2021 FACULTY INNOVATIONS IN PEDAGOGY & TEACHING FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITY - Award Amount: $7,500.00 Fellowship Duration
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2021 FACULTY INNOVATIONS IN PEDAGOGY & TEACHING FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITY Award Amount: Fellowship Duration: Application Deadline: $7,500.00 June 2021-January 2022 April 30, 2021
Fellowship
The HistoryMakers—the nation’s largest African American video oral history archive (www.thehistorymakers.org)—invites
applications for the 2021 Faculty Innovations in Pedagogy & Teaching Fellowship. Up to eight (8) fellowships of $7,500 will be
awarded.
The aim of the fellowship is to foster innovation and further student learning and research skills while providing 21st century
digital tools that diversify today’s and tomorrow’s higher education environments for virtual, hybrid and in-person instruction.
Successful applications will evidence a plan to increase awareness and usage of The HistoryMakers Digital Archive by integrating
The HistoryMakers Digital Archive into a course's design and syllabus to diversify curriculum and increase student engagement
and learning.
The fellowship period is June 2021 to January 2022.
Applications are due no later than Friday, April 30, 2021. Submission is open only to faculty at The HistoryMakers Digital Archive’s
subscribing institutions. For a complete list of subscribing institutions, please reference the back of this packet.
Eligibility
Applicants must be:
Current faculty at one of The HistoryMakers Digital Archive subscribing institutions. For a complete list of subscribing
institutions, please reference the back of this packet;
Either U.S. citizens or unconditional permanent residents;
Committed to centering the HistoryMakers Digital Archive in a course offered during the academic term(s) between August
and December 2021 (fall or quarter period(s));
Willing to reserve approximately 1.5 hours monthly for a synchronous virtual meeting between The HistoryMakers
Innovations in Teaching Pedagogy fellows and The HistoryMakers.
Background
In 2020, the advent of COVID-19 and the resultant challenges to society and higher education brought about a rapid and uneven
shift from in-person instruction to online learning as well as synchronous versus asynchronous instruction. This conversion
brought disparities into full view (i.e., reliable internet, personal computers, study spaces, equal access to library resources). It
also highlighted the resources and pedagogical changes needed for effective and diversified online instruction. The HistoryMakers
Digital Archive is a powerful electronic resource designed to meet the needs of both remote and virtual instruction.
2020 and 2021 also brought significant social and racial unrest caused by the deaths of George Floyd, Armaud Arbury, Breonna
Taylor, and others, as well as a siege on our nation’s capital. It became clear that most Americans know very little about the
African American community and how deleterious this ignorance is to American society. The HistoryMakers Digital Archive
provides real-life narratives that establish a roadmap for navigating and making sense of many of the most contentious issues of
today. It showcases important role models, success frameworks, and opportunities to draw connections that promote
understanding across socio-economic, racial, and ethnic boundaries. Essentially, The HistoryMakers Digital Archive places its users
into the lives of black people at a time when wholesale ignorance of the African American community has been putting African
American life at continued risk. It also provides faculty rich primary source content for classroom instruction in the form of a
unique electronic resource.
“The HistoryMakers Digital Archive is essential.”
Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Professor
History & African American Studies | Harvard University
2020 Innovations in Pedagogy Supervising Fellow
THE HISTORYMAKERS 2021 FACULTY INNOVATIONS IN PEDAGOGY & TEACHING SCHEDULE
April/May 2021 June 2021 July 2021
Friday, April 30, 2021: The HistoryMakers 2021 Faculty The HistoryMakers 2021 Faculty
The HistoryMakers 2021 Faculty Innovations in Pedagogy & Teaching Innovations in Pedagogy & Teaching
Innovations in Pedagogy & Teaching
Fellows Twice Monthly Mentoring Fellows Twice Monthly Sessions
Fellowship applications due
Friday, May 14, 2021: Sessions The HistoryMakers Digital Archive
The HistoryMakers 2021 Faculty The HistoryMakers Digital Archive Training Session (Asynchronous)
Innovations in Pedagogy & Teaching Training Session (Asynchronous)
Fellowship applicants informed of
decision
Friday, May 28, 2021:
The HistoryMakers 2021 Faculty
Innovations in Pedagogy & Teaching
Fellows publicly announced
Introductory Zoom session with The
HistoryMakers 2021 Faculty Innovations
in Pedagogy & Teaching Fellows
August 2021 September 2021 October 2021
The HistoryMakers 2021 Faculty The HistoryMakers 2021 Faculty The HistoryMakers 2021 Innovations in
Innovations in Pedagogy & Teaching Innovations in Pedagogy & Teaching Pedagogy & Teaching Fellows Monthly
Fellows Monthly Mentoring Session Fellows Monthly Mentoring Session Mentoring Session
The HistoryMakers Digital Archive Interim Report. PowerPoint
Training Session (Asynchronous) presentation and accompanying 1-2
page narrative that showcases
significant use of The HistoryMakers
Digital Archive as well as evidences,
through student work, increased student
learning and engagement and the further
diversification of the curriculum.
