Fellowship Program
This project seeks to foster opportunities for those in the built environment fields (architecture, landscape architecture, planning, urban design, and real estate among others) to launch an academic career based on high quality and far-reaching teaching and scholarship.
We steward cohorts of early career fellows from schools dedicated to the built environment professions and practices.
Fellows are selected based on their interest in engaging in an academic career, while also contributing to the pursuit of equity and inclusion in the built environment. These might include junior Tenure Track (TT) faculty, lecturers, and teaching faculty, with specific attention to BIPOC and other underrepresented faculty in schools of the built environment professions and practices.
Fellows agree to participate in a one or two-year cohort, including, but not limited to, two summer institutes, engaging during the academic year with an internal mentor and an external mentor, and to an evaluation of the program on completion. The first Summer Institute introduces fellows to the academy and then explores teaching and research as well as service as core areas of faculty engagement. Over the next academic year fellows focus on professional development alongside their areas of interest in teaching and research. The second Summer Institute addresses the curation of a research agenda and plan as well as preparing a portfolio for promotion and/ or tenure.