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(RFP Due Date: Mid-January*)
Encouraging faculty to utilize their expertise and apply their scholarship to support economic development in Wisconsin.
*Check with your campus research administration office for institutional deadlines that precede the posted UW System RFP due date.
(RFP Due Date: April 18, 2008 for 08-09 proposals)
The goal of the grant program is to develop and support programs that are effective in promoting institutional change to foster access and excellence for historically underrepresented populations. Particular attention will be given to models, programs and strategies with demonstrated success in closing gaps in achievement in the areas of access, retention and graduation.
(RFP Due Date: March)
Supports strategic activities that advance the innovative use of instructional technology for teaching and learning and activities related to faculty and staff development in the effective use of technology in teaching and learning. Funding supports collaborative multi-institutional projects within and across disciplines.
(RFP Due Date: March & October)
OPID runs 2 grant cycles per year for this program, offering up to $1,000 in support for programs that promote cooperation and exchange among UW System faculty and are focused on the enhancement of undergraduate teaching and learning. Programs are typically workshops, presentations, or mini-conferences on teaching-related subjects.
(RFP Due Date: Mid-February)
To support campus activities that will advance the successful implementation of PI 34 (state rules governing ed. prep. programs) and the delivery of quality educational preparation programs built upon a foundation of all-university responsibility and broad-based collaboration (BOR resolution, June 2001). Funding supports activities related to the initial preparation and/or on-going professional development of teachers.
(RFP Due Date: Mid-March)
Includes support for research, curriculum development, miscellaneous projects such as events and lectures, minority faculty research/retention awards, seed grants to pursue collaboration and extramural funding, and campus reading seminars.
(RFP Due Date: April 15, 2008 for 08-09 proposals)
The Undergraduate Teaching and Learning Grant (UTLG) for 2008-09 will be used to bring to the System level successful examples of campus initiatives that foster teaching and learning. The grant is designed to expand the scope of programs that have moved institutions forward with important new strategies for enhancing teaching and focusing on student learning in order to make those programs available across the UW System.
(RFP Due Date: Mid-October)
This is a competitive grants program for increasing student achievement in the arts, civics and government, economics, English, foreign languages, geography, history, mathematics, reading or language arts, and science, by improving the teaching and principal quality at the K-12 level in Wisconsin's public and private schools. The funds will provide grants to eligible partnerships.
(UW System)