Gen Ed Fellowships

The campus-wide General Education Fellowships Program is designed to provide a forum for instructors to discuss the special demands of teaching General Education classes and to share information and experiences in order to better understand the purpose and benefits of this important form of instruction.

As part of this larger initiative, the Provost’s office, the Center for Teaching & Faculty Development, UMass Amherst Libraries, the Office of Academic Planning and Assessment, OIT / Academic Computing and the General Education Task Force co-sponsor a fellowship program. In the program’s third year, the Fellows are focused on enhancing student competencies in information literacy. Information literacy skills allow students to recognize when information is needed and to have the ability to locate, evaluate, and use information sources in a range of disciplinary contexts. The program includes up to ten fellows who receive a stipend of $2,500 each.

Resources

• UMass General Education Website
• Information Literacy Definition
• The W.E.B. DuBois Library's Information Literacy Website
• Information Literacy Assignments for Junior Year Writing Classes
• Presentation on Information Literacy by Isabel Espinal, UMass Libraries
• OIT’s Information Literacy Project Examples for 4-Credit Conversions

General Education Fellows

Please click on the academic years below for a list of past Fellows: