Grant Opportunities

How do you translate ideas into reality?

Faculty Funding Opportunity

If you had access to a source of funds to improve your teaching or your students' learning, what would you do with it? Marietta College faculty members are invited to develop practical answers to that question by applying for Engaged Teaching funds.

Here's how to do it:

  • Come up with an idea to improve your teaching, student learning, or student engagement in one or more specific classes.
  • Write a brief proposal explaining what you want to do, how you expect it to make a difference, and how much it costs.
  • Submit the proposal electronically to the Pedagogy Committee (care of Dawn Carusi, dawn.carusi@marietta.edu), which will evaluate proposals and make recommendations to the provost.

 

How much money should I request?

How much do you need? Sometimes big ideas cost a lot of money, so be creative and request enough to make those big ideas come true. There is no upper limit on individual requests and funds will be stretched to cover as many promising projects as possible, but since funds are not infinite, the Pedagogy Committee will evaluate proposals based on their likeliness to improve engaged teaching and learning.

 

What types of ideas are we talking about?

Again, the sky's the limit. Consider the following:

  • Instructional Release Time: Take a course off to sit in on classes of your colleagues to observe and incorporate best practices into your own teaching. Funding could hire your replacement or pay overload money for your time commitment.
  • Instructional Resources: Purchase video, DVD, books, software, or other instructional or technology materials for your classes.
  • Instructional Travel: Receive travel money to visit other campuses to observe and interact with colleagues teaching in your discipline. Not intended for conference attendance.
  • Instructional Mini-Sabbatical: Receive load reduction of one course in order to transform a course's pedagogy or delivery of material OR to prepare a course in an area outside of your training and expertise. Interested in mini-sabbaticals for research?  See the Faculty Development Committee.
  • Other: Come up with your own idea. Make a case for how the idea demonstrates improved pedagogy and how it will lead to increased student learning.

 

What kinds of proposals have been funded in the past?

Among other things, Engaged Teaching funds have purchased DVD's, classroom responders, games, class travel to an art institute, audio equipment for students with hearing and/or learning disabilities, and other materials to enrich teaching in a variety of classes. For more information, visit the Recent Grants page.