Teaching in D.C.

Benefits for Faculty

Teaching with the W&M Washington Center allows W&M faculty to take advantage of all that D.C. has to offer including:

• Connections with experts in your field and network with D.C.-area colleagues
• Experience in an urban environment while working for W&M—the best of both worlds!
• Ability to teach courses in your department while you are in D.C.!
• Life in the heart of downtown D.C., walking distance from the W&M Washington Center!
• Meetings with local alumni and development of fundraising opportunities for your department

D.C. Semester Program

• Faculty are responsible for one 3-credit hybrid, 7-week accelerated course
• Faculty are expected to attend Friday synchronous speaker/site-visit sessions in D.C. 
• Max of 20 students
• Ideally, two graduation requirements will be taught each year

D.C. Winter Seminars

• 10-day January experience, before spring semester 
• Includes 3 prep class meetings on campus in fall (and one non-academic session on campus in early spring)
• Max of 25 students per course
• Faculty are responsible for one 3-credit course
• Courses must fulfill either COLL 300 or COLL 350 requirements
• Learn more!

D.C. Summer Institutes

May 24, 2027- June 4, 2027

• Faculty teach in D.C. for two weeks in May (students continue for 10 additional weeks in an internship)
• Max of 20 students per course 
• Faculty are responsible for 3 courses:
  • 1-credit spring prep class (specific dates determined by professors)
  • 3-credit speaker series/seminar
• Learn more!

Hybrid D.C. Summer Session

• Faculty teach a five-week hybrid course that includes one week of in-person sessions in Washington, DC
• Max of 30 students per course
• Courses must fulfill either COLL 300 or COLL 350 requirements
• Faculty must participate in STLI's Course Development Seminar as part of their teaching duties
• Learn more!

Fulfilling COLL Requirements

COLL 300

• D.C. courses must engage at least two COLL 300 visitors. COLL 300 directly connect students with people, places, and ideas that enhance her comprehension of different ways of thinking and being in the world.
• Visitors must engage students in their lived experiences and communities and cultures outside the United States. While faculty in D.C. may have access to visitors with rich experiences engaging global issues, COLL 300 visitors should not solely focused on domestic or academic perspectives.
• For example, an effective visitor with Doctors Without Borders might be a doctor who can reflect on the work they accomplished on the ground in another country, not staff members are based in D.C.

COLL 350

• COLL 350 courses must integrate a consideration of social norms, institutional practices, and patterns of belonging/marginalization through the lens of race and at least one other social identity

Questions about how to incorporate COLL curriculum requirements into your Study in D.C. course? Contact EPC at as-epc@wm.edu.

Compensation

As a Study in D.C. faculty member, professors will earn $3,000 per academic credit taught (with adjustments for under- or over-enrolled courses).

Housing is provided for all faculty members during in the D.C. Semester Program Friday sessions, D.C. Winter Seminars, and D.C. Summer Institutes two-week course.