Faculty Development Teaching Grant

Faculty Development Teaching Grants foster the development of new courses and support proposals designed to improve teaching, to develop new areas of competence, or to enable faculty to participate more actively in the tandem course program.

Application Guidelines • Guidelines for Evaluation • Previous Award Recipients • Application Form

Application Guidelines:

Eligibility:

1. All full-time faculty are eligible. Part-time faculty who have taught for five semesters are also eligible. Persons on terminal contracts are not eligible, nor are faculty who resign their appointments.
2. Faculty members of all ranks from all departments are encouraged to apply.
3. Former recipients may apply. If the committee must choose between two applications of equal merit, it will give preference to the applicant who has not received monies in the recent past.
4. An award cannot be used to complete a degree.
5. If applicants receive funding for the same project from other sources, they must inform the committee. This may result in a reduction in funding. Receipt of SISTAR, COSTAR, or CWIL (Center for Women’s InterCultural Leadership) grants for the same period of time will result in the teaching grant being withheld. New Faculty Scholars are not eligible. Faculty members may not apply for both a Faculty Development Research Grant and a Faculty Development Teaching Grant in the same year.

Funding:

Up to ten teaching grants of $2,500 each.

Time Frame:

The funds are normally used during the fiscal year immediately following that in which the awards are made.

Deadline:

Grant deadline is determined by the Center for Academic Innovation Grants Committee annually.

Administration and Review:

1. Guidelines and application forms are reviewed annually by the Center for Academic Innovation Grants Committee in consultation with the Director of the Center for Academic Innovation of Faculty Development.
2. The Director of the Center for Academic Innovation shall distribute these guidelines and the application forms, no later than October 31 to the faculty.
3. Grants are awarded by the CFAI Grants Committee composed of those elected members of the Committee and the Director of the Center for Academic Innovation. Any member of the Center for Academic Innovation Grants Committee submitting an application must withdraw from the selection process for that particular grant, and the Executive Committee of the Faculty Assembly shall appoint an ad hoc substitute from the appropriate academic area.
4. The award recipients will be announced at the March Faculty Assembly and the President's Dinner.
5. Grants are specifically awarded for purposes described in the proposal and may not be used to support other activities. The grant will be withdrawn if circumstances invalidate the proposed activity.

The Application Process

Proposal:

1. Applicants should complete the form and submit 1 copy with appropriate signatures to Laura Haigwood, Director, Center for Academic Innovation. The proposal may be submitted electronically, by campus mail or hand-delivered.

    

    

    

   Responsibility of the Recipient upon Completion:

   1. Recipients must file a written report with the Vice President and Dean of Faculty, and send a copy to the Center for Academic Innovation within nine months after the proposed beginning day of the project. This report must specify how the monies were spent and indicate what the recipient accomplished.
   2. The Faculty Development Teaching Grant awarded by Saint Mary's College must be acknowledged in any published report, article, exhibit, etc., made possible by the grant.

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   Guidelines for Evaluating Faculty Development Teaching Grant Proposals

    

   Each proposal is read and evaluated by all members of the Center for Academic Innovation Grants Committee. The Committee emphasizes the following points during discussion of a proposal's merit:

   1. Specific Aims

      1. How well conceived, defined and organized is the proposal itself?
      2. Are the project and its objectives clearly stated in language accessible to the non-professional? Are the arguments for the needs and value of the proposed work developed thoroughly? Remember that the members of the committee will not be familiar with the methodology and technical jargon of all the disciplines.

   2. Method

      1. Is the project methodology solid?
      2. b. Is the project design appropriately scaled for the proposed project duration?

   3. Significance of the Project

      1. Will the project benefit the applicant's pedagogy?
      2. Are the benefits clearly stated in the proposal?
      3. How will these benefits manifest themselves so that the outcome of the proposed activity can be evaluated?

   4. Previous Work

      1. Does the applicant's experience demonstrate a good foundation for the proposed project?

   5. Pertinent References

      1. Does the bibliography identify the best sources for the proposed project?
      2. Is the bibliography up-to-date and clearly pertinent to the proposal?