November 2021 December 2021 January 2021
The HistoryMakers 2021 Faculty The HistoryMakers 2021 Faculty The HistoryMakers 2021 Faculty
Innovations in Pedagogy & Teaching Innovations in Pedagogy & Teaching Innovations in Pedagogy & Teaching
Fellows Monthly Mentoring Session Fellows Monthly Mentoring Session Fellows Monthly Mentoring Session
Final Report. PowerPoint presentation
and accompanying 1-2 page narrative
that showcases significant use of The
HistoryMakers Digital Archive as well as
evidences, through student work,
increased student learning and
engagement as well as the further
diversification of the curriculum.
Videotaped Zoom presentation (5-10
minutes) with faculty and students
showcasing and talking about their work
and how that work incorporated
significant use of The HistoryMakers
Digital Archive and supported the
course’s learning goals and objectives
while fostering innovation.
Fellowship Application
Please complete an application at this link https://forms.gle/mhtErsTAWrPEW5Ta9 with all of
the following:
Background. Name, highest degree earned, and current field, department, and university.
Include your curriculum vitae or resume.
Course Information. Title of the course, course number and course description, typical
number of students enrolled (or maximum student enrollment) and the course’s delivery
format (online, in-person, hybrid; synchronous, asynchronous).
Teaching Statement. Description of your teaching philosophy and course design; in
particular, highlight how you will incorporate The HistoryMakers Digital Archive and how it
“The
will impact student learning and work.
HistoryMakers Syllabus.
Digital Archive not only If Reconfigured Course. Syllabus from the most recent course offering and
provides a treasure proposed changes to the syllabus highlighting use of The HistoryMakers Digital
Archive.
trove of materials If New Course. Draft syllabus highlighting use of The HistoryMakers Digital
but also allowed the Archive.
Rationale. Reasoning for selected course design and implementation.
students to be in the Previous Usage. If applicable, include a description of any of your previous usage of The
driver’s seat to HistoryMakers Digital Archive and what was learned.
explore and Impact Statement. Include a statement about the significance of this fellowship and the
expected impact and outcomes.
discover… on their
own.” Assessment Criteria Weightage
Elsie Harper-Anderson, Associate 1 The degree to which The HistoryMakers Digital Archive is significantly 40%
Professor | Govt. & Public Affairs incorporated into the proposed course and leverages the applicant’s
Virginia Commonwealth University teaching philosophy.
2020 Innovations in Pedagogy 2 The degree to which the use of The HistoryMakers Digital Archive 30%
Teaching Fellow supports the course’s learning goals and objectives and fosters
innovation.
3 The degree to which assessment positively supports learning objectives 10%
in a diversified and culturally responsive, expansive way.
4 The degree to which the learning environment encourages a sense of 10%
agency and requires students to extend their use of The HistoryMakers
Digital Archive beyond the mandatory assignments.
5 The degree to which the design of the course can serve as a model for 10%
integration of The HistoryMakers Digital Archive into other courses in
higher education.
Expected Outputs Weightage
“TheAsHistoryMakers
a White educator, 1 Interim and final PowerPoint presentations and accompanying 1-2 page
narrative that showcases significant use of The HistoryMakers Digital
Archive as well as evidences, through student work, increased student
50%
Digital Archive learning and engagement and the further diversification of the
curriculum. A final syllabus, analysis, sample lesson plans, curated clips
provided me a much from The HistoryMakers Digital Archive, student work and assignments
needed space to using The HistoryMakers Digital Archive that leverage the applicant’s
teaching philosophy are required.
center Black voices in 2 Final project includes videotaped Zoom presentation (5-10 minutes) with 50%
my classes.” faculty showcasing and discussing their work and how that work
Joshua D. Farrington, Professor incorporated significant use of The HistoryMakers Digital Archive and
Department of African / African supported the course’s learning goals and objectives while fostering
innovation.
American Studies | Eastern Kentucky
University
2020 Innovations in Pedagogy
Teaching Fellow
“Theneeded
HistoryMakers Digital Archive provided the resources I
to make my 2020 classroom novel and, in many
instances, mind-shattering—minus the apocalyptic.”
