Stearns Center launched Scholarship of Teaching & Learning (SoTL) classroom inquiry microgrants in Spring 2023 to offer small amounts of funding to support faculty and staff classroom-based research. Microgrants have been expanded into larger scale grants starting with the spring 2025 grant cycle.
See the current call for Summer 2025 grant proposals here
2023-2024 and 2024-2025 Microgrant Awardees
Dr. Michelle Lafrance, “Crafting in Rhetoric Courses” (2023-2024)
Dr. Wendi Manuel-Scott & Dr. Lauren Cattaneo, “Undisciplined: Practices that Connect and Sustain Liberatory Educators” (2023-2024)
Dr. Leslie Lacroix, “Critical Friends are the Best Friends: Leveraging the Practice of Self-Study to Enhance Undergraduate Students’ Writing Practices” (2024-2025)
Dr. Greta Herin, “Exam scores are not different for POGIL-taught topics than for active lecture in a lower level Anatomy and Physiology I and II sequence” (2024-2025)