The Graduate School (TGS) will host one Faculty Fellow for Graduate Faculty Engagement and Governance for a two-year term. This Fellow will be charged with increasing faculty engagement in current university-wide initiatives related to graduate education, graduate student success, and graduate program excellence. These current initiatives include academic governance reform related to implementation of BLUE (the new UConn budget model), broadening graduate faculty involvement in the routine work of the Graduate Faculty Council (GFC) and the Executive Committee of The Graduate School, and improving graduate faculty engagement in ongoing university-level strategic and enrollment management planning.
The Fellow will serve as a collaborative partner between TGS and the graduate faculty as a whole: helping to strengthen collaboration, gather grassroots faculty feedback and input, identify emerging concerns and opportunities, and assist in the development of communications and related materials connected to Graduate School initiatives and governance activities. The Fellow will work directly with the academic leadership of TGS and academic affairs leaders in the Provost’s Office. The Fellow will help supervise a 15-hour Professional Intern from the Master of Public Policy program. This is an excellent opportunity for faculty interested in exploring the administrative, strategic, and collaborative side of graduate education leadership.
The Fellow will devote an average of 3–4 hours per week during the academic year to this service and will receive a research stipend of $7,500. Modest funds are also available to support travel, training, and/or initiatives developed by the Fellow. In addition, support for a one-course-per-year teaching release OR summer support may be available, if that is of interest to the successful applicant, and subject to successful negotiation with the faculty member’s home school or college. Summer support or a teaching release would be accompanied by a commensurate increase in the expected time commitment.
Please contact Leslie Shor (Leslie.Shor@uconn.edu) if you would like more information about the position or if you would like to nominate someone. Any current member of the UConn Graduate Faculty is eligible. To apply, please email graduatedean@uconn.edu and include a brief statement (1–2 pages) describing why you are interested in the position, your relevant prior experience that makes you a strong candidate, and how you prefer to structure the experience (i.e., just 3-4 hours, or more, and specify summer vs. academic year). We will begin considering applications and nominations on May 22, 2026. Review will continue until the position has been filled. The new Fellow will serve a two-year term beginning no later than August 23, 2026.
Faculty who are able to contribute a different perspective from existing graduate school and provost office leadership are particularly encouraged to apply.
