Implementation Grants: Inclusive and Effective Teaching in Policy and Practice
UO’s Inclusive Teaching Task Force is pleased to announce $60,000 in small-grant funding to support the wider implementation of inclusive and effective teaching in practice and policy. Proposals should advance work related to one of the three aims of the UO-HHMI Grant: 1) teaching evaluation policy, 2) faculty development, or 3) mechanisms to collect data about inclusive and effective teaching. Moreover, proposals should benefit a group of faculty working within their unit context.
- support your new peer review committee as they create founding documents and processes related to new Peer Review of Teaching unit policies;
- do a series of focus groups about students' perceptions of inclusive teaching in your unit;
- fund an external speaker on inclusive teaching in your field;
- host a departmental retreat to discuss your teaching values and principles in preparation to update your TTF and Career Faculty Review and Promotion policies;
- pay an honoraria to a group of faculty working a course development project that centers inclusive teaching and includes a presentation to the full department.
In other words, these grants serve collective goals and are explicitly linked to culture change opportunities faculty see within their own units.
Office Hours: If you have questions about the grant, the application, or would like to discuss your idea, Austin Hocker, HHMI grant co-sponsor, is available during weekly office hours. Wednesdays from 10:00am to 11:00am via Zoom.
Submissions Due: Rolling deadline - submissions will be accepted until all funds are awarded.
Budget: $60,000 total | ~$5500 per award
We expect proposal budgets to be between $3000-$7000, but they could be more.
Eligibility Criteria
All UO Faculty (Tenured, Tenure-track, and Career) are eligible to apply.
Implementation Grants are awarded to projects at all stages of completion, including projects in very nascent phases. In fact, an implementation grant can be instrumental in developing community collaborative goals in the early design phases of a new project. Faculty are eligible to receive an Implementation Grant at the same time as other internal funding (including IDEAL Campus Climate Matching Grants and Williams Fund). Applications for other funding should be made clear in the project proposal along with disclosure of other funds awarded.
Application
| PROPOSAL ELEMENTS |
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| Please be certain that you have included all required components, in order. Late or incomplete applications will not be considered for review. Proposals should include each of the following components and be submitted as a single Word or PDF file. |
| 1. PROJECT NARRATIVE (500-700 words max) |
Describe the focus of the project, including how it advances your unit’s work in one of the three aims of the three aims of the UO-HHMI Grant: teaching evaluation policy, faculty development, and mechanisms to collect data about inclusive and effective teaching.
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| 2. PROPOSED BUDGET |
Indicate how the budget will be allocated. There are multiple creative ways to use this money. Uses can include travel to a conference, purchase of materials/supplies, faculty stipends, GE funding, organizing a workshop or speaker event, honorariums, or other material costs associated with the proposed work. Include a budget justification and statement of funding history for the project as a whole. Click here for a SAMPLE BUDGET. If proposing use of funds for a stipend, the program has set a common stipend of $1000 + 33% OPE per faculty per week for any related work. The common stipend for guest speaker travel and hosting is $2000. |
| 3. CVs OF SUBMITTING FACULTY |
Recipients of the UO Implementation Grant funds are expected to:
- Participate in regular progress check-in meetings, including a budget check-in.
- Present projects and results to 1-2 relevant campus forums.
Groups will be identified based on relevancy to the awarded projects and project leaders will be consulted for scheduling purposes. - Submit a report on completion of the work.
- Adhere to approved budget and fiscal procedures.
- Acknowledge in presentations and on materials that activities are supported by a grant to UO under the HHMI Science Education Program.
- Conduct funded activities according to the highest ethical standards and in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations and UO policies, including those regarding an inclusive and respectful workplace. This extends to activities away from campus, including, for example, participation at meetings and workshops.
- Aim to complete project activity within one year from award date, not to exceed 2 yrs from award date.