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Rolling Deadline:
for the 2009-2010 academic year, applications will be accepted until funds are exhausted.
INTRODUCTION
Small grants up to $500 from CRLT’s Instructional Development Fund support innovative activities to improve teaching and learning at the University of Michigan.
ELIGIBILITY
The competition is open year-round, on the Ann Arbor campus of the University, to all tenured and tenure-track faculty; clinical instructional faculty; and Lecturers who have continuing appointments and course development responsibilities (i.e., an assignment from the dean, chair, or designee to develop a new course or significantly revise an existing course).
To ensure that a variety of applicants have the opportunity to implement innovative teaching and learning activities, recipients of IDF grants during an academic calendar year (Sept-August) will not be eligible to receive funding for an IDF grant during the next academic calendar year, but they are welcome to apply again in the following year.
FUNDING
Expenses that can be covered by these grants may include, but are not limited to, supplies and equipment, programming or research assistance, fees and expenses for conferences directly related to teaching, and summer projects aimed at developing or enhancing courses.
FUNDING DECISIONS
Funding decisions usually can be provided within one to two weeks from the time a proposal is received.
PROPOSAL CONTENT
Applications should be one page or less, indicating the need for the grant, the learning approach or teaching philosophy upon which the activities are based, and the intended learning goals or outcomes for the project. An itemized budget should also be attached.
DEADLINES
For the 2009-2010 academic year, applications will be accepted at any time of the year until funds are exhausted. Normally, approximately 20 projects are funded yearly, depending on the amounts requested.
SUBMISSION PROCEDURES
Applications for these grants should be sent to the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching (CRLT) as an e-mail attachment (crltgrants@umich.edu). The attached file should be in Word format (.doc or docx) and named “lastname_firstname_IDF.doc” (e.g., Smith_Jane_IDF.doc).
For Lecturers ONLY: The Chairperson or designee should send an e-mail to crltgrants@umich.edu confirming that the proposal is being submitted by a Lecturer who has (1) a continuing appointment on the Ann Arbor campus of the University of Michigan; and (2) course development responsibilities (i.e., an assignment from the dean, chair, or designee to develop a new course or significantly revise an existing course).
Contact crltgrants@umich.edu with questions about the fund or the application process.