The Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning (CIRTL) sees graduate education as a strategic leverage point for preparing future STEM faculty, and thereby for advancing STEM undergraduate education in the United States and Canada. CIRTL seeks to prepare future STEM faculty who excel both as researchers and as teachers. The CIRTL Network currently comprises 45 research universities.
We seek graduate-degree-granting universities who play important roles in shaping our national STEM faculties. Important roles might be defined by numbers of STEM PhD’s who go on to faculty positions, or by diversifying the faculty along an array of dimensions. One dimension of priority for the CIRTL Network is preparing future faculty currently underrepresented among STEM faculty.
CIRTL membership is through reviewed applications, in order to assure alignment and readiness for success of members. Key dates for the application process are listed below.
Key 2023 – 2024 Dates
Application Due: Monday, March 11, 2024
Notification of Acceptances: Monday, April 29, 2024
Membership Information Session: Monday, December 11, 2023 (Register Now!)
Application Information Session: Early 2023 TBD
Membership Documents
Materials introducing the CIRTL Network and highlighting some of the opportunities available to STEM doctoral students and post-doctoral fellows in the CIRTL Network are linked below. In addition, the document CIRTL for the Nation: A Membership Plan for Sustained Impact provides details of CIRTL Network operations and finances.
Send inquiries to membership@cirtl.net.
Application Materials
Application for Membership & Rubric (PDF)
Additional requested materials:
- Institutional Leader contact information
- University Official contact information
- CV/biosketch for CIRTL institutional leaders
- Completed application (.docx or PDF)
Resources
- CIRTL Core Ideas
- CIRTL Learning Outcomes
- CIRTL Research Briefs
- CIRTL Overview & Membership Flyer
- CIRTL Benefits Flyer
- Cross-Network Programming Overview
| CIRTL Membership Committee | |
|---|---|
| Lisa Kelly, Chair Assistant Director of Graduate Student Success, Graduate College University of Iowa |
Katie Ingraham Dixie CIRTL@UCLA Program Director and Assistant Director, Center for Education Innovation and Learning in the Sciences University of California Los Angeles |
| Julie Harlin Associate Dean, Graduate and Professional School and Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural Leadership, Education and Communications Texas A&M University |
Sarah C. Larsen Vice Provost and Dean of the Graduate School Professor of Chemistry University of Houston |
| Natalie Westwood CIRTL Program Developer, Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology University of British Columbia |
Kristin Winet Associate Professor of Practice, University Center for Assessment, Teaching and Technology and CIRTL Program Director, Office of Academic Affairs University of Arizona |