Teaching and Technology Innovation Grants

Eligibility:
The Teaching and Technology Innovation grants are available to all full-time faculty (1-year and longer appointments) in teams of 2 or more members for improving student learning, curriculum, pedagogy, or educational impacts, or to contribute data to the scholarship concerning how students learn using various modalities. 

Proposals must include a description of the purpose of the project in terms of teaching, learning, and technology, anticipated impact, and an assessment plan addressing how the project and its impact on learning will be evaluated.

Proposal Format and Budget Information: read more here

Awards:
$2000 in supplemental pay with the possibility of support for related project costs.

Timeline:
Grant proposals are accepted on a rolling cycle throughout the year. Priority will be given to proposals submitted by June 28th. 

Submission Process:
Submit proposals via email to facultycollaborative@scu.edu.

Evaluation Process:
Overall, proposals are evaluated on the quality of the project; the potential impact on student learning, curriculum, or pedagogy within a significant component of a program, major, or the Core Curriculum; and the quality of the assessment plan. Given the goal to make the best strategic use of limited resources, proposals with significant cost sharing from external grants, departmental budgets, or other sources of supplemental funding are encouraged.

Special consideration will be given to proposals that explore ways of facilitating active, collaborative, interdisciplinary, engaged or integrative learning, or involve students as collaborators.

Reporting Requirements:
Successful faculty teams will be asked to write up their experiences, results and assessment in a brief report and to share their experience in a CAFE - one of the Collaborative’s conversations to share teaching practices with faculty colleagues offered throughout the academic year.

Funding Levels and Success Rates:
As with any competitive funding opportunity, success rates depend on the funding available, the number of proposals received, the quality of the proposal, and the relation of the projects proposed to the funding criteria.

Additional Funding Opportunities:
Visit the Faculty Funding Opportunities site for teaching and scholarship grants including information about funding students in research.