Faculty Travel Grants – Fall 2009
One of the goals of the Teaching Center is to encourage the scholarship of teaching in its various forms and manifestations. Attending conferences or workshops related to teaching can enable a faculty member to focus on teaching and to discover what others are doing to improve teaching and enhance student learning.
The Teaching Center provides funds for faculty members to attend conferences or workshops in which a major focus is on teaching in higher education or on scholarly material that will be used in teaching at Belmont. The attempt will be made to balance the distribution of funds over the course of the year, among disciplines, and between first time applicants and previous recipients.
Guidelines:
1. An applicant must be a full time faculty member at Belmont.
2. The proposal for a travel grant must focus on a learning experience directly connected to college-level teaching (typically a conference or workshop). If the proposal is to attend a conference, it can be a general conference devoted to teaching, a specific conference on a particular aspect of teaching (e.g., collaborative learning, instructional technology, teaching by the case-study method, problem-based learning), or a disciplinary conference with a significant portion of its sessions devoted to teaching. If travel to a disciplinary conference is proposed, applicants should clearly indicate how the content of the conference will inform their teaching. The proposal should clearly indicate how participation will benefit Belmont (as opposed to some outside agency).
3. The Teaching Center will typically provide grants up to $500 per person for a workshop or conference and up to $800 for a longer institute. If a proposal is awarded a partial grant in the fall, the applicant may resubmit for additional support in the spring.
4. An application must describe the conference, the ways the specific conference will enrich the applicant’s teaching at Belmont (including linkage to specific courses the applicant teaches), the estimated costs to attend the conference, and any other information that would be helpful in the consideration of this request (e.g., a copy of the flyer or brochure describing the conference). If the applicant is presenting at the conference, the application should also include specifics about other elements of the conference that will inform her teaching.
5. Please confer with the Teaching Center Advisory Board member from your college or school if you have questions or want guidance or feedback prior to submitting an application. Teaching Center Advisory Board Members: Joyce Blair Crowell (CAS), Steve Simpler (Religion), Gary Garrison (COBA), David Ribar (CVPA), Dan Wujick (CEMB) and Cathy Hinton (CHS). Amy Hodges Hamilton, Assistant Director, is also available for consultation.
6. The Director of the Teaching Center and the members of the Teaching Center Advisory Board will review travel grant requests and determine grant recipients. For Fall 2009 grants, applications must be received in the Teaching Center by 4:00 pm on Monday, September 21. Please send the application electronically to Nanci Alsup Nanci Alsup at nanci.alsup@belmont.edu or hand-deliver to the Teaching Center. Late or incomplete applications will not be considered. Grant recipients will be notified by early October.
7. Each grant recipient will be expected to submit a short (one page maximum) overview of the conference or workshop to the Teaching Center describing the highlights of the experience for the participant. The overview should be submitted within one month of the completion of travel. To be eligible for future Teaching Center grants, reports are expected from previous grants.
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Steve Simpler (SOR)
David Ribar (CVPA)
Gary Garrison (COBA)
Kathy Hinton (CHS)
Joyce Blair Crowell (CAS)
Dan Wujcik (CEMB)
Amy Hodges Hamilton (Ex Officio as Assistant Director of the Teaching Center)
