Grants

CTE & I offers a variety of grants designed to support faculty scholarship. 

Tenured Faculty Teaching and Learning Grant

Purpose: This grant is open to all tenured UMW faculty and is designed to provide support for tenured faculty interested in engaging in a collaborative or self-directed project to support learning and/or teaching on a theme/topic of choice. Click here to apply.

Learning Circle Work Group Grant

Purpose: This grant is open to all UMW faculty. Faculty group leader(s) will self-determine a focus question/theme to shape exploration within the format of a learning circle. A learning circle designed to bring together a small group of faculty (within and across disciplines) to  explore a particular pedagogy/technology question and/or theme as a pathway to promote self-directed professional development. This is a place to share ideas, connect with colleagues, gain alternative perspectives, and stimulate new thinking.  CTE & I will purchase books or provide materials for participants. Click here to apply.

Interdisciplinary Faculty Learning Communities Grant

Purpose: This grant is open to all UMW faculty. Faculty group leader(s) will self-determine a focus question/theme designed to bring faculty together from different disciplines to form a learning community around a broad theme. Faculty will meet regularly to explore their chosen theme and develop pedagogy/praxis that can be infused into the curriculum. Please click here to apply.

Meaningful Student Learning Micro Grant

Purpose: This grant is open to all UMW faculty.  CTE & I hold a strong commitment to enhancing teaching and learning through implementing and/or developing innovative pedagogy to support student engagement.  Please click here to apply.

Adjunct and Full-time Faculty Mentoring Lunch Fund

Purpose: Modest funding is available (rolling basis) to provide lunch for departmental adjunct mentoring and full-time faculty meetings. Please click here to apply.

 Professional Conference, Experiential Learning, and Speaker Grants

Purpose: CTE & I has modest funding available (rolling basis) to fund a number of faculty to conferences the promote teaching and learning.  Faculty may attend as either presenters or participants. CTE & I will also assist departments with funding to bring speakers to campus to present on teaching-related topics. Please click here to apply.

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The Center for Teaching Excellence and Innovation and the Center for Honor, Leadership, and Service have been awarded a seminar grant through The Bringing Theory to Practice Project (an independent organization working in partnership with AAC &U and supported by the S. Engelhard Center and the Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation).

Drs. Mary Kayler (Director, CTE & I), John Broome (Assistant Professor, College of Education) and Christina Eggenberger, (Director of Service, Center for Honor, Leadership, and Service) submitted Civic Engagement: Recasting and Drawing Upon a Wider Net. For more information visit Educate Forward.