Call for applications for the Bruning Teaching Academy

The Bruning Teaching Academy at Ohio University is now accepting applications for the 2026-2027 academic year.

The aim of the Academy is to raise the profile of undergraduate teaching at OHIO and thus to improve the undergraduate learning experience. Tenure-track and instructional faculty who have a passion for teaching excellence are invited to apply.

This is a yearlong program with four to five whole group meetings each semester and some homework between meetings. Faculty accepted into the program will be called “Bruning Teaching Fellows” for the year. They will be paired with other faculty members to work together with the common goal of improving their teaching.

The Fellowships are open to faculty from all colleges at Ohio University.

The work of the Academy is organized in three-week units. Each unit begins with a plenary session focused on a particular teaching issue. In the fall semester, each professor will choose an undergraduate course they want to improve, and early in that semester the members of the pair will engage in conversations about those courses.

The Bruning Teaching Fellows will also utilize OHIO’s new PTOP (Peer Teaching Observation Program) protocol, with each partner observing the other’s class at least once during the academic year. Each of the Teaching Fellows will receive a stipend of $1,250 for participating in the program. The Academy is funded by the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment (CTLA).

More than 100 Ohio University faculty have already participated in the Bruning Teaching Academy. Please feel free to reach out to them for more information.

• You can find out more about the Bruning Teaching Academy and the faculty who have already participated here.

How to apply

Applications to the Academy should include the following:

1. Letter of application indicating why you would like to be involved in BTA and what undergraduate course you teach fall semeseter that you would like to improve.
2. Brief statement of teaching philosophy (500 words maximum).
3. Syllabus for the undergraduate course you would like to focus on fall semester. 
4. Teaching evaluations for that course when last taught.
5. Brief email from your department chair indicating they give you permission to participate if selected. We need your department  chair’s permission to pay you a stipend.

Please address any questions to Linda Rice (RiceL2@ohio.edu). The deadline for applications is Friday, March 20.