Faculty are invited to apply for teaching grants. The Teaching and Faculty Support Center is pleased to announce the 2023-24 call for grant applications.

There are two types of grants available this year: Teaching Improvement Grants (up to $2,500 each) and Student Success Grants (funded by Global Campus, up to $5,000 each). These grants are offered to fund activities to further enhance teaching excellence in support of the teaching mission of the U of A. Grant applications are due by April 1.

Teaching Improvement Grants

Up to $2,500 each

These proposals may focus on:

• Teaching innovations that lead to improvements in student learning
• Unique learning materials for a unit, course or program
• The scholarship of teaching and learning
• New models of teaching that could be adapted by faculty in other disciplines.

Evaluation Criteria:

• Clearly describes a need and how this project addresses that need.
• Articulates how student learning will be enhanced.
• Describes the project plan (outcomes, activities, deliverables and evaluation methods)
• Results in a significant impact on the teaching mission of the university

Faculty travel to teaching-related conferences will be considered, but travel to discipline-specific conferences without a specific teaching focus will not be funded.

Complete this form to apply for Teaching Improvement Grant.

Student Success Grants

Up to $5,000 each

These proposals may focus on:

• Developing, implementing and evaluating teaching innovations that lead to improvements in student learning and student success at the U of A
• 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 with implications for student success

Evaluation Criteria:

• Clearly describes a need and how this project addresses 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.

Complete this form to apply for Student Success Grants.

Dissemination:  Awardees will be asked to submit a written summary of their findings. Reports should describe one to three teaching strategies learned and how these strategies have been infused into their teaching. Awardees should plan to present their findings to faculty at the Reading Day poster session in the spring.