Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT) Pedagogy Mini-Grants

2025 Career-Integrated Curriculum Mini-Grants

Launched in Spring 2025, CELT's Career-Integrated Curriculum Mini-Grants supports faculty in embedding career-aligned learning directly in undergraduate courses. In partnership with the Office of Student Affairs and Experiential Learning and leadership from Associate Professor Amy Chen, the initiative's mini-grants encourages faculty to redesign or create courses that connects classroom learning to real-world career skills.


2025 Mini-Grants for Supporting Multilingual Students in the Classrooms

Led by faculty fellow Milena Gueorguieva of the English Department, the mini-grant program aims at building inclusive teaching practices that support multilingual learners. Mini-grants are offered to faculty to develop, implement, and share classroom strategies that enhance engagement and learning outcomes for multilingual students. Participants have been applying new approached to their teaching in Fall 2025 and share resources and reflections through CELT and other campus platforms in Spring 2026.


2024 Mini-Grants for Artificial Intelligence (AI) Integration in Pedagogy

Led by faculty fellow Romy Guthier, these grants, awarded to 30 faculty members from across the university, encourage faculty members to explore and integrate AI technologies into their teaching this fall. Participants will experiment with modest uses of AI tools to enhance classroom learning and engagement. Following the implementation, faculty will have opportunities to share their experiences and insights with peers, fostering a collaborative environment for innovation in AI pedagogy.

Learn more about Assistant Professor Romy and the AI Mini-grants.


2022-2023 Open Education Resources

Brent Shell鈥 has been leading CELT's mini-grants for Open Education Resources (OER) since 2022, and we are pleased to announce that we will be working with a new cohort for the 2024-2025 academic year. This year we have awarded funding to a multi-disciplinary group of over twenty faculty members to creatively develop open education resources to reduce the financial burden on students and expand their access to learning materials. The funds support the work involved in finding, creating, using and sharing OER as replacements for required commercial textbooks.

2021-2023 Contemplative Pedagogy

Marlowe Miller, CELT's first Faculty-in-Residence, lead two cohorts of faculty members during the 2021-2022 and 2022-2023 academic years. Faculty studied and incorporated contemplative pedagogy practices into their courses to support each other and future faculty members who are interested in expanding contemplative pedagogy on campus.

Members of the 2022 Contemplative Pedagogy cohort shared their classroom techniques on how they implement contemplative pedagogy across different disciplines in a talk titled:鈥疌ontemplative Pedagogy: Strategies for Improving Student Engagement with the 51视频 community.鈥疌heck out this video to learn more!

Contemplative Pedagogy: Strategies for Improving Students' Engagement

2021-2022 Hybrid Pedagogy

We awarded mini-grants to faculty who proposed to teach a 鈥渉ybrid鈥 course in the Fall of 2021 and/or the Spring of 2022 (including labs). Participants collaborated as a cohort to support each other as well as faculty interested in exploring this teaching mode in the future. A 鈥渉ybrid鈥 course is one which meets synchronously, alternating on-campus, in-person meetings with virtual meetings during the week, throughout the year.