Summer Sandbox Grants

At its best, E Term functions as a sandbox where faculty have the space and resources to develop new skills and experiment with new ideas. Summer Sandbox Grants will support faculty who will design and test new approaches to teaching and advising in undergraduate courses we see this as an opportunity to use summer as a learning laboratory for the academic year. Undergraduate Studies (UGS) has set aside funding for individuals or groups of faculty to try new techniques and explore new pedagogy working in the summer. 

Support is available for faculty who wish to develop online and hybrid teaching skills, groups of faculty in a department or program who are developing new approaches for core and large-enrollment courses, and for any faculty exploring fundamentally new approaches to teaching and learning.   

There are a few initiatives we are most interested in supporting:    

Artificial Intelligence  

• Develop courses within a major that teach AI tools relevant to the discipline. 
• Develop teaching methodologies for courses to address the challenges of AI.  
• Develop AI tools that support teaching.  

Departmental Student Success Initiatives  

• Build activities or courses to connect first-year students to the departmental culture. 
• Build courses that support sophomore student success and development. 

Novel approaches to effective online teaching 

• Develop engaging and effective online courses within the constraints of E Term  

Convince us! 

• Your great ideas, which we have not thought about, might be just the right thing!