Mini Grants
Download Application:
Faculty Center Mini Grant Application.pdf
The Faculty Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning invites proposals for grants up to $400 to support efforts to enhance instruction and to promote innovative teaching and learning strategies. Due to very limited resources, we expect the application process this year to be quite competitive.
Eligibility
All full-time faculty (including lecturers) who are not currently members of the Faculty Development Committee are eligible to participate. Preference will be given first to those who haven’t previously received an FCETL instructional support mini-grant. If you receive funding you are required to file a brief end-of-year report with the Faculty Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning by September 3, 2010, describing the benefits of the funding and how it impacted your teaching. Faculty who have not filed reports won’t be considered for future mini-grants until final reports have been submitted to the Director of the Faculty Center.
Purpose
Instructional support mini-grants can be used for the following purposes:
- To develop and implement learning centered pedagogies.
- To promote innovative teaching and learning strategies
- To facilitate effective assessment of learning centered pedagogies
- To purchase instructional materials, supplies, software
- To support travel to teaching related conferences, workshops, meetings, and research sites; travel to interdisciplinary conferences not normally funded by departments and deans; travel to develop instructionally related skills; travel to learn and help implement innovative teaching strategies.
If you have an idea for funding, but aren’t sure if it would qualify, contact the Faculty Center at x-3216 for advice. Award money must be spent or encumbered by May 14, 2010. If you get travel funds, this must be completed by April 30, 2010. Preference will be given to proposals that will lead to new innovations and activities, but any activities and projects (travel, material/equipment/software) that occur between July 1, 2009 and June 30, 2010, are eligible for consideration. In order to process awards applicants must provide original receipts documenting expenditures. Each application should be for a single project/activity.
Deadlines
Grant proposals must be received in the Faculty Center no later than Thursday, November 5, 2009, 5:00 p.m. Decisions will be made by November 19, 2009.
Award criteria
Proposals will be judged on the following criteria:
- Potential positive impact on student learning and faculty teaching
- Number of students impacted
- Expected duration for the effect of this project
- Ability to continue project/activity/service without continued funding from this mini-grant program
- Other funding that has been applied for or received to complete this project
Application Procedure
Complete the application form on the reverse side, including your Department Chair’s signature and return it to the FCETL by the deadline.
Download Application: Faculty Center Mini Grant Application.pdf