Teaching Fellows
UBC Okanagan’s Teaching Fellows program recognizes and supports faculty members across campus who contribute significantly to the teaching and learning mission on campus. The Fellows work with colleagues and CTL staff to contribute to UBC’s core strategy of transformative learning and CTL’s mission to promote, inspire, and support teaching excellence.
Fellows apply based on records of excellence in teaching and proposals to extend their impact beyond their own classrooms to the campus community. Teaching Fellow Awards are for one year, and recipients receive dedicated support from CTL staff for the projects and plans that they propose through their applications. An individual may receive the Teaching Fellow Award for up to three consecutive years.
Any faculty member with a continuing tenured or tenure-track appointment or lecturer holding a full-time limited-term appointment who will be teaching at UBC Okanagan during the award year is eligible to apply.
- Evidence of recent past, ongoing, and planned future contributions to teaching and learning activities on campus including UBC Okanagan priorities, CTL events and workshops, faculty, staff, and student professional development, and Faculty-level engagement in teaching activities.
- Contributions in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning with emphasis on techniques broadly deployed across campus or other institutions and beyond an individual’s own pedagogy.
- Demonstrated excellence in classroom instruction and peer mentoring that is exemplary for other instructors. Special emphasis on teaching practices that demonstrate accessibility, inclusion, Indigenous content integration, multi-modal instruction, experiential learning, and technology driven efficiencies.
The application deadline is June 30.
The applicant submits to the CTL the following documents via e-mail:
- Application cover letter – up to 3 pages addressing the criteria with emphasis on the impact of past activities and planned activities for the award year. The letter should also address how the applicant and associated activities contribute to UBC Okanagan teaching community and the CTL.
- CV in UBC standard format
- All documents must have minimum margins of 2.54 cm (all sides) and 12pt font size
- Teaching dossier
- A letter of support from the department head, director, or associate dean
- No other letters of support or any other documentation is required
Teaching Fellows are expected to pursue their individual and collaborative projects with support from CTL staff, advise CTL leadership on priorities and plans through engagement with the CTL Academic Director, and share back to their home Schools and Faculties.
Applications are reviewed by a committee chaired by the CTL Academic Director, guided by the evaluation criteria and with emphasis on learning community impact, and engagement and contribution to CTL activities. The awards are distributed with the goal of representation from each Faculty and the selection of a diverse cohort of Teaching Fellows who champion UBC Okanagan priorities and exemplify our campus values.
The Centre for Teaching & Learning congratulates the following faculty members who have received the Teaching Fellow Award for 2024-2025.
| Peter Arthur (EDUC) | Catherine Kyle (FASS) |
| Anita Chaudhuri (FCCS) | W. Stephen McNeil (FOS) |
| Tamara Ebl (MGMT) | Zoë Soon (FOS) |
| Jannik Eikenaar (ENGR) | Sally Stewart (FHSD) |
| Bowen Hui (FOS) | Robin Young (FOS) |
The Centre for Teaching & Learning congratulates the following faculty members who have received the Teaching Fellow Award for 2023-2024.