Cordes Teaching and Faculty Support Center Is Accepting Grant Applications for 2024-25 Year

Faculty are invited to apply for teaching grants. The Teaching and Faculty Support Center is pleased to announce the 2024-25 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 Grants.

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 that enhances 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 provide reports by the TFSC in a subsequent year.