Marsha W. Rhee, Associate Professor
English | Johnson C. Smith University
2020 Faculty Innovations in Pedagogy Teaching Fellow
The HistoryMakers Digital Archive
The HistoryMakers Digital Archive makes accessible the first person, video oral history testimonies of The HistoryMakers, a 501
(c)(3) nonprofit organization headquartered in Illinois. It combines traditional oral history with state-of-the-art technology.
With more than 11,000 hours of searchable content, The HistoryMakers Digital Archive’s highlighted transcripts and curated
story segments make searching the collection both efficient and effective, solidifying the tool as a top-tier primary source
electronic database that can be viewed on computers and mobile devices. Over 3,300 interviews of African American leaders
from across a variety of disciplines—including the arts, business, civic engagement, education, entertainment, law, media,
medicine, STEM, the military, music, politics, religion, sports, and fashion & beauty—are featured in The HistoryMakers
Collection. Interviews last two to fifteen hours in length and have been conducted in 413 U.S. cities and towns—as well as in
international locations like Mexico, the Caribbean and Norway. With recollections dating back to the 1700s, the archive
contains thousands of subjects including business, technology, the Great Migration, foodways, poetry, The Black Arts
Movement, funeral rites, public health, modern music, LGBTQ, science, theology, integration, shifts in beauty culture, black
feminism, and more. The HistoryMakers archives also contain the stories of Alonzo Pettie, the oldest living black cowboy, and
statesman General Colin Powell; as well as poets Nikki Giovanni and Sonia Sanchez. Also included are 211 of the nation’s top
scientists, including Katherine Johnson, who was featured in the Hollywood movie Hidden Figures; civic leaders C.T. Vivian and
Marion Wright Edelman; music icons Berry Gordy and Quincy Jones; business leaders former Amex CEO Ken Chenault,
Merck CEO Ken Frazier, and former Xerox CEO Ursula Burns; lawyers former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and NAACP
Legal Defense Fund president Sherrilyn Ifill, political leaders Congresswoman Maxine Waters and former President Barack
Obama (when he was an Illinois State Senator); as well as New York Times columnist Charles Blow, innovative artist
Theaster Gates, museum director Thelma Golden, restaurateur Marcus Samuelsson, and entrepreneur Daymond John.
In 2014, the Library of Congress became The HistoryMakers’ permanent repository. It heralded The HistoryMakers as a “one
of a kind, unparalleled resource that is vitally important to the nation and the world and to those seeking a more complete
record of our nation’s history and its people.”
For More Information
Please visit The HistoryMakers website at www.thehistorymakers.org.
For inquiries, please contact William Teresa at wt@thehistorymakers.org or 312-674-1900 ext. 508
“[I]ntegrating The HistoryMakers Digital Archive into my courses… has
been meaningful and instructive for both myself and my students.…
[It brings] the relevance of conceptual frameworks and research to
light by connecting them with the lived experiences.”
Megan LePere-Schloop, Assistant Professor
Public & Nonprofit Management | The Ohio State University
2020 Innovations in Pedagogy Teaching Fellow
THE HISTORYMAKERS SUBSCRIBING INSTITUTIONS
Alabama Iowa Cornell University
Alabama A&M University University of Iowa Lehman College - CUNY
New York University
Arkansas Kentucky Stony Brook University
Arkansas State University Eastern Kentucky University
University of Arkansas North Carolina
University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff Maryland Duke University
Morgan State University Johnson C. Smith University
California North Carolina A&T University
Stanford University Massachusetts
University of California, Berkeley Boston University Ohio
Brandeis University Ohio State University
Colorado Harvard University
United States Air Force Academy Lesley University Oregon
Northeastern University University of Oregon
Connecticut Simmons University
Yale University Smith College Pennsylvania
Tufts University Bryn Mawr College
Delaware University of Massachusetts, Carnegie Mellon University
Delaware State University Amherst University of Pennsylvania
University of Delaware University of Massachusetts,
Boston Tennessee
Florida Fisk University
Florida A&M University Michigan Tennessee State University
Michigan State University Vanderbilt University
Georgia University of Michigan
Clark Atlanta University Texas
Emory University Minnesota Prairie View A&M University
Morehouse College Carleton College Texas Southern University
Morehouse School of Medicine University of Texas at Austin
Spelman College Missouri
Southeast Missouri State Virginia
Illinois University College of William & Mary
Chicago State University Washington University in St. Louis University of Richmond
DePaul University University of Virginia
Dominican University New Hampshire Virginia Commonwealth University
Northwestern University Dartmouth College
Oakton Community College Washington, D.C.
University of Chicago New Jersey American University
University of Illinois, Chicago Princeton University Georgetown University
Rutgers University Howard University
Indiana
Indiana University, Bloomington New York Wisconsin
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