The Teaching and Faculty Support Center is pleased to announce the 2018-19 Teaching Grant competitions. There are two types of grants available this year: Student Success Grants (up to $2,500 each) and Teaching Improvement Grants (up to $5,000 each).

These grants are offered in order to fund activities to further enhance teaching excellence in support of student success at the University of Arkansas.

Student Success Grants

Up to $2,500 each, these projects should focus on:

• Developing, implementing, and evaluating teaching innovations that lead to improvements in student learning and student success at the University of Arkansas
• Procuring unique equipment to be used in pilot tests for possible expansion to wider student audiences (could use pilot results to support future TELE fee request)
• Developing unique learning materials for a unit, course, or program which enhance student persistence and learning
• Improving the development of research and intellectual capacity of undergraduate students
• Improving the learning process of students through innovative teaching strategies
• Scholarship of teaching and learning in student success
• Developing new models of teaching that could be adapted by faculty in other disciplines

Evaluation criteria:

• Clearly describes the need for innovation/project and how this project meets that need
• Articulates how student population will  be impacted
• Describes the project plan (outcomes, activities, deliverables, and evaluation methods)
• Emphasizes expected impact on, alignment with, and objective assessment of student learning outcomes

Types of projects that will not be funded:

• Faculty travel to discipline-specific/professional conferences
• Summer salary for faculty
• Projects otherwise eligible for funding with TELE fees  
• Projects that should be funded out of department maintenance budgets

Submission: All proposals need to be submitted as pdf files 2 pages or less plus budget (12 point font, Times New Roman, 1-inch margins) to tfsc@uark.edu no later than March 15. All persons submitting a proposal will receive notification of the decisions no later than April 11.

Dissemination: Awardees will be asked to submit a written summary of their project and share the results of their projects by Oct 25, 2019. Reports will consist of brief project summary, student learning outcomes, deliverables, and assessment of effectiveness. Awardees should plan to present project to faculty in the spring of 2020.

Teaching Improvement Grants

Up to $5,000 each, these grants are funded by Global Campus.

• The emphasis for this funding cycle is improving student persistence, the learning process of students, and student success in high-DFW (i.e. high D-grade, failure and withdrawal rate) courses through innovative course design and delivery. All projects are expected to utilize Global Campus support services, including instructional designers.

Evaluation Criteria:

• University services and/or technology infrastructure is used to support pedagogy and student learning
• Develops innovative curricular materials or experiences
• Prepares opportunities through course design and delivery to enhance student learning and persistence 
• Articulates how student population will be impacted
• Clearly describes project deliverables
• Student learning outcomes are assessed with objective measures
• Results in a significant impact on the teaching mission of the university

Types of projects that will not be funded:

• Faculty travel to discipline-specific/professional conferences
• Summer salary for faculty
• Projects otherwise eligible for funding with TELE fees  
• Projects that should be funded out of department maintenance budgets

Submission: All proposals need to be submitted as pdf files 2 pages or less plus budget (12 point font, Times New Roman, 1-inch margins) to tfsc@uark.edu no later than March 15. All persons submitting a proposal will receive notification of the decisions no later than April 11.

Dissemination: Awardees will be asked to submit a written summary of their project and share the results of their projects by Oct. 25, 2019. Reports will consist of brief project summary, student learning outcomes, deliverables, and assessment of effectiveness. Awardees should plan to present project to faculty in the spring of 2020.