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Grants & Funding FaCIT has funds available to assist faculty with a variety of professional development opportunities. Professional
Growth Funds These funds are set aside to foster curricular and course improvement and to assist faculty in developing curriculum and improving their teaching by participating field related event, conference, or professional development. The Professional Growth Fund is provided to support faculty activities related to the development of courses, curricula, and instruction. Allocations of up to $750 may be made to faculty who qualify for these funds. There will be two rounds of disbursements for this fund: November 15 and April 15. Funds must be used in the fiscal year in which they are requested. For more information see the Application and Guidelines. Professional
Growth Fund Guidelines Service-Learning Small Grants FaCIT supports service-learning as a pedagogical approach to integrate the goals of your course with meeting community need. These small grants of up to $500 are designed to provide assistance for travel to learn more about service-learning or costs associated with integrating service-learning into your course. As FaCIT’s mission is directed toward assisting faculty, these funds may NOT be used to support student work in the area of service-learning. For more information about these grants please contact . Learn and Share Fund Funding is set aside each year to assist faculty in learning and developing resources to share with other faculty. Examples of this may include developing a new scoring mechanism for grading oral presentations, providing information on student learning styles, or conducting a workshop on active learning. Funding is based on amount of work involved and overall benefit to CMU faculty. Amounts may range from $100 to $3,000 per project. For additional examples, see the online resources currently offered by FaCIT. If you have information you feel would be helpful to other CMU faculty, please contact . Grant Support Letters FaCIT
provides letters of support for grants
written by CMU faculty for both internal
and external funding. If you are submitting
for a grant involving student learning
consider including a letter of support
from the Faculty Center for Innovative
Teaching. In the past, these letters
have been very helpful, as they come
from a center that is devoted to student
learning and is independent of any college
or department.
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