John Maddox was a 2015-2016 Faculty Fellow in Engaged Scholarship. He attended a year of workshops on Service Learning and will incorporate this training into his May Mini-Term 2016 Spanish and Service Learning trip to Puerto Rico. His interdisiplinary course design group, which included biology and public health, won first place for a course on healthcare and Hispanic people. He continues the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures' service learning tradition, which includes Lourdes Sánchez-López and Erika Rinker.

UAB Service Learning’s Faculty Fellows in Engaged Scholarship program is a one-year fellowship designed to accelerate the work of faculty members eager to develop exemplary curricular approaches to education. These courses promote active and ethical citizenship, social responsibility, and engagement. The program aims to integrate the philosophy, pedagogy, and process of service learning into the UAB academic environment.

The goal of the program is to provide a venue for faculty to design a new course or to modify an existing course to include a service learning component. The Fellows program is structured around a year-long series of workshops (a total of six meetings) that explore theories, implementation, and assessment of academic service learning and how to integrate this methodology into courses across the disciplines.

The 2015-2016 Faculty Fellows.