University of Notre Dame - DELTA Signature Course Fellow
Listed on 2026-08-03
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Education / Teaching
University Professor, Academic, College Lecturer
University of Notre Dame - DELTA Signature Course Fellow
Institute for Ethics and the Common Good
The Institute for Ethics and the Common Good (ECG) invites tenured and tenure-track faculty to join a transformative moment in undergraduate education. Technology is developing rapidly, raising profound and urgent questions about what it means to live a flourishing life:
What makes humans distinct? What does community look like in an increasingly digital world? How do we build lives that are rich with meaning and relationships? How do we discern truth when what we see, hear, and read can be fabricated? How do we appropriately harness powerful AI to promote human flourishing?
Today’s undergraduate students—the first generation of “AI natives”—are deeply hungry for these conversations. They seek the kind of formative educational experiences that teach them how to truly thrive in a complex world, not just survive it. At a moment when technology is disrupting foundational pillars of higher education—challenging our traditional definitions of originality, expertise, cognition, and even the purpose of education itself—this new wave of Signature Courses will help campuses meet these students’ needs and elevate the broader public understanding of this technological transformation.
As part of DELTA , we are excited to invite proposals from faculty members interested in developing Signature Courses exploring the fascinating questions that AI and other emerging technologies raise for our understanding of human flourishing. Over each of the 2026–27, 2027–28, and 2028–29 academic years, we will recruit cohorts of 17 tenured faculty from diverse disciplines and universities, creating 50+ new Signature Courses.
A Signature Course is an innovative new course at an institution that includes these three areas of emphasis:
- Student transformation is at the center of the course design, content, and pedagogical focus.
- A signature course is designed to be a defining, highly formative milestone of a student’s college career—one that directly challenges them to deeply grapple with fundamental questions of meaning and purpose.
- Institutional collaboration that adds value to the university ecosystem.
- A successful signature course will contribute to the larger goals of the university and help shape a compelling vision for the future of higher education.
- Public engagement that extends the ideas, and ethos, of the course to wider audiences.
- A successful signature course will design strategies to creatively connect major themes and insights of the course with audiences outside the university.
- For examples of Signature Courses in our first cohort, see our program page .
For more background information on the DELTA Signature Course model, as well as specific details regarding the program timeline, visit our website .
Funding and Support
- Course launch funds: $25,000
- Stipend: $20,000 total for the duration of the fellowship period
- Travel/housing stipends included for Project Launch Residency and Summative Conference
- Undergraduate Intern funding: $5,000
- ECG staff resourcing, program evaluation, and communication campaign around the Signature Courses
- Applicants must hold a full-time, tenured or tenure-track faculty appointment
- Applicants from all academic disciplines are encouraged to apply, including—but not limited to—philosophy, theology, psychology, sociology, political science, computer science, law, literature, and the arts.
- The majority of fellowships will be awarded to scholars external to the University of Notre Dame. However, Notre Dame faculty are eligible to apply, and a limited number of fellowships may be awarded to applicants from within the university.
- We also welcome applications from scholars from a variety of faith and cultural traditions.
- Signature Course faculty fellows attend the full Project Launch Residency, residing on or near the Notre Dame campus in South Bend, Indiana, from Monday, June 7 to Friday, June 25, 2027
- Attend the Summative Conference held at Notre Dame in June 2028
- Faculty select an undergraduate student intern to attend the full Project Launch Residency and to work with them on their course throughout the academic…
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