicants are required to submit biannual reports in January and June.
Sr. Faculty Fellows
Funding Award
$7,000/year
Required Institutional Cash Match
$2,800/year
Who Should Apply:
FACULTY of any rank or discipline who have either
- served as a Faculty Fellow within the last six (6) academic years; or
- possess exceptional knowledge, skills, and abilities in the field of community engagement, and a working knowledge of critical community engagement as envisioned by Mitchell (2008), along with an understanding of the scholarship of engagement and proven leadership skills.
Typical Application Deadline & Project Timeline
The Senior Faculty Fellows leadership position is a three-year commitment.
Applicants are required to submit a Letter of Intent and a Full Proposal.
- Letters of Intent are due in February
- Full Proposal are due in March
The selected Senior Faculty Fellow is required to submit biannual reports in January and June.
Submission & Routing Process
Applicants are responsible for proper routing and approval by their institution prior to submission. Detailed instructions on the submission process can be found in the request for proposal of each grant.
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Recently Funded Fellows
Dr. Kiesha Warren-Gordon, Associate Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology, and the Program Coordinator for the Minor in African American Studies at Ball State University, has been awarded the Senior Faculty Fellowship from Indiana Campus Compact.
By serving as Senior Fellow for three years, Dr. Warren-Gordon is able to ensure that there is a common thread connecting each cohort of Faculty Fellows. The Senior Fellowship includes funding to support Dr. Warren-Gordon’s high-impact teaching, research, and engagement practices. She will peer mentor fellow faculty from across Indiana in the practice of the scholarship of engagement, and provide leadership as they collaborate on a group project, and work on their own, individual projects. Her own individual project is Better Together, a collaboration between the Muncie, IN Whitley neighborhood and the Ball State campus.
Dr. Kiesha Warren-Gordon, Associate Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology, and the Program Coordinator for the Minor in African American Studies at Ball State University, has been awarded the Senior Faculty Fellowship from Indiana Campus Compact.
By serving as Senior Fellow for three years, Dr. Warren-Gordon is able to ensure that there is a common thread connecting each cohort of Faculty Fellows. The Senior Fellowship includes funding to support Dr. Warren-Gordon’s high-impact teaching, research, and engagement practices. She will peer mentor fellow faculty from across Indiana in the practice of the scholarship of engagement, and provide leadership as they collaborate on a group project, and work on their own, individual projects. Her own individual project is Better Together, a collaboration between the Muncie, IN Whitley neighborhood and the Ball State campus.
26th Fellows Class (2021-2022)
Dr. Ilfa Zhulamanova, Assistant Professor of Education, was awarded a Faculty Fellowship from Indiana Campus Compact.
Dr. Zhulamanova will work on a collaborative research project with other Faculty Fellows from across the state and an individual project that will develop the Storytelling Project, which will establish a connection between the University of Southern Indiana Early Childhood Education program and Carver Community Center (CCC) to provide a real-life learning experience for teacher candidates.
Dr. Laura Merrifield Wilson, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Indianapolis (UIndy), was awarded a Faculty Fellowship from Indiana Campus Compact.
Dr. Merrifield Wilson will work on a collaborative research project with other Faculty Fellows from across the state and an individual project in which she will create of a toolkit to make it easy for communities across the state to use the Hoosier Hall Pass program to enable 16- and 17-year-olds to serve as poll workers for academic recognition.
Kiplangat "Chip" Cheruiyot Bii, Assistant Professor for Local and Global Missions and Director of Taylor World Outreach was awarded a Faculty Fellowship from Indiana Campus Compact.
Mr. Bii will work on a collaborative research project with other Faculty Fellows from across the state, and an individual project in which he will develop the project "Mapping Immigration Locally to facilitate Critical Service Learning" for students through Taylor World Outreach.
25th Fellows Class (2020-2021)
Jessica Lee, Ph.D., MA, MBE, LSW, Assistant Professor in the IU
School of Social Work at IUPUI where she chairs the Health Concentration, was
awarded a Faculty Fellowship from Indiana Campus Compact.