   6. Format

      1. Did the applicant adhere to the application guidelines?

   7. Recommendations

      1. The Committee must receive at least one letter of support for the proposal from someone who can provide an informed judgment of its merits.
      2. The applicant's department chair must also sign the proposal, indicating that she/he endorses it.

    

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   Faculty Development Teaching Grant Awards

    

   2010 Faculty Development Teaching Grant Awards

    

   Robert Hohl, Librarian
   A Guide to the Rare Book and Special Collections of the Cushwa-Leighton Library

   Renee Kingcaid, Modern Languages
   Studying Religious Diversity in France

   Daniel Party, Music
   2010 Kearney Teaching Grant
   Updating MUS 242 and Redesigning it as a Women's Studies Course

   Susan Alexander
   2010 Wolsfeld Sociology Teaching Grant
   Consumer Society: Rethinking Hyper-consumption after the Stock Market Crash of 2009

   Leslie Wang
   2010 Wolsfeld Sociology Teaching Grant
   Social Inequalities in Education: A Course for All Students

   Laura Williamson-Ambrose
   2010 Paula Lawton Bevington Humanistic Studies Teaching Grant
   New Course Preparation: Medieval Literature

    

   2009 Faculty Development Teaching Grant Awards

    

   Karen Chambers, Psychology
   Poverty and Psychology: An Experiential Learning Course

   Mary Ann Merryman, Business Administration and Economics
   2009 Kearney Faculty Development Teaching Grant
   Incorporating CFE Examination Material into the Fraud Examination Course

   Ewa Misiolek, Mathematics
   Redesigning CPSC 315 Simulation: Theory and Application

   Doug Tyler, Art
   Animation Nation: Advanced Approaches to Teaching New Media

    

   2008 Faculty Development Teaching Grant Awards

    

   Susan Alexander, Sociology
   2008 Wolsfeld Faculty Development Teaching Grant
   Sociology, Course Development: "Contested Masculinities"

   Nancy D'Antuono, Modern Languages
   Renaissance and Baroque Masterpieces

   Stacy Davis, Religious Studies
   Redesigning RLST 306: Biblical Theology

   Nano Farabaugh, Nursing 2008 Kearney Faculty Development Teaching Grant
   Integrating choice theory/reality therapy into Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing course

   Cindy Iavagnilio, Nursing 2008 Kearney Faculty Development Teaching Grant
   Integrating a new Simulation Framework into the nursing curriculum

   Mary Ann Kanieski, Sociology 2008 Wolsfeld Faculty Development Teaching Grant
   Data Driven: Designing and Preparing Data for an Applied Sociological Statistics Class

   Catherine Pittman, Psychology
   Bound: New Clinical Training Exercises

   Inela Selimović, Modern Languages
   MLSP 429: Revisitng Contemporary Latin American Women's Writing

   Nancy Turner, Education
   New Course Development in the Special Education Program: Methods for Exceptional Learners

   Jennifer Zachman, Modern Languages
   Page, Stage and Screen: Twentieth and Twenty-first Century Spanish Literature and Film

    

   2007 Teaching Grant Awards

    

   Linda Berdayes, Communication and Performance Studies
   Developing a course in Communicating with New Media: An Exploration into Shifting Sensibilities

   Peter Checca, Modern Languages
   A course on the Italian Novel of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

   Ann Clark, Philosophy
   2007 Higgins Teaching Development Grant
   Introductory Philosophy/World Civilization 103

   Mana Derakhshani, Modern Languages
   Developing a French Cinema Course

   Astrid Henry, English/Women's Studies
   2007 Bevington Teaching Development Grant
   Transforming "Introduction to Women's Studies" into a "W" Course

   Krista Hoefle, Art
   Beyond Object--exploring use of microcontrollers and Adobe/Macromedia Flash (hardware and programmable software used to create interactive installation environments)

   Laurie Lowry, Communication and Performance Studie
   2007 Kearney Teaching Development Grant
   Dance Literacy: Integration in Dance Courses

   Edith Miguda, History
   2007 Higgins Teaching Development Grant
   World Civilizations 103 - Tandem with Philosophy 110

   Isabel Sanchez, Chemistry/Physics
   2007 Kearney Teaching Development Grant
   Teaching Guided - Inquiry Organic Chemistry

