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Grants and Awards

For Faculty

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 1995-2010.

Improvement of Instruction Grant
The Office of the Dean for Undergraduate Studies and the Center for Teaching Excellence Instructional Improvement Grants supported initiatives to improve undergraduate teaching and learning across campus. IIG funding has made possible projects to implement instructional technologies, integrate civic engagement into courses, develop simulations, create new courses, and plan for innovative study abroad.

For the 2010-11 and 2011-12 academic years IIG instructional improvement funds are supporting innovations in general education through the development of the I-courses.

Click here to view abstracts of supported initiatives in previous years.

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 Assistant


Lilly Conference Grant
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. CTE offers conference grants for graduate students For further information on the conference, visit http://lillyconferences.com/dc/default.shtml. For further information on CTE’s Lilly-East Conference Grants, contact the Graduate Coordinator at x4-1287.

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: April 18, 2012

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