The Center for Transformative Teaching, which collaborates with educators across the university to promote innovative and effective teaching methods, has announced its first funding awards.
CAS educators in the Seeding Student Success category received up to $50,000 for their campus projects:
- Debbie Minter and Rachel Azima, English, for "Writing Information Literacy: A Collaborative Effort to Support Intentional Integration of Information Literacy at the Foundation," with Catherine Fraser Riehle and Erica DeFrain of University Libraries.
- Josh Brummer, mathematics, for "Developing a Cross-Disciplinary Learning Assistant Support Program."
- Trisha Vickrey, Morgan Balabanoff, Jason Kautz, Mark Griep, and Eric Malina, chemistry, for "A Multi-Faceted Approach to Increasing Engagement and Learning in a High-Enrollment General Chemistry Course."
Grants of up to $1,000 were also offered in the categories of Pedagogic Intervention, Incubation Fund and Student-Faculty Collaboration.
CAS recipients include:
- Kathy Castle, communication studies
- Carolyn Brown-Kramer, psychology
- Vanessa Gorman, history
- Patrice McMahon, political science
- Lillian Nguyen, biological sciences
“A very big thank-you to all who applied, and heartfelt congratulations to those who were successful. These important projects will help us in our mission to improve the student experience, and drive student success in all the colleges and schools at UNL,” said Nick Monk, director of the Center for Transformative Teaching. “We received close $500,000 in applications and would have liked to fund many more than we could, given the quality of the proposals. There will be another call in the fall, however, and we look forward to another round of innovative and exciting ideas.”
