TILT Writing-Enriched Curriculum (WEC) Faculty Fellowship

📖 About the Fellowship

TILT is offering four Writing-Enriched Curriculum (WEC) faculty fellowships for the 2025-2026 school year to support faculty in meaningfully integrating writing as a tool for student learning and engagement.

This fellowship program encourages faculty to:

• Design innovative writing-focused methodologies.
• Develop a plan to assess the impact of these instructional strategies.
• Share valuable insights on writing as a tool for learning and engagement with the broader CSU community.

Objectives of WEC Projects:

• Contribute to students’ deepened learning and success objectives (e.g., retention, persistence, transfer of knowledge).
• Align with specific course objectives and learning outcomes.
• Include an assessment plan, timeline, and narrative that clearly states the project’s relevance to student learning.
• Connect the project’s objectives to the land grant mission of access or other University priorities.

WEC Fellows will engage in curriculum design or redesign with an emphasis on student learning outcomes that can be assessed. Projects may focus on:

• One major writing assignment.
• 3-4 smaller writing assignments.
• A collection of writing activities within one specific course.

🎁 Benefits

WEC Fellows will receive the following:

• Stipend: $1,500 for the course instructor.
• Mentorship: 20 hours of one-on-one mentorship and consultation with a TILT WEC Lead (Kelly Bradbury, Genesea Carter, Leslie Davis, or Annie Halseth).
• Collaborative Planning: Biweekly meetings in the fall semester with their WEC Lead to plan, implement, and assess their projects. (Spring semester meetings will be determined later.)

✅ Eligibility Criteria

To apply for the fellowship, you must meet the following requirements:

• Be a full-time Colorado State University faculty member on a tenured/tenure-track or continuing non-tenurable appointment for the 2025-2026 academic year.
• Graduate students are not eligible to apply as principal WEC Fellows but are encouraged to collaborate with faculty applicants.

Preference will be given to:

• Faculty who participated in TILT’s June 2025 intensive Community of Practice on Writing for Engaged Learning.
• Faculty who have not already participated in the WAC Fellows program.

🗓️ Application Date and Process

Key Dates:

• Proposal Deadline: August 1, 2025, by 11:59 PM.
• Project Timeline:
  • Writing-enriched curriculum preparation: August 2025.
  • Implementation: Fall 2025 semester.
  • Reflection and revision: Spring 2026 semester.
  • Completion: May 15, 2026.

Submission Instructions:

Proposals should be submitted electronically as a single document to Dr. Kelly Bradbury at kelly.bradbury@colostate.edu.

Proposal Requirements:

Your proposal should include the following:

1. Project Summary (Maximum 2 Pages, Single-Spaced):

• Brief project summary.
• Purpose statement describing:
  • Support and mentorship you are most excited about receiving.
  • Project timeline (August 2025 to May 15, 2026).
  • Assessment plan for evaluating the impact of your writing-enriched curriculum.
  • Course outcomes, University priorities, and/or learning objectives you will focus on.
  • Learning issue or pedagogical innovation your curriculum will address.
  • Major writing assignments or activities you plan to design or redesign.

2. Additional Details:

• Your name and email address.
• Your department and college.
• Course number, title, and number of students.

3. Attachments:

• Syllabus and course calendar of the proposed course.

📅 Application Deadline

August 1, 2025

🌟 Additional Information

• Fellowship Announcement: WEC Fellows will be announced on the TILT website and at the Summer Conference Awards Ceremony in May 2026. Fellows will also present a poster about their projects during the ceremony.
• January 2026 Opportunity: Fellows may participate in and help facilitate the TILT Course Redesign Institute to share their learning with faculty colleagues.

📬 Contact Information

For any questions, please contact:
Dr. Kelly Bradbury
Email: kelly.bradbury@colostate.edu

🌐 Official Application Portal

For more details and to apply, visit the TILT Writing-Enriched Curriculum (WEC) Faculty Fellowship page.

• WEC Fellowships include a stipend of $1500 for the course instructor
• 20 hours of one-on-one mentorship and consultation with a TILT WEC Lead (Kelly Bradbury, Director of the gtPathways Writing Integration Program; Genesea Carter, Associate Director of Composition; Leslie Davis, Associate Director of the Writing Center; or Annie Halseth, CSU WAC Program Writing Specialist).
• Fellows will meet biweekly in the fall semester with their WEC Lead to collaboratively plan, implement, and assess their projects. Spring semester meetings will be determined at a later date.