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Instructional Grants Program Guidelines
Instructional Grants Program Guidelines
The call for 2009-2010 grants will be available in December 2008.
Funds are available to support instructional improvement projects to be completed during the 2008-2009 academic year. Grants are awarded for amounts up to $10,000 (for 2007-08, the average award was $6,760). UCSF faculty, students, and staff are invited to submit grant proposals. Non-faculty applicants need to include a letter from a faculty sponsor with their application. Details are included in the application instructions.
Proposals will be judged on their consistency with one or more of the following goals:
- Improvement of existing instructional programs, including courses, curricula, instructional processes, and academic advising.
- Development of new programs, including new courses, curricula, instructional software, and instructional processes. These developmental activities may be program related (e.g., the expansion of a new curriculum or instructional process) or resource related (e.g., the establishment of teaching resource centers, teaching workshops, or faculty development programs).
- Introduction of experimental approaches to instructional content, processes, or resources.
- Teaching evaluation activities construed broadly, including the effectiveness of courses, curricula, individual support activities, teaching methods, and academic advising, and even the dissemination of teaching evaluation results.
Criteria
Priority will be given to proposals based on the following criteria:
- Innovation - Project goes beyond traditional teaching and learning processes to develop new programs or methodologies and improve teaching or learning.
- Implementation - Project is demonstrably achievable with the allocated time and money.
- High-impact - Project will affect a reasonable number of learners.
- Interdisciplinary focus - Project involves collaboration between UCSF schools/programs.
- Sustainability - Project is sustainable after funding period ends.
- Evaluation - Proposal includes effective means of evaluating project's success.
- Cost efficiency - The cost per learner trained or impacted is reasonable.
Use of Funds
We strongly recommend that the Center for Instructional Technology (CIT) be consulted for advice regarding the use of technology for proposed projects and to investigate the hardware, software, and personnel resources available there. Contact Brian Warling, Assistant Director, CIT, at (415) 502-6678 or via our Contact Us page.
- Grant funds may be used to purchase equipment only if such equipment is an integral part of a substantive curricular development effort and not available from other sources. Funding of computer hardware is discouraged. Consideration will be given to whether any equipment requested for purchase could be reasonably accessed from other sources.
- Funds may not be used to support faculty salaries. The reviewing committee may consider, on a case-by-case basis, a stipend to volunteer faculty not paid by the University.
- A substantial proportion of grant funding may not be used for travel.
Timeline and Process
Applications are due by 5:00pm Monday, March 3, 2008; late submissions cannot be accepted.
The Academic Senate Committee on Courses of Instruction reviews all submitted proposals. The Committee makes the final decision regarding which proposals are funded. The Library and the CIT are not involved in the final decision-making process and only provide administrative support for the grant process.
Decisions will be announced in May and funds will be available in July.
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