2012-2013 Awards

2011-2012 Awards

2010-2011 Awards

What the Innovations in Education Fund (IEF) Supports

The Innovations in Education Fund (IEF) provides support for New School faculty in their work as innovators in the areas of curriculum and pedagogy. Grants are awarded to faculty on a competitive basis with awardees selected by a committee of faculty from a range of fields and areas of expertise. Applications are welcomed for projects in the areas of undergraduate, graduate, learning online, and informal or extracurricular education.

Funds may be used to support collaboration with colleagues and/or students within or outside The New School, research, travel, educational media design and production, pilot projects for new curricular and pedagogical approaches, and unique forms of support required by specific innovations.

While faculty members are encouraged to apply for any project that fits the criteria stated above, priority is given to proposals that include one or more of the following features:

• Projects that connect with curricular and pedagogical innovations identified as university priorities by the Office of the Provost, including
• Interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary teaching and learning
• Innovative approaches to learning online and/or pedagogical uses of social media
• Internationalizing curricular content and pedagogies
• Integrating study abroad into undergraduate curricula
• Innovative approaches to curricular and pedagogical opportunities concerning diversity and social justice
• Innovative curricular and pedagogical approaches to career changing and continuing education students
• Integrating the arts across the university
• Projects that innovate formal and/or informal undergraduate learning experiences across the university
• Curricular and/or informal learning experiences at the intersections of design, management, policy, media, social science, and performing arts

• Collaborative projects that include at least two New School faculty members from different divisions and programs
• Projects that are seeking external funding or have the potential to receive external funding, for which IEF funds can constitute seed money and/or a partial or full “matching” grant

Projects funded can begin as soon as the awards are made and must be completed no later than June 30th of the following year. The maximum award is $10,000.

The review of applications and recommendation of awardees to the Provost will be made by a university-wide faculty review committee. Recipients will be asked to make a presentation of the results of their project to the university community upon completion.

All members of the full-time and part-time faculty who have Post-Probationary, Annual, Multi-Year, or Grandparented status as defined in the ACT-UAW contract or similar, are eligible to apply.

Applicants may submit only one proposal per round.

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