The Princeton / Community College Teaching Program is a collaboration between the McGraw Center for Teaching & Learning and the Graduate School. This unique program enables you to teach courses at Mercer County Community College, Rowan College South Jersey, Camden County College, or Middlesex College. The Fellowship provides a valuable, mentored experience by a tenured community college faculty member, and helps you develop as a teacher, providing an opportunity to design and teach a course. This professional development opportunity is particularly rich for graduate students because it encourages you to develop effective teaching skills in a highly diverse community college. These skills have been proven to benefit all students, regardless of their career trajectory. Learning Objectives The Fellowship is spread across two semesters: typically across the Spring and Fall of the same calendar year. During the mentored semester (typically conducted in the Spring Semester), you will: Shadow and learn from a tenured community college faculty member. Sit in on lectures and classes and attend faculty meetings. Get a behind-the-scenes view of the life of a professor at a community college. In many cases, guest lecture or present during this mentored semester. Spend time learning about the student populations in community colleges, as well as the range of resources that are available to them. This information and experience is put to use in the second semester of the program (typically in the Fall) when you have the opportunity to teach a course as the sole instructor of record at a community college. Application Process & Stipend Applications are solicited each fall from across Princeton University by the Office of the Dean of the Graduate School, in concert with the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning. A cohort of Ph.D. students (who must be enrolled, and must have completed the general examination in their field before the teaching semester) are selected to participate each year. International graduate students must contact the Davis International Center to obtain work authorization prior to beginning their teaching. The Community College Teaching Fellowship comes with a stipend for the Spring Semester. Fellows are paid by the community college for the course they teach in the Fall Semester. Questions? Please email Assistant Dean for Professional Development James M. Van Wyck. Apply for a Community College Teaching Fellowship Join the Community College Teaching Fellowship Contact List “As a staunch believer in educational equity, I am thrilled to be a Community College Teaching Fellow at Mercer County Community College. It's a unique opportunity to teach students from a wide range of backgrounds and with different interests, skills, and aspirations while receiving expert guidance and feedback from faculty mentors. I hope the experience will help me learn how best to use the skills I've acquired in grad school in order to teach better and to advocate more effectively for educational justice.” –Sucharita Ray, GS, HIS Our Higher Ed Partners Camden County College Mercer Community College Middlesex College Rowan College of South Jersey CCTF Resources McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning Main website Online Teaching Resources Teaching Seminar Resources for Graduate Students Community College Organizations American Association of Community Colleges Columbia Community College Research Center Community College Humanities Association: "Creating Meaningful Scholarship at the Teaching-Intensive Institution" New America (Education Policy) Our CCTF Partners Camden County College: Programs Mercer Community College: College Catalog Middlesex College: Course Catalog Rowan College South Jersey: Publications Upon Request CCTF Presentation - Student Success and the National Community College Teaching Landscape by Iris Palmer, New America. CCTF Featured Stories Fellowship Spotlight: Building a Framework for Inclusive Teaching Isabela Muci Barradas, Art and Archeology Fellowship Spotlight: Fusing Passions for Teaching and Service Sophie Brady, Music Community College Teaching Fellowship Profiles Mai Alkhamissi, *25, ANT Community College Teaching Fellow Emilia Arguello, GS, CHM Community College Teaching Fellow John Barr, GS, CHM Community College Teaching Fellow Michael Baysa, GS, REL Community College Teaching Fellow Dan Berbecel *19, POL Assistant Professor of Political Science, York College Sophie Brady, GS, MUS Community College Teaching Fellow Kathryn (Kate) Carpenter, GS Joyce Chen, GS, MUS Community College Teaching Fellow Pagination Current page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Next page Next › Last page Last » In the News Middlesex College joins Princeton’s Community College Teaching Partnership Princeton invigorates ties with New Jersey’s community colleges Community College Teaching Partnership Program Expands: Graduate School Partners with Rowan College South Jersey Graduate Student Employment Policy and Funding Considerations All graduate students must adhere to the Graduate Student Employment policy when participating in an opportunity that is compensated or funded by an external entity or an experiential opportunity funded by the Graduate School. When participating in internships that involve receiving compensation from private sector organizations, paid positions at national government labs or research institutes, and research assistantships funded by institutions outside of Princeton, graduate students must obtain approval from their faculty adviser prior to acceptance of a position and must also complete an External Opportunity Application Form. Additionally, all international graduate students must review and comply with the guidelines on the Davis International Center’s Employment Page to avoid risking their visa immigration status. The Davis International Center maintains a list of all graduate programs that offer Curricular Practical Training (CPT) for international graduate students during the academic year or summer. Please note that CPT is only available to international graduate students with F-1 visas when an academic department requires an experiential opportunity or offers an internship course as part of the established curriculum. International graduate students whose departments do not offer CPT are encouraged to speak with the director of graduate study about their interest in pursuing a paid experiential opportunity at an external organization. International graduate students are also encouraged to explore the following experiential fellowships offered by GradFUTURES (and funded by the Graduate School) which do not require work authorization or CPT: University Administrative Fellowships, Community College Teaching Fellowships, Social Impact Fellowships, Higher Education Leadership Fellowships, and Professional Development Associates. Our Commitment to Equal Opportunity and Nondiscrimination in Experiential Programs Princeton University is committed to equal opportunity and non-discrimination. To maximize excellence, we seek talent from all segments of American society and the world, and we take steps to ensure everyone at Princeton can thrive while they are here. Princeton does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, ethnicity, color, national origin, religion, disability, or any other protected characteristic, and Princeton does not provide special benefits or preferential treatment on the basis of a protected characteristic. These principles apply to the Graduate School's experiential programs, which are open to all graduate students (pending work authorization requirements for international students) and comply with federal and state non-discrimination laws. All experiential program partners and host organizations must adhere to an equitable recruitment and selection process within a framework of professionally accepted recruiting, interviewing, and selection practices that comply with federal and state non-discrimination laws. Also, all experiential program partners and host organizations must agree to provide an inclusive and welcoming learning environment for Princeton graduate student fellows/interns that aligns with the University’s conduct standards.
