Recognize career-ready skills
Through an in-person workshop and self-paced learning, fellows learn to connect NACE competencies with existing academic goals and make those connections visible to students in syllabi, assignments, and assessments.
Faculty Career Fellows
Bring career readiness to your school or department, building on the Faculty Career Fellows partnership between CES and TIIP.
Career readiness for your school or department
Bring Faculty Career Fellows to your school or department through an abridged experience grounded in your teaching goals. Building on the fellowship funded by a 2024 Chancellor’s Challenge Grant and developed jointly by Career Exploration and Success (CES) and the Institute for Teaching, Innovation, and Inclusive Pedagogy (TIIP), these offerings help faculty connect coursework with career readiness and build on fellows’ expertise as local champions.
What fellows learn
The National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) Career Readiness Competencies describe transferable skills such as communication, critical thinking, teamwork, and leadership. Fellows learn to identify these skills in existing coursework, design opportunities for reflection, and help students explain their learning with evidence.
Exchange teaching approaches
In a community of practice, fellows exchange ideas across disciplines and explore approaches that fit their courses, students, and teaching goals—building expertise they can share with colleagues.
Connect learning to opportunity
Fellows develop a course-related project that helps students reflect on their skills and articulate how academic learning connects to future opportunities. The project puts career readiness into teaching practice.
Expert resources within your school
Faculty Career Fellows brings together faculty who have completed the program, are participating now, or will begin soon. Those who have completed the fellowship can serve as career readiness champions, helping colleagues connect course goals and assignments with NACE competencies, reflection, and articulation. Explore the faculty below to find a connection in your school or discipline.
Faculty across Rutgers
Meet the Faculty Career Fellows
Meet faculty who have completed, are currently participating in, or will soon begin the Faculty Career Fellows program. Cohort labels show each group’s status. Select a faculty member to visit their Rutgers profile.
4 cohorts · 60 faculty participants
Status reflects the November 2026 roster; current and upcoming fellows have not yet completed the program.
Fall 2026Current cohort · 16 faculty
Juan AyalaUrban Design (opens in a new tab)
Arete BouhlasEnglish / Writing Program (opens in a new tab)
Qiana BrownSocial Work (opens in a new tab)
Douglas CantorPolitical Science (opens in a new tab)
Erin ChristieDepartment of Communication (opens in a new tab)
Anthony Delli PaoliDepartment of Kinesiology and Health (opens in a new tab)
Anita FranzionePublic Health and Health Administration (opens in a new tab)
Bengi GumrukcuDepartment of Political Science (opens in a new tab)
Ani JavianDance (opens in a new tab)
Danielle JenkinsManagement and Global Business (opens in a new tab)
Michiru LoweAsian Languages and Cultures (opens in a new tab)
William MagrinoEnglish - Writing Program (opens in a new tab)
Rupa MisraProfessional Science Master's Program (opens in a new tab)
Nicole NagleDepartment of Kinesiology and Health (opens in a new tab)
Doaa RashedThe Language Institute & the Language Engagement Project (opens in a new tab)
Annalisa ScacchioliMechanical and Aerospace Engineering (opens in a new tab)Spring 2027Upcoming cohort · 19 faculty
Rasha AbadirMathematics (opens in a new tab)
Anastasia BaileyManagement and Global Business (opens in a new tab)
Ryon CobbSocial Work (opens in a new tab)
Frederick CurryDance; also the Graduate School of Education's Teacher Preparation Programs. (opens in a new tab)
John EvansDance (opens in a new tab)
Nichole GarciaEducational Psychology (opens in a new tab)
Francesca GuerraChemistry and Chemical Biology (opens in a new tab)
Bright GyamfiHistory (opens in a new tab)
Nick LinardopoulosCommunication (opens in a new tab)
Kathy LopezLatino and Caribbean Studies (75%) History (25%) (opens in a new tab)
Jennifer Lynch-BranzoiMechanical and Aerospace Engineering (opens in a new tab)
Maria MontenegroSpanish and Portuguese (opens in a new tab)
Katrina MontonApplied Psychology - Organizational Psychology Program (opens in a new tab)
Christelle Palpacuer LeeDepartment of Learning and Teaching, Language Education program. (opens in a new tab)
Chris PerrinApplied Psychology (opens in a new tab)
Ines RauschenbachBiochemistry and Microbiology (opens in a new tab)
Jeffra SchaeferEnvironmental Sciences (opens in a new tab)
Elif SendurEnglish Department Writing Program (opens in a new tab)
Andrea SpaethKinesiology and Health (opens in a new tab)Summer 2026Past cohort · 13 faculty
Jaime CosloyKinesiology and Health (opens in a new tab)
Kevin DahaghiSociology; Program in Criminal Justice (opens in a new tab)
Mary EmenikeChemistry and Chemical Biology (opens in a new tab)
Sophia FuCommunication (opens in a new tab)
Joseph KonczynskiSchool of Engineering Undergraduate Education (opens in a new tab)
Amy LewisDepartment of Learning & Teaching (opens in a new tab)
Jo MessinaDepartment of English, Writing Program (opens in a new tab)
Ashley MontUndergraduate Education (opens in a new tab)
Kyle MurphyBiochemistry and Microbiology (opens in a new tab)
Harna PatelDepartment of Plant Biology (opens in a new tab)
Kim RussellEcology, Evolution and Natural Resources (opens in a new tab)
Lyra SteinPsychology (opens in a new tab)
Danielle ZurawieckiSchool Psychology, GSAPP MAP, GSAPP (opens in a new tab)Spring 2026Past cohort · 12 faculty
Crystal AkersLinguistics (opens in a new tab)
Ben BorerDepartment of Marine and Coastal Sciences (opens in a new tab)
Tracy ChangLabor Studies and Employment Relations (opens in a new tab)
Bailey EaiseDepartment of Political Science (opens in a new tab)
Alexander LópezDepartment of Marine & Coastal Sciences (opens in a new tab)
Abigail PorterDepartment of Environmental Sciences (opens in a new tab)
Chris ShuckChemistry and Chemical Biology (opens in a new tab)
Chris ToHuman Resource Management (opens in a new tab)
Monica TorresUndergraduate education/Division of Life Sciences (opens in a new tab)
DaJung WooDepartment of Communication (opens in a new tab)
Jenny YangAsian Languages and Cultures (opens in a new tab)
Peng ZhangComputer Science (opens in a new tab)
Priority 3: Connected Career Readiness
Faculty Career Fellows advances Priority 3 of Building a Career-Ready Campus by helping faculty connect NACE competencies, reflection, and articulation with existing coursework. Students learn to recognize the skills they are developing and explain them with evidence from their academic work.
Faculty Career Fellows Advisory Board
Faculty Career Fellows began through a 2024 Chancellor’s Challenge Grant as a partnership of Career Exploration and Success and the Institute for Teaching, Innovation, and Inclusive Pedagogy (TIIP). Faculty, staff, and employer partners on the advisory board help shape the program, bringing perspectives from across Rutgers and the workplace to the connection between academic learning and career readiness.
Bring Faculty Career Fellows to your school or department
Schools and departments can build on what fellows have learned through an abridged experience for faculty groups. CES works with campus partners to connect NACE competencies, reflection, and articulation with their teaching goals. Our work with the School of Communication and Information is one example. Contact CES to explore an offering for your faculty and ways to involve local faculty champions.
