About
Teaching For Community Resilience (TFCR) is a year-long, theoretical and practical investigation of the intersection between public education and community resilience. Participants work individually and together to reimagine and (re)enact how public higher education can contribute to the resilience of WNC communities.
Faculty in any discipline from the following institutions are eligible to apply: AB Tech, App State University, Isothermal CC, Mayland CC, Southwestern CC, Tri-County CC, Wilkes CC & UNCA. Fellowships are stipended.
Information Session
Links for information session on October 14th:
Slide deck
Recording of Session
Fellowships Available
Planning Fellows
Applications Closed
Design Fellows
Applications Closed
Application
Fellowships Available
Planning Fellows (Applications Closed)
October - December 2021
- Apply by Oct 22nd
- Meet (3 times) and collaborate virtually to draft initial curricula framing of tFcr
January - April, 2022
- Facilitate three highly participatory meetings that explore of the tFcr framework
- Create space for all participants to bring and share frames, literatures and perspectives that enrich and complicate the group’s understanding of tFcr
- Support and foster Design Participants as they develop a summer pedagogical engagement
May - August
- Attend 2 or 3 local pedagogical engagements and provide the Design Participants feedback and reflection on the experiences
- Create presentation for capstone meeting on salient learning experiences
September
Attend and give presentation at capstone meeting
Design Fellows (Applications Closed)
January - April, 2022
- Attend three highly participatory meetings that explore of the tFcr framework
- Contribute frames, literatures and perspectives that enrich and complicate the group’s understanding of tFcr
- Design develop a summer pedagogical engagement
May - August
- Conduct summer pedagogical engagement in local community; meet with Planning Participants for feedback and reflection
- Create presentation for capstone meeting on salient learning experiences
September
Attend and give presentation at capstone meeting