Grants to Support Teaching
Improving and innovating in the classroom may require more than just curiosity and a willingness to experiment. The Center for Teaching and Learning is here to be a partner in securing funding for projects that have the potential to enhance the culture of teaching and learning across campus, whether through the Provost's Teaching Innovation, Experimentation, and Research (TIER) grants, other campus units, or funding agencies beyond Brandeis.Brandeis Grants
Grants to support innovation in teaching are funded by the Provost’s Office and administered through the CTL. These grants are intended to promote excellence in teaching through the development of innovative instructional methods, new methods of assessing teaching and learning, or the redesign of courses and curricula, by means of evidence-based practices. While each call for proposals suggests a particular focus, all proposals that address innovation in teaching, learning and assessment are considered.
Teaching community engaged courses requires extensive preparation, communication and coordination with community partners, and logistics. The Vic ’63 and Bobbi Samuels ’63 Center for Community Partnerships and Civic Transformation (COMPACT) offers grants to support faculty, staff, and postdocs from any discipline in effectively developing community engaged courses and/or adding community engaged research and creative projects to their pre-existing classes. Please send any questions about these opportunities to compact@brandeis.edu.
The Mandel Center for the Humanities supports a number of programs and grants for faculty and graduate students, including writing retreats, research projects, dissertation innovation grants, and publicly engaged projects in the humanities, the arts and the humanistic social sciences. These include projects that have audiences beyond the academy, projects in the experimental or digital humanities, applied humanities work, and/or collaborative projects that create and sustain mutually beneficial partnerships with community organizations, museums, libraries or other cultural spaces or media.