Page sections
- General
- Professional and course development
- Resources for your course
- Awards and recognition
- Resources located outside UW–Madison
General
- Office of Human Resources Development Grants
- This site links you to opportunities, many of which are listed below. A table of deadlines is also available.
- Grants Information Center, Memorial Library
- The Undergraduate Academic Awards Office
- This site is a resource center for UW undergraduates and recent graduates interested in applying for campus-wide and nationally competitive scholarships and for faculty and staff seeking to assist them. Director: Dr. Julie Stubbs; 608–-0370; awards@provost.wisc.edu.
Professional and course development
- The Wisconsin Teaching Fellows Program
- The Wisconsin Teaching Fellows Program is designed for outstanding early career untenured faculty and teaching academic staff who show exceptional promise as college teachers. Nominees must be interested in studying teaching and learning issues in depth, using the principles of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning to structure their work, and in examining career and classroom-related issues of particular concern to teachers new to the profession. The Wisconsin Teaching Fellows Program requires attendance at several OPID-sponsored events throughout the fellowship year, beginning with Faculty College, followed by a one-week Summer Institute, a fall meeting, and culminating with OPID’s annual Spring Conference. Faculty College will be held at UW–Richland, from May 31–June 3, 2005. Fellows receive a stipend, supplies and expense support, and travel support to attend the Fellows events. Consult the website or contact Peyton Smith in the Office of the Provost, plsmith@wisc.edu Applications are due to Mr. Smith by Wednesday 24 November.
- The Wisconsin Teaching Scholars
- The Wisconsin Teaching Scholars is a program designed for middle and late career tenured faculty and teaching academic staff. Nominees must be exceptional teachers who already serve as resources and role models, and who contribute their expertise and leadership publicly. They should also be interested, informed, and experienced in examining teaching and learning issues within the context of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Scholars undertake a significant project designed to advance the practice of teaching through scholarly inquiry into student learning. http://www.uwsa.edu/opid/wts/index.htm Fellows receive a stipend, supplies and expense support, and travel support to attend the Fellows events. Consult the website or contact Peyton Smith in the Office of the Provost, plsmith@wisc.edu. pplications are due to Mr. Smith by Wednesday 24 November.
- Faculty Sabbatical Leave Program
- To enable faculty members to engage in intensive study to become more effective teachers and scholars and to enhance their services to the university. Sabbatical leave may be granted for the purpose of enhancing teaching, course and curriculum development or conducting research or any other scholarly activity related to instructional programs within the field of expertise of the faculty member. Proposals for the 2004–2005 academic year are due to departments in early September. Deadlines are usually in September. For more information, contact the Office of the Provost.
- Faculty Development Grants
- UW System grants promoting professional growth of faculty that complements special institutional and System priorities, within the context of the institutional plan, including improvement of teaching skills and/or development of the curriculum, not covered with the definition of retraining or renewal. Proposals that could produce results that include improving teaching techniques and skills — especially service learning components — are encouraged and would fall into this general category. Proposals are due to departments in early October. Deadlines are usually in October. For more information, contact the Office of the Provost.
- Wisconsin Idea Undergraduate Fellowship
- These fellowships support innovative projects where undergraduates with at least sophomore standing, faculty/ instructional staff and community organizations collaborate in service activities and/or research designed to meet a community need while enhancing student learning. Students receive stipends to support their work, and faculty/instructional staff and the community organizations working with the students each receive $1,000 ($500 for summer only projects) to help defray project costs. Deadlines are usually in February. For more information, contact Randy Wallar, Morgridge Center for Public Service (Red Gym), 608–-5781, jrwallar@wisc.edu.
- Wisconsin/Hilldale Undergraduate/Faculty Research Fellowships and Holstrom Environmental Scholarships
- These scholarships were created to provide undergraduate students with the opportunity to get involved in a meaningful way in the research enterprise and to foster collaborative research between undergraduate students and faculty members or instructional academic staff members. To facilitate this collaboration, the fellowships provide a grant of $3,000 to the student and $1,000 to the faculty/staff supervisor to help defray the costs of the research (e.g., supplies, expenses, faculty or student travel involved in the project). All proposals should reflect original and intellectually significant research. Deadlines are usually in February. For more information, contact the Office of the Provost.
- Academic Staff Professional Development Grant Information
- The primary focus of the professional development proposals should be on training and/or retraining to improve the effectiveness of the academic staff members in their current roles. The deadline for submission is usually in March. For more information, contact Pam Bauman (263-2511) at the Office of Human Resource Development, 174 Bascom Hall.
- Morgridge Center for Public Service Service-Learning Course Development Grant
- Up to $1500 is available to assist faculty in the development and/or implementation of a new-service-learning/community-based research course or to add service-learning /community-based research to an existing course. No stated deadline.
