Grants
Overview of CATL grants
CATL is in the process of reorganizing its internal grant funding programs to provide more clarity, to streamline our processes, and to better share the outcomes of these grant-awarded projects with the Elon teaching and learning community. To best support your planning for Spring 2025 and beyond, we will be rolling out these adjustments in phases over the next few months.
For Spring 2025, please note the following changes:
- While many of our grants have historically been reviewed on a rolling basis, we are shifting our processes going forward. Conference travel reimbursement grants and mini grants will now be reviewed once per semester. The Spring 2025 grant applications are now open. The deadline for submissions is March 3rd.
- Because of upcoming restructuring to these grants starting in the next fiscal year, Spring 2025 Mini Grants will only fund projects for which receipts will be submitted no later than May 1, 2025. Similarly, Teaching and Learning Conference Travel Reimbursement Grants will only fund conference-related expenses incurred no later than May 1st, 2025.
In early April, we will announce a broader restructuring of our grant program, which will support work in the 2025/2026 fiscal year and beyond.
Click each title for additional information and for application forms.
Funding Opportunity | Eligibility | Application Due Date | Amount |
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CATL Scholars Fellowship | Full-time, ongoing teaching faculty | Friday, September 20, 2024, by 5 pm. | Two-year fellowship, including $2,500 in project funds and 2 course reassignments per year (or the equivalent applied toward summer stipends and/or project funds). |
Teaching and Learning Grants | Full-time, ongoing teaching faculty | Fall: Monday, October 14, 2024, by 5 pm.
Spring: Friday, April 11, 2025, by 5 pm. |
Grants of $1000-$5000 support innovative, inclusive and/or scholarly teaching and learning projects through funds for start-up and one-time expenses; they do not support ongoing operational costs or disciplinary research. |
Diversity and Inclusion Grants | Teams of 2-5 faculty, staff and/or students led by a full-time, ongoing teaching faculty member | Friday, March 7, 2025, by 5 pm. | $1,000 stipend for each team member + $500 for project expenses
Grants support teams of faculty developing inclusive teaching practices that foster success for students of all academic and social backgrounds, including developing materials for a course or program to pilot best practices in inclusive pedagogy. |
Teaching Conference Reimbursement Grants (virtual & in person) | Full-time, ongoing teaching faculty | Applications for travel to conferences prior to May 1st, 2025 are due by March 3rd, 2025. | Grants supplement matching funds to present on or participate in virtual or in-person teaching and learning or SOTL conferences and programs. |
Mini Grants | Full-time, ongoing teaching faculty | Applications to support Spring 2025 courses are due by March 3rd, 2025, and will only fund projects in which receipts are submitted to CATL no later than May 1, 2025. | Grants of up to $500 for support of course-related student engagement, and can be used to fund materials or experiences for innovative, active or engaged learning |
Other sources of funding to support teaching and learning at Elon include:
- Grants to support innovative uses of technology in teaching and learning awarded by Academic Technology Committee (ATC),
- Grants focused on improving writing instruction or research on writing from the Center for Writing Excellence
For additional internal and external funding opportunities, visit the university’s Faculty Funding website.