For Graduate Students

How to Apply to GIFT

To apply to the Graduate Institute For Teaching, graduate students must:

1. Identify a Potential Mentor

A list of faculty members looking for Ph.D. candidate teaching fellows for the fall or spring semester will be posted on this website by March 8, 2013. Interested Ph.D. graduate students must then contact that faculty person, and obtain agreement from the faculty to work together. Teaching fellows can apply to work with faculty outside their own home department (i.e., a student in the Drama department can apply to be a teaching fellow in the English department). A faculty mentor cannot work with more than one teaching fellow per semester. A graduate student can also approach a faculty member who is not listed, and ask about their interest in applying for this program. In either case, the application must be jointly submitted by a graduate student AND a faculty member.

2. Complete the application form

The faculty / teaching fellow pair will complete the pdf application form and e-mail it to Kim Ellwood, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at kim.ellwood@tufts.edu. The e-mail application should be received by Friday, March 15, 2013. A copy of the application, signed by both the faculty member and the graduate student must be faxed or mailed to Kim. No application will receive final acceptance until a signed copy is obtained. Kim Elwood's fax number is 617-627-3016 and her campus address is Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Ballou Hall, Medford Campus.

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Applications will be reviewed by a committee composed of the Dean of the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, Lynne Pepall, and the Associate Director of the Center for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching (CELT), Annie Soisson. When needed, the Teaching Fellow's department will be consulted.