Scholarly Project Awards
As funding permits, the Center for Teaching makes Scholarly Project Awards that fund student involvement in faculty projects that enhance teaching or some other scholarly activity. Limited to $500, the awards fund the following sorts of proposals:
• Pedagogical innovations: faculty might work collaboratively with a student to organize a service learning class or to develop exercises for active or problem-based learning.• Course revision or development: a student might gather, summarize and evaluate potential readings to assist faculty in revising or developing a course.
• Research projects: a student might assist faculty research either directly as a participant or indirectly through a complementary project.
• Book projects: a student might assist faculty in developing a reader or testing a textbook.
Awards may be used to compensate students and pay project-related expense but not to
• use students as routine clerical help.• purchase equipment.
• support teaching assistants in regular courses.
• attend conferences that are not integral to a more sustained faculty project.
• pay a student who will also receive academic credit for the work.
Applications need not be elaborate. Please use the one-page Scholarly Project Award Form. It asks for [a] a specific discussion of the educational benefits for the student or students involved; and [b] clear criteria for evaluation. To receive an award, [a] faculty must agree to submit a final report; and [b] students must agree to submit an extensive narrative of the project. Both reports are due prior to the beginning of the semester after the award
Awards are to support learning outside the regular curriculum. Today's undergraduates, Richard Light has argued, "are up to their ears in activities outside of class." We hope to channel some of that extracurricular energy into scholarly projects that entail mentoring and encourage faculty/student collaboration and apprentice-style learning.
Proposals will be judged on their potential to benefit the students involved as well as teaching and learning generally.
Recent recipients include:
-Tom Spaccarelli (Spanish)-Stephen Carl (Math and Computer Science)
-Andrea Mansker (History)
-Kirk Zigler (Biology)
-Greg Pond (Art)