The Future Maker Grant: Interdisciplinary Team Teaching was awarded in February 2024. The awardees are listed below and are followed by the original call for proposals.
| Proposal Title | Applicant and Co-Applicant |
|---|---|
All Fun & Games: How Does Play Change Us? | Brooke Rollins and Will Lowry, College of Arts and Sciences |
Are Children People? | Nandini Deo and Khurram Hussain, College of Arts and Sciences |
| Big Question First-Year Seminar: What is Reality? | Almut Hupbach and William Crow, College of Arts and Sciences |
| Opium Wars to the Opioid Epidemic | Dustin Stoltz and Amy Johnson, College of Arts and Sciences |
Original Call for Proposals:
Future Maker Grants: Interdisciplinary Team Teaching Grants
Description/Overview
The Strategic Plan states that, “Lehigh will remove boundaries between disciplines to foster the most creative approaches to problem solving and learning.” Toward that end, we are pleased to announce that the Office of the Provost will fund up to five annual Interdisciplinary Team Teaching Grants of up to $10,000 each. These grants are intended to support interdisciplinary team teaching. Funds may be used for departments to hire adjunct faculty to supplement course offerings if two or more faculty members teach one course. If supplementary courses are not needed, departments and faculty, with the chair’s permission, may agree to instead use the funds for buy-out time for faculty teams to plan for the course.
Eligibility:
Tenured and tenure-track faculty
Teaching Assistant, Associate, and Full Professors
Professors of Practice
Team teaching proposals will be reviewed by a group of faculty with experience with team teaching who will make recommendations to the Provost for funding.
Evaluation Criteria
Clear statement of the integration of disciplines through the course, as distinct from multidisciplinary courses.
Indication of a lasting impact on students.
Potential for the course to be a permanent offering.
Innovativeness of the proposed course.
Explicit connection between the course learning outcomes and at least one other initiative of the strategic plan besides interdisciplinary education.
Members of the same department may submit proposals, which should clearly indicate the interdisciplinary nature of the proposed course.
To apply through InfoReady, visit HERE. Please submit a document of no more than two pages that includes the following:
Course description.
Statement indicating the purpose, scope, and interdisciplinary nature of the course.
Description of disciplinary training of the faculty members and how the disciplines will be integrated.
An itemized budget.
Course syllabus is optional and if submitted will not be included in the 2-page count.
We encourage you to discuss this with Department Chairs, as applications will be shared with Chairs for their acknowledgement.
Deadline for Submission for fall 2024 courses is February 15, 2024. Funds should be spent in the 2024-25 academic year and are not intended to be renewable.