Faculty Scholars Program Now Accepting Applications, Offers $1,500 Stipends
4/28/2025.
BATON ROUGE - Applications are now being accepted for the LSU Service-Learning Faculty Scholars Training Program, which offers $1,500 stipends to full-time LSU faculty members interested in experiential education and hands-on learning that benefits the community. Applications are due August 15, 2025.
The Center for Community Engagement, Learning, and Leadership, or CCELL, offers the Faculty Scholars Program to encourage the development of service-learning curricula that will have a lasting impact on LSU students, promote the institutionalization of service-learning courses in every department, and advance the objectives of the LSU Scholarship First Agenda.
Full-time and part-time faculty at the rank of instructor or above are eligible. Faculty in all disciplines, especially those from disciplines which currently do not offer service-learning, are encouraged to apply. Scholars with varying degrees of familiarity and experience with service-learning are welcomed.
Faculty selected for the program are expected to attend a weekly seminar for five weeks in Fall 2025. The seminars will involve planning and discussing course design, civic responsibilities of universities, partnerships, liability, assessment, and reflection.
Scholars will develop a service-learning course syllabus for implementation during the Spring 2026, Summer 2026, or Fall 2026 semester. Scholars may incorporate service-learning into a previously designed course or develop a new course that includes service-learning.
Each Scholar will receive $500 after completing the seminar and the remaining $1,000 after submitting a short report at the conclusion of the semester in which the service-learning class is taught. An application with instructions is available by clicking the button below. For more information or if you have any questions, email the LSU Center for Community Engagement, Learning, and Leadership (CCELL) at ccell@lsu.edu.