For Faculty

Improvement of Instruction Grants
The Office of the Dean for Undergraduate Studies and its Center for Teaching Excellence request proposals each academic year for Improvement of Instruction Grants. These grants are available to individual faculty members, as well as groups, that wish to pursue projects to improve instruction in undergraduate education on campus. The most recent abstracts from Instructional Improvement grant recipients are available. Application deadline: Mar 3 2008

Departmental Excellence Award
Sponsored by the Office of the Dean for Undergraduate, the Award for Departmental Excellence and Innovation in Teaching is a project of the CTE-Lilly Teaching Fellows. The award seeks to recognize notable improvements in undergraduate education at the department, program, or university level. Click here for the recipient from 1995-2007.

Merrill Presidential Scholars Program
CTE is proud to announce that our very successful annual "Celebrating Teachers" awards program has become part of the Merrill Presidential Scholars Program.

For Teaching Assistants

TA Development Grants
The Center for Teaching Excellence and the Graduate School award a number of small grants each year to departments and colleges working to improve the professional development, support, and recognition of graduate teaching assistants. Application deadline: November 30.

Lilly East Conference Grants
The Lilly Conferences combine interactive workshop sessions, discussions, and feature presentations, with opportunities for informal discussion about excellence in college and university teaching and learning. They bring together faculty and graduate students from across disciplines and types of academic institutions. CTE staff, along with University of Maryland faculty and graduate teaching assistants, have attended this conference for a number of years. It is an outstanding opportunity to meet others from the Mid-Atlantic interested in the scholarship of teaching and learning and to discuss effective strategies for undergraduate education. The 2008 Lilly East Conference is scheduled for Wednesday, April 16 through Friday, April 18, 2008 and will be hosted at the University of Delaware. Conference Proposals are due on December 3, 2007. For further information on the conference and to submit a conference proposal, visit http://www.udel.edu/lillyeast/.

Distinguished TA Award
At the end of each academic year, the graduate teaching assistants from campus, who have been named as the most outstanding by their departments, are recognized and honored. These awards are sponsored by the Center for Teaching Excellence, the Dean for Undergraduate Studies, and the Dean of the Graduate School. Deadline for nominations: mid-March.