NTID Faculty Fellowship (NFF)

Overview

The NTID Faculty Fellowship (NFF) is a program designed to develop individuals (“fellows”) to pursue careers in deaf education at the post-secondary level. NFF emphasizes recruitment of individuals from underrepresented backgrounds in an effort to diversify the pool of potential applicants for future faculty positions at colleges and universities. While NTID is particularly interested in increasing the number of STEM faculty from underrepresented groups, candidates from other disciplines offered by NTID are eligible to apply.

NFF provides fellows with up to 3 years of mentoring experiences, teaching experiences, support, and resources to prepare them for academic careers. Each fellow has an individualized professional development network that guides their overall career development and success. The program has two tracks: one for those who desire a post-secondary teaching career (lecture track or non-tenure track) and the other for those who desire a balanced teaching and scholarship career (assistant professor track or tenure track).

NFF is a collaboration of the NTID Academic Affairs (led by Gary Behm, Associate Vice President of Academic Affairs) and the NTID Office of Diversity and Inclusion, (led by Alesia Allen, Assistant Vice President of Diversity & Inclusion).

The NFF program is run by the Director (Sarah Sarchet), and Faculty Mentors (Karen Tobin, Colin AllenJess Cuculick, and Joseph Hill) with support from the Sr. Staff Assistant (Christan Monin). The fellows are placed within one of two tracks; either the pre-non-tenure track (PNTT) or pre-tenure track (PTT). Additionally, the NFF Director collaborates closely with the chairs of the academic departments.

Current Fellows

Nnaemeka Nnamani
Visiting Assistant Professor
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Pepsi Holmquist
Visiting Assistant Professor
Bakar Ali
Visiting Lecturer
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Mariam Paracha
Visiting Assistant Professor
Kemoy Campbell
Visiting Lecturer
Scott Gentzke
Visiting Assistant Professor
Aron Marie
Visiting Assistant Professor
Ruchi Gamta
Lecturer
585-475-2330
David Meek
Visiting Assistant Professor
585-529-8612
Alexis Lazaro
Visiting Lecturer

NFF Alumni

Alesia Allen
Assistant Vice President for NTID Diversity and Inclusion
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Yufang Liu
Visiting Assistant Professor
Colin Allen
Lecturer
585-371-6092

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Meet Our Team

Gary Behm
Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs
Alesia Allen
Assistant Vice President for NTID Diversity and Inclusion
Sarah Sarchet
Senior Lecturer
585-475-2439

NFF Director

Karen Tobin
Senior Lecturer
585-475-7674

NFF Mentor

Colin Allen
Lecturer
585-371-6092

NFF Mentor

Jess Cuculick
Associate Dean for Academic Admin
585-286-4569

NFF Mentor

Joseph Hill
Assistant Dean NTID Faculty Recruitment and Retention

NFF Mentor

Christan Monin
Senior Staff Assistant
585-475-7802

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