Travel Grants 2009-2010
Application materials for 2009 - 2010 are now available.
Download Travel Grant Announcement and Application Materials
October 9, 2009
Dear Faculty Member:
The Center for Teaching Excellence announces the availability of Travel Grants for 2009-10. These grants have been created to assist tenured or tenure track continuing faculty in traveling to conferences, workshops, meetings, professional development and professional affiliations related to LMU’s teaching mission. This travel must have a clear and direct connection to the enhancement of teaching and learning by focusing on collegiate or graduate level teaching methods (not disciplinary content) or on the scholarship of teaching and learning. Travel for professional development in the use of a particular pedagogy, travel to present a paper related to the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) at a conference focusing on college teaching, or travel to present a paper at a disciplinary conference in a strand on SoTL or pedagogy at the collegiate level are examples of travel that could meet these guidelines.
The Center for Teaching Excellence hopes that these grants will allow LMU faculty to develop and/or share their commitment to excellent/scholarly teaching by engaging in dialogue with professionals outside of the University. The CTE travel grants are designed to offset (at least partially) the costs of such endeavors. They are to be used as a secondary source after applicants have first approached their respective colleges for travel support.
The application deadline is October 30th, 2009 for travel during November 2009 through October 2010. If CTE travel funds for 2009-10 are not exhausted by this round of grants, another call for applications will go out in January, 2010. Each applicant should be advised that faculty members may receive only one CTE Travel Grant per academic year. Please see the attached guidelines and forms for more details about the Travel Grant application process. The guidelines and forms are also available online at http://www.lmu.edu/cte. Applications will be reviewed by the Committee on Excellence in Teaching.
Sincerely,
Jackie Dewar
Director, Center for Teaching Excellence