* Available to the 2022 Faculty Retreat Attendees
About
This year, attendees will again be eligible to apply for one of the twelve $4,000 grants from the Teaching Advancement Board to help implement ideas inspired by the retreat in their own courses. The grants that meet the objectives, terms, and criteria below will be awarded on a competitive basis.
View the list of 2021 Faculty Retreat grant recipients (pdf)
Initiative
These grants enable recipients to design and implement an instructional enhancement that has a high probability of improving education at Illinois. The projects most likely to be funded are those inspired by this year’s faculty retreat and aligned with the criteria below. The grant can be used to fund a graduate assistant to assist in the enhancements.
Objectives
- To support the implementation of teaching enhancements inspired by the faculty retreat
- To seek broad participation from the many disciplines across campus.
- To create a diverse and vibrant community of instructors and graduate students developing educational enhancements and reforms.
Terms
Instructors who attended the faculty retreat may apply for the grants, provided they accept the following conditions:
- They will attend an organizational meeting in mid-May to meet and introduce their projects. Additional meetings during the academic year will be determined.
- They will provide a brief summary of the project for the 2023 Faculty Retreat.
Criteria
The Teaching Advancement Board (TAB) and the Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning (CITL) will evaluate proposals and present recommendations for awards to the Provost. Selection criteria include:
- To what extent would successful completion of the project improve the quality of our students’ learning experience?
- To what extent would the proposed educational enhancements be generalizable across the campus?
Priority will be given to those proposals that build on the 2022 Faculty Retreat theme of “Breaking Down the Garden Walls: A Promise of Access to Success.” Suggested topics are developing strategies and/or assignments to enhance a more inclusive learning environment, to incorporate student voices, to assist students in learning how to learn, and more equitable assessments.
Proposals
Information required:
- Instructor name
- Department
- Proposal title
- Course name
- Course number
- When will these enhancements be implemented? (Fall 2022, Spring 2023, and/or Summer 2023)
- Description of course enhancement (300 words)
- Department Chair/Head approval
Click here to submit your faculty retreat grant proposal
Timeline:
- Application deadline: Monday, March 28, 2022 at 5:00 pm
- Award announcement: Early May 2022
- First meeting of the recipients: Mid-May 2022
Questions about the grants should be directed to Cheelan Bo-Linn at 217-244-3859 or cbolinn@illinois.edu.