Funding to Support Teaching
We have a range of different funding opportunities to support faculty in their pedagogy. Unless otherwise noted, these opportunities are available to anyone teaching at Wesleyan.
- Teaching and pedagogy grants through GISOS—up to $3,000, 1 year only, available to continuing faculty only; deadline in mid-March for following academic year.
- Faculty can apply for funding to support class field trips by emailing Lisa Sacks (lsacks@wesleyan.edu). The full description of what you need to submit and relevant deadlines can be found here.
- Faculty Seminar on the Teaching of Writing. $500 stipend for faculty to participate in a seminar to discuss assignment and syllabus design; effective and time-efficient ways of responding to student writing; the student experience of writing; and the role of writing in the liberal arts.
The following opportunities share the same application form and a shared deadline in May:
- Creative Campus Initiative. Funding from the Center for the Arts to support strongly interdisciplinary collaborations that center arts practitioners, with a priority on collaborative-taught courses and course modules. Funding may cover guest honoraria and modest travel expenses. May deadline.
- Sustainability & Environmental Justice Pedagogical Initiative. $500-$1,000 faculty stipends to support the development new modules and courses focused on environmental justice and sustainability. May deadline.
- Fries Center for Global Studies Internationalizing and Decolonizing the Curriculum Initiative. $500 stipend for faculty to participate in a seminar and develop a new course or course module to incorporate global perspectives and intercultural learning into their teaching. May deadline.
- Community-Engaged Learning Intiative Grants (CEILIGs)—Up to $4,000 for faculty to support the development of service-learning courses. October and May deadlines.