   Umberto Taccheri , Modern Languages
   MLIT 410. Dante, Petrarca e Boccacio

   Leslie Wang
   2007 Wolsfeld Teaching Development Grant
   Asian American Women: Identities and Cultures

    

   2006 Teaching Grant Awards

    

   Ted Billy, English
   Transforming 'Introduction to Film Studies' into a Course on Film Criticism

   Susan Latham, Communicative Disorders
   2006 Kearney Teaching Grant
   Speech Language Pathology: It's More than "R's, L's and S's" Development of the Evaluation and Intervention Courses

   Max Westler, English
   Seeing Twentieth Century American Poetry From a Woman's Point-of-View

    

   2005 Teaching Grant Awards

    

   Kurt Buhring, Religious Studies
   Renewing Faith in Action

   Stacy Davis, Religious Studies
   2005 Kearney Teaching Grant
   RLST 390: Reading and Interpreting Hebrew Bible Prophets

   Christopher Dunlap, Chemistry/Physics
   Developing a Course in Environmental Chemistry

   Mary Ann Kanieski, Sociology
   2005 Wolsfeld Teaching Development Grant
   The Sociology of Childhood: Designing a New Course

   Claude Renshaw, Business Administration and Economics
   International Accounting: It's Been a Busy Ten Years!

    

   2004 Teaching Grant Awards

    

   Susan Alexander, Sociology
   Consumer Society: New course development

   Theodore Billy, English
   Reinvigorating Expository Writing

   Kitty Green, Education
   The Challenge of Diversity and Community: Preparing Teachers to Teach for Understanding and Democracy

   Astrid Henry, English
   Development of a New Course: "Reading Whiteness"

   Renée Kingcaid, Modern Languages
   Matriarch: Presenting Simone de Beauvoir to Today's WOST Students

   Donald Miller, Mathematics
   Stochastic Models

   Bill Svelmoe, History
   2004 Kearney Teaching Grant
   The Development of American Views of Foreign Cultures

   Umberto Taccheri, Modern Languages
   Italian Cultural Studies

   Mary Ann Traxler, Education
   Every Teacher a Reading Teacher

   Nancy Turner, Education
   Improving Literacy Development in Struggling Readers and Writers

   Susan Vance, Business Administration and Economics
   Incorporating Technology in International Business Law

    

   2003 Teaching Grant Awards

    

   Phil Bays, Chemistry/Physics
   Times are a Changin': How Shall We Teach Introductory Chemistry to Science Majors?

   Tom Bonnell, English
   Kearney Teaching Grant
   Revamping of ENWR 319 Classical

   Kitty Green, Education
   Kearney Teaching Grant
   Making the Good Better: Strengthening the Secondary Education Program at Saint Mary's College

   Carla Johnson, Writing
   Kearney Teaching Grant
   Program Addressing a Widely-Perceived Problem: ENWR 201W

   Linn Vacca, English
   Low-Vision Modifications of Current Courses

   Mary Wcisel, Nursing
   Merging Informatics and Nursing Education: Preparing Graduates for the 21st Century

   Max Westler, English
   Kearney Teaching Grant
   Establishing an Introductory Course for Students Interested in Professional Writing

    

   2002 Teaching Grant Awards

    

   Ted Billy, English
   Establishing a Foundational Course in Film Studies at Saint Mary's College

   John Fotopoulos, Religious Studies
   RLST 290: Special Topic: Introduction to the New Testament

   Anita Houck, Religious Studies
   Tricksters and Tellers of Strange Tales: Myth in a Tandem Course in Religious Studies and English

   Annette Johnson, Nursing
   Palliative Care Nursing

   Patrick Pierce, Political Science
   Developing the Comprehensive Seminar in Political Science

   Julie Storme, Modern Languages
   Creating and Maintaining Computer Assisted Reading Materials for French and Italian

   Jennifer Zachman, Modern Languages
   Spanish Women Writers

    

   2001 Teaching Grant Awards

    

   Karen Chambers, Psychology
   Advanced SPSS

   Insook Chung, Education
   Implementing Constructivist Instructional Method in Mathematics Education Classes

   Indi Dieckgrafe, Dance
   Activate: 20^th Century Dance History and Aesthetics

   Joyce Lucas Hicks, Business Administration and Economics
   From Ho-Hum to Hubba-Hubba: Renovating the Marketing Research Course

