2022-23 Teaching Improvement Grants and Student Success Grants Awarded

The Wally Cordes Teaching and Faculty Support Center is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2022-23 Teaching Improvement and Student Success Grants. The Teaching Improvement Grants are funded from the TFSC budget while the Student Success Grants are administered by the TFSC and funded by Global Campus. This year, we awarded eleven different faculty teaching improvement grants totaling $19,969 and eight different faculty Student Success Grants totaling $29,999.

As a condition of the grants, recipients are required to share the results of their scholarly projects with faculty colleagues through TFSC programs.

Recipients of Teaching Improvement Grants

• Shanda Hood
  Teaching Professor Conference — Mathematical Sciences, $769.
• Dobrina Jandik
  Redesign International Finance Class — Finance, $1,800.
• Kathi Jogan
  Registration for QM ConnectLX Conference, QM Higher Education Quality in Action Event, ACUE Inclusive Teaching for Equitable Learning Course — Animal Science, $1,101.
• Jack Kern
  Scholarship of Teaching and Learning — Health, Human Performance and Recreation, $2,050.
• Yi-Jung Lee
  Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators Conference — Curriculum and Instruction, $2,500.
• Natasha Souto Melgar
  Development of New Hands-on Experience in Sustainable Engineering — Chemical Engineering, $2,000.
• Rocio Paez Ritter
  Teaching Professor Conference, Sociology, $1,719.
• Tamara Snyder
  Attending Summer Meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers, Physics, $1,650.
• Ali Ubeyitogullari
  Enhancing Student Engagement Through Hands-On Chocolate Making Activities, Food Science, $2,500.
• Jenn Veilleux
  Improving Clinical Assessment of Personality via Video, Psychology, 2,450.
• Weston Wilkerson
  Acquire Sound System Equipment, Theatre, $1,430.

Recipients of Student Success Grants

• Scott Biehle
  Three-Dimensional, Digital Planting Design Teaching and Learning Development — Landscape Architecture, $1,800.
• Betsy Garrison, Shari Moxley, Tim Killian, and Jacquelyn Wiersma-Mosley
  Imbedding Mental Health First Aid Training into Student Experiences to Advance Success — Human Environmental Sciences, $4,400.
• Katelynn Halbert
  University of Arkansas Student Chamber Music Tour — Music, $3.474.
• David Jensen
  Applying a Graph-Theoretic Approach to Understand Curriculum Concept Resiliency — Engineering, $1.976.
• Jeff Miller
  Purchase a Drone for a Course — Agricultural Education, Communication and Technology, $5,000.
• Pedro Veloso and Emily Baker
  Augmented Reality for Architectural Design — Architecture, $4,999.
• Jeannie Whayne
  Interactive Game for American History Survey-The Awakening — Human Environmental Sciences, $3.950.
• Jacquelyn Wiersma-Mosley, Meera Kumar, Romona West, Katie Dilley and Patrice Sims
  Student Active Allies Pilot Program, $4,400.