ECCLES FELLOWSHIP
The Honors Eccles Fellows Program encourages faculty to develop their teaching and scholarly interests through teaching in the Honors Program.
An Eccles Fellow develops and teaches a new class on a topic related to their scholarly interests.
Applications are due by 4 pm on November 1, 2025.
Application Process:
1. Complete the proposal form
2. Email completed form to HonorsEccles@weber.edu
Application Information:
- You may teach either individually or with one other colleague;
- Strong preference will be given to interdisciplinary classes with a subject connection to faculty research interests;
- Weight will be given to classes that contribute to both the Honors Program and to the larger Weber community;
- A single proposal should be submitted for team-taught classes;
- Please see the for the selection criteria.
Please note:
- The class should be a new preparation;
- Eccles Fellows are encouraged to use their HNRS 3900 class as material for presentations and publications;
- Department Chair(s) must agree to release the Eccles Fellow for both teaching and release time;
- Eccles Fellows must take release time the same semester they teach the course;
- Eccles Fellows may not teach overload in the semester they take release time;
- Eccles Fellows are urged to participate in Honors events;
Eccles Fellows are selected by a committee of former Fellows, the Honors Faculty Advisory Board, and the Honors Director. A Fall Fellowship and a Spring Fellowship will be awarded.
Honors Program Portfolio:
Students in Foundation & University Honors pathways work on Honors Portfolios throughout their undergraduate education. These are comprehensive, multi-media projects that reflect the personal experiences of individual students. Please plan on including at least one assignment in your class that students can incorporate into their Honors Portfolio.
You can view the Honors Portfolio template .
Some of the portfolio options include:
- Educational Identity: Our educational identities evolve through knowledge and learning. What moments in the span of your education have registered as defining moments? What events and experiences have had a profound influence on you in terms of shaping or altering your perspectives, ideas, beliefs, and values or orientations? What ideas have influenced you the most? What classes have most shaped or influenced your learning the most? What questions still intrigue you and perhaps define your future interests? Why?
- Course Reflection: Document your experience in this class by highlighting some content from the class, some discussions or exchanges, some realizations or lingering questions. Did your understanding of the course and content shift over time? How do you connect your learning in this course with other courses and with the real-world experience? What texts or materials have been particularly powerful for you and why?
- Artifacts: Upload to your portfolio any study guides, essays, photographs, lab reports, creative writing, presentation slides, or other items that represent your learning in some way. Include a brief response on the meaning of the artifact.
- Travel: If you take a field trip in this class, please write about your experience in the travel section of the portfolio. What are your insights or observations about the place, the people, the experience? What surprised or challenged you? What registered as particularly powerful or informative, and why?
Questions?
Contact Christy Call, Honors Director, at ccall2@weber.edu