FUNDING FOR COLLABORATIVE FACULTY INNOVATION
What ideas do ACM faculty have to enhance teaching and learning at their colleges?
Are there new pedagogical approaches to try, or curricula to prepare students for emerging career paths, or ways to use instructional technology that engage students and bring resources into the classroom?
The Faculty Career Enhancement Program (FaCE) awards grants that enable ACM faculty to engage in collaborative projects that explore ways to strengthen liberal arts education, and then to share the results widely with colleagues across the ACM and beyond.
PROJECTS WITH IMPACT
With support from FaCE grants, faculty have created a wide range of projects to initiate change on ACM campuses, such as:
- New curricula: To help address the demand for classes in statistics and data science, faculty from Grinnell College, Lawrence University, and Carleton College shared their expertise to create tutorials and case studies for those courses and make the materials freely available online.
- Pedagogical advances: As field-based learning expands, Colorado College faculty and staff hosted a Symposium on Field Study to define and refine the pedagogy and practice of field study.
- Introducing technology: Lawrence University created an interdisciplinary makerspace to provide access to advanced technology, such as 3-D printers, for faculty and students across disciplines.
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
ACM will award $166,500 in funds to support collaborative projects on and across ACM campuses that address current challenges or opportunities faced by liberal arts colleges and their faculty.
Key Dates:
- Friday, September 27, 2024 – Collaborative project proposals are due.
- October 31, 2024 – Project teams are notified of funding decisions.
- December 31, 2025 – Projects that are funded must be complete.
Please use this document and budget template to submit a proposal.
Recent FaCE Projects
The experience of teaching and learning during the COVID-19 pandemic and in the context of renewed global efforts to redress racial injustice has taken a significant toll on the well-being […]
This project brings together writing program administrators (WPAs) from several different ACM institutions to plan and facilitate a collective summer workshop in which faculty from across the disciplines identify, annotate, […]
The Faculty Career Enhancement Program (FaCE) is supported by a generous $2 million grant from the Mellon Foundation.
