Grants

Lecturers’ Professional Development Fund: Deadline Approaching

CRLT is currently accepting applications for the Lecturers' Professional Development Fund (LPDF), a grant specifically for U-M's Lecturers.  If you are a Lecturer on the Ann Arbor campus with a continuing appointment, you are eligible to apply for a grant of up to $2000 to fund professional development opportunities related to your teaching or scholarship.  For example, the funds could be used to support:

  • attendance at a professional meeting
  • purchase of computer hardware or software
  • travel expenses associated with accessing resources at other institutions
  • editorial, graduate student, or work-study assistance.  

Applications for the grant are due on September 24th at 4pm.  Details about how to apply can be found on our LPDF application page. Prospective applicants can also view the reports from previous LPDF recipients to get a sense of the range of projects that have been funded in the past.  

Every year, CRLT provides over $300,000 to U-M's instructors to support improvements to teaching and curriculum.  For more information about the range of grants available from CRLT, click here.  Read more »

Submitted by tbraun on Thu, 09/12/2013 - 11:33am
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Gilbert Whitaker Fund: Stage I Grants Awarded

Biostatics and epidemiology faculty working together to train graduate students in statistics. Musical Theater faculty studying the Estill Voice Training system in order to integrate the methods into their department’s curriculum. Law professors from different fields co-teaching legal writing to upper-level law students. Engineering and Technical Communications faculty collaborating to develop teaching modules that will advance student writing skills in a range of technical genres.

What do these projects all have in common? They’ve all just been awarded funds through the first stage of the Gilbert Whitaker Fund for the Improvement of Teaching. The full list of awardees—eight faculty teams representing more than a dozen departments—and details about their projects can be viewed here. 

Established in 1995, the Whitaker Fund grants support collaborative groups of faculty pursuing projects aimed to develop and deepen their commitment to excellent teaching and learning. The $10,000 grants support a wide range of teaching initiatives. You can learn more about by them by clicking on this link.  Read more »

Submitted by tbraun on Mon, 01/14/2013 - 12:11pm
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Grant Opportunity: Investigating Student Learning

U-M Faculty, are you interested in...

  • evaluating the impact of innovative teaching strategies in your courses?
  • using academic data to understand and improve student learning?
  • supporting your department's assessment efforts by documenting how students learn key concepts?
  • presenting or publishing research about your teaching?

If so, you might want to apply for an Investigating Student Learning (ISL) Grant from CRLT. These grants fund faculty (or faculty-student teams) who wish to investigate aspects of student learning in U-M courses or departments. This year, the Provost's Learning Analytics Task Force will be providing additional funding, allowing a greater number of grants to be awarded on a wide range of topics and approaches. Read more »

Submitted by tbraun on Thu, 12/06/2012 - 4:21pm
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CRLT Grants for Internationalizing the Curriculum

The University of Michigan prepares its students for lives of significant international engagement. In line with this mission, and with support from the offices of the Vice Provost for International Affairs and the Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, CRLT is awarding two-year grants for courses that expand and enrich international themes.

Details of the 2013-2014 program will be posted as soon as they are available. 

Questions and Consultations

Please contact CRLT at 764-0505 or crltgrants@umich.edu if you have questions.  CRLT staff are available to consult with grant applicants as they prepare proposals.   

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Winners of the Investigating Student Learning Grant

Junp to 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008 winners.

ISL Grant Winners from 2013

Michelle Aebersold and Dana Tschannen, School of Nursing, Division 3
Using Blogger to Improve Student Engagement and Learning

Mark Clague, Musicology, School of Music, Theatre & Dance
Graduate student collaborator: Sarah Suhadolnik, School of Music, Theatre & Dance, Musicology
Interactive Multi-Media "Textbooks": An Approach to Large Core Courses for an eReader Generation

Michael Englesbe, General Surgery, Medical School
Collaborators: Seth A. Waits and Bradley N. Reames, Medical School
Evaluating the Use of Social Media to Enhance the Educational Experience of a Medical School Surgery Clerkship

Margherita Fontana and Carlos Gonzalez, Cariology, Restorative Sciences and Endodontics, School of Dentistry
Dental student collaborator: Allison Everett, School of Dentistry
Learning Cariology in a New Dental Curriculum:  Long-lasting Student Learning of Critical Thinking and Problem Solving Skills in the Context of Patient Care Read more »

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