Faculty Program for Engaged Scholarship, deadline for application: July 18, 2008
The Faculty Program for Engaged Scholarship is a new campus-wide pilot program to support faculty innovation in developing community-based components to new and/or existing courses. Examples of such components may include a service-learning component, community-based research, internship placements, and so on. Support for participants will include 1) training (including a one-day orientation workshop, consulting support, and opportunities to meet with experts in community-based scholarship), 2) a student scholar who will be trained to provide 250 hours of direct support in developing and implementing the course, and 3) a grant of up to $1500 to help create and implement the course (funds might be used for visiting speakers, teaching materials, a training, community partner honorarium, student transportation costs, etc.) You will have an opportunity to interact with 8 to 12 colleagues from across campus while exploring best practices for developing and offering a community-based curriculum..
Download the guidelines and application form (pdf)
Instructional Improvement Grants provide funds (up to $3,500) for innovative projects that will directly and significantly affect teaching and learning, such as developing materials for new and existing courses and developing new modes of instruction.
The Committee On Teaching especially welcomes multi-disciplinary or team-taught projects, projects that involve large lecture classes, particularly at the lower division level, classes that have multiple sections, and/or classes that are heavily subscribed.
In addition, the Committee encourages projects that respond to changes in education: for instance, projects that involve service learning and civic engagement, that enhance diversity, that encourage study groups, that promote active learning and engagement, that focus on speaking or writing skills, or that seek to improve classroom assessment.
Download the Instructional Improvement Grant guidelines and application form (Word)
The Instructional Minigrant Program seeks to improve teaching by making funds available for activities that go beyond the routine responsibilities of Berkeley faculty members. Instructional minigrants provide rapid access to modest funds (maximum: $1000) for small-scale projects to improve existing courses, develop new courses, evaluate instruction, and assess curricular needs.
Instructional minigrants are typically used to revise aspects, strategies, or procedures of current courses; develop new or to redesign existing course material ; pay a student researcher to help in revision or redesign; provide a modest honorarium for an off-campus speaker; partially support a field trip. This list is meant to provide examples and is by no means exhaustive.
Download the Instructional Minigrant guidelines and application form (Word)
Apply via email: download the above files in Word format and send back the completed application (in the body of an email or as an attachment) to Steve Tollefson in Office of Educational Development (403 Sproul Hall), phone: 2-0875.