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All full-time instructors and graduate students teaching fall 2024 and/or spring 2025 are eligible to apply and proposals should focus on narrowing equity gaps and reducing DFW rates. Additionally, applicants are encouraged to reference UNL Insight - Reporting and Analytics and propose how they might make use of the Canvas Course Insights tool and dashboards to explore the efficacy of their projects. Consultation and training with the tool and dashboards is available.
Applications are due February 1, 2024. Grant recipients are expected to develop their projects during the summer and possibly fall, and projects should be implemented for the Fall 2024 or Spring 2025 semesters. Applicants may receive funding only once during an academic year and are encouraged to meet with a member of the CTT team before submitting their application. Email questions to ctt-grants@unl.edu and submit completed applications via NuRamp.
To apply:
- Download the application form (Word file, listed below) for the desired grant and complete it.
- Log into NuRamp and scroll through the "Open Internal Competitions" box and locate the CTT Teaching Grants 2024 opportunity
- Fill out the NuRamp form, attach your completed application (Word document), and submit
Grant Opportunities for 2024
Pedagogic Intervention
Pedagogic Intervention grants support instructors in exploring learning experiences that promote more experiential, interdisciplinary, or active approaches, whether teaching face-to-face, hybrid, or online courses. Funded activities might include workshops or lectures for students, or other special events involving external guests. Funds may compensate individuals, including students, for their time; may be used to pay for materials, for guest presenters/speakers, or for the costs of fieldwork. These grants do not normally cover off-the-shelf software or equipment, or travel to conferences unless that travel is part of project dissemination. $1,000 maximum.
Download Pedagogic Intervention Application
Incubation Fund
Incubation Fund grants support any teaching activity designed with a view toward creating Scholarship of Teaching and Learning publications, conference presentations, or an external pedagogy-related grant application. Instructors might use these funds to explore a proof-of-concept project or engage in research that adds to knowledge in the field of pedagogy. Funds may support individuals, including students, for their time; for materials; for guest presenters/speakers; or for fieldwork. These grants do not normally cover off-the-shelf software or equipment. Maximum award: $1000.
Download Incubation Fund Application
Student-Faculty Collaboration
Student-faculty collaboration grants support the creation of inclusive, innovative, and/or interdisciplinary pedagogy and course design. Grants must collaboratively engage students and faculty and should clearly outline how students will be involved in the co-creation of the grant’s execution. Instructors are encouraged to distribute this particular call to students, both undergraduate and graduate, in their departments, schools, and colleges. Funds may support individuals, including students, for their time; for materials; for guest presenters/speakers; or for fieldwork. These grants do not normally cover off-the-shelf software or equipment. Maximum award: $1000.
Download Student-Faculty Collaboration Application
The Center for Transformative Teaching is committed to student success through inclusive, innovative, research-informed teaching. In alignment with the N2025 strategy, the CTT offers grant programs to support University of Nebraska-Lincoln faculty in creating transformative learning experiences that engage students in co-creating knowledge, increasing interdisciplinary inquiry, demonstrating achievement, and preparing for their futures.
Reporting/Dissemination Requirements
- As appropriate, resources developed or discovered during the project will be shared with the CTT for its repository of teaching and learning materials.
- Recipients will be required to submit a brief summary following the project’s completion focusing on outcomes and lessons learned and may be invited to share at CTT workshops and symposia.