Call for Proposals
2025-2026 Proposal Deadlines April 3, 2026
The purpose of this grant is to support faculty growth and experimentation in their pedagogy, build and deepen pedagogical expertise among faculty, support innovation in assignment and course design, and otherwise enrich the pedagogical work of faculty across campus.
Proposal Guidelines: read more here
Awards:
Each grant recipient will receive $2,000 as supplemental pay. In addition--as applicable--you may provide a budget for other appropriate costs essential to the development, implementation, or sharing of results related to the project.
Timeline:
Applications due on 3 April 2026.
Generally applications will be submitted via Google Form and awards are announced in May.
Submission Process:
Submit proposals through a Google Form
Evaluation Process:
Readers will evaluate the quality of the project and proposal. In particular, readers will note the potential impact on student learning, curriculum, or pedagogy within a program, major, or the Core Curriculum; any possibilities for sharing out the results of the project; and the quality of the assessment plan.
Special consideration will be given to proposals that connect meaningfully to the current scholarship of teaching and learning and/or explore ways of facilitating active, student-centered, inclusive, collaborative, interdisciplinary, engaged or integrative learning, or that involve students as collaborators.
Additional Funding Opportunities:
Visit the Faculty Funding Opportunities site for teaching and scholarship grants including information about funding students in research.
More information: If you have any questions about the process please contact us at facultydevelopment@scu.edu. To report problems with the application form, please contact Grace Thieme (Administrative Associate for Research) at gthieme@scu.edu or Eric Tilllman (Associate Provost for Research) at etillman@scu.edu.