- About CELTUA
- Calendar and Events
- Full and Part-time Faculty and Staff
- Grad and Undergrad Students
- Grants and Awards
- Overview
- Past Recipients and Project Summaries
- E. Phillips Knox Teaching Award
- Small Grants to Improve Teaching
- Grants for Graduate Award Holders to Improve Teaching
- Visiting Teacher-Scholar Grants
- Summer Fellowships for the Improvement of Instruction
- Department / Program Grants for the Significant Improvement of Instruction
- Learning Assessment / Course / Curriculum Effectiveness Grants
- Faculty Exchange Relocation Grants
- Engaged Learning and Top 25
- Assessment
- Publications and Library
- Consulting and Resources
Small Grants to Improve Teaching
| description: | These grants fund first-time purchases of teaching/learning materials, such as computer software or videotapes for instruction, and first-time travel to learn new teaching strategies, but not expendable supplies such as special paper, etc. |
| amount: | CELTUA awards grants of up to $300 from a pool of $8,000. |
| eligibility: | Full- and part-time faculty members or administrative staff with formal or informal teaching responsibilities in the curriculum or co-curriculum may receive one grant per academic year. |
| selection: | A subcommittee of CELTUA chooses grant recipients. |
| submission: | Please send an electronic copy of your proposal to CELTUA <celt@muohio.edu> and a hard copy original with signatures via campus mail to CELTUA. |
| due date: | For fall proposals, the due date is October 15; for spring proposals, February 15; and for summer proposals, May 17. CELTUA will consider at any time your proposals for just-discovered opportunities having immediate deadlines. |
Purpose and Description
Approximately 30 faculty and received CELTUA small grants during 2008-09. These grants will help you fund modest projects designed to increase your teaching effectiveness and your students’ learning. They are intended to supply funds that are not available from your department, Instructional Technology Services (ITS), the Library, or elsewhere. Projects/activities might include travel to support first-time attendance at a teaching conference or to investigate a new teaching technology, purchase of commercial student evaluation instruments, etc. Grants for first-time funding, continuing projects, travel, and efforts must then become part of departmental budgets. Projects and events that have been completed are not eligible for funding. Materials purchased remain the property of Miami University; videotapes become part of the ITS Library and are available for loan. Recipients must agree to submit a one-page report upon the completion of the project, or no later than the beginning of the next academic year, describing how the project was carried through and how it improved their teaching.
Application Procedure
Please send an electronic copy of your proposal to CELTUA <celt@muohio.edu> and a hard copy original with signatures via campus mail to CELTUA. If your proposal is not funded, you may contact the chair of CELTUA for feedback and reapply during the following round.
Recent Recipients
- James Bromley - Travel
- Dean Smith - DVDs
- Olga Brezhneva - Conference registration
- Brooke Flinders - Nursing modules
- Michele Gingras - Teaching books