Grant Programs

The Center for Faculty Excellence offers funding opportunities for faculty in alignment of the teaching and student learning.

Faculty Development Grant Program

The Center for Faculty Excellence (CFE) Faculty Development Grant Program supports faculty and staff in their newly-initiated or early-stage assessment of student learning, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), and/or related faculty development projects. The goals of this grant program are:

To encourage and facilitate the development and creation of findings relevant to the assessment of student learning, the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, or research relevant to teaching and learning.
To provide seed money for a work in its early stages, developing a Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) project, and/or designing faculty development initiatives to achieve advancements in student learning.

Grants of $500 - $2000 are awarded competitively to fund projects led by benefit-eligible faculty or professional staff members who teach or collaborative teams. The call for proposals opens each October and notifications of award will be sent in December. Awardees present their findings in a CFE-sponsored program. Learn more.

eLearning Innovation Grant Program

The Center for Faculty Excellence (CFE) eLearning Innovation Grant Program invites benefit-eligible individual faculty and staff, or collaborative teams who teach to submit proposals to support the development of innovative solutions addressing instructional challenges in online, hyflex, hybrid/blended, or web-facilitated learning, in collaboration with instructional designers from the CFE eLearning team. Grants are competitively awarded for $500 as a one-time funding opportunity. The call for proposals opens each September 2024 and April 2025. Learn more.