Educational Research Mini-Grants

The educational research mini-grant program is designed to help instructors tackle a teaching and learning issue in which a specific, measurable research question is examined to bring about improved student learning, retention or academic success. 

Data from educational research mini-grant projects spanning five years of faculty projects, have shown measurable increases in instructor satisfaction, student learning, student-instructor interactions, and end of course evaluation scores as a result of these projects. 

Professional Development Funds for Early Career Faculty

Professional Development Funds for Early Career Faculty of up to $1,000 are available to support registration fees, airfaire, hotel and per diem travel to a conference or workshop or to visit with fund managers. Proposals, which are accepted on a rolling basis, are welcome from both tenure track and non-tenure track faculty. Typically, the support is available for use during the summer or fall semester following the faculty member's first year on campus.

Mini-Sabbatical Program

The Mini-Sabbatical program is designed to enable faculty to learn new technologies or build new collaborations for purposes such as: pursuing funding opportunities, building new collaborations for scholarly activities, developing new courses, or enhancing existing classes. All TT and NTT are eligible to apply. This program is focused on, but not limited to, mid-career faculty seeking to initiate new research and teaching endeavors. 

Provost's eFellows Grants

The Provost's eFellows grants are being re-instituted thanks to funding from the CAFE. Educational Technology administers the eFellows program, which supports the creation or redesign of courses incorporating technology, using best practices in course design. Contact Julie Phelps, Instructional Design team lead, at phelpsja@mst.edu with questions.

Special Opportunity Fund

Discretionary funding is now available for specific professional development activities for faculty around teaching and research. If your professional development need cannot be covered by one of the other CAFE grants, you may be eligible for the Special Opportunity Fund. For funding related to travel, please apply for the Professional Development Travel Grant. 

Publishing Results of Educational Research

The educational research mini-grant program promotes a culture of the scholarship of teaching and learning through funding projects that systematically examine pedagogical practices within a particular discipline. Funding is now available for past mini-grant recipients to offset the cost of dissemination of your results.