Supporting the Professor as Teacher: The Lilly Teaching Fellows Program

For more than a decade and a half, the Lilly Endowment’s Teaching Fellows Program for junior faculty has been widely recognized as a model faculty development program. Based on a qualitative study involving thirty universities, this article analyzes the effects of the fellowship experience on participants, argues that the program broadly socializes faculty to their roles and specifically enhances their teaching abilities, and suggests lessons for institutional leaders and faculty developers.