NC State College of Education Alumni Distinguished Graduate Professor of Higher Education Alyssa Rockenbach has been selected to join Yale Center for Faith and Culture’s 2025 Life Worth Living Fellowship Program.
The fellowship is designed to connect faculty and graduate students who aim to design courses that equip students for the “lifelong process of discerning the good life” and establish an educational landscape where students and faculty learn alongside one another as they address life’s biggest questions.
“It is an honor to be included among the incoming cohort of Life Worth Living Fellows,” Rockenbach said. “This fellowship will offer an opportunity to connect with other fellows who teach in a wide array of disciplines and who are collectively seeking to encourage students to reflect on the big questions of life, explore what it means to construct a flourishing life and engage one another across lines of difference.”
As part of this fellowship, Rockenback will attend a week-long retreat in June, followed by a series of pedagogical workshops throughout the summer.
Using funding received through the fellowship program, Rockenbach will also create a course called “The Educator’s Life Worth Living.” The course will be open to undergraduate and graduate students in the College of Education with the goal of inviting these emerging education researchers and professionals to develop a sustaining vision for their lives and work.
“This course will help educators deepen their sense of purpose and what it means for the work they are doing and the work ahead of them,” she said.