- The Center for German and European Studies (CGES)
- The CGES is a consortium of UW–Madison and the University of Minnesota, is calling for proposals to support two-year Research Collaboratives, interdisciplinary groups of scholars from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and another university (which may be the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities) to examine the philosophical, social, historical, political, economic, legal, and cultural issues which make Europe (and Germany) a locus of contested ideas. Collaboratives are encouraged to involve faculty and graduate students from the Humanities, Social Sciences, Law, Natural Sciences, and Business. The second year of the program faculty on both campuses will co-teach a graduate seminar related to the research via internet video conferencing. For more information see the CGES Call for Proposals. Proposals are due on 2/25/2005.
Resources for your course
- Kemper K. Knapp Bequest Grants
- Knapp grants are usually in the range of $500 to $5,000. According to the terms of the original bequest, the committee favors projects that cross departmental lines and have an impact on the educational and cultural life of the university community, particularly projects that benefit undergraduate students. The bequest reads, “In general it is my wish that such funds be used for purposes outside the regular curriculum of the university … to cultivate in the student body ideals of honesty, sincerity, earnestness, tolerance, and social and political obligations.” Deadlines occur early in October and sometimes in January. For more information, contact Joe Farrenkopf, 133 Bascom Hall, (608) 262-3956, farrenkopf@bascom.wisc.edu.
- Brittingham Visiting Scholars Grants
- The Brittingham Foundation has provided generous funding to enable us to enrich small upper-level courses or seminars for undergraduates by bringing distinguished visitors to the classroom. The purpose of the Brittingham awards is to introduce advanced students to those working “in the field” who can contribute directly to the knowledge and skills students will need upon graduation. Visitors who exemplify interdisciplinary commitments and experiences are of particular interest to this program; they need not have “academic” credentials. For more information, contact Associate Vice Chancellor Virginia Sapiro.
- DoIT Adaptation Awards
- These awards are available to faculty and instructional staff to create
online materials with two easy-to-use authoring tools that create
interactive, pedagogically sound materials for Timetable courses.
- QuizImage lets you easily add interactivity to your existing images
- ConceptTutor helps you teach important concepts online quickly and efficiently
An award consists of: $750 to support the instructor’s work on the project and 10–12 hours of instructional technology support services, Awards are available on a first-come, first-served basis between January 26 and February 28, 2005.
Awards and recognition
- Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching(Faculty)
- The Cherry Award program is designed to honor great teachers, to stimulate discussion in the academy about the value of teaching, and to encourage departments and institutions to value their own great teachers. The winner of the Cherry award will receive a prize of $200,000 and will teach in residence at Baylor University during the 2006 fall or 2007 spring semester; travel expenses and a furnished apartment will be provided. To further Baylor University’s commitment to great teaching, the winner’s home department will receive $25,000. Finalists will receive $15,000 and will be invited to present a series of lectures at Baylor University in the fall of 2005. Finalists will present a Cherry Award Lecture on their home campuses as well. In addition, the home department of the finalists will receive $10,000 to foster the development of pedagogical skills. The deadline for nomination for the 2006 Award is November 1, 2004 and the deadline for nomination for the 2008 award is Fall, 2006.
- Distinguished Teaching Awards (Academic Staff)
- The Regents Teaching Excellence Award: Two $5,000 awards are given to faculty and academic staff members at UW System institutions in recognition of outstanding career achievement in teaching. In addition, one $5,000 award is given to an academic department, program or other academic unit which demonstrates exceptional commitment to and effectiveness in teaching. Deadlines are usually in January. For more information, contact Colleen McCabe, 270 Bascom Hall, 263-2985, cmccabe@bascom.wisc.edu.
Resources located outside UW–Madison
- Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
- The Carnegie Foundation offers many resources, including some grants programs. The Carnegie Scholars Program brings together outstanding faculty who are committed to investigating and documenting significant issues in the teaching and learning of their fields. Serving for one-year terms, the Carnegie Scholars participate in two two-week residencies during consecutive summers and spend shorter periods together during the academic year. The Carnegie Scholars Program s not an award for teaching excellence; nor is it a teaching-improvement workshop. Its purpose is to create a community of scholars, diverse in all the ways that matter in teaching and learning, whose work will advance the profession of teaching and deepen student learning.
- The Foundation Center
- The Foundation Center’s mission is to support and improve philanthropy by promoting public understanding of the field and helping grantseekers succeed. It collects, organizes and communicates information on U.S. philanthropy; conducts and facilitates research on trends in the field; provides education and training on the grant-seeking process; and provides public access to information and services.
- Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education
- The competition is designed to support innovative reform projects that hold promise as models for the resolution of important issues and problems in postsecondary education. All nonprofit institutions and organizations offering postsecondary education programs are eligible to receive FIPSE grants. Those grants may support any academic discipline, program or student support service. The Comprehensive Program supports a wide range of practical reform initiatives and assists grantees in assessing their results and disseminating what is learned to other institutions and agencies. It supports new ideas and practices and “will support controversial or unconventional projects, as long as they are well justified, carefully designed and responsibly managed.” Deadlines are usually in November. FIPSE, which is part of the U.S. Department of Education, encourages working with their office to develop your proposal.