The Daniels Fund Fellows Program at the University of Wyoming (UW) recruits faculty and staff across campus to participate in advancing the mission of the Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative (DFEI) Collegiate Program, which is to engage students and university stakeholders through principle-based ethics education and thereby prepare them to make ethical decisions in their personal and professional lives. The Daniels Fund Faculty Fellowship Program promotes the idea that ethics is an important discussion topic in all disciplines and that timeless ethical principles (e.g., integrity, respect, fairness)—when internalized—can guide individuals toward ethical decisions. Each academic year, approximately 7 UW faculty and/or professional staff are selected for this two-year fellowship, which comes with a $2,500 annual stipend (or $5,000 total).
Daniels Fund Faculty Fellows are primarily expected to advance the DFEI mission by developing a teaching activity integrating the DFEI principles (see Appendix A) for their course or seminar to help students learn to make principle-based ethical decisions within their field. Past faculty fellowshave developed case-based assignments, external projects, as well entire course modules comprising several activities integrating the DFEI principles. Over the two-year period, fellows first develop their proposed teaching activity (in Year 1) and then test a revision to their activity (in Year 2) through a Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Project directed by the ECTL. Fellow’s teaching activities are archived for others on campus to access. In addition, fellows are expected to promote student involvement in DFEI-supported campus programming (speakers, courses, conferences, etc.) and champion principle-based ethics education within their disciplines.
Past Faculty Fellow developments:
Fellows are selected by a committee composed of Chase Thiel, Bill Daniels Chair of Business Ethics; Chris Haller, Director of the Center for Principle-Based Leadership and Ethics; and Kent Noble, Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative Professor of Business Ethics.
Application Evaluation Criteria:
The potential for the teaching activity/instrument to result in DFEI student learning outcomes
Current Fellows
Molly Burchett - Department of Management and Marketing, College of Business
Conxita Domenech – Department of Modern & Classical Languages, College of Arts and Sciences
Tawfik Elshehabi – Department of Petroleum Engineering, College of Engineering
Quique Girones – Masters of Business Administration Program, College of Business
Gabel Taggart – School of Politics, Public Affairs, and International Studies, College of Arts and Sciences
Josie Voight – College of Business
Past Fellows
Jason Baldwin - Athletics
Dan Fetsco - Department of Criminal Justice and Sociology, College of Arts and Sciences
Matt Fox - Department of Management and Marketing, College of Business
Kim Frith – Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering, College of Business
Jeff Hamerlinck - Wyoming Geographic Information Science Center
Monique Holt – Athletics
Kaley Holyfield - Green-Johnson Student Success Center, College of Business
Sam Kalen - College of Law
Shawn McClean - Department of Management and Marketing, College of Business
Dan McCoy – Wyoming Outdoor Recreation, Tourism, and Hospitality, Haub School of Environmental and Natural Resources
Dick McGinity - Department of Management and Marketing, College of Business
Mark Peterson - Department of Management and Marketing, College of Business
Nick Prince - Department of Management and Marketing, College of Business
Tiger Robison - Department of Music, College of Arts and Sciences
Taylor Stuemky - Athletics
Taylor True – Green-Johnson Student Success Center, College of Business
Chen Xu – Wyoming Geographic Information Science Center
Charlie Zhang - Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering, College of Engineering
Kenny Zheng - Department of Accounting and Finance, College of Business
Fellows are expected to provide short oral and written reports of their year one and year two projects for archival. Fellowspresent their oral reports at a retreat in August. Faculty fellows also meet for lunch in January to provide progress updates. Finally, in Year 2, fellows meet an additional four times to receive guidance on their Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Project.
If you are interested in applying for a faculty fellowship, please click here.
The application deadline is August 22nd of the application year.
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