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 $500 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 instructional 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 August 19, 2011, describing the benefits of the funding and how it impacted your teaching. Faculty who have not filed reports will not 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 develop instructionally related skills; travel to learn and help implement innovative teaching strategies
- To provide quality educational content that is more affordable for students
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 April 30, 2011. If you get travel funds, this must be completed by April 15, 2011. 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, 2010 and April 30, 2011, are eligible for consideration. In order to process awards applicants must provide original receipts documenting expenditures. Each eligible faculty member may submit one application. The application may include multiple projects provided the total requested does not exceed the $500 maximum award.
Deadlines
Grant proposals must be received in the Faculty Center no later than Friday, November 19, 2010, 5:00 p.m. Decisions will be made by December 3, 2010.
Award criteria
Proposals will be judged primarily on their potential to positively impact teaching and student learning (see application for attached rubric for details):
- Potential to positively impact student learning and faculty teaching
- Number of students impacted
- Expected duration for the effect of this project
Application Procedure
Complete the attached application form, including your Department Chair’s signature and return it and six (6) copies (7 copies total) to the FCETL by the deadline.
Download Application: Faculty Center Mini Grant Application.pdf