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Innovation in Higher Education: Lessons Learned from Creating a Faculty Fellowship Program

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2021

Nancy J. Kaufman  and
Charity Scott
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Abstract

This concluding essay offers reflections on core components of the faculty fellowship program, its outcomes and results, and program design and administration. Amid the current calls for reform in legal and other professional education, the lessons we learned and perspectives we gained during this fellowship program may be relevant to any faculty members and university administrations that are seeking to create more effective and engaged professional and graduate school programs, whatever may be their subject-matter discipline.

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Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics , Volume 44 , Issue S1: Transforming the Future of Public Health Law Education through a Faculty Fellowship Program , Spring 2016 , pp. 97 - 106
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Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics 2016

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