This article describes the benefits of including institutional leadership (the deans) in a faculty fellowship program where faculty were tasked with implementing a curricular innovation at their home institution. These benefits included: (1) serving as an ally, advocate, and defender for the faculty fellow; (2) seeing the bigger picture and how the fellowship can be leveraged to benefit the institution in other ways; and (3) assisting to ensure the fellowship project will be ongoing at their institution.
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References
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See C.Scott, “Transforming the Future of Public Health Law Education through a Faculty Fellowship Program,”Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics44, no. 1, Supp. (2016): 6–17.
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Georgia State University College of Law, Center for Law, Health & Society, agenda for summer institute for “The Future of Public Health Law Education: Faculty Fellowship Program, available at <http://clhs.law.gsu.edu/files/2014/03/agenda-detailed-final-7-7-14.pdf> (last visited July 28, 2015).
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For a list of the mentors, see Scott, supra note 1, at note 19.
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For a list of the members of the program team, see id., at note 12.
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The author conducted individual interviews with each of the deans mid-way through and at the end of the fellowship year. The deans have granted permission to the author to use excerpts from those interviews in this essay.
