Teaching Grants
The Teaching and Faculty Support Center Funds Two Types of Grants
These grants are offered to fund activities to further enhance teaching excellence in support of the teaching mission of the University of Arkansas.
Due: April 1
The Teaching and Faculty Support Center offers Grant Applications every year. There are two types of grants available this year: Teaching Improvement Grants (up to $2,500 each) and Student Success Grants (funded by Global Campus, up to $5,000 each). These grants are offered in order to fund activities to further enhance teaching excellence in support of the teaching mission of the University of Arkansas.
I. TEACHING IMPROVEMENT GRANTS (up to $2,500 EACH):
These Proposals May Focus On:
- Teaching innovations that lead to improvements in student learning
- Unique learning materials for a unit, course, or program
- The scholarship of teaching and learning
- New models of teaching that could be adapted by faculty in other disciplines
Evaluation Criteria:
- Clearly describes a need and how this project addresses that need
- Articulates how student learning will be enhanced
- Describes the project plan (outcomes, activities, deliverables, and evaluation methods)
- Results in a significant impact on the teaching mission of the university
Faculty travel to teaching related conferences will be considered, but travel to discipline-specific
conferences without a specific teaching focus will not be funded.
Complete this form to apply
II. STUDENT SUCCESS GRANTS (up to $5,000 EACH)
These proposals may focus on:
- Developing, implementing, and evaluating teaching innovations that lead to improvements in student learning and student success at the University of Arkansas
- Procuring unique equipment to be used in pilot tests for possible expansion to wider student audiences (could use pilot results to support future TELE fee request)
- Developing unique learning materials for a unit, course, or program which enhance student persistence and learning
- Improving the development of research and intellectual capacity of undergraduate students
- Improving the learning process of students through innovative teaching strategies
- Scholarship of teaching and learning with implications for student success
Evaluation Criteria:
- Clearly describes a need and how this project addresses that need
- Articulates how student population will be impacted
- Describes the project plan (outcomes, activities, deliverables, and evaluation methods)
- Emphasizes expected impact on, alignment with, and objective assessment of student learning outcomes
Types of projects that will not be funded:
- Faculty travel to discipline-specific/professional conferences
- Summer salary for faculty
- Projects otherwise eligible for funding with TELE fees
- Projects that should be funded out of department maintenance budgets
Dissemination : Awardees will be asked to submit a written summary of their findings. Reports should describe 1-3 teaching strategies learned, and how these strategies have been infused into their teaching. Awardees should plan to present their findings to faculty at the Reading Day poster session in the spring.
2022-2023 Teaching Improvment Grants and Student Success Grants Awarded
2021-22 Teaching Improvement Grants and Student Success Grants Awarded
Check out some of our award winner's posters from the 2018 Poster Sessions
In 2023, Global Campus offered grant recipients the ability to make a video to showcase how they used their grants. Check out these faculty highlighting the work that they have done in our new video space for the Teaching and Faculty Support Center.
- Allison Boykin, Michele Kilmer and Callie Bradley – Eleanor Mann School of Nursing, “DNP Project Success: An Interdisciplinary Approach,” $4,945.59
- Dede Hamm and John Hickey – School of Human Environmental Sciences and Department of Continuing Education, “Event Management Simulation Development for Intro to Event Planning and Management,” $4,649
- Lori Murray – Eleanor Mann School of Nursing, “Improving Online Teaching to Promote Professionalism,” $2,295
- Ryan Calabretta Sajder – Department of World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, “Digitizing Italian Studies: Virtual Reality in the Italian Curriculum,” $5,000
- Ringo Jones – Department of Communication, “360° Video and Mixed Reality Storytelling,” $4,999.95
- Josiah Leong – Department of Psychological Science, “Innovation Brain Imaging Analyses on a Shared Educational Resource,” $2,500
- Kathi Jogan – Department of Animal Sciences, “Active Learning through an Engaging Digital Environment,” $2,498.16
- Renee Speight and Suzanne Kucharczyk – Department of Curriculum and Instruction, “Video Coaching Technology to Improve Preparation of Students as Licensed Special Educators,” $4,975
Other Teaching Grants on Campus
Grant Portal for University of Arkansas
Service Learning
Honors College
Open Education Resource Grants
Women's Giving Circle
Offers grants that promote innovation in teaching and learning.
Non-Teaching Grants
Since the TFSC's mission is to focus on teaching and learning, we have limited this
page to grants for teaching and learning.
For programs that support mentoring, research, and other academic endeavors, contact UA Faculty Affairs.
Check out the Faculty Affairs Resources Page