   Anita Houck, Religious Studies
   Heaven and Hell: Developing an Interdisciplinary Elective in Religious Studies

   David Richmond, Sociology
   World Populations

    

   2000 Teaching Grant Awards

    

   Ted Billy, English
   From Fiction to Film: An Interdisciplinary Inquiry into the Art of Adaptation

   Nano Farabaugh, Nursing
   Integration of Liberal and Fine Arts into the Nursing

   Laurie Lowry, Dance
   Stott Pilates Conditioning

   Donald Miller, Mathematics
   Stochastic Models

   Susan Vance, Business Administration and Economics
   Reality Bites: Legal Literacy for Professional and Personal Success

    

   1999 Teaching Grant Awards

    

   Marc Belanger, Political Science
   Teaching Gender and Politics

   Joseph Bellina, Chemistry/Physics
   Using Computer Models of Real World Situations to Encourage the Reconstruction Of Students' Personal World-views in Introductory Physics

   Vicente & Linda Berdayes, Communication Dance and Theatre
   Developing a Multimedia Component For COMM 210

   Ted Billy, English and Karen Chambers, Psychology
   Inner Space: Perception, Memory, and the Irrational

   Phyllis Kaminski, Religious Studies
   Ways of Doing Theology New and Old: A Course Design for Student Learning and Assessment

   Jerry McElroy, Business Administration and Economics
   From ECON 251 (3cr) to ECON 251W (4cr): Transforming Introductory Macroeconomics Into a Writing-Intensive First-Year Experience

   Peter Smith, Mathematics
   Preparing a New Course (CPSC 308) Electronic Communications

   Katie Sullivan, Communication
   Oral Interpretation: Creating a Class for the Inter-Dance and Theatre Disciplinary Department

    

   1998 Teaching Grant Awards

    

   J. Philip Bays, Chemistry
   Collaborative Learning in Organic Chemistry

   Theodore Billy, English
   Developing a Biographical and Critical Context for a 400-Level Course on Henry James and Edith Wharton

   Karen Chambers, Psychology
   Understanding Cognitive Psychology Through Community Service

   Joseph Incandela, Religious Studies
   The Evaluation and Use of Web Conferencing Software for Religious Studies Core Courses

   Donald Miller and Mary Porter, Mathematics
   Foundations of Higher Mathematics

   Nancy Nekvasil, Biology
   Problem-Based Methodology in Pathophysiology

   Marcia Rickard, Art
   Southeast Asia Field Study for Art 293, Asian Art Survey

   David Sever, Biology
   Integrating the Teaching of Human Anatomy with Resources available through the Internet: New Ways to Teach an Old Subject

   Julie Storme, Modern Languages
   Integrating the Internet into French Courses

    

   1997 Teaching Grant Awards

    

   Jeffrey Jacob, Music
   Survey of Non-Traditional Teaching Methods and Materials for All Levels of Studio Piano

   Patrick Pierce, Political Science
   Developing the Survey Course in Political Theory

   Mary Porter, Mathematics
   Numerical Analysis: A New Course in Mathematics

   Isis Quinteros, Modern Languages
   Latin American Women Writers

   Julie Storme, Modern Languages
   A New Course in French Studies: French Colonization: History, Interpretation and Aftermath

   Susan Vance, Business Administration and Economics
   Rethinking the Business Law I Course

    

   1996 Faculty Teaching Awards

    

   Vicente Berdayes, Communication, Dance and Theatre
   Intercultural Communication

   Joyce Lucas Hicks, Business Administration and Economics
   Buyer Behavior

   Renée Kingcaid, Modern Languages
   French 111-112: Deja Vu All Over Again

   Zae Munn, Music
   Participate in College Music Society’s Center for Professional Development in Art of Teaching Music in Higher Education

   Kathy Ornish, Art
   An Art Class for an Art Class

   Jane Perry Philips, Nursing
   Bereavement — How Do We Cope with Loss

   Nancy Turner, Education
   Strategies for Inclusive Environment Middle School/Secondary Classroom

    

   1995 Faculty Teaching Awards

    

   Jeffrey Breese, Sociology
   New Course: Applied Sociology

   Mary Connolly, Mathematics
   C++ The Language of Choice in the First Computer Course

