These grants are intended to provide professional growth opportunities for faculty seeking to strengthen or enhance student learning and to support new approaches to instruction. Funding is available for faculty who wish to expand into a new area of their discipline, to develop new instructional materials that improve teaching and learning in an existing course, or to develop new methods of teaching or evaluation.

Applicants should fill out the Teaching Grant Application Cover Sheet and all requested supporting information and deliver three copies of the cover sheet and all supporting materials to the Center for Effective Teaching and Learning, Second Floor of Randolph Hall, College of Charleston by the application deadline. The specific supporting material required for the grants are detailed below.

• A completed Teaching Grant Application Cover Sheet.
• A detailed description of no more than two pages (500 words) of the activity for which you are seeking support including the anticipated long-term benefit of the proposed project.
  
• An itemized budget, including a breakdown of all anticipated costs of the project and a breakdown of any departmental or other support (not required but considered as a plus in the review process).
• An evaluation plan that states the expected outcomes of the project, explains how they will be evaluated, and by whom.

• Research or scholarly activity that is not directly related to teaching at the college level.
• Research in the discipline.
• Salary for graduate assistants, students, or clerical support.
• Purchase of equipment or hardware.
• Purchase of instructional support materials to maintain or expand an existing departmental collection.
• Purchases related to program building, program evaluation, and recurring instructional expenses that are deemed to be departmental responsibilities.
• Courses for academic credit when they are applied toward a degree program .
• Requests for less than $50.