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Fellowships

Governor’s Teaching Fellows

°Õ³ó±ðÌý was established in 1995 by Governor Zell Miller (1991-1999) to provide Georgia’s higher education faculty with expanded opportunities for developing important teaching skills. The goal of the GTF Program is to address faculty members’ need to understand and use emerging technologies and instructional tools that are changing the landscape of teaching and learning in higher education. The Louise McBee Institute of Higher Education hosts the program, which celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2025.

The Governor’s Teaching Fellows Program is designed for full-time faculty members who teach at accredited public or private colleges or universities in the state of Georgia. Any full-time faculty member, regardless of rank or tenure-status may apply. Please note that preference is given to faculty who primarily teach undergraduate students. Faculty at the University of Georgia and at Georgia’s technical colleges are not eligible to apply. 

Fellows are selected based on:

• Commitment to undergraduate teaching – e.g., how they have improved their teaching practices and how they would like to enhance their teaching and professional development.
• Academic leadership – e.g., their experience in leading initiatives, mentoring faculty or students, developing programs, or contributing to institutional change.
• A letter of support from their institution’s Provost of Academic Affairs. (The GS Faculty Center will be responsible for obtaining this letter.)

Institutions may submit only TWO candidates for the Academic-Year Program, and ONE for the May Symposium. Please note that two applicants from the same institution are rarely accepted for either program.

Deadline: December 10, 2025

Applications will include:

• A statement explaining your interest in attending either the Academic Year Program or the May Symposium (300-word maximum)
• A teaching statement with concrete examples of how your teaching is innovative and how you hope to improve it (300-word maximum).
• A description of your academic leadership, e.g., your experience leading initiatives, mentoring faculty or students, developing programs, or contributing to institutional change (300-word maximum).
• Your Project Proposal: (required for Academic Year Program only) A concise description of the course you propose to design or redesign during the academic year. Fellows will reap the greatest benefit from the program by designing or redesigning a course to use some of the strategies, tools, and ideas presented in the monthly workshops (300-word maximum).
• Your current CV.

*We recommend that you prepare and combine these materials in the order listed above into a single PDF before you begin the online application. Please include the appropriate heading for each section.

Click on the button below to apply to be the Georgia Southern Representative in the Governor’s Teaching Fellows.

Governor’s Teaching Fellows Timeline

• Call for Applications: November 5, 2025 – December 10, 2025
• GS Deadline to submit application: December 10, 2025
• Committee Review time period: December 11 -15, 2025
• Notify GS Nominees: December 15, 2025
• Deadline to submit application to the Institute of Higher Education at UGA: January 19, 2026