   Zae Munn, Music
   Teaching Tonal Theory at End of the 20^th Century

   Frank Notturno, Business Administration and Economics
   Marketing Trends in Retailing, Sports Marketing and Services

   Thomas Platt, Biology
   Biology and Human Values - A Cooperative Approach

    

   1994 Faculty Teaching Awards

    

   Susan Alexander, Sociology
   Social Problems and Play Analyses

   Mana Derakhshani, Modern Languages
   The Culture of Business in the French Speaking World

   Philip Hicks, Humanistic Studies
   High Society

   Richard Jensen, Biology
   BIOSTAT: A Package of Statistical Programs

   Ann Loux, English
   EnLt 404: Southern Women Writers

   Catherine Pittman, Psychology
   Theories of Personality: Integrating a Multicultural Perspective

   Billy Ray Sandusky, Art
   New Course Development: Book Arts/Artists’ Books

   Sara Sawtelle, Chemistry
   Development of a Consumer Chemistry Laboratory Manual

   Rebecca Stoddart, Psychology
   Etic and Emic "Truths" in Social Psychology: a course revision

   Katherine Sullivan, Communication, Dance and Theatre
   An Interdisciplinary Tandem: Play Analysis and Social Problems

    

   1993 Faculty Teaching Awards

    

   Peter Checca, Modern Languages
   Twenty Years of Italian Cinema 1945-1965: from "Roma città aperta" to "Uccellacci uccellini"

   Indi Dieckgrafe, Communication, Dance and Theatre
   Incorporating Improvisation into the Dance Curriculum

   Renée Kingcaid, Modern Languages
   Curriculum Reform through CALL

   Deborah McCarthy, Chemistry
   Development of a Thoughtful Approach to Data Acquisition and Data Treatment in Chem Lab

   Donald Miller, Mathematics
   Statistical Applications for the Business Majors

   Zae Munn, Music
   Incorporating Women’s Compositions into Music Analysis and Composition Courses

   Tom Parisi, Psychology
   Reversing "Historical Roots of Modern Psychology"

   Patricia Pilger, Social Work & Annette Peacock-Johnson, Nursing
   Understanding the Older Adult: a Holistic Approach

   Janis Stewart, Nursing
   Information Technology in Nursing

   Mary Wood, Psychology
   Structure Activities in Psychological Research Methods

    

   1992 Faculty Teaching Grant Awards

    

   Joe Incandela, Religious Studies
   Treasures of a Tradition: Incorporating Medieval Theology into Religious Studies Curriculum

   Kevin McDonnell, Philosophy
   The Philosophy of More Science: Additional Scientific Issues for a Philosophy of Science Course

   Jerome McElroy, Business Administration and Economics
   Computer Simulation in Intermediate Macroeconomics (Econ 351)

   Donald Miller, Mathematics
   Undergraduate Mathematical Programming with Optimization Applications

   John Pauley, Communication, Dance and Theatre
   Women’s Voices: Women in Public Address

   Marcia Rickard, Art
   Flying to Indonesia is Easier than Swimming to Cambodia:
   A Far Eastern Component for Survey I and II (Art 241-242)

    

   1990 Faculty Teaching Grant Awards

    

   Theodore Billy and Laura Haigwood, English
   Transatlantic Romanticism

   Nancy Nekvasil, Biology
   Chemical Dependency and the Biology of Addiction

   Thomas Parisi, Psychology
   Science, Self and World

   Annette Peacock-Johnson, Nursing
   Curriculum Development: Fundamentals of Nursing Care

   Ann Plamondon, Communication, Dance and Theatre
   Arts and Entertainment Law

   Thomas Platt, Biology
   Writing in the Biological Sciences for the Non-Major

   Bill Sandusky, Art
   The Book as Art

   Lauren Strach, Business Administration and Economics
   Gender and Race Issued in Management

   Mary Ann Traxler, Education
   Developmental Reading: The Very Hungry Caterpillar Comes Before Short /a/

   Jill Vihtelic, Business Administration and Economics
   Financial Modeling: Using the Personal Computer in Financial Analysis

   Karilee Watson, Education
   Outside the Academy: Alternative