Lee will work on a collaborative research project with other Faculty Fellows from across the state, as well as her individual project Responsive Service Learning with Refugee Community Partners, which will entail building new community engagement experiences into courses that allow for community-engaged learning components. She is collaborating with two partner organizations, Burmese American Community Institute (BACI) and Exodus Refugee, to develop deeper partnerships and to provide professional service.
Dr. Adam J. Kuban, Associate Professor in the Department of Journalism and the inaugural Ball Brothers Foundation Honors College Faculty Fellow was awarded a Faculty Fellowship from Indiana Campus Compact.
Dr. Kuban’s will be creating a documentary sequel to his 2019 documentary Match Point: The Rise of Men’s Volleyball. While the first documentary was created to emphasize the growth of the sport across the country, Match Point II will chronicle the effort to build collegiate men’s volleyball teams at six historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SIAC) with the intent to engage potential donors in this national, nonprofit organization, attract new members to the volleyball community, and appeal to minority youth who may be considering participation in the sport.
Dr. Cristina Santamaría Graff, Assistant Professor of Special Education, Urban Teacher Education, was awarded a Faculty Fellowship from Indiana Campus Compact.
Dr. Santamaría Graff will work on a collaborative research project with other Faculty Fellows from across the state, as well as her individual project Developing an Online Repository of Family-Centered Lesson Plans Through a “Family as Faculty” Approach, which entails creating an online repository (e.g., website or other digital library) of family-centered lesson plans co-created by pre-service teachers in the IUPUI School of Education Elementary Education Program and families of children with disabilities in the Family as Faculty program. Through the project, families are paired with students from Dr. Santamaría Graff’s special education methods’ course to create content and inform instructional choices for generating lessons and compiling important information useful to families. The families will drive the content as it is developed by the students, which will then be uploaded to an accessible, free, and publicly available online platform.
Dr. Susan Crisafulli, Professor of English was awarded a Faculty Fellowship from Indiana Campus Compact.
Dr. Crissafulli will work on a collaborative research project with other Faculty Fellows from across the state, and an individual project in the form of a communications consulting course in which senior English and creative writing majors will consult with local nonprofit organizations to understand their needs and create high-quality, professional communications materials to help the organizations pursue their mission. The students in Dr. Crisafulli’s Communications Consulting course will be working with Johnson County nonprofits Michelle’s Little Free Pantry and Bridges Alliance of Johnson County.
Previous Fellowship Projects
Over the course of the more than 25-year history of the Community-Engaged Alliance Faculty Fellows Program, numerous scholarly works have been produced. Below you will find a small sampling of the work from throughout the years.
by Mark Latta, Tina M. Kruger, Lindsey Payne, Laura Weaver, and Jennifer L. VanSickle
Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, Vol. 22 No. 2
APA citation: Latta, M., Kruger, T. M., Payne, L., Weaver, L., & VanSickle, J. (2018). Approaching critical service-learning: A model for reflection on positionality and possibility. Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 22(2), 31–56.
edited by Nathan A. Schaumleffel
APA citation:
Schaumleffel, N. A. (Ed.). (2014). Cooperate—Advancing your nonprofit organization’s mission through college and community partnerships: A guide for nonprofit leaders. Indiana Campus Compact.
edited by Mary Jane Eisenhauer, Nancy B. Marthakis, J.R. Jamison, and Marifran Mattson
APA citation:
Eisenhauer, M. J., Marthakis, N. B., Jamison, J. R., & Mattson, M. (2011). Charting the Course for Service-Learning: From Curriculum Considerations to Advocacy. A Faculty Development Workbook. Indiana Campus Compact.
edited by Jacquelyn Frank, Mark Malaby, Laura Raidonis Bates, Marcie Coulter-Kern, Sheron Fraser-Burgess, J.R. Jamison, Linda Stalker Prokopy, and Nathan A. Schaumleffel
Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education, Vol. 1, No. 2
APA citation:
Frank, J., Malaby, M., Bates, L. R., Coulter-Kern, M., Fraser-Burgess, S., Jamison, J. R., Prokopy, L. S., & Schaumleffel, N. A. (2010). Serve at your own risk?: Service-learning in the promotion and tenure process. Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education, 1(2), 1–13.
Additional Documents
Sample Proposal
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Sample Reporting Guidelines
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