Fellowships & Grants
The Baylor Libraries offer a variety of internships and fellowships that develop scholars as they utilize archival collections and leverage library resources.
Affordable Course Materials Summer Fellows
The Affordable Course Materials Conversion Summer Fellows Program is an incentive program designed to encourage Baylor University faculty to reduce the educational costs for their students by using library content, open educational resources (OER), or other low- or zero-cost materials. In particular, it is intended to encourage instructor experimentation in high-quality low- and no-cost learning materials for their students, especially through the use of OER.
Active Learning Lab Fellowship
Offered in partnership with Baylor's Academy for Teaching and Learning, this fellowship aims to increase the implementation, awareness, and quality of active learning at Baylor.
Charles Guittard First Book Publishing Award
This award is available to all Baylor tenure-track faculty who have not previously published an academic book and acknowledges books that exhibit excellence in research, analysis, and writing. The award preferences books in the humanities but is available to faculty in every discipline. The immediate purpose for the fund is to offset faculty publishing subventions that often must be paid to publishers to offset production costs for academic books.
To be considered for a Guittard Award, please complete this brief online application. Award recipients are selected by a committee appointed by the Dean of Libraries, Museums, and the Press. For more information, please contact Janell Wellbaum, Assistant to the Dean of Libraries. This award was established in 2025 by Charles Frances Guittard (BA ’64) and Nancy Davis Labastida of Austin, Texas.
- 2026 Recipient: Dr. Ricardo J. Alvarez-Pimentel
ELC Grants
The Experiential Learning Commons offers faculty several opportunities to expand their teaching skillsets using the equipment and technology of the ELC. Faculty may apply for a grant to design and implement creative coursework using makerspace tools; use audio-visual, makerspace, immersive media, text-mining, mapping/GIS, and CAD modeling resources; and discover the resources of Waco's Maker's Edge.
Fundamentals of Data Research Fellowships
This intensive Summer Fellowship program is a broad survey of applied research methods and tools involving both structured (i.e., data tables) and unstructured (i.e., text, multimedia) data.
Learning Design Fellowship
Each summer, Academic Technology Learning Design offers two teaching fellowships to encourage the creation of quality online courses with the assistance of an instructional designer for use in Baylor graduate and undergraduate curricula.
Special Collections Teaching Fellowships
Each year, the Baylor Libraries offer teaching fellowships to support excellence in teaching and learning and provide opportunities for original research by encouraging the use of rare books, archives, and other special collections materials in Baylor graduate and undergraduate curricula.