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Future Professoriate Graduate Certificate
For graduate students preparing to become faculty.This graduate certificate aims to prepare our future faculty and academic leaders by exposure to concepts that break the mold of existing practices in higher education. Many leaders in the academic and business communities have recently challenged colleges and universities to embrace change in order to ensure the viability of the higher education enterprise. Rather than settle for the status quo and witness a probable decline in sustainability, most argue that it is time to create new models and new methods of training for the future professoriate, who will become the faculty and academic leaders of tomorrow.
This certificate is part of the overarching theme "Transformative Graduate Education", or TGE. Interconnecting compontents all serve to better prepare the next generation professoriate/professional.
- PFP2 – Preparing the Future Professoriate and Preparing the Future Professional – two complementary tracks
- GEDI – enhancing the GTA and professional development experience that encourages graduate students to acquire a broad array of skill sets that will prepare them to be teacher/scholar/professionals who are better able to meet the higher education and societal challenges of the 21st century. This project is being conducted in collaboration with Learning Technologies
- Citizen-Scholar Program – addressing the impact of rigorous intellectual scholarship, leadership and policy beyond the educational realm.
Admissions Requirements
Graduate students wishing to earn the graduate certificate in Future Professoriate must be currently enrolled master's or doctoral students in any discipline or major. These individuals must have satisfied all admissions requirements to be admitted and must remain in good academic standing.
Course Requirements
Graduate students must complete a minimum of 9 graduate credits (6 of which must be graded graduate credits). Required core courses include (6 credit hours):
GRAD 5104 Preparing the Future Professoriate (3 hours/3 credits)
GRAD 5114 Pedagogical Practices in Contemporary Contexts (3 hours/3 credits)
Electives may be selected from the following (3 credit hours):
GTA Workshop (1)
GEDI: Critically Engaged Teaching with Advanced Technology (3)
College or department specific graduate courses (English, Sociology, Public
Policy, Engineering, etc.)
Workshops from CEUT (for credit)
Internships or practicum
PFP Seminar
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