Curricular Exploration Grants

The Faculty Center for Innovation (FCI) is pleased to announce a curricular exploration grant opportunity designed to create community and invigorate faculty teaching and learning at Park University. For AY 2024-25, FCI is awarding curricular exploration grants to academic departments/programs and faculty who wish to utilize grant funding on a collaborative project to investigate future opportunities for Park's curriculum, teaching, and learning on a program level. Teams must include at least one full-time faculty member. Applicants can be awarded up to $1,000 to fund their project and transform their program! Cross-disciplinary and cross-campus projects are encouraged.

These grants are intended to fund curriculuar exploration that can have a lasting impact toward innovative teaching and learning; therefore, grants should be focused on teaching and learning (rather than having an administrative or structural focus). Potential ways to use funds include, but are not limited to:

• Honoraria for external expert consultants,
• Webinars, subscriptions, or resources to aid your curricular research, or
• Funding a planning retreat for your programmatic team/ faculty
• Convening a group of alumni (or industry leaders, scientists, etc.) for brainstorming and feedback session/event

Following peer review, the selection of awarded projects will be announced and funded from July 1, 2024 - June 1, 2025. Grant recipients will have their final explorative projects shared with academic administration and share the outcome of their work with the Park community via a brief (3-5 minute recording) upon project completion.