Dr. Floros Named First-at-LAS Faculty Fellow!
Dr. Floros Named First-at-LAS Faculty Fellow! Heading link
Dr. Kate Floros has been selected for the First-at-LAS Faculty Fellowship award, which aims to incentivize and support an LAS teaching community where the engagement, academic success, and retention of first-generation and underrepresented minority (URM) students are understood as fundamental to instructional and mentoring practices. The fellowship provides a fund of $8,000, an additional $5,000 research/travel fund, and the support of a graduate assistant position. The program aims to integrate inclusive teaching strategies and provide mentoring frameworks that recognize cognitive and non-cognitive strengths and vulnerabilities of first-generation and URM students. The faculty fellows will also participate in workshops and serve as consultants for other faculty in their units who teach courses with high DFW (drop, fail, withdraw) rates, especially among first-generation students. The program will be evaluated to establish correlations and comparisons of factors such as students’ academic success, retention, and sense of belonging.
We congratulate Dr. Floros for her accomplishment!