Jonathan Choti, Associate Professor of African Languages and Cultures in the Department of Linguistics, Languages, and Cultures at Michigan State University, has been awarded a 2025-26 Walter and Pauline Adams Academy Fellowship.

This annual MSU Office of Faculty and Academic Staff Development program brings together a cross-disciplinary group of faculty and academic staff for a year-long fellowship focused on advanced topics in teaching and learning. Participants explore literature on effective university teaching and learning practices and consider how this research can guide instructional decisions in the courses they teach and the learning experiences they design.

Over the next academic year, Choti and other Adams Academy Fellows will meet monthly to discuss select teaching and learning topics, will complete communal and self-directed readings on educational theory and practice, and will develop a reflective essay or a paper or presentation on a self-selected educational topic or technique.