Faculty Learning Communities

Fall 2025

Paid Programs

View all paid programs (Google Doc). All applications are due Tuesday, September 2 at 11:59 p.m.

Supporting Low-Income Students |  Call for Applications (Google Doc) |Applications have closed.

• Connected workshops will explore economic hardship, inclusive pedagogy, and collaborative support strategies to advance academic outcomes for low-income students to address structural and classroom barriers to equity and student success through faculty-led professional development. This initiative is supported by internal BSS grant funds. We invite interested faculty to participate in this important work.
• Payment: $1,000 taxable professional development and training stipend

• We are seeking one program or department ready to incorporate Artificial Intelligence literacy and training throughout their curriculum. This opportunity is a good fit for a program of study that has recognized the need for curricular change in the AI era with faculty who are generally on board for those changes. If faculty want to avoid student usage of AI and work around the technology this opportunity is not a good fit.
• Payment: $ 10,000-15,000 in taxable professional development and training stipends

• Enroll in this asynchronous Canvas course for a step-by-step guide to course revision in the world of Generative Artificial Intelligence. The world has changed, and this will help you change with it. This course guides faculty through the step-by-step process of understanding the impact of generative AI on teaching and learning and how they can adapt their teaching practices. This is not a course in AI adoption, it is on adaptation to a new world.
• Payment: $250 taxable professional development and training stipend

• The CAL$ program supports faculty in reducing or eliminating course materials costs for your students. Explore four project options: ZCCM adoption, ZCCM implementation, OER adaptation, OER creation.  
• Payment: $500-$1,000 taxable professional development and training stipend

• This webinar series is designed to empower instructors in the classroom and elevate our campus conversations about critical issues. Faculty will receive training in Free Speech Basics, De-Escalation, and be introduced to campus support systems. We will also have space for discussion of ongoing issues like changes to the Time, Place, and Manner policy and emergent issues on/off campus.
• Payment: $500 taxable professional development and training stipend

• The COIL program offers training, mentoring, resources, and partner matching support for faculty members who wish to develop a virtual exchange experience with a faculty member(s) abroad, connecting students globally to project-based learning and valuable international opportunities.
• Payment: $500 taxable professional development and training stipend

• We will be offering awards of up to $1,000 in Professional Development Travel Funds to directly support travel for faculty research, assessment, implementation, and engagement that enhances teaching and learning.
• Payment: Up to $1,000 in professional development travel funds

• According to a 2025 Validated Insights Report “While the market for AI education was worth an estimated $16.2B in 2024, only ~0.2% of the population engaged in upskilling in AI were doing so via a credit-bearing program at a higher education institution. Typically, 21% of upskilling Americans look to these sort of programs for their training and development needs.” 
• We have the opportunity to develop programming that will engage our alumni base (and beyond) and expand our reach as a university. The goal of this unique faculty learning community (FLC) is to empower small clusters of faculty from programs of study to develop micro-credentials that will be offered by faculty through Professional & Continuing Education. The micro-credentials will be structured similarly, but have discipline-specific content.

Resources and Opportunities

View all additional resources and opportunities (Google Doc).