Purpose

The purpose of the Concordia Intramural Teaching Grant (CITG) competition is to improve learning at Concordia University by supporting innovative teaching at both the Mequon and Ann Arbor campuses. Full-time faculty members may submit applications for an innovative teaching project connected to a face-to-face or blended course they are scheduled to teach in the 2018 - 2019 academic year. 

The teaching innovation must be a new development not already in the course or already planned as an innovation for the entire department/school. Funding supports the development, demonstration, and evaluation of innovation in a particular course that is over-and-above normal teaching expectations.

Examples include:
  • A service learning project
  • Developing a problem-based learning approach in a course
  • Strategies to support measurement of student learning for a Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) project
  • A project that demonstrates the value of high-impact practices or the Concordia Principles for Good Practice in Teaching and Learning

Criteria

Proposals are evaluated using these criteria:

  • Organization and thoroughness
  • Support or evidence for the pedagogical strength of the innovation
  • Connection to principles of effective teaching and learning, such as high impact practices and Concordia’s Nine Principles for Good Practice in Teaching and Learning or other frameworks
  • Justification and explanation of all expense and stipend payment requested including how such expense will benefit the course, students, the faculty member, and the university
  • Description of how the project is above and beyond the usual teaching expectations
  • Description of the demonstration and evaluation of student learning, which will be submitted in the post-grant documents and demonstration
  • Potential contribution to Concordia University for use of the innovation in future courses for future students
  • Benefit to the applicant for professional development of teaching effectiveness

Application

View the  CITG application form, which includes additional information.
Applications for 2018 - 2019 are due June 1st, 2018.

Contact Us

For more information contact Elizabeth Evans, Director of the Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching.

Elizabeth Evans
Director
Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching, Room R008
Concordia University Wisconsin
12800 North Lake Shore Drive
Mequon, WI 53097
Phone: 262-243-4283
Fax: 262-243-2983
elizabeth.evans@cuw.edu