Arts & Sciences Teaching Innovation and Award Program
Summer 2024
Deadline for submission of complete application: October 16, 2023
The A&S Teaching Innovation Program is a competitive, internal award program for all regular and senior lecturers, clinical faculty, and tenured and tenure-track faculty in the College of Arts & Sciences. This program is designed to support faculty who seek to enhance and innovate their pedagogy through workshops, conferences, the development of new course preps, or other methods in the following academic year.
The A&S Teaching Innovation Committee will strive to distribute the awards evenly across disciplines in the college. The committee will give preference to projects that employ new and innovative teaching methods, including strategies designed to impact diverse student populations. Evaluation of proposals will be conducted in coordination with the Academy for Teaching and Learning.
Awards are available in two different categories:
Category A (stipend):
Development of a new course, significant redevelopment of an existing course, or development of specific strategies to improve student learning and retention in one or multiple courses
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$5,000 stipend
Examples:
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Proposals to create a new course or to significantly redesign an existing course
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Proposals by a course coordinator to redesign a large introductory course that would impact all instructors
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Proposals that target courses with high DFW (D, F, Withdrawal) rates
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Proposals that investigate strategies to support first generation, underrepresented minority, and/or Pell grant students in specific courses
Category B (funding available for programming):
Programming support to travel to various conferences to enhance pedagogy or to bring a speaker to campus to provide pedagogical training to a department
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Funding available up to $7,500 (no stipend)
Examples:
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Funding to attend a pedagogical conference emphasizing new directions in an academic discipline, student recruitment and retention, diversity in teaching, or other teaching techniques
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Funding to bring a speaker to engage departmental colleagues in new forms of pedagogy
To apply for an A&S Teaching Innovation Program Award, see below Instructions for Electronic Submission.
Deadline is midnight, October 16, 2023.
Awards will be available starting June 1, 2024.
A&S Teaching Innovation Award Application Materials
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A cover sheet (1 page);
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Include name, rank, department or program affiliation, award category (if category B, state the amount of program/conference funding requested)
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Short CV/Biosketch (1-3 pages);
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Include condensed details from CV including courses taught/students mentored
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Project description (1-2 pages)
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Describe the pedagogical project(s) to be evaluated by the Teaching Innovation Committee.
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A statement of support from the chair or program director.
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Note: The A&S Teaching Innovation Program is an initiative within the College of Arts & Sciences. Additional grant programs for teaching development are available through Baylor’s Academy for Teaching and Learning (ATL): the University Teaching Development Grant and the University Teaching Exploration Grant. A&S faculty may apply for all teaching development grants. Their total awards, however, cannot violate grant limitations or University or College restrictions. For further questions about these restrictions, please contact your respective Divisional Dean.
For information about ATL’s grant programs, see the following:
Required Final Report:
All faculty who are awarded a Teaching Innovation Award will be expected to submit a report by January 31 after award is taken, to the Teaching Innovation Committee via email A_S_TeachingInnovation@baylor.edu. The report should include all outcomes of the funded project.
Instructions for Electronic Submission:
When application is ready for submission, send an e-mail to: A_S_TeachingInnovation@baylor.edu to request a BOX (Baylor’s file-sharing service) folder link.
Do not attach application documents to this e-mail. A BOX folder link will be sent via email to you to upload your Teaching Innovation application materials.
Follow these steps for uploading to BOX:
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Name your application documents as follows:
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Cover Letter: Last name, First name COVER (example: Bear, Bobbie COVER)
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CV: Last name, First name CV
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Project: Last name, First name PROJECT
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Statement of Support: Last name, First name STATEMENT
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Optional Supplemental Materials: Last name, First name SUPP
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Open BOX using the folder link received by e-mail.
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Log in using your Baylor log-in. https://helpdeskplus.web.baylor.edu/software/baylor-box-login
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Upload your application documents by dragging and dropping or using the file browser.
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You may make changes to uploaded documents until midnight on the deadline day.