Call for Applications: Colleges Online Learning Academy 2025

ATTENTION:

Graduate Students in the College of Arts & Letters or College of Business

The Colleges Online Learning Academy (COLA) program is now accepting applications for its 2025 cohort. This program is a summer fellowship that provides workshops and professional development around digital teaching and learning, developing your scholarly teaching identity, and inclusion & accessibility. The fellowship mentors participant cohorts through developing deliverables and reflections on your teaching practice.

Eligibility

COLA is open to all graduate students in the Broad College of Business and College of Arts and Letters. Students from other colleges are welcome to participate in our workshops, some of which fulfill requirements for the Certification in College Teaching, or may participate without receiving the $1,000 stipend.

Program Description

COLA Fellows receive a $1,000 fellowship stipend to support their work during the summer. The 2025 program will be run primarily online, with a hybrid kick-off meeting and a hybrid end-of-summer presentation session. The program will run for 12 weeks with a 1-week mid-summer break, and typically requires about 5 hours of engagement per week. Some of that engagement is synchronous, and some is completed asynchronously.

COLA fellows are expected to:

  • Participate in three or more workshops/learning experiences (including weekly COLA workshops offered in May and June or others such as the Certification in College Teaching Institute)
  • Interact weekly in your mentored peer group to seek and provide feedback
  • Develop content and artifacts that could be used as part of your teaching portfolio
  • Develop your skills in a specific topic of your choosing related to digital teaching and learning
  • Write an end-of-semester reflection piece on your experience in the program
  • Take two participant surveys for us to improve the program

Through the program, COLA fellows can accomplish competency requirements toward the graduate Certification in College Teaching programs.

Application

Complete the application form through Wednesday, March 26 to be considered for the fellowship.
For additional information about the fellowship, see the COLA website. For questions about the program or application, contact Caitlin Kirby of MSU’s Evidence-Driven Learning Innovation team at kirbycai@msu.edu.