Center for Teaching and Learning

Short-term Grants to Support Teaching Innovation

Sometimes short-term financial support is essential to successful teaching innovations. Short Term Grants to Support Teaching Innovation aim to provide members of the Brandeis teaching the flexibility to request short-term funds for precisely what you need when you need it to support your teaching innovation or related research. There are no due dates for applications.

Apply Online

The CTL and Partners will collaborate to meet those needs as fully as possible. Short-term grants can support a variety of teaching innovation purposes, including any combination of:

  • Accessible teaching/learning materials
  • Assessment of teaching and learning
  • Inclusive teaching/learning practices
  • Open education resources
  • Scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) presentations with student co-authors and/or participation in conferences that focus on higher education teaching and learning (such as those organized by the AAC&U, ISSOTL, Lilly, NEFDC, or disciplinary organizations)
  • Sustainability education

Criteria

  • The significance of the project and scale of the need

  • he viability of the timeline and budget

  • How Brandeis students and educators will benefit from the project

  • What artifacts and measures will fully capture and communicate the project’s impact

  • How the project’s findings and materials can serve the Brandeis teaching/learning community and any communities beyond Brandeis

Past Awards

  • Emilie Diouf (spring 2020) Suitcase Stories project that reflected the experiences of black immigrant students

  • Anita Hill and Dan Kryder (spring/summer 2020) Democracy and Social Justice project that includes placing graduate students in active service organizations to promote education around gender-based violence

  • Derron Wallace (2020) Boston Public Schools project to study black students and the impact of online learning on their families, with the goal of reforming policy

  • Sally Warner (summer 2021) Creating a Hands-on Fossil and Oceanography Lab for Students

  • Charlie Goudge (summer 2021) Constructing Shipwreck Simulations where students practice underwater archaeology skills