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Grants and opportunities listed here generally run on a yearly basis. If a deadline has passed, or if one is not listed, check back for updates.
To post a position on this page, please fill out the Opportunities form at: http://www.umassd.edu/catls/opportunities.cfm.
Research: Internal Opportunities
Provost Travel Grants
This grant program provides $500 grants to assist faculty and librarians in their professional development. Faculty and librarians who receive a travel grant should be required to present their discoveries at the annual teaching, learning and scholarship conference. See www.umassd.edu/provost for deadline information and application forms.
Provost Publication Subvention Grant
This grant program provides ten grants of up to $1,000 to assist
faculty and librarians with the costs of publication of their scholarly and
creative works. Here, 'publication' means presentation of one's research or
creative work in national and international peer-reviewed academic publications
or juried gallery/museum exhibition formats. Final publication costs are broadly
defined and might include: copyright permissions, travel to obtain final research
materials required by reviewers, research assistant, transcription costs, cost
of transportation for exhibition. Other costs will be considered. Confirmation
in the form of an official acceptance of a project for publication or exhibition
is required.
See www.umassd.edu/provost/forms.cfm
application forms.
Teaching: Internal Opportunities
LEADERSHIP AWARD FOR
ASSESSMENT OF STUDENT LEARNING WITH TECHNOLOGY
"The UMass President’s Office of Academic Affairs, its system-wide Sub-Committee on
Academic Technology, and UMassOnline invite you to apply for its Assessment of
Student Learning with Technology Leadership Award. The purpose of this award is to
honor faculty who are providing leadership in the use of technology in the assessment of
student learning. The grading of students is an essential part of good teaching, but we
believe that assessment has broader significance, and that assessment practices have the
potential to not just determine a student's grade but actually contribute to student
learning. And we further believe that new technologies create a range of exciting
opportunities for the development of innovative assessment strategies."
COMPASS
"In Fall 2003, the UMass Dartmouth Learning Communities Initiative launched its first series of learning communities, linking first-year Gen-Ed courses to first-year writing courses...Instructors for those linked courses collaborated on curriculum and learning outcomes in an attempt to help students see the interrelatedness of subjects and learning, and to nudge them to forge connections between disciplines..."
Earth Day Stipends
"In support of this year's Earth Day activities, the Provost has made available $100 stipends to select faculty willing to create a special Earth Day lecture/workshop/lesson plan as part of a regularly taught course."
Teaching Development Program Schedule for Spring 2005 (PDF)
"Faculty Forums are discussions facilitated by UMD faculty that explore key questions about teaching. Please come and join your colleagues in these conversations about an issue that concerns all of us – namely, how to best facilitate student learning through writing. Refreshments will be served."
The Center for Teaching Excellence Grant Opportunities
(You received a campus mailing on these; if you need more information or new copies of the full RFPs, please contact Rita Flynn in the CTE office.)
Departmental/Interdepartmental Teaching Development Grant
The Center of Teaching Excellence invites proposals from academic departments and interdisciplinary programs to enhance teaching and learning in the discipline(s). Priority will be given to proposals that develop sustained collaboration between department/program faculty, work on discipline-specific learning objectives, and identify specific goals that would enhance departmental/program-level teaching. Deadline December 10th; Applications received after this will be considered until funding is exhausted.Teaching Development Travel Grants
The Center for Teaching Excellence provides support for travel and related expenses associated with improving teaching at UMass Dartmouth. This includes, but is not limited to:
- attending meetings, conferences, workshops, and seminars related to college-level teaching;
- presenting scholarly papers or workshops on teaching, learning, and teaching development.
Faculty receiving support are expected to communicate what they have learned to the UMass Dartmouth community. Possible venues include but are not limited to:
- the annual Talking about Teaching conference
- CTE faculty forums
- CTE teaching development seminar
- development of Teaching Resource Packet for the CTE website;
- publication of a scholarly article or report for campus circulation.
Deadline: February 1, 2005 & June 1, 2005. See CTE for more information.
Teaching: External Opportunities
National Endowment for the Humanities
There are numerous grant opportunites from the NEH. Please consult their website for full details: http://www.neh.fed.us/grants/grants.html
Here are some highlights:
- Grants for Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development. See http://www.neh.fed.us/grants/guidelines/teachinglearning.html for details. Deadline: October 3, 2005 for projects beginning in April 2006.
- Summer Stipends. Grants to support a research project for 10 weeks in the summer. Our campus nominates two applications per year, one from a junior faculty member and one from a senior faculty member. Deadline: October 1, 2005 for Summer 2006 project.
UMass System: Internal Opportunities
Professional Development Grants
Grants designed to faciliate the use of electronic technologies and telecommunications for the delivery of courses and related academic services across the University system. Typically due the first week of March. For more information, you can consult this year's Guidelines. If you need a model for this grant, you may request one from Jen Riley.
Scholarship and Professional Development: Internal Opportunities
The Professional Development Grant Program, sponsored by the President's Office, the Information Technology Council and the campuses, is intended to support activity that demonstrates the use of electronic technologies to improve learning and enhance academic experience. These grants promote academic developments and collateral activities that will:
- encourage effective use of a variety of existing and emerging instructional technology tools by faculty,
- advance the assessment of technology-mediated student learning outcomes,
- disseminate best practices to other faculty to help them think about new ways of teaching students,
- cross traditional academic disciplines and campus boundaries,
- advance the system's goal of delivering high quality academic instruction to the broadest possible constituencies without regard to geography, and
- demonstrate the marketability of courses and seminars.
Awards range from $4000 - $6000 for a general project award and $8000 - $20,000 for multi-campus projects and projects of exceptional merit.
A Brochure outlining project goals, priorities and submission process is attached and can also be found at www.umassp.edu/itc.
Scholarship and Professional Development: External Opportunities
Massachussetts Women in Public Higher Education Professional Development Grant
Each year MWPHE awards Professional Development Funds to up to three (3) members of the MWPHE; one from Massachusetts Public Universities, one from the State Colleges, and one from the Community College segment.
These grants are $750 each and generally go toward conference travel, workshop costs, or other professional development opportunities. Grants typically are due in mid-February. UMass Dartmouth is a member of this organization and both Jen Riley (WMS/ENL) and Robin Robinson (SOC/ANT) have received these grants; you can contact them to review their applications for a model. Please consult the website for more information: http://www.noblenet.org/bhcc/mwphe/
Carnegie Scholars Program
The Carnegie Foundation directs a scholars program meant not for professional development, but for creating a community of scholars focused on the scholarship of teaching and learning and practices that contribute to the field. Carnegie Scholars serve for one year and attend three seminars at Stanford (a stipend is provided for travel support; housing and food provided). Carnegie Scholars work on a particular project for a year that they have proposed.
Deadline: Typically October 1st each year.
Consult the following website for more information and next year's application
process: http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/CASTL/highered/scholars_program.htm
- post a new event listing on the Web Calendar or
- set up a new announcement on the Web Calendar,
- get interviewed by the Torch,
- send a feature story to the Torch for publication,
- get interview or radio spots on WSMU,
- have a press release sent out from the UMD Communications Office ,
- to have digital photos taken at your event contact the Photographics Department,
- for your publishing needs, go to the Publications Department, then
- to distribute your literature, use the UMD Mail Room.
To let us know about more opportunities please go to http://www.umassd.edu/catls/opportunities.cfm
